Week 2 recap

It was a very busy weekend, with an away meet on Saturday and then the relay carnival on Sunday at Wheaton Woods.

Dual meet at James Creek

Our week 2 dual meet brought us to face a familiar opponent in James Creek, who has been in the same division with Wheaton Woods for the past three seasons. Unlike the week 1 dual meet, this was a close meet with many great races throughout the morning. While the pre-meet scoring showed that this could be an easy win for James Creek, we came in and swam fast and challenged them in every event.

This was a very close meet, with each team showing strengths in different age groups and events. The difference in just a few age groups allowed James Creek to take a 20 point lead at the break. While we continued to swim fast and race, it just wasn't quite enough to make up the difference, and they were able to extend their lead slightly in the second half.

The final margin was 38 points, as James Creek held on to win 397 to 359. It was a fun and exciting meet, and while Wheaton Woods came up short on the scoreboard, there was a lot of great swimming by the Tigers to be proud of. As mentioned previously, the pre-meet scoring showed James Creek cruising to a big win of over 120 points, so we really did a great job to make it a close meet and to give ourselves a chance to win.

Notable Performances

• Tim Wasel with a nearly 5 second drop in 100 IM
• Shawn Mashburn with a huge drop of 5 seconds in 25 Free
• Monica Blassou with a big 3 second improvement in 25 Free
• Cristina Aldrete dropping nearly 2.5 seconds in 25 Free
• Joseph Moynihan shaving 2 seconds off in 50 Free
• Julie Kilmer with a stellar improvement of nearly 5 seconds in 50 Free
• Christina Kilmer with an amazing drop of almost 10 seconds in 50 Free
• Molly Martin with a giant 5 second drop in 50 Free
• Francis Rowedder with a huge drop of over 8 seconds in 100 IM
• Mary Rowedder with an astounding drop of 24 seconds(!) in 100 IM
• Christina Kilmer with another big improvement of nearly 5 seconds in 100 IM
• Shawn Mashburn with a nearly 4 second drop in 25 Back
• George Marcolin with a big drop of over 6 seconds in 25 Back
• Cristina Aldrete with a nice improvement of over 3 seconds in 25 Back
• Bryan Van Gieson with a strong showing, taking over 4 seconds off in 100 Back
• Jason Beam trimming over 4 seconds off his time in 100 Back
• Mitchell Kuhsman taking a big leap with an 8 second drop in 50 Back
• Gabriel Radich with a giant 5 second time drop in 25 Breast
• Annie Marcolin cruising to a nearly 4 second improvement in 50 Breast
• Christina Kilmer showing her stuff with an over 4 second drop in 50 Breast
• Paul Wasel racing to a nearly 2.5 second time drop in 100 Breast
• Danny Ferreira shaping up with a nearly 4 second improvement in 100 Breast
• Tom Kilmer trimming nearly 3 seconds in 25 Fly
• Marcello Beatley dropping over 5 seconds in 50 Fly
• Gabriel Wilson with a 5 second improvement in 50 Fly

There were many other swims that were best times for the season, and I could probably list just about every name of someone who swam at the meet as having posted a best time. It truly was a stellar performance across the entire team.

Clean Sweepers [a swimmer who won 3 individual events and the Individual

Medley]

• Lena Bossler - 11-12 Girls
• Paul Rowedder - 15-18 Boys

Event Winners

• Tom Kilmer - 8 & under 25 Breast
• Shawn Mashburn - 8 & under 25 Back
• Thomas Moynihan - 11-12 50 Breast
• Francis Rowedder - 13-14 50 Free, 13-14 50 Back, 13-14 50 Breast
• Taylor Swift - 15-18 100 Free, 15-18 100 Breast
• Bryan Van Gieson - 15-18 100 Back
• Chrissy Wasel - 11-12 50 Back

As you can see from all of the recognitions in the sections above, we swam really well at the meet. Sometimes the scoreboard doesn't really reflect how well we performed, and I believe that to be the case for this dual meet. As a team we continue to swim fast and compete despite usually having a much smaller roster than the opposing team. I am very proud of our effort and results from this meet.

Relay Carnival

Wheaton Woods hosted the L division relay carnival on Sunday morning. After our strong showing at the dual meet at James Creek on Saturday, we were hoping to make an impact on the meet. This was the first time that we had hosted a relay carnival in many years, and our parent volunteers did an amazing job of running the meet.

From a swimming perspective, we had a bit of a tough morning. While we were admittedly missing some people for the relay meet, we didn't quite manage to perform as well in the relay events as we did in our individual events at the meet on Saturday.