Keeping it Rolling
We started the meet with some great swims in the 400 IM and 100 fly...ran into a little bad luck...two 9th places...one in the women's 100 Fly, and the men's 400 IM, but otherwise had some wonderful drops.
Then, in the 200 Free, we absolutely caught fire, and that carried over into the 100 Breast and 100 back.
Both Nick Frost and John Stark made it into the Champ finals of the breast, as did Jill Otterson. Krista Horejsi and Tom Becker also will score in the back 8.
Monica Beggs and Layla Clauss will swim in the champ finals of the 200 Free, and Becca Ney and Jena Root both broke a minute, with the school record going to Jena in the 100 Back. Jena's time of 58.86 is already a solid B cut for Nationals, and will likely get in. But I'm betting that both Jena and Becca better that time, and will be heading to Ohio in March.
In the men's 100 back, TJ Hardy set another lifetime best, and qualified 4th with a 52.79, which, like his 50 yesterday, is a national B cut.
I'm betting we swim better tonight...and we have two 200 Medley Relay teams that are going to fly, plus two very strong 800 Free Relays. In fact, we should have all four women in the 800 Free Relay under 2:00...and the old record was 8:08.6, set in 1987.
You can follow along in real time by clicking on
http://www.miac-online.org/Sports/mswim/2007/sdchampionships08.asp
Even if you're not in the stands, waving a purple "GO TOMMIES" bandana, you can cheer the team along.
So far at the championships: 6 new school records, 30 new entries in the All-Time Top 15 list, in only 11 events swum, with finals in six of those events yet to be swum.
No question about it, we're having one the greatest meets in our history, and swim for swim, we're swimming better than any other team at the MIAC Championships.