Small School 2010

Ok, HERE WE GO.......
The Small School Championship was yesterday in Plymouth, and we saw our boys compete and learn. It's always fun to watch the McFarlands, and Whitefish Bay's beat up on each other, and throw in a Shorewood, a Plymouth and Milton or two and you've get great swimming to watch. Well, that's pretty much what we did. While we competed when it was our turn, and competed hard I might add, the rest of the time our hard working athletes sat...and sat...and sat some more. While I noticed strong efforts in the pool, there just wasn't a lot of energy on the side of the pool. We watched others achieve times, rather than watching their starts and turns. We watched others with a sort of envy, wishing we could do that, rather than determining that we WOULD do that. We seemed to be complacent with achieving "another day at the office", rather than going after something we've never done before. The thing that was missing..."PASSION". If you don't bring it with you, it won't show up...kinda like your suit and goggles.
We doubled out point output from last year at this meet. Colin Rice placed 5th in Diving with another team record, he's up to 290 now. Matt Daniels(1:02) finally put the strong 100 Butterfly in the water that we knew was there, Geoff Gilles(1:12) showed that the terrific 100 Breaststroke from Appleton wasn't a fluke, Steve Lillie(52.8 on last relay) learned to move on after a not-so-hot performance, and Jim Jens (3 PR's) was the swimmer of the meet for our team. Our 200 and 400 Free Relays put season best times in the water, without eveybody achieving their individual best times on it. It was a decent day of competition. From here on out gentlemen..."If you want something you've never gotten, you have to give something you've never given". Show me your PASSION.

Let's finish what we started.