What a meet last night! We won 447-327! We had EVERY SINGLE PERSON show up that was supposed to, and only 3 kids get sick (but all communicated with me super early...thank you!). This is very rare with summer swimming, and I am VERY appreciative...let's keep it up!  I loved having so many parents come over to ask me who kids were in the water as they were impressed with their strokes too!

In this email:

• RSVP-next meet
• Meet results

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INITIAL RSVP FOR TUESDAY

Here are the swimmers who have said they are NOT swimming (or are juniors) next Tuesday. If your child is not listed and they will NOT be swimming, please go to mtps.swimtopia.com, click on "calendar" and then "meet entry" to add their name. Thanks! If a junior swims across the pool this week, we can enter them, they just have to do it at practice before Tuesday.

Nate Bitton (let's see how practice goes this week!)

Henry Christman

Su Lin Cox

Gavi Diamant (just let me know if she'll be there late, per our emails)

Piper Ehrlich

Zoe Fay

Margot Gorman

Reece and Shea Griffith

Ellie Hallam

Daniel Hofmekler (let's see how practice goes this week!)

Lily Jones

Soren Mann

Max Moore

Vincent Pero

Charlotte, Brendan, Madison Richards

Kaylee Schneider

Hallie Gray Walker

Vikram Yadav

Ryan Zaparaniuk

MEET RESULTS

I saw so many things to highlight last night outside of the actual swimming. I'm sure there were MANY more that I missed, but here are a few...Our 7-10 year old boys were the best cheering section that I think I've ever seen. I really wish I had their energy, even for a minute! They stood by me so I could tell them the names of the Wavemakers in each race, and they cheered for all of them the whole time. Awesome teammates!

These same boys were very concerned seeing some of the other team's little kids swimming in the breaststroke event (the kids weren't really doing actual breaststroke, lost of freestyle kick, etc.). Our boys ran up to me to make sure I saw that "That is not real breaststroke, they need to get DQ'd". They also pointed out every time someone touched the bottom of the pool during a race. I was pleased with this, not because they were highlighting mistakes, but it means they're listening when we tell them about doing things correctly when they swim!

Our sportsmanship award for last night goes to Fisher Burt! He made sure to shake hands with the boy he was swimming against, and even when the boy wasn't paying attention, he didn't give up. This is a great demonstration of being a good sport! Great job Fisher!

Now to the "in the water" stuff. We, again, had so many best times last night! I have attached the full results (ignore the little x's and j's, they don't mean anything). Lots of kids swam things for the first time ever as well! As we get faster, it is harder to drop a lot of time at once, but we still had a lot of huge drops (see below). Also, it is still normal for some kids to add time, so if your child added time, please don't let them stress about it. As we change some things in their strokes, sometimes they get a little slower before they get faster, but then they do get much faster.

We had some team records broken, many first place finished, and a ton of huge drops. Below I have details for the biggest "loser", records, and first place finishes. 

We had 5 team records broken!! Here they are:

Boys 13-14 medley relay: Leo, Wally, Ryan, Alex- 2:01.30

Boys 13-14 free relay: Ryan, Wally, Alex, Leo- 1:50.02

Leo Roden- 13-14 boys 100 free: 52.75; 50 fly: 26.21

Sydney Smith- 13-14 girls 50 breast: 35.02 

We have 3 biggest "losers" of this meet. Our first biggest "loser" of the meet was Kaitlyn Wood! Kaitlyn dropped 1:04 seconds in her 100 IM! Our other 2 biggest "losers" were both in the 25 backstroke Kelsey Grace Wolk dropped 39 seconds (and 13 in her 25 free!) and Nick Milnichuk dropped 41 (and 10 in his 25 free)!!! Great job to Kailtyn, Kelsey Grace, and Nick!!

Other big "losers" (those who dropped 5 or more seconds) are listed below. Congrats to all!

Alex Agcaoili- 6 sec in 100 free

William Beach- 5 sec in 25 back

Brooks Braswell- 7 sec in 25 back

Thomas Bykat- 15 sec in 100 free

McKenna Calvo- 16 sec in 100 IM

Sarah Hyatt Chappell- 5 sec in 50 free

Charlotte Cloud- 5 sec in 50 breast

Gavi Diamant- 7 sec in 50 back

Molly Diamant- 6 sec in 25 back, 11 sec in 25 breast

Eli Fay- 7 sec in 25 free, 5 sec in 25 back

Kellen Gorman- 8 sec in 25 back

Reece Griffith- 7 sec in 50 free

Eli Hallam- 21 sec in 25 free, 21 sec in 25 back

Ellis Hartley- 29 sec in 100 IM

Lucy Holder- 35 sec in 100 IM

Jack Iannucci- 11 sec in 25 free

Molly Iannucci- 5 sec in 25 breast

Shai Kattan- 9 sec in 100 IM

Riley Kinnane-Petersen- 6 sec in 25 back, 15 sec in 25 fly

Eli Martin- 9 sec in 25 free, 12 sec in 25 back

Davis Miller- 6 sec in 25 free

Maggie Moore- 12 sec in 100 IM

Joaquin Ortiz- 10 sec in 25 free, 7 sec in 25 back

Connor Plumly- 5 sec in 50 back

Brendan Richards- 5 sec in 50 free

Julia Rutledge- 8 sec in 100 IM

Ryan Sabado- 6 sec in 25 free

Matthew Sveda- 13 sec in 25 back

Nina Toole- 5 sec in 50 breast

Ann Elise Walker- 8 sec in 25 free

Jason Wolk- 15 sec in 25 back

Here are our swimmers/relays who finished 1st in their whole event (not just their heat). Congrats!

Boys 6&u free relay: Kellen, Joaquin, Matthew, Jason

Girls 7-8 medley relay: Violet, Mary Claire, Lola, Eva

Boys 7-8 medley relay: Nicolas, William S., Tommy, Ryan

Girls 11-12 medley relay: Hunter Reese, Julia, Abby, Maggie

Boys 11-12 medley relay: Fisher, Christopher, Thomas, Coleson

Girls 13-14 medley relay: Sydney, Natalie, Kate, Kaitlyn

Boys 13-14 medley relay: Leo, Wally, Ryan, Alex

Girls 15-18 medley relay: Grace, Dani, Sarah, Su Lin

Boys 7-8 free relay: Nicolas, Ryan, James Q., Tommy

Girls 11-12 free relay: Julia, Maggie, Hunter Reese, Abby

Boys 11-12 free relay: Thomas, Coleson, Christopher, Fisher

Girls 13-14 free relay: Sydney, Kaitlyn, Natalie, Kate

Boys 13-14 free relay: Ryan, Alex, Wally, Leo

Girls 15-18 free relay: Grace, Dani, Su Lin, Sarah

Nicolas Bondell- 50 free, 100 IM

Fisher Burt- 50 back

Thomas Bykat- 100 free, 50 fly

Wally Christman- 50 back, 50 breast

Su Lin Cox- 50 breast

Sarah Eaves- 100 free, 100 IM

Ryan Fogel- 50 free, 100 IM

Hunter Reese Giardino- 100 free, 50 back

Libby Homans- 25 back

Tommy Homans- 25 fly

Eli Martin- 25 back

Joaquin Ortiz- 25 free

Ryan Reece- 25 back

Leo Roden- 100 free, 50 fly

Julia Rutledge- 100 IM, 50 breast

William Schneider- 25 breast

Abby Simon- 50 free, 50 fly

Sydney Smith- 100 free, 50 breast

Lola Toole- 25 fly

Natalie Tully- 50 back, 100 IM

Mary Claire Walker- 25 back, 25 breast

Christopher Wood- 100 IM, 50 breast

Kate Zaparaniuk- 50 free, 50 fly

Great job!

Coach Julie