It is safe to say that there were team records, boardswims, New PRT's, Q's, AA's, and A's, League Champions, High Point Winners, and a whole new group of swimmers that are now excited to swim on our year round team. It was a great great meet for our team.

Swimming is a sport that requires an incredible amount of parental support in order to make it work. Our team does not function with out a lot of help from our parent group. We won the meet, but also really ran this meet in most areas. I can't thank the collective you enough. You parents support our team and the way we coaches run it with full confidence in our abilites to do a good job. I am truly blessed to be part of such a great group.

There were so many moments that I could talk about, but in the interest of brevity I will leave you with 4 moments that I remember from this weekend that kind of puts it all in perspective.

• Claire Packer swimming a 200 IM , an event that was perhaps a bit too hard for her to do at her age and ability,and doing it with all her might. On both ends of her lane were 8 or so older kids cheering her on as she made her way through each turn.
• Charlie Waters who had a season long goal of breaking 20 seconds in the 25 free, doing it in the last race of the season. He rushed over to me after the race and told me he did a "one nine five four"..you could hear the excitement in his voice.
• Becca Roth who had the best swim meet she has ever had, missed winning the High Point trophy by a couple points, getting beat out by teammate Kate Bettinger. You could see in her face after the announcement was made that strange mixture of pride in doing so well with the dissappointment of coming up just short. Kate came over after and gave her a hug (as did we all) in a great display of sportmanship. I am proud of them both.
• Matt Pelfini shaving our team logo into his hair...what more can you say!!

This is why I love to coach!!

Ken

Meet breakdown for you stat hungry people:

***64% best times for the team...an amazing number that shows how well we did as a group.

***Swimmers who had perfect swim meets ( came home with all best times...hard to do when you swimming 6-8 different events over 3 days)
Annie Chisholm
Stephanie Christofferson
Alison Gossel
Peter Landefeld
Deborah Roth
Shayan Sayadi
Mattie Winkler

We had many many swimmers who had all but one best time over the 3 days.

***NEW AA TIMES
Claire Healy --50 free
Kate Bettinger--200 free, 50 breast
Becca Roth--200 free,50 fly
Laura Slater--500 free
Alison Gossel--500 free,200 IM
Elizabeth Kamai--200 free,200 IM
Stephanie Christofferson-- 500 free
Ben Christofferson--50 free
Keegan Cohen--50 fly
Peter Landefeld--50 free,200 free,50 back,100 back,50 fly,200 IM
Chris Packer--100 free,500 free
John Wright--100 back

***NEW Q TIMES
Laura Slater--100 free, 50 fly
Deborah Roth--100 free,200 free,100 IM,200 IM
Mattie Winkler--50 breast
Alison Gossel--50 back
Devon DeMont--50 fly,100 IM
Stephanie Christofferson--100 fly,200 IM,400 IM
Aoife Duffy--200 free,200 IM
Annie Chisholm--50 free
Brad Cline--50 breast, 200 IM
Dillon Moscone--200 free

***NEW PRT TIMES
Owen Moscone--25 fly
Brad Cline--200 free,50 fly
Dillon Moscone--100 back

***HIGHPOINT AWARD WINNERS
Owen Moscone 8&un boys
Kate Bettinger 9-10 girls
Deborah Roth 11-12 girls
Dillon Moscone 11-12 boys
Stepahnie Christofferson 13-14 girls

***BOARD SWIMS
Brad Cline--200 free
Devon DeMont--500 free
Chris Packer--500 free
Dillon Moscone--100 free,200 free,500 free,100 back (team record)
Stephanie Christofferson--100 breast,200 IM,400 IM (team record)
Annie Chisholm--100 breast (team record)
Mary Gossel--200 IM,100 free
Nicole Lung--400 IM