Bowdoin Open Swim Meet Results

        Over the weekend I went to Maine to swim in a 5 session open swim meet at Bowdoin College. Here I swam 7 events as well as 3 relays. Overall it was a very long weekend, and my whole team is now very tired. In the first session on Friday night I swam the 500 free and the 800 free relay. My seed time going into the 500 was a 5:59.83 but during the event I dropped 9.02 seconds getting a time of 5:50.81. In the relay my team got a time of 8:57.21. In my team was Jaylan, Julia, Magan, and me. My leg of the relay was a 2:11.54 which is .70 seconds faster than my best 200 free time. At the Saturday morning session I swam the 200 free, the 100 back, and the 50 free. In the 200 free I dropped 2.03 seconds from my time in the relay the night before getting me a time of 2:09.51. In the 100 back I got a time of 1:08.78 dropping 1.72 seconds from my previous best of 1:10.50. In the 50 free, which is my favorite event as well as the hardest to drop time in, I beat my previous best time of 27.25 by .70 getting me a time of 26.55, securing me 41st place out of 183 people between the ages of 13 and 18. The next session on Saturday Night I swam the 400 Medley relay. I swam the 100 back and got a time of 1:09.28 which was not as fast as I swam that morning but still faster than my best time before this swim meet. In the Sunday morning session I swam the 100 free, the 100 breast, and the 200 IM. In the 100 free, I beat my previous best time of 1:00.82 by 3.03 seconds, finally breaking 1:00, with a time of 57.79. In the 100 breast I got a time of 1:18.26 which was a 3.17 second drop from my previous best time of 1:21.43. In the 200 IM I beat my previous best time of 2:34.34 by 8.79 seconds with a time of 2:25.55. IN the last session, the Sunday night session, I swam the 400 Free relay. My team got a time of 3:54.62. I got a split of 57.87, which was not as good as that morning but after a long weekend with a lot of swims I did pretty well. Overall my team placed 5th with 1692 points out of 23 teams. The boys placed 2nd overall receiving a trophy for their achievement. Many people on out team did very well. Meghan placed 8th overall in the 100 free with a time of 55.07 seconds which was .24 seconds slower than her 54.83 during prelims. Also, the New Wave girls A relay for the 400 free relay placed 11th qualifying for sectionals in Buffalo this spring with a time of 3:49.78. The team did a fabulous job at Bowdoin this weekend and we all had a lot of fun. We can't wait to go back next year when we will be faster and place even higher in all of our events.

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