Not too bad of a turnout for what could be described as not the most ideal weekend for a meet. Still 62 swimmers participated, about double the amount of swimmers from last year, and we welcomed 9 kids who participated in their first meet ever. Everyone was a bit nervous but stepped up to meet the new challenge presented to them. Congrats to Ashley and Mack Blood, Harrison Flynn, Nick Ginwala, Rachel Katz, Morgan Mutscheller, Jordan Price, Haley Summers and James Worthington.
A 48% best time is well below average, and we owe this relatively weak performance to our older swimmers who were swimming a bit tired. Could be the 30,000 yards a week they are swimming or the difficulty to get fired-up during this kind of competitive format ... at least not all is lost, these athletes still put a pretty good show for our younger kids to watch. In Particular, the following swimmers had a great meet: Jude and Belen Mirsky, Lani Kamler, Sienna and Nick Berry and Ella Biesiadecki.
All in all a good event that hopefully got our new families to learn a bit more about the sport and our older one to have some time to catch-up. Looks like Bobby offered a good alternative to our snack bar. I am thinking about passing the job on to the RRC kitchen from now on. I welcome your feedback in this area.
While not swimming close enough to their best times, our older kids managed to break 2 team records. Alicia Vogelaar, Emma Jones, Justas Reskevicius and Jared Sears broke the 13 and over mixed 200 free relay record and Alicia, Emma, Jared and Alex Claman broke the 13 and over mixed 200 medley relay record. Good job!
Next on the Marlins schedule is the long course meet in Vallejo on May 6,7 and 8. So far we have 14 swimmers attending and the meet is schedule to close on 4/28 or earlier if enough swimmers enter the meet.
On May 13 and 14, all our high schoolers will be competing for their respective high schools in their league championships. We will be preparing our athletes to perform as best as they can for this event. A week later those who qualify will get to compete in the North Coast Section High school championships.
In the meantime, the next meet open to everyone on the team is schedule for Saturday, May 21 at the Tiburon Peninsula Club and will be hosted by NBA. I recommend this meet for all the swimmers. This is very much like our home meets. The meet will be open for registration shortly.
I have officially closed our Spring session schedule to end on 6/10. I will still consider accepting returning Marlins swimmers to the team, but all new swimmers will have to wait until the beginning of the Summer season on June 13.
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