We just finished our first meet of 2011 after 6 weeks of practice since the winter break. We did not do any specific preparation for the event and treated it as a practice meet. No surprisingly, the majority of the 18 swimmers who participated in the meet performed as expected. Over the weekend, the swimmers improved 49% of their events, well below our 60% average for meet, but no one was really off their best times by much and that is a good sign. Another good sign is that out of 100 races, the team only collected 2 disqualifications.
What was surprising, was the fact that four swimmers collected a total of ten new team records! Congratulations to Coco Berkenfield (9-10) for her performance in the 50 fly, Lizzie Ferguson (9-10) for breaking an 11 years old record in the 500 free, Monica Sears (11-12) for breaking six team records in the 200 free, 500 free, 100 back, 100 fly, 200 and 400 IM, and Jared Sears (15-16) for his performance in the 1000 free and the 400 IM.
Less surprising but still worth noting, is the performance of the Coco Berkenfield and Aidan Cumming who added 3 new Junior Olympics times each, Lizzie Ferguson, Justin Jo and Annalise Schlafer who added one "A" time each, and to Monica Sears for swimming a Far Western time on her 100 fly, and getting three "PRTs" Pacific Reportable Times in the 100 back, the 200 and the 500 free.
Big thank you to Judy Ferguson and Theresa Kamler for officiating during the meet.
