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I guess I'm confused by this. If all of the swimming
events are in rounded metres, then why would swimming in a metric sized pool
throw off the swimmers routines? Someone is real full of
shit!
SWIMMING: Devils swim through doldrums
PUBLISHED: October 27, 2004 It's the time of the
season where swimmers are churning out lots of
yardage in practice, so they're usually slower in meets. And, the Bears
on paper are a team that Grosse Ile easily should have beaten. On top of that,
Jefferson has a metric-length pool, which is a bit longer
and sometimes throws off swimmers' race routines.
The Red Devils ignored all that, recorded several season bests and beat the
Bears 114-73 to improve to 9-2 overall and 4-0 in the Huron League. They've
reeled off six straight victories.
A good sign came in the first event, the 200-meter medley
relay, where Mara Georgouses, Emily Dixon, Carly McLaughlin and Katie
Goyert won in an English-converted time (note: what does this mean?) of 2
minutes, 4.32 seconds, the Devils' best of the season. It's 1.33 seconds off the
Division 2 state cut.
Georgouses won the 100 freestyle in a season-best
57.93 seconds, just 34-hundredths of a second off the cut, and Goyert was second
in the 50 freestyle in a season-best 26.85, which is
56-hundredths (note: We couldn't say 560 ms
here. That would make us look to intelligent!) away
from qualifying.
Grosse Ile also got individual wins from Kellie LaPointe in the 200 freestyle (2:15.57) and 100
backstroke (1:18.02), Georgouses in the 200
individual medley (2:32.80), McLaughlin in the 100
butterfly (1:07.76) and Dixon in the 100
breaststroke (1:19.78).
Georgouses, Catherine Cherny, Theresa Bowyer and Goyert won the 200 freestyle relay (1:54.15), and McLaughlin, Bowyer,
LaPointe and Dixon won the 400 freestyle relay
(4:19.14). The Devils also were second (4:49.10) in that event.
Other second-place efforts came from Cherny in the 200
freestyle (2:17.54) and 100 butterfly
(1:17.79), and Dixon in the 200 IM
(2:41.06). |
