Day 4 Preliminaries - Age Nationals 2007 - Montreal

Day four saw more sunny weather and fast swimming from CRKW swimmers. 400 IM was the first events and Alec was our only entry. His time of 5:05.3 was 5 seconds under his best time and placed him 3rd in this mornings preliminaries heading into finals tonight. He will swim in lane 3. His time was also a new club record in the event by over a second. In the 50 fly, Aven was our only swimmer and her time of 31.4 was also a club record and a best time, although she will not be moving onto finals in the event. In the 100 free, Kirsten was our only swim and her time of 1:02.2 was slower than she wanted to go but a second under her best time and a strong swim with her 200 breast coming right up after it. In that 200 breast, she swam the first half of the race perfectly before falling off the race plan somewhat on the 3rd 50. Her time of 2:47.2 was only a half second over her best time and will put her in lane 2 in tonights final in 5th place. Morgan had a very strong 2o0 breast, swimming a 2:59.6, a best time and her first time under 3:00 Long Course.

In the 800 freestyles, just completed and todays last preliminary event, Morgan and Taylor was both best times in 10:30.5 and 10:08.8 respectively in a heat that just finished about 3o minutes ago. Marisa was in a different heat and in a league of her own as her time of 9:43.1 was well under her best time and good enough to win her heat this morning by almost 25 meters. Alec was also in the 800 free and, although we don't know the final results yet, it is thought that he's picked up his 4th silver medal of the meet, just out-touched by a swimmer in his heat. His time of 9:08.6 wasn't his best time but a solid swim nonetheless.

Finals start tonight with Alec swimming at approx 2:50 pm PDT while Kirsten will swim approx 4:00 pm PDT. Last night the swimmers enjoyed a night out at the Hard Rock Cafe and even got to have some desert!