End of Summer Wrap Up Meet- Aug 17-19^th, 2007

Summer is over! I bet that everyone is excited for the break and then to come back and get ready for the Short Course season. But, I am ready for it to start because I miss coaching for you and ready to jump into this next season. With the way we swam at this meet, I see that we are ready to swim hard, train hard and have a great new season.

Besides it being incredibly hot, it was a great meet and I was so proud of everyone! I know that it took some getting used to swimming short course again and getting used to your walls, but I was really impressed with all the improvements that have been made in stroke and technique this summer. Since I haven’t seen you everyday in practice, the amount of growth and change was really impressive. I can tell how hard everyone has worked and this meet really showed that it paid off.

Anders had a great meet where his strokes showed great improvement. The most would have to be his fly and Free where in the 50 Fly, he dropped 3 seconds and 100 Free he dropped 3 ½ seconds. Jason swam great as well dropping in almost every event for the weekend with almost 3 seconds in his 100 IM and over 2 seconds in 100 Back. Excellent swimming! Samuel kept it up dropping over 5 seconds in his first event on Saturday, the 100 IM and then doing it again in the 200 IM on Sunday! These 3 11 year old boys did some great swimming! Richard came to show that he can swim and dropped in all of his events, with in my option the best race was his 200 Breast where he dropped 3 seconds. Even though by the end of Sunday, he was really not feeling well, he still ended the day dropping almost a second in the 100 Free.

The girls of SDAC swam great as well…Grace dropped in many events, her best being the 200 IM where she dropped almost 3 seconds and 200 Breast where she dropped almost 2 seconds. Anna had a great meet where she dropped in almost all events, got her JO cut in the 200 Breast and 200 Back and barely missed it in the 200 IM but swam great in all events. Danae dropped in every event this weekend by a lot. All her hard work at practice really paid off. Her best event was the 100 Breast where she dropped 12 seconds on Saturday and 100 Fly on Sunday where she dropped a mere 12 seconds again! There was some amazing swimming and racing going on! Catie swam really well and really hard for not being the in water in almost 3 weeks and held most of her times and showed really great effort. Diane swam really well, but her best event by far was the first event, her 400 IM where she dropped almost 19 seconds!

I was so proud of all of SDAC this weekend. Considering how hot it was, we stayed in the shade, drank lots of liquids to stay hydrated and accomplished what we came to accomplish. I was so proud. Excellent swimming and I can’t wait to see what goals we are able to accomplish next season…. Short Course here we come!