Peter's Swim Season

5/26/2021

This was definitely an interesting swim season for Peter this year. With the addition of a new coach, things were just not the same as in previous years. Peter found himself as team captain appointed by his teammates. Those boys really needed Peter's optimism and counsel while they navigated a difficult coach who was a little rough around the edges. Peter spent most of his season swimming in the long-distance events such as the 200 and 500 freestyle and rotated between the 200-freestyle relay and 400 freestyle relay. He also swam the 100 fly a few times and did quite well. Peter was such a hard worker in practice and for the first month of swim he was loving being back in the water with his teammates. The very first meet his goggles popped right off during his 500-freestyle due to a tight cap and more hair under that cap than in previous years. After the race his coach didn’t have anything nice to say and it was then that I knew that this coach would be a problem during the rest of the season. I was not impressed with the coach and the way he handled talking to his athletes, but Peter quickly learned that he needed to be respectful anyways. Peter PR’d in every event this season except for the 500 free. He was only a second away from getting his best time in that event. He dropped almost 10 seconds in the 100 fly and 5 seconds in the 200 free from his last high school season during his sophomore year. Peter wasn’t able to finish out his season since he started his new full-time job the day after graduation but at least he was able to get in 5 meets.

100 Fly
1:04.90 3rd out of 4 at Coronado
1:04.50 5th out of 6 at Lewis-Palmer
1:04.98 4th out of 6 vs DCC

200 Freestyle
2:09.20 4th out of 6 at Rampart

200 Individual Medley
2:26.64 5th out of 6 vs Cheyenne Mtn

500 Freestyle
5:47.22 4th out of 5 at Rampart
5:59.58 2nd out of 3 at Coronado
5:48.26 5th out of 6 at Lewis-Palmer
5:44.97 4th out of 6 vs Cheyenne Mtn
6:03.31 4th out of 5 vs DCC

200 Medley Relay
Fly split time 27.86 at Lewis-Palmer

200 Freestyle Relay
26.65 split time at Rampart
27.03 split time at Lewis-Palmer
26.48 split time vs Cheyenne Mtn
27.15 split time vs DCC

400 Freestyle Relay
27.61 split time at Rampart
27.70 split time at Rampart
29.02 split time at Coronado
30.26 split time at Coronado
28.81 split time vs DCC
30.94 split time vs DCC