TommieSports Blog

Even though we were missing a half-dozen swimmers (they were attending TJ Hardy's wedding), we still outnumbered and outscored the rest of the teams in the Augsburg Pentathlon. Here's the news story:
http://www.tommiesports.com/wsd/news/AUG_10-25.html

But, for me, the story was about how well we swam this early in the season. A bunch of swimmers hit times very close to their best from last year, and even more were not far off their best pre-taper from last year.

Three new swimmers were very impressive, winning half of the meet's ten events between them: Maddie Frost, a first-year swimmer from Stillwater, won the 100 Fly and the 100 IM. Erik Huls, a FY sprinter from Farmington won the 100 fly in a time that is less than a half-second off his lifetime PR, and Peter Mullee, our junior transfer from the U of Minn, won the 100 Free and the 100 back despite having the flu. His back time was only nine tenths off of Dave Linn's school record.

These stars are only half the story, however. It would take a page to list all the surprisingly good swims that we had all the way up and down the line-up.

Obviously, the swimmers noticed too. On the way to my office, after practice this morning, I overheard snippets of talk in the men's locker room...it was all about how fast a medley relay we could put together. I'd wouldn't be surprised if a number of personal goals were modified this weekend, too...for the faster.