Great Job at the Monster Mash

Great Job at the Monster Mash

98 BSC Teammates traveled to Wisconsin for the LFSC Monster Mash swim meet. Barrington had a great meet winning the Men's, Women's and Combined Team Titles. BSC Teammates also set 5 New Team Records. Val Tarazi was the high point scorer for the team on the women's side with 152 points. For the men Dan Langlois was the top dog with 79 Points. Mitch Gavars swam a first time evern Sectional Qualifying time in the 1000Free. Val also swam NCSA Junior National Qualifying times in the 100 and 200Back. Great Job Everyone!

 

The Following Teammates had 100% Best Times

Adra Clayton, Cole Clayton, Elizabeth Delach, Sophie Farmer, Will Farmer, Mitch Gavars, Lucy Gjermstad, Peri Keenan, Colin Kerr, Jenna Kerr, Julia Kultuniuk, John Lagoni, Riley Lehmann, Payton Muhs, Colin O'Leary, Samantha Pashkow, Jake Stogis, Jenny Tokarz, Sophia Werner.

 

The Following Teammates Swam a Regional Qualifying Time or Faster

Sam Burrell, Georgia Christy, Colin Cross, Sophia Dennison, Dan Emary, Maggie Emary, Andrew Fish, Becca Galovich, Mitch Gavars, Olivia Gawronski, Emma Graves, Will Hobbs, Catherine Holman, Jack Hoppe, Catherine Kitzman, Jeremy Kleinjan, Kevin Knapp, Julia Kultuniuk, John Lagoni, Daniel Langlois, Sarah Langlois, Riley Lehmann, Maddie McFarland, Bridget O'Leary, Colin O'Leary, Griffin O'Leary, Izzie Parenti, Ally Penrod, Sebastian Piekarski, Emma Pritchett, Tea Ragnini, Addy Reader, Lily Reader, Scottie Robinson, Gracie Roper, Ari Schafer, Brandon Schaff, Foster Swanson, Val Tarazi, Jenny Tokarz, Julie Vega, Andy Zhou, Anthony Zhou.

 

The Following Teammates Set New Team Records

Val Tarazi—13-14 100Back, 200Back

Colin O'Leary 13-14 100Fly, 100Back, 200Back.

 

Here are some things we did well:

  1. Dramatic Improvement from September—Top to bottom the improvement from the Pentathlon was obvious. Kudos go to Coaches who saw adjustments that needed to be made in technique and training. Kudos to the athletes who evaluated their performance in September and made the necessary adjustments to be successful at the next meet!

  2. Being Together as a Team---It was great to see BSC together as a Team! From the youngest Colt to the Oldest Senior it is Awesome to see our teammates interacting with each other. This is the make a team that genuinely cares for one another! This is part of what makes BSC a special team and a great team.

Here are some things we need to improve upon:

  1. Timeliness---At a meet it is so important that everyone is their early enough to grab seating and a warm-up lane. There were too many teammates that were late to warm-up making getting enough bleacher space and warm-up space difficult. 15-30min early is a good gauge for meets to get changed, signed in, and ready to go.

  2. Underwaters and Turns---It was really obvious that we have been working on these two key items, but it was also really obvious we need to work harder and smarter to make race quality improvements. The one item that cost us the most this meet was breathing off the walls on fly and free. ALWAYS---ALWAYS---ALWAYS--hold your breath the first stroke off a turn on fly and free—it helps you maintain momentum off the turn and you travel an extra half meter or more.

Our next meet is at home at the Mustang Classic. Lets all work really hard and really smart over the next 3 weeks to show our improvement against some great competition!!