Divisional Results

The Divisional meet has historically been a very good meet for the South Bend Swim Club.  Every year we seem to swim very fast at this meet no matter the pool.  We’ve had great meets in Ft. Wayne, Crown Point, Munster and in Middlebury.  This year we may have topped them all.  Over the weekend our swimmers achieved 26 new Age Group State or Senior State cuts.  This was far more than any other team in attendance.  We also saw several new swims enter our all time top ten and saw multiple swimmers move up in the rankings.  We also had 3 new team records established.  Michael Burns set 2 new records in the 13-14 boys age group.   He now holds the record in the 200 Fly (2:13.51) and the 100 back (1:00.59).  Aiden Maurer set our other team record in the 15-18 boys 200 IM (1:59.65).  Even more impressive is we had 39 swimmers in attendance and were able to post an incredible 156 new best times!  You can click here for all of our results.

As fast as we were in the pool it was the other things I was just as proud of.  The meet director made a point to come see me after the meet to let me know how impressed he was with our swimmers.  He said if there was a spirit award given at this meet it would have easily have gone to our club.  It was also very nice to hear the support from the parents in the stands every time a SBSC swimmer was being announced or how loud the parents were in every close race.

The one other story I wanted to share with you is how four of our Group 3 swimmers showed some true sportsmanship.  After the meet had ended I was approached by some swimmers from the Plymouth Aquatic Club who wanted some help.  They were very near a state cut in the 200 Free Relay and were going to do a time trial and felt if they had some to race they could have a better chance of making their cut.  Without hesitation, our 4 swimmers that were still at the pool changed back into their suits and willingly jumped back in to help.  Plymouth came up about .6 seconds short but our swimmers once again gave us another reason to be proud.  Great job Errol, Joey, Brett, and Aiden way to represent yourselves, teammates, and club!

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