NOW Dual Meet

The first dual meet of the season was exciting.  The Macomb Marlins Boys just edged out the North Oakland Waves, but the NOW girls beat the Marlin Girls by enough to claim the victory.  It was a very close meet with a lot of great races.  Nate swam two relays and two individual events.

In the 200 Medley Relay, Nate swam the first leg- a 50 back.  In spite of a slow start due to some problems with the starting gun (4 misfires before they switched to a whistle start), he swam a personal best of 45.11. Unfortunately the swimmer on the second leg was disqualified due to a one hand touch at the wall so the whole relay team was DQ'd.

In the 100 Free, Nate came in second place with a personal best time of 1:26.54.

In the 200 Free, Nate came in third with a personal best time of 3:01.28.  His buddy Alec and one of the other team's guys had a super race to the wall.  Both boys got State cuts and Alec came it first.  It was a great race.

In the 200 Free Relay, Nate swam the second leg.  Everybody looked great and they came in first.  There was problem with the timing system.  It stopped timing them before they touched the wall, so the computer thinks they got a Zone (even better than State) cut but we know they didn't.  We are still waiting on the results but anticipating a time of around 2:31. That's not a State cut yet but it is an improvement over their seed time and we are hoping to see a State cut by the end of the season.

So Red, White & Blue ribbons and personal best times for Nate.  It was another great meet!