that's what State is all about!
(I copied this from Jac's blog... who can tell her story better than the star herself??)
If you ever want to let people know what you do, as in swimming at state, just put a sign on your house! TONS of our fellow neighbors asked about it at church today! It was fun to be able to share my successes with them! Now, I can share them with you :)
All of our wonderful tapering was finally going to pay off!
We were here as a professional 2011 State Team.
Our purpose = DAMAGE....
We even had sweet polos to prove our professionality!
(From the back: Bailey Tuttle, Taylor Martinez, Ali Larson, Me,
Rachel Hansen, Branna Norman, Hannah Hansen, Kaylie Rush)
Yes, we had fun in the maze of showers and lockers in the BYU Girl's Locker Room! That place is HUGE... I really wanted a map!
The stands were packed! It was fun to have a whole row there cheering for you!
The first event would be the 200 Medley Relay!
Kaylie would swim the backstroke,
I would swim the breastroke,
Taylor the butterfly,
and Branna the freestyle!
There was no escaping the excitement in the air as soon as we stepped behind those blocks! We were excited to swim this race as fast as we possibly could!
Here goes Kaylie....
We're hanging right with everyone....
A little bit ahead.....
falling a tad behind, but still going strong....
Nice flip!
And..... a finish with a 4 second drop from the last time we swam it!
We were in lane 7.
In this race, I was ranked 22nd and 6th in my heat! The time to beat was a 2:40....
It twas said that in my butterfly, I touched the wall in last place.
In my backstroke, I caught up to some of the slower girls.
But in my breastroke....
that's where I really sped ahead and got closer to the faster ones!
Oh, and of course in my freestyle,
I passed an opponent on the last lap!
I ended up finishing 3rd in my heat, 18th overall, and got a new time of 2:37.00!
It was a marvelous first day!
After cheering for everybody else this whole second day, it was time for me to swim my event.
The 100 Breastroke!
(Once again, I'm in the lucky lane ~ 2!)
The first 50, I was going
strong. I already knew
who was going to win...
This was the last 25, and I was booking it!
ZANSHIN, ZANSHIN, ZANSHIN
was all that I could think about!
I knew I had done well, but I wanted to see the board for certain...
YES! I had done it! I had beat my time of a 1:18.81
and turned it into a 1:17. 06... almost a 2 whole second drop! And, the best thing is that I finished 1st in my heat and would have finished 6th in the next heat! This resulted in me finishing in
14th place overall at State! WAHOO!
Coach even said on his timer I got a 1:16.99.... :)
So much to be happy about!
I am super satisfied with my swim season! I have really grown to love swimming again! I have seen myself as a success and met lots of new friends. I am so glad I had the opportunity to be apart of this LEHI SWIMMING TEAM.
I can't wait for next year!
We are SO PROUD of you JAC!! You truly,
EXCEEDED ALL EXPECTATIONS!
