HS Swimming snowballs to victory at Sewanee
Combined and boys' teams win the Sewanee Snowball Invitational; Twillie, boys' relays break meet records.
The USN Swimming Team traveled to Sewanee on Saturday to compete in the Snowball Invitational. This was our second meet in three days and part of a phase that we’re calling “a crash course in racing.”
This was our first time traveling to the Sewanee meet, and we didn’t quite know what to expect. We were excited to race some different teams, however, and also to compete in 50’s of strokes, which will be good information for coaches to have as we try to build our medley relays.
At the end of a long day, both the combined team and the boys’ team won the overall meet, while our (somewhat shorthanded) girls’ team finished fourth.
The team started off slowly, with some pretty pedestrian performances in the 200 medley relay and 200 freestyles. Midway through the 50 freestlyes, though, we came to life a little bit, and the rest of the day got better as it went on. In retrospect, it was sort of like...well...a snowball.
Several of our swimmers broke meet records throughout the day. Josh Twillie won the 50 butterfly, breaking the meet record in the process (25.88). The boys’ 200 freestyle relay (Twillie, Mitchell Coverstone, Ben Werther, Jack Reed) also broke the meet record, winning in a time of 1:36.70 that gives us hope that we could score at the State meet in this event. The 400 freestyle traded Ben Werther for Graham Shockley, and this quartet also broke the meet record and won, finishing the meet on a great note.
A few more of our swims were faster that the existing meet records but did not win, so they won’t walk away as meet record holders. Trudy Zou broke two meet records in the 50 and 100 breaststrokes, finishing second in both races. Katie Watke broke the existing meet record in the 50 backstroke and finished second overall. Josh Twillie’s 50 breaststroke was in this boat as well; he swam under the old meet record but finished fourth.
The most encouraging takeaway from this meet was that many of our swimmers got faster as the meet progressed. Our individual stroke 50’s were, by and large, faster than their initial medley relay splits. Many swimmers were able to make technical adjustments in real time, fixing little things with starts, turns, and strokes from race to race. We just need to get better at racing well from Event #1!
The team has two meets this week – Tuesday against Centennial and St. Cecilia, and Saturday against most of our Division – before beginning preparations for the Region and State meets.
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