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"Just keep swimming. Just
"I'll never forget the Mar-
keep swimming," Dory ian meet where we had to walk
chanted in the Disney film out of the locker room with our
"Finding Nemo," and that is parkas on and our hoods up. We
exactly what the girls and boys had to walk around the pool in
swim teams carried out this sea- a single file line while the lights
son: a whole lot of swimming. were off, there was hard core
"Swimming in the summers music playing in the background
and pre-season with a club team and the boys put dry ice in the
really paid off when we had to pool. Although it was really
swim 400-800 laps at practice," funny and embarrassing, it got
freshman Nick Jobeun said. everyone really pumped up for
Being able to swim so the meet! " Wood said.
many laps JV
entailed swimmers
a lot of improved
work and '' throughout
dedication It felt weird to have all the season
from each these people staring at by pro-
swimmer. gressing in
"We me and taking pictures techniques
practice the after I received 6th at such as
most, the Metros in the 1 00 back. their stroke
earliest and Talk about awkward. work and
we work flip turns.
the hard- -Sarah Gidley, 12 "While
est," senior at the
Allison Westside
Wood said. '' meet, I ac-
The complished
team a personal
practiced five days a week, two best and cut five seconds on
times a day (5:30-7:30 a.m. and my 100 freestyle," junior Haley
3:30-5:30 p.m.). The practices Hatter said.
consisted of a warm-up, a pre- Finishing the season, the
set, a main set and then a cool girl 's team placed 4th at Metros
down. After, the swimmers got and 6th at state while the boys
out of the pool to perform dry team placed 4th at Metros and
land. Dry land was made up of 18th at state. Many personal
running, sit-ups and medicine bests were accomplished and "a
ball work. The difficult practices lot of hidden talent came out in
led to successful meets. everyone," Wood said.
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