Swim Meet

April 1st was Tyaan's first league swim meet. This is where it starts to count. It was at Montclair High and they were counting on a win. Both the boys and girls teams did well, both winning the meet by a safe margin.

Tyaan swam her usual 4 events and did well on all of them. This is a 'slow' pool because it is really shallow. This makes it hard to dive, hard to turn, and creates a lot of drag due to water coming back off the bottom of the pool. But she still kept her times and even improved her 200 free time by a second. I promised to start video taping when league started so I had the camera running. Here are her two individual events.

200 Free

The most interesting part of this race is that the Montclair coach was putting his fastest swimmers in lane 1 which isn't typical. The fastest swimmers are usually in the middle of the pool (lanes 3 & 4) because that is where you have the best water without the back flow coming from the side of the pool and other swimmers. Tyaan is in lane 4 (even lanes are for visiting teams, home team always has odd lanes) and you can see the swimmer in lane 1 keeps pretty close to her for most of the race. I was worried that Tyaan couldn't see her that far away and wouldn't realize she needed to push. But she said she saw her and by the last 25 yards the girl couldn't keep Ty's pace any longer.





100 fly

By this time we had figured out that they were putting the better swimmers in lane 1 so the coach moved Tyaan from lane 4 to lane 2 to stay where she could see the competition during the race .




Her times for this meet were:

4x50 medley relay :33
200 free 2:24 (her best)
100 fly 1:16
4x100 free relay ???

3 more meets to go and then finals! How quickly it's going!!!