Great Day 1

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What a wonderful night of swimming on day 1 of the PSAC meet.  As you can see if you read previous posts, we had two NCAA cut times.  Kasey reached her goal of an NCAA 'b' cut time with just a perfectly swum race.  (note: she also went out in a lifetime best in the 500 with a 5:19!)

We waited around for the rest of the 1000's (3 more heats of women, and 3 heats of men) before our 200 medley relay time trialed.  We were between Cal & Gannon.  We had 4 great legs, with Sam anchoring in a 23.60 to give us the cut!!  The funny part was that our women were just so focused on swimming fast that they didn't know what the cut time was....assuming that our time wasn't fast enough they were just happy to have swum fast.  Now, I had no reaction b/c (1) I was pleasantly surprised that we swam that fast and (2) we had worked our relay exchanges a LOT in the past week and we work on pushing them...so much so that I wouldn't have been suprised if we had a false start, so I didn't want to get too excited just in case we had one and the time would have been null and void.

(note: I had Adam Stoner standing right in the line of the exchanges so that he could grade them and he said if anything they could have been a little faster!!)

It is funny b/c I think back to last year when we got the A cut, Kutztown was right next to us and they also got the cut ... swimming, RACING, right next to another strong relay is a huge help, I like it even better when we both get the time we were looking for.  Hoping to have some great relay races when we are swimming for points!

Can't get too excited though as we are still just starting the meet and have 6 sessions to go!!

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