Autumn / Harvest Invitational Meets Report
Coach Rick - Juniors and Seniors
A truly phenomenal meet. The odd Autumn Invitiational / Harvest Invitational meets were held this last weekend, with another astonishing set of results. These meets were odd as the 2 meets were held in the same pool at the same time, but with different event orders. The Harvest was only open to C qualifying times and better, while the Autumn meet was open to all swimmers.
Let's get the stats out of the way first. Our Junior and Senior swimmers registered 37 PBs in 45 swims for a truly ridiculous PB rate of 82%. In fact most of our non-PBs were tantalizingly close. We had 19 team records and added another 11 Central Region swims bringing the total this year to 16. At this time last year we had 4 Central Regions swims. By far the highlight of the meet was our 200 Medley Relay. With Mac not able to swim, Daniel stepped up to take his place. and then we saw all 4 (Matt, Vasil, Logan and Daniel) beat their PBs. In fact Daniel split the FR leg in under 30 seconds!!! An amazing race. In addition to the relay members, we also had Emma, Jen and Sydney crank out some amazing swims and PBs.
Next meet is the Halton Hills 'Gord Bassett" Invitational Dec 2-4. Hope to see you all out there.
Coach Caillin - Novice
Our novice Tritons had another outstanding meet this weekend! Our swimmers raced hard with incredible speed, breaking team records and earning new personal bests! Out of the 10 swims the novice Tritons swam, we had 8 of them personal bests, 2 of which were new team records. Well done!
A shout-out goes to Ralitza Kechelieva for attending her first meet this season and swimming all her races with personal best efforts. Ralitza also swam the fastest 100 IM time our 10 and under group has yet to do, earning a spot on the record board. A shout-out also goes to Sydni Hughes for swimming the fastest 50 Fr time in our 10 and under group, and for continuing to swim personal best races. Sydni also showed strong character in pushing through the mishap of her false start, learning from her mistakes and swimming excellent races for the remainder of the weekend. Awesome work girls, your hard work has truly paid off!
Lets keep those stroke rates up, have some fun and continue to swim fast!!
2011 Hall of Fame Meet Report
Junior and Senior
The first meet of the year is under our belts now, and what an interesting and successful meet it was. The purpose of the meet was to remember how to race, how to prepare to race, and to identify any weaknesses. It did all that, but what amazed me was the quality of some of the swims. We had 63% PBs for our Junior and Senior group, a nice surprise for our first meet of the year. But we also had a record 4 swimmers make Central Regions already. Add to that quite a few team records, and quite a few breakthrough swims for individuals. A great start to the year!
This meet also marked the end of the General Conditioning phase of our program. For the next few weeks we'll be focusing on faster training, and getting the body ready to put out higher levels of effort for longer. We'll also start our home-based dryland program soon as well.
Next up is the Autumn / Harvest Invitational at the Olympium on Nov 5-6.
Coach Rick
Novice
Wow, what a way to start our season off with such an amazing meet! The novice Tritons surely proved that they could have a blast while swimming fast, so give yourselves a well deserved pat on the back. Although Saturday did not go as planned and our swimmers did not get a chance to race due to the power outage, they made up for it on Sunday with incredible swims. All the swims were personal best efforts, and some were even new team records.
Congratulations to Sydni Hughes for participating in her first ever meet and achieving team records in the 100 Freestyle and the 100 Backstroke. A special shout-out also goes to Madeline Gomes for attending her second meet ever, breaking the 100 Freestyle team record (although Sydni gets the record as she went faster) and swimming the fastest times she has yet to do. These girls demonstrated good strokes, lots of speed and a great racing attitude. Keep up the good work Tritons, we are so excited to see you do well in our next meet!
Coach Caillin
2011 Hall of Fame Meet
Our first meet of the year will take place on October 15 and 16 at the Etobicoke Olympium. Please download the meet package and the meet entries.
