This last weekend our swim club hosted a three day swim meet. Of course, we went all three days.
*On a side note, I want to say that I wasn't happy when I found out USA Swimming decided to change the time requirements for the short course Age Group Finals 11-12 year olds. As a national entity, I understand that they can do whatever they want to do, but the problem I have is that they decided on this change IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SHORT COURSE SEASON.
To my knowledge their reasoning was that there were too many 11-12 year olds qualifying. Okay, so change it for next year. Don't teach these children that it's okay to change the rules in the middle of the game! What does this teach our children? That's it's okay to screw someone over? Ha-ha, fooled you!
Sorry, but I'm angry about this! Not that the rule was changed, but again, because they changed it with only six weeks left before Age Group championships. There is only one more meet in OK between now and then, where your kid can qualify for Age Groups. We weren't planning to drive to OKC for this meet.
AND the MOC (Meet of Champions) event my kid qualified in--100 Individual Medley? You know, the one that is hard to qualify for? Her time didn't even qualify her for Age Groups! Are you kidding me? Nope, she would have to shave two seconds off that time to qualify for Age Group. Grrrr. . . .
Here's an example of their changes, let me use the 100 IM as the example:
10-under: 1:41.57
11-12: 1:25.29 previously 1.34.19
My daughter's time: 1:27.46
That is now a 16 second difference. What used to be a huge jump from 12 to 13, now happens between 10 and 11 year olds. I think I'm frustrated because this was the first year my daughter qualified for Age Groups. We weren't planning to go to another meet, other than MOC where you can only race in events that you qualify for.
Oh, well, just had to mama bear vent.
With the new changes, my daughter DID qualify for the 50 backstroke this last weekend with a 40.24 seconds. She was also 5th place out of 51 kids. Pretty impressive considering many of these kids are older than she is.
And the 100 Fly with 1:33.34 in a previous swim meet. If she does well at the MOC, she might qualify for the 100 IM. We'll just have to wait and see.
Here are the events she swam in, her time, and how she placed out of XX number of kids. All in all, I was very proud of her and how she swam. Most of her times she improved, and she swam in the Senior division, which was open to any age, plus she was in five races on Saturday AND Sunday plus relays each day.
400 Free 6:03.97 9/26 kids -30 seconds
200 Free 2:51.31 34/71 -1 second
100 IM 1:31.29 20/63 + 4 seconds (luckily they take the best time for MOC!)
100 Breast 1:44.16 29/62 -10 seconds
50 Fly 43.46 13/21 +4 seconds
100 Back 1:32.11 34/74 -6 seconds
100 Free 1:17.77 31/91 -3 seconds
50 Back 40.28 5/51 -2 seconds Qualified Age Group
50 Free 35.40 31/86 -2 seconds
100 Fly 1:33.34 19/43 +2 seconds
50 Breast 48.77 14/51 0 seconds
That's it for today!
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11/19/12
Turkey Splash Swim Meet
Wow! What a weekend! Talk about exciting!
The brouhaha started a little over a month ago when the EAT Turkey swim meet in OKC shut out the three big teams in NE Oklahoma . . . on purpose.
Here's the dealio--Swim Tulsa, Jenks and P66 (Bartlesville) are three huge swim clubs. At big meets, we tend to bring over 300 entrants, especially in the 12 & under age group, this makes the meets last an incredible length of time, especially if the host team only has one 25-yard pool for short course season. We're talking meets lasting from 8 AM until 8 PM, when the official ASA time limit for 12 & unders is supposed to be 4 hours or less. So the host team for the EAT Turkey meet set the cap limit of 300 entrants, which was met by the two big teams in OKC, leaving NE OK in the cold.
So Jenks scrambled.
Jenks is a small town south-west-ish of Tulsa that's been growing rapidly. Their high school now looks like a college campus with an assortment of buildings. A couple of years ago they built a state-of-the-art natatorium--the water and air circulation system was looked at by the Olympic trials people this last summer. It's a wonderful Olympic-sized pool which has bulkheads to make into 2 25-yard pools--which they used at their last HUGE meet, boys on one side, girls on the other side.
And Jenks pulled off a sanctioned tri-team meet in less than a month. GO JENKS!
Since Jenks is a 15-20 minute drive versus a 2+ hour drive, we signed her up for both days, leaving it up to Coach Tony which events to put her in. The meet was open for Seniors, which means any age swimmer could swim and the times were pre-seeded, there were a couple of 45+ year old women swimming. One of the women is in my WW group and she's ranked as the faster freestyler in her age-group, the other lady is an open swimmer who usually swims lakes/ponds, but uses the meets like this to work on her times . . . no, neither one won over the teenagers.
Saturday morning rolls around, the meet doesn't start until 10 AM, but you have to get there early for practice. They were running a 500 Free so it was over 1.5 hours later before the kidlet was in her first event . . . of course, she managed to eat all her snacks during this time.
I don't know what was going on, but something lit a fire under her butt, or it was the three bowls of Capt'n Crunch Peanut Butter cereal.
Saturday:
Event / time / age group placing / qualified for finals / difference from previous time
50 Fly / 36.85 / 7th / missed by +0.4 seconds /-6.17 seconds
100 Free / 1.12.30 / 9th / missed by +1.5 seconds /-5.06 seconds
50 Breast / 43.93 / 8th / missed by +0.6 seconds / -3.33 seconds
50 Free /33.46 / 13th / missed by +0.4 seconds / -0.66 seconds
Sunday:
100 IM / 1:18.79 / 6th / QUALIFIED / -11.84 seconds
100 Fly / 1:22.38 / 6th / QUALIFIED / -11.66 seconds
200 Free / 2:35.33 / 4th / QUALIFIED / -14.11 seconds
*50 Back / 37.5 / 7th / QUALIFIED / -3 seconds
* we left before the official results were posted, and as of this blog, they are not posted on my daughter's swim results list.
All in all, it was a very exciting meet. My only instruction was to try to win her heat. She managed that in almost all her heats, but if she didn't win it was because it was a serious horse race to the end.
I'm very proud of her. She did a wonderful job!
Later, Peeps!
The brouhaha started a little over a month ago when the EAT Turkey swim meet in OKC shut out the three big teams in NE Oklahoma . . . on purpose.
Here's the dealio--Swim Tulsa, Jenks and P66 (Bartlesville) are three huge swim clubs. At big meets, we tend to bring over 300 entrants, especially in the 12 & under age group, this makes the meets last an incredible length of time, especially if the host team only has one 25-yard pool for short course season. We're talking meets lasting from 8 AM until 8 PM, when the official ASA time limit for 12 & unders is supposed to be 4 hours or less. So the host team for the EAT Turkey meet set the cap limit of 300 entrants, which was met by the two big teams in OKC, leaving NE OK in the cold.
So Jenks scrambled.
Jenks is a small town south-west-ish of Tulsa that's been growing rapidly. Their high school now looks like a college campus with an assortment of buildings. A couple of years ago they built a state-of-the-art natatorium--the water and air circulation system was looked at by the Olympic trials people this last summer. It's a wonderful Olympic-sized pool which has bulkheads to make into 2 25-yard pools--which they used at their last HUGE meet, boys on one side, girls on the other side.
And Jenks pulled off a sanctioned tri-team meet in less than a month. GO JENKS!
Since Jenks is a 15-20 minute drive versus a 2+ hour drive, we signed her up for both days, leaving it up to Coach Tony which events to put her in. The meet was open for Seniors, which means any age swimmer could swim and the times were pre-seeded, there were a couple of 45+ year old women swimming. One of the women is in my WW group and she's ranked as the faster freestyler in her age-group, the other lady is an open swimmer who usually swims lakes/ponds, but uses the meets like this to work on her times . . . no, neither one won over the teenagers.
Saturday morning rolls around, the meet doesn't start until 10 AM, but you have to get there early for practice. They were running a 500 Free so it was over 1.5 hours later before the kidlet was in her first event . . . of course, she managed to eat all her snacks during this time.
I don't know what was going on, but something lit a fire under her butt, or it was the three bowls of Capt'n Crunch Peanut Butter cereal.
Saturday:
Event / time / age group placing / qualified for finals / difference from previous time
50 Fly / 36.85 / 7th / missed by +0.4 seconds /-6.17 seconds
100 Free / 1.12.30 / 9th / missed by +1.5 seconds /-5.06 seconds
50 Breast / 43.93 / 8th / missed by +0.6 seconds / -3.33 seconds
50 Free /33.46 / 13th / missed by +0.4 seconds / -0.66 seconds
Sunday:
100 IM / 1:18.79 / 6th / QUALIFIED / -11.84 seconds
100 Fly / 1:22.38 / 6th / QUALIFIED / -11.66 seconds
200 Free / 2:35.33 / 4th / QUALIFIED / -14.11 seconds
*50 Back / 37.5 / 7th / QUALIFIED / -3 seconds
* we left before the official results were posted, and as of this blog, they are not posted on my daughter's swim results list.
All in all, it was a very exciting meet. My only instruction was to try to win her heat. She managed that in almost all her heats, but if she didn't win it was because it was a serious horse race to the end.
I'm very proud of her. She did a wonderful job!
Later, Peeps!
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