We are MARSHALL: Paul Blair Memorial Invitational Swim Meet

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Paul Blair Memorial Invitational Swim Meet

Nov. 16-18th, was the Thanksgiving Invitational Swim Meet. Our coaches have been stressing that they want to choose what events our children do at meets. So, when I signed Kam and Zack up to attend, I put in the notes that we wouldn't swim on Sunday, but that they could choose the events. Kam and Zack were in for some longer swims. Zack has been on the Summer swim team for 3 summers. He has swam all three in the under 8 category. That means they only swim one length of the pool 25 yards (or meters sometimes). Zack is now in the older group that swims 50 meters, or 2 lengths of the pool. That means he has to do flip turns or other turns depending on the stroke. Prior to this meet, he had only swam in one other where he swam 50s and he got DQ'd from 2 of them. At this meet, the coaches put him in 3 100's and one 50 meter event. Oh BOY!

Kammie swam the 50 Free on Friday afternoon after school. She took 1.5 seconds off her time. She swam it in 31.64. That was 11th of 32 girls.

On Saturday afternoon, Kammie was in the first event of the day and Zack was in the last event. It made for a L O N G day.
Kammie was to be on the B relay team in the 200 medley, but she got moved to team A and they took 2nd place. She swam first, doing 50 backstroke. Their time was 2:15.21.

Kammie
100 Free   1:09.45 (Finished first in her heat) 15th place of 35 swimmers
50 Breast    48.77 (took 5 seconds off her best time) 30th of 34
100 Back 1:23.84 (DQ for staying on her stomach too long on a flip turn)
50 Fly 38.83 19th of 33

Zack
100 Free 1:32.13 (1st in heat) 22nd place of 33
50 Breast 1:00.71 (DQ for bringing his hands below his waist on the stroke)
100 Back 1:46.84 23rd place of 29
100 IM    1:42.65 23rd of 41

Kam on the blocks...