Saturday, December 31, 2011

p.s. Fingertips First

Christmas Training


Final Standings

Please get me your shirt sizes ASAP:

1T. Kirsten B.
1T. Jerome D.
1T. Henry I.
1T. Jamie P.
1T. Katlin S.
6. Naa B.
7T. Chandler R.
7T. Sammy R.
9. Randy V.
10. Mila I
11. Taylor W.
12. Forres M.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Plan Ahead

Lubbock ISD Invite individual time standards are as follows:

Girls

200 free - 2:24.09
200 i.m. - 2:46.09
50 free - :29.49
100 fly - 1:20.49
100 free - 1:05.49
500 free - 6:42.49
100 back - 1:17.99
100 breast - 1:26.99

Boys

200 free - 2:08.99
200 i.m. - 2:28.99
50 free - :25.09
100 fly - 1:09.89
100 free - :57.09
500 free - 6:05.09
100 back - 1:08.09
100 breast - 1:15.09

Our travel squad to this meet will be determined after Christmas break.

An updated Christmas training schedule is posted on the our official site here.

We may take a few relay-only swimmers to Lubbock.

Make plans to train over the holidays so you don't miss out on this opportunity!

MISD Invite Finals

We wrapped up the meet with three (3) more Top Ten times, and two (2) new school records.

Devin S, Parker S, Henry I, and Pedro S set an new school record in the 200 medley relay.

Parker S set a new school record in the 200 individual medley.

The girls' finished 18th in team scoring and the boys were 15th.

B200MR - Devin S, Parker S, Henry I, Pedro S - 14th
B200IM - Parker S - 3rd
B50Fr - Jamie P - 20th
G100Fl - Kirsten B - 17th
B100Fl - Henry I - 8th
B100Fl - Zabdiel E - 20th
B100Fr - Devin S - 20th
B500Fr - Parker S - 5th
B200FR - Pedro S, Devin S, Parker S, Zabdiel E - 10th
G100Ba - Kirsten B - 12th
B100Ba - Devin S - 16th
B100Ba - Jamie P - 17th
G400FR - Naa B, Kirsten B, Melissa T, Katlin S - 18th
B400FR - Henry I, Jamie P, Zabdiel E, Taylor W - 14th

Friday, December 9, 2011

Prelim Results

90+% best times today!

No, not season bests - lifetime bests!!

We had twelve (12) new Top Ten times!

There were two (2) DQ's in the girls' 400 free relay. That moved our girls up to 19th!

Qualifying for tomorrow's finals were:

B200MR - THS A - 14th
B200IM - Parker S - 2nd
B50Fr - Jamie P - 19th
G100Fl - Kirsten B - 15th
B100Fl - Henry I - 8th
B100Fl - Zabdiel E - 17th
B100Fr - Devin S - 18th
B500Fr - Parker S - 9th
B200FR - THS A - 8th
G100Ba - Kirsten B - 14th
B100Ba - Devin S - 15th
B100Ba - Jamie P - 16th
G400FR - THS A - 19th
B400FR - THS A - 14th

We will splash for warm-up at 8:30 a.m. - please arrive early!

Eat a good dinner, get a good night's sleep, and we'll see y'all in the morning - ready for another day of fast swimmin'!

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Fast Swimming

Two very fast meets are going on right now - USA Swimming National Champs (Atlanta/LCM) and Texas Invite (Austin/SCY). Both meets wrap up today.

Real time results and video from Atlanta are here.

Women's 50 free final:


Men's 50 free final:


Real time results from Austin are here. Several visiting teams are shaved & tapered.

Yesterday's prelim breaststroke swims were very quick.

USC's Kasey Carlson went a :58.69 in the morning. She won the final in :58.46.

Arizona's Kevin Cordes broke the Texas Swim Center pool record with an incredible :51.76. Cordes and his teammates finished 1-2-3 in finals.