The Gators take Fourth at Champs!
Good Evening Gators!
I hope this final recap email of the season finds you well rested after yesterday’s marathon of amazing swims! I have spent the day trying to move as little as possible, while pouring over the results over and over again. Everytime I go through it, I find another amazing swim by one of our Gators. I have to say I was shocked that we were in fourth going into the second session, and even more shocked that we held everyone off to the end- and Mary Nelson has the picture of us when they announced it to prove it! The coaches and I could not be more proud of our swimmers- this was a perfect way to end our undefeated season. You showed up to race, and race you did! But not only that, it made it even better to see you guys all smiles when you came to talk to us after your races.
The coaches got to accept not one, but TWO trophies on behalf of the Gators yesterday. One was for winning the Red Division for the Regular Season with our undefeated season, and the second was for our Fourth place finish at Champs yesterday. I was excited to drop off some more hardware to add to our trophy case today. Fun Fact: Avalon has not won a Division since 2002- 15 long years! Way to go Gators!
I have written up a brief recap of the meet below, and attached the full results. Please visit the JRAC website (jracsummerswim.org) for more information, the full list of team scores, etc.
Avalon Finishes Fourth at Champs with 807.5 points
We dropped some serious time in the pool yesterday! We racked up 104 best times and had several jumps in speed categories:
XX:
Ellie Wood 100 IM, 50 Bk
Rachel Cooper 100, 50 Bk, 100 Fr
Cristina Muncy 100 IM, 50 Br
Wil Steadman 50 Bk, 100 Fr
Amelia Macholz 50 Fr, 50 Fl
X:
Riggs Ukrop 100 IM
Cole Nelson 25 Bk
Ellie Wood 50 Fr
Thomas Moor 50 Fr
Regular:
Eli Brookshier 25 Bk
Henry Hofheimer 25 Bk
Olive Schreher 50 Bk
Vinnie Fischi 50 Bk
Grady Brookshier 50 Bk
Nathan Frieden 50 Br
Cate Haymore 50 Br
Maggie Wallace 50 Br
Frances Holmes 25 Fr
Chandler Doll 50 Fr
Pace Fonville 50 Fr, 50 Fl
Griffin Belding 50 Fl
Jack Phillips 50 Fl
Harrison Holmes 50 Fl
10 Team and *4 League Records* were taken down by the Gators yesterday:
Valentina Linkonis: Mite Girls Team and *League* Record: 25 Back: 17.91
Valentina Linkonis: Mite Girls Team Record: 25 Fly: 18.04
Amelia Macholz: Intermediate Girls Team and *League Record*: 50 Breast: 36.02
Willow Clark: Senior Girls Team Record: 50 Back: 30.35
Zoe Trenz: Senior Girls Team Record: 50 Fly: 29.44
Zach Cram: Senior Boys Team Record: 50 Back: 26.57
Matthew Whelan: Senior Boys Team and *League Record*: 50 Free: 23.69
Matthew Whelan: Senior Boys Team and *League Record*: 50 Fly: 25.16
Zach Cram, Zoe Trenz, Matthew Whelan, Cristina Muncy: Senior Mixed Medley Relay Team Record: 1:55.30
Willow Clark, Zach Cram, Cristina Muncy, Matthew Whelan: Senior Mixed Freestyle Relay Team Record: 1:42.27
We had 1 Triple Winner and 1 Quadruple Winner yesterday:
Triple: Wil Steadman
Quad: Valentina Linkonis
THANK YOU ALL for an amazing summer swim season. Truly from the bottom of my heart I thank each of you for making my first season as a Gator one to never forget. Thank you for your generosity, kindness, and support.
Take care and enjoy the rest of your summer! Hope to see some of your shining faces around the pool!
Coach K
