Friday, April 21, 2006

Island LC Invitational - By Kirsten and Marisa!!!

Kirsten Says: Well, today was a great day, we had Jared-2:09.0, Brock-2:07.9, Jessica-2:33.9 and Marisa-2:24.9 started us off with great swims in the 200m Freestyle. Marisa Says: Soon following we had the 100m breaststroke Kirsten 1:19.0 (very excellent!) Jane 1:30.5 , Jared 1:23. Brock 1:15.5,Carly 1:32.9, these swims were all very well done :) and they carried us on to the the next event -200m fly Kirsten says: The 200m Butterfly was the next event in which we had some pretty good races then, Marisa-2:47.7 with a 2:42.0 in finals, however, getting disqualified. It was still a very, very, good race. And to all you younger swimmers out there, remember to two hand touch when swimming fly! ;) Brock went 2:24.9 with a 2:22.1 in finals. Great job Brock! Great job everyone!! =) Marisa Says: 50m free was next. Jessica Harris swam her 50 free and achieved a 31.69 . Shortly after Jess swam in a swim off for 10th place (second alternate), The race wa29s close but her competer won although she lost:( she recieved a best time of 31.03 :) good try jess! A reminder to all you mini whales out there always win swim offs :) Kirsten swam and went a 29.3 in finals she went A 29.7 good job kirst ;) Andrea went 33.o in heats this morning this was a best time way to go andrea :) Carly 32.5 this was fairly close to her best ever long course time :) Tyson 27.2 (best time) Ricardo 30.4 ( best time) Jane 31.4 (best time) Jared 26.7 this morning and 26.5 in finals tonight. Kirsten Says:The next and final event was the 800/1500m Free. Marisa started us off with the 800m and went a 10:16.2, taking 39 seconds off of her previous time. (freaking awesome) Brock then swam the 1500 and came out with a 18:13.2, taking 19 seconds. (also freaking awesome) Nicole finished us off with a 800m going 11:09.1, taking 7 seconds off her best time. (also very awesome) Well that's the end of day 1 and the end of a great start. Stay tuned for tomorrows results! Congratulations everyone for a great first day and Good Luck tomorrow!=)