The team put up a pretty strong showing at Swarthmore over the weekend. Our 16 swimmers combined for 36 season best times and 17 lifetime best swims over the course of the three sessions. As a group, we ended up in third place out of the eleven women's teams that were competing. It was a good experience for our swimmers to get out of the region and race some PA/NJ schools that they don't usually get to go up against. Also, there's nothing better than fast swimming and close races over a multi-day, multi-session meet to prepare swimmers for the physical and mental grind of championship swimming. Having now competed in two invitationals this year, the team will be well prepared for February.
Some highlights from the weekend:
-The freestyle relays are getting closer and closer to the school records....
-Sarah put up some strong sprint freestyle swims: 24.95,54.45 flat starts, plus 24.3 and two 53.XX relay splits....which helps as those relays go after records and more...
-The D-Train in general. The distance swimmers, as a group, deserve a major shout out. In the 500, 4IM, and 1650, we saw some big time drops and impressive swims across the board. KDodd, Brittany and Plowman each took over 6 seconds off previous lifetimes bests in the 500. Brianna had an impressive 4IM for a season best by nearly 8 seconds (just .01 off her lifetime best). The 3 milers (Becca, Brittany, Tracy) took an average of over 16 seconds off their season bests.
