Great job tonight!  Thanks for being patient with the slight weather delay. We had lots of fast swims, improvements, and a lot of cheering and supporting each other, which is the most important! Lots of results/details below.

REMINDER - Wednesday AM is fun practice/ribbons/donuts. All 10&under are 9-10AM and all 11&up are 10-11AM.  And we have team pictures at 5 at Princeton Square (order form attached).

In this email:

• Favor at practice tomorrow (fun practice)
• RSVP-next meet
• Meet results

FAVOR AT FUN PRACTICE

I will not be at fun practice tomorrow as I was asked to be on the committee to interview athletic director candidates for my school, and I felt like I couldn't say no to this opportunity.  With that being said, that's why I'm sending this tonight, and I need someone to pick up the no parking signs that are in the parking lot and along the road.  If anyone could do it, I would greatly appreciate it.  Natalie can show you where the signs go!

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 by Friday. Thanks! If a junior shows us at practice that they are ready this week, we can enter them, they just have to do it at practice before Tuesday.

Kensie and Tristan Allen

Colette Alvarez-Tostado (we'll see at practice this week if we can get her ready)

Avery Bellamy

Brooke Halpern

Anna and Emma Jacobson

Rosie Kennedy

Elizabeth Martello

Hannah and Ollie Phelps

Norah Ryu (we'll see at practice this week if we can get her ready)

Carter Stillwagon

MEET RESULTS

I challenged the swimmers to say "good swim" to those they swam against.  It was hard sometimes as people jump out of the pool quickly, but I did see some high fives and shaking hands, and it was great!  Also, we won 467-303!!!

We had a lot of best times, and a lot of over 20 second improvements...maybe the most I'm ever had! I have attached the full results. 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).

Below I have details for the biggest "loser" and first place finishes.

For every meet we choose a biggest "loser", meaning the person who drops or "loses" the most time. I really struggled to pick for this meet.  If you drop over 40 seconds in 1 lap, how can you not be the biggest "loser"?!  So we have a lot of them this time:  Jesse Schaudies who dropped 57 seconds in 25 free! Tucker Stillwagon who dropped 47 seconds in 25 back! Brooks Manderson who dropped 53 seconds in 25 back!  Eleanor Murphy who dropped 23 seconds in 25 free and 45 seconds in 25 back!  Wow!  

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

Tatum Beach - 5 sec in 50 free

William Beach - 21 sec in 100 IM, 5 sec in 50 fly

Nicolas Bondell - 5 sec in 50 breast

Victoria Bondell - 9 sec in 25 free, 16 sec in 25 back

Samantha Burke - 14 sec in 25 fly

Charlie Busch - 6 sec in 50 back, 6 sec in 100 IM

Katie Busch - 49 sec in 100 IM

Will Bykat - 8 sec in 50 breast

Mac Gifford - 16 sec in 25 free

Molly Gifford - 10 sec in 50 free

Kellen Gorman - 6 sec in 50 free

Ben Graves - 10 sec in 50 breast

Keya Hazra - 12 sec in 25 free

James Holder - 18 sec in 100 IM

Libby Homans - 7 sec in 50 free

Aidan Jones - 9 sec in 100 free, 10 sec in 50 fly

Lily Jones - 9 sec in 25 back

Alexander Leek - 5 sec in 50 breast

Hailey Linehan - 6 sec in 100 free

Elle Luksin - 8 sec in 25 back

Soren Mann - 6 sec in 50 free

Mattie Margine - 9 sec in 25 free, 12 sec in 25 back

Colin Monteith - 16 sec in 100 IM

Graham Negelow - 7 sec in 25 free

Noah Rosenbaum - 12 sec in 25 free, 17 sec in 25 back

Ethan Ryu - 5 sec in 25 free, 5 sec in 25 back

Ada Shupe - 16 sec in 25 free

Carter Stillwagon - 6 sec in 25 free

Chloe Tran - 12 sec in 100 IM

Eva Wolff - 20 sec in 50 back

Olive Young - 20 sec in 100 IM

Here are our swimmers/relays who finished 1st in their whole event (not just their heat).  We won every free relay except 1 age group...impressive! Congrats!

Boys 6&u free relay: Ethan, Tucker, Ajay, Maddox

Girls 7-8 medley relay: Margot, Olive, Tatum, Serena

Girls 7-8 free relay: Olive, Serena, Margot, Tatum

Boys 7-8 medley relay: James, Nate, Soren, Sam

Boys 7-8 free relay: Sam, Nate, James, Soren

Girls 9-10 medley relay: Harlow, Katie, Libby, Kensie

Girls 9-10 free relay: Harlow, Kensie, Katie, Libby

Boys 9-10 free relay: Kellen, Matthew, Joaquin, Ollie

Girls 11-12 medley relay: Violet, Sadie, Eva, Lucy

Girls 11-12 free relay: Violet, Eva, Lucy, Sadie

Boys 11-12 medley relay: Tommy, James, Nicolas, Alexander

Boys 11-12 free relay: James, Alexander, Tommy, Nicolas

Girls 13-14 medley relay: Megan, Hailey, Harper, Kara

Girls 13-14 free relay: Kara, Megan, Harper, Hailey

Boys 13-14 medley relay: Ellis, Charlie, Joshua, Will

Boys 13-14 free relay: Will, Charlie, Joshua, Ellis

Girls 15-18 medley relay: Abby, Natalie, Tessa, Caroline

Girls 15-18 free relay: Abby, Tessa, Chloe, Natalie

Boys 15-18 medley relay: Ryan, Leo, Matty, Thomas

Boys 15-18 free relay: Matty, Ben, Ryan, Leo

Tatum Beach - 50 free, 25 fly

Nicolas Bondell - 100 free, 50 breast

Charlie Busch - 50 free, 50 back

Katie Busch - 25 breast

Thomas Bykat - 50 breast

Ajay Chintana - 25 free

Serena Chintana - 25 free

Libby Gifford - 25 free, 25 back

Ryan Fogel - 100 free, 100 IM

James Holder - 50 free, 100 IM

Libby Homans - 50 free, 25 fly

Tommy Homans - 50 fly

Hailey Linehan - 100 free, 50 breast

Sadie Mann - 100 free, 50 breast

Soren Mann - 50 free, 25 breast

Megan Murden - 50 free, 50 back

Harlow Negelow - 25 back

Lucy Parker - 50 free

Leo Roden - 50 free, 50 back, 50 fly

Joshua Rubin - 50 breast

Abby Simon - 50 fly

Sam Smeltzer - 25 free, 25 back

Natalie Tully - 50 free, 100 free, 100 IM, 50 breast

Olive Young - 100 IM, 25 breast

Great job!

Coach Julie