Our swimmers attending the 2011 Speedo Sectionals put a high note to end the short course season. Despite the small number of swimmers attending, the swimming was FAAASST! Here are the individual highlights:
Sara Bentley (National): got three best times, including two new ACAC Records (Girls 13-14, 100 Fly: 1:00.62; 400 IM: 4:47.06);
Taylor Flummerfelt (National): one best time, which is a new AAAA time (200 free);
Chloe Kuehner (National): one best time;
Hannah Newell (National): two best times;
Sydney Sorenson (National): three best times, including 1 new ACAC Record (Senior Girls 200 Breast: 2:25.88) and 1 new AAA time (200 IM);
Caleb Utesch (National): one best time.
Our swimmers attending the Senior ISI Short Course Champs also had a great meet! With an average of 67% best times, several sectionals cuts, and some ACAC records to top, our older swimmers also had a great end of season! Here are the individual highlights:
Lauren Banwart (Senior): got one best time;
Sara Bentley (National): got seven best times, including three new ACAC Records (Girls 13-14, 100 Fly: 1:01.58; 200 Fly: 2:16.91; 400 IM: 4:47.12), two of each being new AAA times (100 fly and 400 IM) and one is also a new Sectionals cut (400 IM);
Matt Burke (Senior): got two best times;
Chandler Cox (Senior): got four best times, including 2 new AA times (100 and 500 free) and two new A times (50 free and 200 back);
Taylor Flummerfelt (National): got three best times, including 1 new AAAA time (200 free) and 2 new AAA/Sectionals cuts (500 free and 200 IM);
Chloe Kuehner (National): got four best times, including 1 new Sectionals cut (200 breast), 1 new AA time (50 free) and 1 new A time (400 IM);
Rachel Manderscheid (Senior): got three best times, including 1 new AA time (200 breast) and 1 new A time (100 fly);
Chris Merchant (Senior): got three best times, including 1 new AAA time (100 free) and 2 new AA times (50 free and 200 IM);
Bailey Moulden (Senior): went 4 for 4 in best times, including two new A times (100 free and 100 back);
Hannah Newell (National): got two best times;
Eric Pahl (Senior): got one best time, which is a new BB time (50 free);
Alex Pyle (Senior): got six best times, including 1 new AAA time (50 free) and 2 new AA times (100 back and 200 IM);
Cameron Rasmussen (Senior): got four best times;
Wyatt Rasmussen (Senior): got five best times, including 4 new A times (500 and 1000 free, 200 and 400 IM);
Lauren Rosser (Senior): got two best times, one being a new AAA time (200 IM) and the other a new AA time (200 free);
Katie Sailer (Age Group 3): went 5 for 5 in best times, including two AAA times (50 and 100 free) and two new AA times (100 and 200 back);
Rachel Shriver (Senior): got one best time, which is a new AAA time (200 free);
Olivia Snyder (Senior): went 4 for 4 in best times, including 1 new AA time (100 free);
Sydney Sorenson (National): got 4 best times, including two new AAA times (50 and 100 free);
Jakub Stehlik (Senior): in his first ACAC meet, dove in for 5 events, all of them being AAA times (100 and 200 back, 100 and 200 fly, 200 IM);
Marios Tringides (Senior): got two best times, one of which is a new AA time (50 free);
Sam Wiedemeier (Senior): got four best times, including 1 new AAA time (100 free) and 1 new A time (100 fly).
Congrats!
To say ACAC did great at the 12&U Champs wouldn’t do justice to our athletes’ performances! We had a stunning 73% of best times, set 4 ACAC Relay Records and 15 ACAC Individual Records on the road to claiming 5th place overall. Considering the sizes of the teams, our swimmers performed even better, since when dividing the total points by the number of entries, ACAC had the best average, scoring 10.4 points per entry (the only team to average over 10pts/entry)!!! Here are the individual highlights:
Girls 11-12 Relays:
All four ACAC Records for 11-12 Girls relays fell during the meet: The team of Morgan Rosser, Hannah Dietrich, Jazlyn Horras and Gracie Snyder broke both the 200 Freestyle Relay: 1.51.12; the same team also took down the 400 Freestyle Relay: 4:05.41. Jazlyn Horras (Bk), Gracie Snyder (Br), Anna Napolitano (Fl) and Morgan Rosser (Fr) broke the 200 Medley Relay: 2:05.10; for the 400 Medley Relay, Anna and Gracie switched strokes, and another ACAC Record fell: 4:43.57.
James Bentley (Age Group 3): got 9 best times, including 1 new ACAC Record (Boys 9-10, 500 Free: 6:16.75), which is also a new AA time, in addition to 1 AAA time (50 breast) and 4 more new AA times (50 and 200 free, 100 breast, and 200 IM);
Matt Boylan (Age Group 3): got five best times, including 2 new AA times (1000 free and 50 back) and 1 new A time (200 IM);
Hannah Dietrich (Age Group 2): got three best times;
Eli Heginger (Age Group 1): got 1 best time;
Jazlyn Horras (Age Group 3): went 9 for 9 in best times, including 1 new AAA time (50 back), 1 new AA time (100 back) and 6 new A times (500 free, 200 back, 50 and 100 breast, 100 and 200 IM);
Olivia Jenks (Age Group 2): got five best times, including 1 new BB time (50 back);
David Jiang (Age Group 1): got one best time, which is also a new A time (50 breast);
Nicky Lin (Age Group 2): got four best times;
Anna Napolitano (Age Group 3): got three best times;
Morgan Rosser (Age Group 3): got seven best times, including 3 new ACAC Records (Girls 11-12, 500 Free: 5:41.33; 1000 Free: 11:37.94; 200 Fly: 2:36.14), which included 1 new AAA time (1000 Free) and 1 new A time (200 Fly), in addition to 3 other new AA times (200 back, 200 and 400 IM);
Gracie Snyder (Age Group 3): got seven best times, including no less than 6 ACAC Records (Girls 11-12, 200 Free: 2:06.19; 50 Back: 30.14; 50 Fly: 27.61; 100 Fly: 1:06.20; 200 IM: 2:18.80; 400 IM: 5:10.92)!!! Of those, 1 was a new AAAA time (50 fly) and 4 were new AAA times (200 free, 50 back, 100 fly and 200 IM), in addition to 1 more AAA time (100 free);
Sophie Sorenson (Age Group 3): en route to winning High Point honors, went 10 for 10 in best times, including a relay lead-off. Of those, in addition to 1 new AAA time (500 free), 6 were new ACAC Records (Girls 9-10, 50 Free: 29.17; 100 Free: 1:03.79; 50 Fly: 31.36; 100 Fly: 1:11.87; 100 IM: 1:11.99; 200 IM: 2:31.95), which included 2 new AAAA times (50 fly and 200 IM)!!!!
Quentin Strohm (Age Group 1): got one best time;
Zak Strohm (Age Group 3): got six best times, including 3 new A times (100 free, 100 IM and 200 IM);
Molly Winer (Age Group 3): got seven best times, including 3 new A times (100 free, 100 breast, 200 IM).
Congrats, ACAC!
Sports are a great foundation for life, and such a great metaphor as well. Let’s look at a mistake in sports. Athletes, like most people, tend to react in two basic ways after a mistake: They emote or they think. When people emote (with anger or frustration), they tend to go into a mode of temporary insanity and the mind stops operating as it should. This negates the possibility of working right away on a correction for the next shot or the next play.
If, on the other hand, people learn to be their own coaches and look at mistakes as opportunities to figure out how to improve, then progress can take place. Coaches and leaders have an important, but delicate, role to play. So many these days make student or employee dependent on them. Instead, we should allow people to work problems out on their own.
We do not do enough in training to have people analyze their mistakes and discuss what they would do to change things. It’s essential that leaders solicit input regularly as to why things went wrong and what the new plan of action will be, whether it is the next shot, the next game or the next business proposal.
