a few soggy thoughts

It has been an interesting month so far. I haven't seen so much rain and cool weather in years. Today's meet was fantastic ( despite the first Saturday rain delay I can remember since 1981)! There were many best times ( too many to mention here, but there will be jolly ranchers for those swimmers on Monday). I have to mention a few " crunch" performances from a few swimmers - Callie Collins and Donlan Dailey anchoring their free relays, Stephanie Kincaid in the free relay, Cory Camp come from behind win in the 50 back, Bethany Hamson in 50 breast, Keara Lindsay and Cate Kincaid in back and fly, Teresa Cygnarowitz in 25 back, Patrick Mukri's back in the Medley relay, Mollie Bauer in breast,Emily Lathrop in 50 fly, Trinity Kleckner swimming 25 free as a last minute replacement and the dominating performances of the 13-14 girls and 15-18 girls and the 9-10 and 11-12 boys. My goal is to mention as many kids as possible over the course of the season ,so if I didn't mention you by name this week remember that your performances did not go unnoticed! We will continue to emphasize stroke work - especially streamlines off the starts and turns -  in practice. We have the divisional relays next Sunday for which I will post the line-up Saturday  after the next A meet. It should be up by 1:00. Next Wed. is our first B meet against Calverton. It should be lots of fun - Many 8 and unders have been working hard improving their free and back as well as learning the breast and fly. Others have mastered the free and back flip turns. Remember that the B meets are also an opportunity to earn your way into the next A  meet. The pep rally was a great success- everyone seemed to enjoy the root beer floats while learning the team cheers. Thanks again to Patty Gillis and Carolyn Bauer for providing the new green shirts to the team. I know we all love the sayings on the back! Anyway, that's all for now. Congratulations to the team for all the fantastic swims today and our first victory of the season.