Sunday, January 6, 2008

UC Irvine Relay Meet

Hello again from California!

Today we joined UCI, USD, CMS (whose pool we borrow for workouts), Willamette, and other schools for a relay meet at UC Irvine today. It was a great time to see swims from these other strong schools and to be at a meet to just see where we are at with our times for this season.

We have been training hard since arriving last Thursday, so our swimmers are really tired and the weather is far from ideal being cold with occasional wind and rain. Despite all the factors against us, we had some really good swims.

The Missionary ladies led off the meet with three teams in the 200 Medley Relay (A: Nancy Alexander, Claire Noone, Erin Pettersen, and Courtney Fitzpatrick. B: Jeraldine Enriquez, Sidney Kohls, Elli Matkins, and Elizabeth Roberson. C: Kate Pringle, Ali Schleuter, Clara Van Eck, and Morgan Kozek). All the ladies had good personal times for where we are in the season, and it was a great high energy event.

Our Men's 3x100 Breast relay consisting of Clint Collier, Nick Wood, and Chad Trexler finished the highest of all the teams, coming in third overall, with all three having great swims.

Jamie Nusse, Ysbrand Nusse, Clint Collier, and David Lee placed fourth overall in the men's 200 Free Relay with some excellent swims, while Eliot Stone, Colin Gibson, Kevin McCoy, and Matt Bancaya all had personally strong swims in the same event.

The Women's 200 Free Relay consisting of Lauren Flynn, Kate Pringle, Morgan Kozek, and Clara Van Eck all had some fabulous swims, consisting of great personal times for each of them.

And, most importantly, the our team had spirit! Cheering for our team and teammates, the Missionaries were definitely the loudest team on deck! (as shown in the video below)


Complete results can be found at the UC Irvine swimming webpage





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