After Sectionals

So that was interesting... I really have no idea what happened the last five days except that I swam and slept for all of it. (not to mention eating) The first day I had the 1000 free, It wasn't great but not bad. The second day was the best though, I had the 200 back where I made it into finals and finished 24th with a bunch of 17 and 18 year olds. I also made my first SCS cut which I talked about in a few posts ago. The third day was ok, I just had the 200 free, not my best event but I did get a best time. The fourth day was a little better, I had the 100 back and the 500 free (the exact order of events I swam at high school state) and I did pretty well. The very last day, today, I swam the mile. The longest even there is and definitely the hardest. The mile is not something to be taken lightly, if someone wants you to swim it protest harshly.

My team mates also did awesome too. One of my team mates, Katie Hale also made it back in one of her events, the 100 back. She was only at the meet for three days though because those were the days her events were on. My other team mate, Alandra McDowell did amazing as well. She unfortunately did not make it back but I believe that both of these girls could have really won it all.

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But thats not all... theres more do do in Texas than just swim. You can eat some darn good cow too. I really have never seen so many steakhouses on one street before in my entire life. There are some local restaurants that are awesome. They sell all kinds of stuff. This one place we went to (it was definitely just a one time thing) sold steaks practically floating in pounds of butter. It was pretty gross afterward but it was an experience that we all got to share. My coach the other families and some other people from Utah. All of us except for our coach agreed we would never go back there.

Like I have said before, if you want to see exactly how I did you can look it up on Meet Mobile and search my name with park city swimming with will also lead you to the ladies that went with me.

The State of Park City High School

Just like I said in my previous post we really brought the pain. The girls just like at regions, won every event and every relay with no question. In some events they even brought up the top three places, and that in not an easy feat. Three swimmers from the same team beating every single other 3A team in Utah. As a whole the girls team won with no competition. There was absolutely no other team within 300 points of them. I don't believe anyone in Utah has ever pulled that off before and we are pretty proud of it to.

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The boys did absolutely amazing as well. Last year we won with eight guys by maybe ten points. This year we won by over 200 points with around 13 boys. That is ridiculous, that a team could be trained to such a great level in just a few months by a few coaches who really have it down. Our main coach won both 3A state girls and boys coach of the year. Two of our swimmers won individual state awards. But thats not all, we also broke six state records which some haven't moved since 2006.
Just as a team we broke almost all of the girls records and we broke three records on the boys side. It was really amazing breaking the team records from the 1990s finally in my freshman year. I did not personally break them but I did get second to the guy who did. Jinwan Bailar to truly a force not to be reckoned with. He will be going to nationals in a few weeks and give the best of luck to furthering his swimming career.
I personally swam four events which you can see the entire results in the app I recommended in my last post. The first day I only had the 200 medley relay which we won. Then, one the second day I had the 100 back first which was the event Jinwan beat me in. Second, I had the 500 free which I also got second in, that was on of the events we did not win. Last, I had the 400 free relay which we also ended up winning.