Nearing the finish line
-Lindsay McReynolds
INDIANAPOLIS - It is Friday night. We are leading the in the team standings and it is time to put the points up on the board to make it stay that way.
It is crazy to realize that what we have trained all season for is almost over, and at the same time a sixth national championship is well within our reach.
Tonight's swims have basically ensured that we will break our record of five national team titles in a row that we shared with Oakland University last year in achieving a sixth team title. We are up about 120-something points, next is Drury and then UC San Diego. It is a dog fight for second place now - no pun intended.
The most exciting event of the evening would definetly be the women's 4X800 relay of freshman Jacqui Dempsey, sophomore Molly Pollette, junior Lija Kaleps-Clark and sophomore Whitney Wodstrchill. It came down to the wire. Pollette came back in the final leg of the relay to touch out Drury by two hundredths of a second! The crowd went crazy, everyone was hugging each other and jumping up and down.
I think at that moment we realized that we were well on our way to winning this championship meet.
However, we still have one day of competition left, and it is a big day with many great events for us.
Wish us luck.
INDIANAPOLIS - It is Friday night. We are leading the in the team standings and it is time to put the points up on the board to make it stay that way.
It is crazy to realize that what we have trained all season for is almost over, and at the same time a sixth national championship is well within our reach.
Tonight's swims have basically ensured that we will break our record of five national team titles in a row that we shared with Oakland University last year in achieving a sixth team title. We are up about 120-something points, next is Drury and then UC San Diego. It is a dog fight for second place now - no pun intended.
The most exciting event of the evening would definetly be the women's 4X800 relay of freshman Jacqui Dempsey, sophomore Molly Pollette, junior Lija Kaleps-Clark and sophomore Whitney Wodstrchill. It came down to the wire. Pollette came back in the final leg of the relay to touch out Drury by two hundredths of a second! The crowd went crazy, everyone was hugging each other and jumping up and down.
I think at that moment we realized that we were well on our way to winning this championship meet.
However, we still have one day of competition left, and it is a big day with many great events for us.
Wish us luck.
posted by Anonymous at Saturday, March 11, 2006
1 Comments:
Congratulations guys! You made all of us over here in London proud. Next year, we're going for "heavenly seven."
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