Katelyn had her State Qualifier Meet (the one and only qualifying meet for the WHOLE season) today. GCC is closed due to Covid, so it was at our SMHS pool! (Dilworth was in charge again.) You had to have a provisional time to even go to the meet. It was sort of like Districts, but there were no team awards. They gave out individual medals after each event (so swimmers could have a chance to warm up and still social distance in between each event, especially since our pool only has competition lanes). Katelyn swam the medley relay, the 50 free, the 100 fly and the 400 free relay. She really regretted swimming the 50 because she ran out of steam on the 100 fly. (The fly is right after the 50.) She managed to get PR’s on both of her individual events though—she got a 26 on the free! I don’t think she’s ever swum it that fast! Coach was super happy for her. She missed the medal stand in the fly—her good friend on our team got 3rd place. Katelyn has always been faster than her the whole season, and last, but everyone came on strong and had really good swims!! Katelyn was bummed, but happy it went to our team at least. Another girl beat the school record for the 100 backstroke! That was awesome. A bunch of boys school records got broken—one of them twice in the same meet! (One of our boys got a record in the 500 and then Daniel Matheson beat it when he swam—it was his record to begin with—so dang cool!) The medley relay got 1st—we beat Liberty and the 400 Relay got 2nd—Liberty beat us! The boys swam in the morning and the girls swam in the afternoon, so the meet went pretty fast. Dad was the announcer and I timed—the only way we could attend the meet! Everyone else had to watch it on TV—the district broadcasted it, so that was neat! They were on the roof of the guard hut!) It’s so crazy because you could only choose 2 individual events and be in two relays to qualify and they’re only taking the top 32 for State. They will swim ONE championship finals and that’s IT! (The state qualifier today was also a one and done as well!) Katelyn DID get to swim first in the 400 relay, so she had the opportunity to qualify in the 100 Free as well. We’ll see what her results are tonight when coach sends out the list! Fingers crossed! I don’t have her official times because there was no scoreboard… and I forgot to look at the scoring sheets. She got like a 58.26 on the 100 free, a 26 something on the 50 and a 102.99 on the fly. Idk what the relays were. It was a very fast moving meet and kinda chaotic! Whew!! What a crazy SEASON!!! But I am so glad that we HAD a season! I'm so grateful to Coach Dilworth for making it a memorable season even though the kids weren't allowed to do MOST of the meets and traditions that make it so wonderful! It was a great meet today! LOTS of kids swam personal bests and time was dropped!!!!
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