Sharkies!
We just got home from Day 1 of Champs and so far it has been awesome. Virtually every kid dropped time. A lot of time! All of our Sharkies are swimming awesome! Of those awesome kids 12 of them got to race Finals:
9/10 girls--Makena Acosta with a new Sharks IM record and 1st place over all, Claire Hagen's with 19th place. (out of 120 other swimmers)
9/10 boys--Davis Martin broke his own IM record he just set a couple of weeks ago and took 1st place, Hunter Acosta shattered his own best time getting 4th place over all, with Josh Forbis (also with a best time) for 16th place (total swimmers 80)
11/12 girls--Addison Mossman took 3rd, Solara Loftus swam off with a solid best time and 6th place and maybe the biggest drop (for the girls) of the whole day--over all--was Sophia Stake dropping 11.25 seconds and securing 14th place! (total swimmers 102)
11/12 boys--Orion Miles with 10th and Jaxson Talbot-Elkins with 14th. (total competitors 72)
13/14 girls--Dakota Alfaquih added a new MOC event with both her time and getting 9th over all out of 79 swimmers.
17/18 women--Same for Macie Banner with a new MOC event and 7th place overall out of 37 swimmers.
Biggest PR over all was Caleb Fiegles with a 14.52 improvement! Seriously maybe two swimmers didn't improve and one was a huge goggle malfunction and she still finished really close to her best time.
At the end of the day the best things I saw in our kids was a great mindset, determination, & kids having fun!
Thoughts to carry into the rest of the meet:
Put it all out there! Don't hold back anything, climb out of the pool 100% spent.
Break your own records!
Don't give up!
Race!
Have fun! You will miss this someday so enjoy the heck out of it!
We have had a challenging year in a lot of ways. Still the Sharks have an indomitable spirit!!!! (That means "IMPOSSIBLE TO SUBDUE, UNCONQUERABLE) Fight! Fight! Fight and touch the wall first!
