Today was our first day of Nationals!
We arrived at the pool where we claimed our seating in the corner by ourselves. All the swimmers stretched and then headed to the bathroom to spend 3 hours putting our fastskins on. Here is the conversation that occurred while we struggled to pull our suits on over our curvy figures:
Carolyn: Alyssa, how did you get your suit up your legs so fast?
Alyssa: Well, I just pull my suit up really fast over my legs and now I have to stand here for a minute because my legs hurt really bad.
Carolyn: See for me, it's getting it over my butt that's the struggle.
Alyssa: Look at Amanda's pointy hips, they just stick out.
Amanda: I can't help it I have good child-bearing hips!
(At this point Sarah hasn't said anything because she was too busy sucking the snot back up her nose and coughing up parts of her lungs!)
So Prelims-
The girls got in and splashed around for a bit for warm-ups. During warm-ups, a small brawl broke out. Scary, intimidating, 90-lb Michelle punched a girl as she was pushing off the wall for trying to pass her at the flags. Then it was time to start the meet. The 200 Free Relay of Sarah, Alyssa, Carolyn, and Amanda managed to swim a time fast enough to get them seeded at 14th for finals with a time of 1:38.08. This time was about 1.5 seconds slower than our seed time but we were excited to make it back at night. Michelle swam the 200 IM and added a few seconds to her time but we know that she will come back tomorrow and kick butt in the 400 IM. Next up, Amanda swam the 50 free in the fastest 8th place finish in NCAA history and made it as the only freshman in the finals heat. Amanda's time was a 23.98, getting her into finals by one-hundredth of a second. Lastly, our 400 Medley Relay of Sarah, Michelle (yes, she swam breaststroke), Carolyn, and Alyssa managed to finish the race. Alyssa got to experience "all eyes on her" as the anchor of this awesome relay (meaning we were the last one's to finish and she had a whole 25 to swim alone).
Funny story of the morning, a girl from California asked Dani where we were from. Dani replied, Wisconsin and the girl said, where's that in relation to Ohio? Dani explained that Indiana is next to Ohio and Illinois is next to Indiana and we are right above Illinois. The girl responds, that's in the midwest right? So apparently, people from California don't know their geography.
After some Jimmy Johns, napping, and a little bit of homework, it was back to the pool to swim finals. We got to the parking garage of the pool and Sue attempted to back Big Bertha into ONE spot. Not only did she manage to take up TWO spaces, but she almost plowed through the back wall of the garage. After Michelle told her she should probably stop backing up, Sue replied, "but I haven't hit anything yet."
We started the meet off with our 200 Free Relay, pulling our team up to 13th place. Amanda dropped her time in the 50 free to a 23.79 getting her 7th place and a plaque that Dani got to hand out. Dani was a little too short and stealth to hand out the awards, but she managed to just barely reach the 1st place finishers hand to shake.
We got back to the hotel and hung out in the lobby of the Sycamore Inn for about the longest hour of our lives, waiting for our food. It took our food so long to arrive because KENYON hogged the delivery service man. Now our tummys are full and we are finally happy. And it's way past our bedtime!!!!
Signing off,
The Nationals Team
P.S. This one sucks because today was too serious... nothing funny really happend.
P.S.S. We saw a lot of drunk parties happening on campus and lots of green shirts. You got 5 points if you hit one of the drunk students with your car and -5 points if they ran into you. We somehow managed to keep a steady score of .....get this.......0!!!
P.S.S.S. "Hot blooded check-it and see, I got a fever of 103"
P.S.S.S.S Pictures soon to come!!!
We arrived at the pool where we claimed our seating in the corner by ourselves. All the swimmers stretched and then headed to the bathroom to spend 3 hours putting our fastskins on. Here is the conversation that occurred while we struggled to pull our suits on over our curvy figures:
Carolyn: Alyssa, how did you get your suit up your legs so fast?
Alyssa: Well, I just pull my suit up really fast over my legs and now I have to stand here for a minute because my legs hurt really bad.
Carolyn: See for me, it's getting it over my butt that's the struggle.
Alyssa: Look at Amanda's pointy hips, they just stick out.
Amanda: I can't help it I have good child-bearing hips!
(At this point Sarah hasn't said anything because she was too busy sucking the snot back up her nose and coughing up parts of her lungs!)
So Prelims-
The girls got in and splashed around for a bit for warm-ups. During warm-ups, a small brawl broke out. Scary, intimidating, 90-lb Michelle punched a girl as she was pushing off the wall for trying to pass her at the flags. Then it was time to start the meet. The 200 Free Relay of Sarah, Alyssa, Carolyn, and Amanda managed to swim a time fast enough to get them seeded at 14th for finals with a time of 1:38.08. This time was about 1.5 seconds slower than our seed time but we were excited to make it back at night. Michelle swam the 200 IM and added a few seconds to her time but we know that she will come back tomorrow and kick butt in the 400 IM. Next up, Amanda swam the 50 free in the fastest 8th place finish in NCAA history and made it as the only freshman in the finals heat. Amanda's time was a 23.98, getting her into finals by one-hundredth of a second. Lastly, our 400 Medley Relay of Sarah, Michelle (yes, she swam breaststroke), Carolyn, and Alyssa managed to finish the race. Alyssa got to experience "all eyes on her" as the anchor of this awesome relay (meaning we were the last one's to finish and she had a whole 25 to swim alone).
Funny story of the morning, a girl from California asked Dani where we were from. Dani replied, Wisconsin and the girl said, where's that in relation to Ohio? Dani explained that Indiana is next to Ohio and Illinois is next to Indiana and we are right above Illinois. The girl responds, that's in the midwest right? So apparently, people from California don't know their geography.
After some Jimmy Johns, napping, and a little bit of homework, it was back to the pool to swim finals. We got to the parking garage of the pool and Sue attempted to back Big Bertha into ONE spot. Not only did she manage to take up TWO spaces, but she almost plowed through the back wall of the garage. After Michelle told her she should probably stop backing up, Sue replied, "but I haven't hit anything yet."
We started the meet off with our 200 Free Relay, pulling our team up to 13th place. Amanda dropped her time in the 50 free to a 23.79 getting her 7th place and a plaque that Dani got to hand out. Dani was a little too short and stealth to hand out the awards, but she managed to just barely reach the 1st place finishers hand to shake.
We got back to the hotel and hung out in the lobby of the Sycamore Inn for about the longest hour of our lives, waiting for our food. It took our food so long to arrive because KENYON hogged the delivery service man. Now our tummys are full and we are finally happy. And it's way past our bedtime!!!!
Signing off,
The Nationals Team
P.S. This one sucks because today was too serious... nothing funny really happend.
P.S.S. We saw a lot of drunk parties happening on campus and lots of green shirts. You got 5 points if you hit one of the drunk students with your car and -5 points if they ran into you. We somehow managed to keep a steady score of .....get this.......0!!!
P.S.S.S. "Hot blooded check-it and see, I got a fever of 103"
P.S.S.S.S Pictures soon to come!!!
1 comment:
Way to go girls!! Sarah get better. and post something funny because the first two posts made me laugh so hard. keep up the good work!
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