Want Me to Nancy Kerrigan Her For You?!

Today was our last day of Nationals!!!

We started prelims off with Amanda swimming the 100 freestyle in 52.08 seeding her at 9th for the night, just barely missing finals. Michelle swam the 200 fly in 2:09.63 leaving her in 17th place. She missed the consolation heat by 2 tenths of a second. Michelle was bummed about her race and Carolyn came over to comfort her. She asked Michelle, "would you like me to Nancy Kerrigan a girl for you?" Michelle thought this was the best idea ever, so they looked through the heat sheet for Carolyn's victim. (Sadly, Sue convinced them to keep their hands to themselves)Our 400 free relay of Sarah, Michelle, Carolyn, and Amanda made it back to the consols heat even after adding 3.5 seconds to their seeded time. Michelle was so excited to stand on the podium tonight that she pulled a Carolyn and cried about it. Something really funny happened this morning, we promise, we just can't think of it. So if you think if something, go with that...it probably happened.

We went to a bagel deli for lunch that had millions, and I mean millions of different kinds of sandwiches to order. Ironically, one of them was the Tonya Harding. We considered ordering it, but then it sounded gross, so we didn't. Dani, once again, saw someone that she knew and went running out of the deli to say hi. As she ran out into the street at full speed, we all pictured the scene at the end of the movie "Mean Girls" where the girls humorously get hit by a school bus. We thought that she was going to get hit by something because she didn't look both ways before she crossed.....and we were right! She didn't get hit by a car or a bus, or a pedestrian on a bike, but get this....A parade of wild African elephants came stampeding down the street the moment she stepped foot on it. Okay, so we lied again, Dani made it across the street safely. After we were done getting our food, Dani and Sue went to talk to these people that Dani had just said hi to, and the 5 of us just stood outside in the rain very awkwardly and watched a squirrel play with a beer bottle in a hole of a tree, while we ate our warm bagel sandwiches. Then we headed back to Camp Sycamore for some naps.

And finally, the LAST session of NCAA's. The night started off with the senior recognition ceremony. Carolyn cried, of course, because she is now officially a swammer and all the Carthage parents joined in on her crying. Amanda swam her last individual race of the weekend, the 100 free breaking the 52 second mark with a 51.63 finishing her in 9th and putting her at the top of the podium! The 400 free relay held in there till the end, placing them in 16th. For the 3 minutes we spent standing on the podium, 2 of those 3 minutes were spent waving at Carlos, trying to get his attention, in hopes he would wave back. It wasn't until 30 seconds before we were getting ready to walk off the podium, that he finally noticed a blob of red waving at him....he did eventually wave back! At the same time this is all happening, our parents were throwing their coats on and grabbing all their bags to run out of the meet to get dinner. We think they were getting sick of sitting in the stands, that or they were just REALLY hungry! So hungry that they could have been like Sarah, and be a depressed obese women who likes to eat her feelings.

After we stood on the podium, we were on our way back to our team area, when suddenly we smelled alcohol on the pool deck. We're wondering if some of the girls started to party a little too early. Then we went to the locker room to change and Michelle ran into a girl that was covering her mouth, as she sprinted for the john. She thinks vomit face may have been throwing up in the bathroom stall. Her reinactment of the 'pukey girl's' facial expressions were priceless. But, if you ever want to see this great impression, just ask her to see it, and I'm sure she would be thrilled to show you!!

So after the meet was over, we headed to this Mexican restaurant called El Burrito Loco. Amanda, once again, had an eating contest but this time it was with Carlos. When she didn't win, she tried to call it a tie. Carolyn replied, "you can't call things a tie every time you lose!" After a few minutes, Amanda decided to shove the rest of the refried beans into her mouth even though they had a gross texture, just to clear her plate before Carlos did. So now we are back at the hotel reminiscing on this past weekend, enjoying being done, and just relaxing. Unfortunately, there are now 3 500-lb people running around upstairs causing the walls in our room to shake. We are about to take a field trip to see what they are doing upstairs.

Well, hopefully you enjoyed our stories.

Signing off,
Team SMAAC

P.S. Thank you to our fans, Stephen, Lauren, Heather, Tito, and Greg

P.S.S. Thank you to our real #1 fan, Bryan Pelka, for coming to the meet

P.S.S.S. Greg, they hung our banner up behind the announcer's stand so you couldn't even see the whole thing, we were really bummed.

P.S.S.S.S. Sorry this one isn't so funny, we are disappointed in ourselves

P.S.S.S.S.S. The Luther Team likes to roll around on the pool deck

P.S.S.S.S.S.S. Tito, this one's for you :)

P.S.S.S.S.S.S.S. Is that enough P.S.'s for you Tito?!

P.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S. The stampede of elephants that were chasing after Dani seemed to followed her to our hotel because there seems to be some rumbling in the hallways.

P.S. x 15. Our field trip resulted in, us coming to the conclusion that there are swimmers that live above us. However, we did not notice an 500-lb girls at the meet they must just stay in their rooms all day and pound on the floor.