Saturday Prelims and Finals

Limited computer access last night means blog gets posted with prelim and final results.

Saturday Prelims
Kayla Schnars started out by dropping 5.6 seconds from her season best to go a PSAC qualifying cut os 2:13.47. Taylor Andress dropped nearly 4 seconds to go 2:28.56.

The 100 Free was a HUGE race for Haven Swimmers. Danielle Parowski made it back 2nd at night by going a 53.69. Kristen Capretti qualified 7th with another gutsy morning swim and a PSAC qualifying time of 54.71. This swim was a lifetime best in a lifetime full of great swims. Qualifying 8th was Carley Nitchie with another lifetime best time of 54.98. Abby Miller made it back into the 16th spot with a season best 56.52.

Kaitlyn Druby dropped to a season best 58.21, Jamie Mason dropped 1.5 seconds to go 58.47, Liz Barney with a 58.91 (down from the start of the season of 1:07.3) Megan Dunn went a 1:00.88, her best, and Meghan Kuhn dropped 5.4 seconds to go to 1:06.85.

In the 200 Breast Amanda Thomas made it back into 7th place with a 2:41.73 and another lifetime best.  Ciara Conklin qualified 13th with a 2:49.20.

In the 200 Fly Kristin Taylor qualified 3rd with a 2:14.81 and earned herself a PSAC cut. Allie Muha qualified 4th with a 2:17.01, also stamping her ticket to York PA in February. Meghan Kuhn stepped up and earned ANOTHER second swim in the 200 fly with a 2:48.69, a best time by 2 seconds.

H.B. Culpepper's for lunch. A great and calm sit down restaurant since we checked out of our hotel in the morning. Then it was back to the pool to rest until warmup for the final session of finals.

Saturday Finals
1650 Freestyle
The 1650 is seeded by 1000 time for this meet, Danielle was in Lane 1 in the final heat (the one that opens up the finals session). This was another huge swim from a huge weekend for her. Her first 1000 was out in 10:46.99, which broke the school record in that event--and she did it to a flip turn instead of a finish. She also broke the 1650 record with a 17:59.39. Its not often you see 2 school records on the same swim.

Shout out to the team from Saint Vincent. They didn't have a swimmer in the 1650 final and since some of their swimmers grew up with Danielle they went wild for her the entire race. It was much appreciated and its great to see swimmers cheering on a great swim!

In the 200 back Kayla capped off a great meet of backstroke with a lifetime best of 2:12.59 and a second place finish. Taylor was a bit slower at night, but scored points with her 2nd swim of 2:30.84 and her 2nd best ever in the event.

In the 100 Free Danielle dropped a few hundreths of a second to end up 2nd with a 53.62. Carley was 8th, Capretti 12th and Abby 17th, all a bit off their morning swims, but still good effort!

In the 200 Breast Amanda capped off a great meet and season (she will be headed to Scotland for a semester abroad in the Spring--we'll miss her) with a lifetime best swim of 2:41.43, taking 8th. Last year at the Pidgeon meet she went 2:54.07, amazing improvement.

In the 200 Fly Kristin finished 3rd with a 2:14.15, and Allie Muha finished 5th, improving her time to 2:16.77 both improved on their earlier PSAC cuts. Meghan Kuhn scored points and improved on her best by swimming 4 seconds faster than her morning swim to go 2:44.22

All relays dropped time from their seeds (which were composed based on previous 100 times.) It was nice to have 4 relays in the water and have every single swimmer going after it in the final event of the meet.

A Relay- Kristin Taylor, Carley Nitchie, Kristen Capretti, and Danielle Parowski- 3:45.83
B Relay- Megan Dunn, Jamie Mason, Kayla Schnars, Abby Miller- 3:55.53
C Relay- Kaitlyn Druby, Liz Barney, Ciara Conklin, Allie Muha- 4:01.41
D Relay- Taylor Andress, Emily Shultz, Amanda Thomas, Meghan Kuhn- 4:23.85

We finished the session in 3rd place behind IUP and Saint Vincent. Entering the final session we were only 15 points ahead of the 4th place team, Notre Dame College.

Final Scores are as follows:
1. IUP 1518.5
2. Saint Vincent 891
3. Lock Haven 743.5
4. Notre Dame 695
5. Wheeling Jesuit 612
6. Mansfield 347

After the meet followed a "Swimmer's Choice" dinner stop. As many as they wanted to make, we ended up with Sheetz, Taco Bell, and Dunkin. After what seemed like a forever bus ride (ran into some snow,) but made it safely back to Lock Haven around 10.





Final Session!