We finally had some sun for a meet!  I was a sweaty mess, but I'll take that over the pouring rain.  Unfortunately, it did get cut short with the thunder, but we had done enough to count it as a meet since we were over halfway, so there will be no make up.  If your child was supposed to swim fly and they want to be timed at practice, we will do that tomorrow (when we have lane ropes in), just let me know!

I hate that kids were disappointed to not get to swim fly and the relays (and breast for the older kids), but I do appreciate that our swimmers care enough about it to be disappointed!

In this email:

• Championship meet reminder
• RSVP-next meet
• Meet results

CHAMPIONSHIP MEET

Just a reminder that registration is due a week from today.  Form is attached here.  See weekly email for all info.

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.

Bennett and Morgan Bongiovi

Frankie Cronin (junior - will be added to meets once ready)

Eloise Cunningham

Lion and Ocean Durden

Libby, Mac, and Molly Gifford

Nora Hower

Stevie Johnson (junior - will be added to meets once ready)

Elle Luksin

Eleanor, Henry, and William Murphy

Maren Rambo (junior - will be added to meets once ready)

Archer, Henley, and Keira Stoffel

Ellie and Sadie Strauss

Finley Williams

MEET RESULTS

It's really hard to swim a best time in a meters pool when you practice in a yards pool.  Even though we can convert the times, swimming a longer way is just harder to do.  We will had 30% of our swims being best times though! They did beat us 322-249.  I think we would have closed that gap a little with the events we had left (we usually do through breast and fly), but given the number of kids on their team and the number that swim year round, I'm really happy with this.

I have attached the full results as well as a report showing the times converted to yards.  For the younger kids, we also had kids add substantial time, which definitely happens, especially if they're in camp all day. We'll keep working on it!

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. Our biggest losers this week are Ridge Johnson who dropped 1:37 in 25 back! And also Brie Katz who dropped 9 seconds in 25 free and 1:02 in 25 back! Great job!

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

Tatum Beach - 5 sec in 100 IM

Grace Blanco - 7 sec in 50 free

Bennett Bongiovi - 5 sec in 25 free

Eloise Cunningham - 31 sec in 25 free

Leo Fink - 5 sec in 25 back

Molly Gifford - 6 sec in 100 IM

Karlie Grimes - 5 sec in 25 free and 6 sec in 25 back

Kendall Grimes - 21 sec in 25 back

Ben Heckcrote - 26 sec in 100 IM

Eli Kaplan - 27 sec in 50 free

Austin Lee - 9 sec in 25 back

Noah Rosenbaum - 6 sec in 50 free

Harrison Silver - 7 sec in 25 free

Carter Stillwagon - 17 sec in 50 free

Hollis Stuenkel - 14 sec in 25 back and 8 sec in 25 breast

Braxton Whitaker - 7 sec in 25 breast

Ethan Williams - 8 sec in 25 back

Gaines Wingo - 6 sec in 25 free

Walker Wren - 5 sec in 25 free

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

Boys 7-8 medley relay: Gaines, Christian, Jacob, Eli

Boys 9-10 medley relay: Ben, Theo, Sam, Noah

Boys 11-12 medley relay: Colin, Joe, Soren, Isaac

Boys 13-14 medley relay: Henry, James, Ryan, Fred

Theo Carnaru - 25 breast

Libby Gifford - 25 breast

Tessa Hartley - 50 back, 100 IM

James Holder - 50 free, 100 free, 50 back, 100 IM

Nora Hower - 25 free

Eli Kaplan - 25 back

Sadie Mann - 50 free, 100 free, 50 back, 100 IM, and 50 breast

Soren Mann - 100 free and 50 breast

Colin Monteith - 50 back

Eleanor Murphy - 25 back

Jacob Robb - 100 IM

Sam Smeltzer - 50 free, 100 IM

Lola Toole - 50 free, 100 free

Gaines Wingo - 25 free and 25 breast

Great job everyone!

Coach Julie