WEEK OF PRACTICE: After a late night meet with High Point we arrived early on Tuesday morning to begin our preparations for the Frogs from Fairfax. We started off Tuesday with a lot of kicking and followed with some quality 50's and some easy stretch out 100's. Of course my day started with Coach Sydney stomping across the deck informing me she is never going back to SHRA to swim. I guess it was a rough morning over there, only problem is that now I am stuck with her as she gets ready for her senior year at the Hood.
Working together getting ready for the frogs
We would follow Tuesday with 2 good days of practice on Wednesday and Thursday followed by a movie upstairs in the afternoon for the 12 and unders. The 13 and overs would watch the classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off in the evening upstairs in the clubhouse. Yes Isaac that is my bowl of ice cream and yes I will finish it.
On Friday we would have our team picture taken and than proceed to a giant raft party. Here are some images.
Saturday arrived and again the DOLPHINS would travel west to face the frogs from Fairfax. Again the 8 and unders would start the meet off by winning the first event. This week it was Ryan Southern who would attempt to wake up the dolphins. The Dolphins would win 5 of the 10 free style events to take a 46-44 lead into backstroke.
The Dolphins would only win 3 events in the backstroke but managed to find themselves trailing by only 8 (86-94). We tried to hang in as long as we could, but our fear began to appear as the frogs started to leap frog pass the Dolphins during the breast stroke events outscoring us 56-34, for a 150-120 point advantage heading into the fly events. Again we only managed to win 3 of the 10 breast stroke events. Now the question was could we close any ground during the fly events. The fear we had was NO. The frogs just had to much depth this day. Unfortunately I knew this as we entered the meet, as a lot of those darn little frogs swim in my groups over at GMU. The Dolphins would only win 2 fly events and fell further behind 162 to 198.
Going into the relays the Dolphins would need to win 10 of the 12 relays wich was a very longggggggg reach. At the end even after a spirited attempt we found our selves swimming around in our pod watching the frogs basking on their lilly pads.
Winning both their races this week were Elena Summers and Sophia Cloutier. Other event winners were Ryan Southern, Justin Britton, Matthew Janicki, Jackson McDonnell, Emmy Retinger, Madeline Ice and Catherine Lusick.
We had a sweep in the 11-12 girls of Chaterine Lusick, Nicole Farrace, Isabel Church.
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