Holding His Own
Against the best flyers in Division III, Freshman Erik Huls held his own. He repeated his prelim time, within two one-hundredths, swimmming a better paced race, but with a couple of sluggish turns. He was right in the middle of one of the closest finishes in the meet so far: 7/100ths of a second separated a tie for 10th from 13th place.
Last year, Erik was an all-state sprinter freestyler, with a butterfly that was a Farmington HS school record, but not state meet material. But, with a little time in the weight room with teammate Grant Frost, and some serious stroke work, he has improved from being a butterflyer whose time didn't get out of sections, to posting the 6th fastest 100 fly in all of Division III.
That kind of improvment doesn't happen by accident...it was the result of a lot of hard work and one of the Big Hearts that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. Scroll down on this blog page, and read about the larger Family of which Erik is such an important part.
Tomorrow, Erik gets a well-earned rest (except to take two mid-term exams), and Jena, Peter, and Becca all take a run at the 100 Back. Jena is the #4 seed, Peter #3, and Becca is back a bit at 31st, but only half a second out of scoring. It's going to be fun...again!