Marlin Meet 2011

Nate's Swimming Season Officially Kicked off yesterday with the Annual Marlin Meet. (Although if you ask Nate it really began 3 weeks ago when practices started.) The Marlin Meet is always our first meet of the season. Its an intra-squad meet that gives novice swimmers a chance to experience a meet without the pressure of another team present. Times don't count towards state cuts but the coaches like to get a base time for the swimmers to work on improving and the swimmers still get ribbons. Plus sometimes beating your practice buddy is more fun than beating another team.

Nate had a great meet. He swam 4 events and improved his time from last season on all 4 events.

200 FreeStyle- 2nd place 3:05.87 (15 second improvement from last years best)

100 IM- 2nd place 1:46.88 (9 second improvement)

100 FreeStyle- 2nd place 1:32.27 (4 second improvement)

50 FreeStyle- 1st place 40.22- (.13 improvement)

The 50 Free was an awesome experience for Nate. He was seeded in Lane 4 in the last heat. For you non-competitive swimmers, what that means is that going into the race he had the best previous time so he got the best lane. Lane 4 is the "kid to beat." There were 11 boys in the race and his heat was competitive but Nate took the lead with his start and maintained a small lead going into the wall, then did an awesome flip turn and sprinted home for a very solid win. I wished I'd could have had a camera to get a picture of the huge grin on his face when he looked at the scoreboard and saw the 1. next to his name. (But I was standing on the diving board officiating so at least I got to see his face.)



I think we are going to have another great season!