Hi Everyone!!

What an exciting and crazy 2 weeks we have had! Since the District meet things have been a blur for sure! I hope you all are doing great and are ready for the next round of exciting swimming because we are headed to STATE! The Region meet was beyond great and I am still processing all the awesome swims that happened. Here's a little bit of a recap:

• Girls Medley Relay Record Broken with a 1:54.81! Lexi Braun, Siri Pemberton, Simone Koret, and Kylie Quinn took a record down from 2015!
• Boys Medley Relay Record Broken with a 1:41.72! This is a fun one because the record from 2021 had the older siblings of 2 of these boys! Congrats to Alan Hoang, Andrew Giauque, Haven Gier, and Ryan Tibbetts. And a special shout out to Ryan and Haven for swimming faster than their brothers at a younger age. :-) 
• Congrats to Simone Koret for her record in the 100 Fly with a 59.21 and punching her ticket to STATE! 
• Congrats to Alan Hoang for his record in the 200 IM with a 1:59.96 and in the100 Back with a 54.73 AND punching his ticket to STATE in both of those events! 
• The boys team took 5th place overall (out of 22 teams) and the girls team took 8th (out of 22 teams as well). 
• LOTS of podium finishes in relays and individual events and so many incredible lifetime best time swims! So much hard work has gone into those swims and the smiles from your swimmers when they saw their times is absolutely priceless! 

We are waiting on the rest of the Regions to complete their meets to see about State call ups. Top 2 from each event automatically go to the State meet and then call ups happen with the next top 8 times. We have one of the fastest Regions in the State and often see 3rd-6th places move up as well. There's potential for relays and more individual swims to move up so I will keep you all updated! 

Looking forward at the next few weeks: 

• February 6-10: 
  • Monday, February 6 - NO PRACTICE. Study Hall in Coaches room at 8:15. 
  • Tuesday-Friday, February 7-10 we are ALL back in the pool at the normal time (6:45 am).
• February 13-17:
  • ALL practice Monday, Feb. 13 -Thursday, Feb. 16 (Times TBD but will be either 6:45 or 7:15). 
  • STATE MEET - Friday, February 17- Saturday, February 18th at UT Swim Center. 5A has the PM slot this year so hopefully we can get a crowd to UT to cheer us on! 
• February 20-24:
  • NO SCHOOL/No Practice - Monday, Feb. 20 
  • Feb. 21-Feb 24 no practice at all. We will study hall and rest this week! 
• February 27-March 10:
  • We will have a modified swim/dry land schedule and will be at different locations (pool and LHS). I will get this put together in the next couple of weeks! 

For new swim team members, after we get back from Spring Break we don't really stop swimming. :-) This sport is crazy and is definitely year round! We will have less intense workouts and focus a lot more on technique and keeping up with swim fitness. We also have some fun practices with "water polo", sharks and minnows, kickball, flag football, and other games! In April we will have our annual Red v. Blue meet as well! The team wants to open this up to include teachers/staff and possibly parents so it may get shifted to a Saturday! We will keep you all posted. :-) 

I am SO proud of each and every one of your swimmers and can't wait to have the whole team together again!! 

Be on the lookout for purchasing some STATE gear this week and I will be updating you all with qualifiers as well. See you on Tuesday back at the pool! 

THANK YOU so much for sharing your swimmers with me! 

FINALLY - if you hung in there with this email, here's a link to some great photos: https://link.shutterfly.com/lNR4X2qUaxb.

~Coach Weeks