WV State Games Wrap Up

First, I would like to thank the Sorsaia, Hill, and Fisher Families for hosting our team during our time in Huntington, WV.  It was a pleasure being at your wonderful homes for a home cooked meal and to relax.  This team is special and the families are a large part of it.  No other team in WV has families that take time to open their homes and fill their kitchens with home cooking.  Thank you!!!

The WV State Games was a great kick off to the season.  We had the opportunity to swim against all of the colleges in WV, including WVU, Marshall, Fairmont, Wheeling Jesuit, Davis&Elkins, and WVTech.  Marshall held the meet this year and did a fine job.  As a coach, I do not expect best times at this point in the season.  We use this meet as a chance to see where we are in our training and what we need to focus more on before we taper in November for our mid season meet at the University of Pittsburgh.

Last season this meet was very challenging with a 3 session meet in 2 days we got very tired right off the start.  This season was the complete opposite, we did not get tired as quickly and were able to hold our races strong.  At this point in the season we were able to take our races out fast and hang on.  Typically, you would see the athletes struggle come the end of a race but this did not happen for us.  We were able to hold on versus completely dying.   Our closing speed is not here at the start of the season but will get better as we get closer to the mid season meet.  In comparison to last year we are off to a WAY better start and look good.

As a team, we were the team we always are!  Everyone supported each other and were cheering during every race.  As a coach, these athletes make my job easy because they are incredible individuals!  We finished 3rd and 5th overall.  Team scores are not the focus at this meet.  The focus is to see where we are and what we need to improve on in the coming meets.

There were 3 athletes who achieved a life time best time and many who were very close.  We are right where we need to be at this point.  There were many stand out races: Rodrigo in the 500 free and 200 im, Mark in the 200 im, Tosha in the 1650 free, R.Kelley and Becca in the 100 free, Vivian in the 100 fly, R.Bailer in the 100 breast, 500 free, Steven in the 50, 100, 200 free, Brumley in the 200 fly, Sophia in the 50 free, ALL of the relays, Max in the 100 and 200 breast, and many others!  I could go on for days but for now I will attach the results for everyone to see.

We start this week reflecting on what we need to improve and continue to push to get into peek shape so we can taper in November.  We have a group of recruits coming this weekend and our Alumni Meet on Saturday at 10am.

Great Job Team and Thank You to the parents for your continued support!






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