Season Recap

November 25, 2008- Who knew people read this thing!! I will try to do a better job of posting, especially next year when I am overseas.

So we just wrapped the first year of the E&B era of Wayzata swimming, that's Elizabeth and Beth for those who did not catch that:) We had a very successful first season and are in the process of downloading all of the info so we can sound knowledgeable about all the great things that happened for our banquet next week. Here are the quick highlights:

• 8-1 dual meet season


• 9-0 junior varsity dual meet season
  
• True Team Section Champs
  
• 3rd at True Team State
  
• Section 5AA Champions (we had 31 out of 32 possible swims in the top 8!)
  
• Qualified someone in every single event at the state meet
  
• 10th place at the state meet
  
• 497 season best swims throughout the season, and this does not count the first time they swam any event!!

Overall Elizabeth and I could not be prouder of the girls. We are most impressed about the level of commitment and discipline they showed all season long. They are a great bunch of young women and we are lucky to coach them. We laughed every day and hopefully made the girls laugh once or twice along the way. Hopefully we taught them something about life and swimming at some point as well.

We were very nervous about running a taper on our own, but we can say that we think we nailed it!! We raced so well at Sections and again at State. Our JV section team also dropped time and we saw many season and lifetime best swims at the end of the season.

So final thoughts. What can we say, we loved every minute of this season. There were ups and downs, but we learned a lot and hope that we can make each season better than the last. We are a young team and are certain that we will only better with age.... sounds like something else that is near and dear to my heart.....

Thanks for checking in.. check back soon for pics of the fam over the holidays!!