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OH THE DRAMA...
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samedi, juin 19, 2004
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i'm SUCH a happy coach right now! first of all, i would like to congratulate all of the LONDONDERRY LIGHTNING BOLTS on a season well done. even though we lost two of our meets, we pulled a FIRST at divisionals today!!!!! even though all three of the coaches were feel rather like poo today (kim might have the stomach virus that is, apparently, going around; vanessa thought she was gunna hurl the whole meet; i almost passed out a few times), we were BY FAR the most spirited team there...doing cheers all the time and always yelling for the WHOLE race for a swimmer no matter what heat he/she was in and no matter what place he/she was in. that's what i think i like so much about this team. they're soo willing to cheer for each other...at all times. it was really cool today to be doing the 7-7-3-3-1-1-1 "BOLTS" cheer and hear it echo through the nat. and then doing "lightning relays" and having parents and everyone join in...wow!
the final score was as follows:
6th place- bridgestone with 125
5th place- inwood forest with 205
4th place- memorial northwest with 249
3rd place- rolling fork with 369.5
2nd place- giammalva with 380
1st place- LONDONDERRY LIGHTNING BOLTS WITH 383!!!!!!!!
despite some of the...*argh*..."stuff" that happened today, it was a good meet. VERY close races. lots of yelling, screaming, jumping around...you know how it goes. i think i'm going to lose my voice again this week. i still have it right now, but my throat hurts REALLY a lot and...yeah. i was trying to yell down the stairs to david just a minute ago and couldn't get much out. i sound like a 13 yr old boy going through puberty. the coach relay was loads of fun, even though we were the ONLY team to do it. none of the other coaches stayed long enough to do the relay, so we made up some relays out of our swimmers to swim against us. i swam backstroke against jeremy and gary and WON!!!! hehe...oh...ok, so vanessa swam breaststroke, kim swam butterfly, and MRS. YOUNG and austin swam freestyle. YES, one of our team parents swam on our medley relay with us. she swam the first leg of the freestyle...and surprised us all. i don't think ANYONE actually thought she'd swim, but sure as the sun rises every day, she dove in (off the block) with all her clothes on and won the relay for us! she dove in and EVERYONE went wild. not everyday you see a mother swim on a coach relay, is it?
after divisionals, we (the team) went out to cici's for a celebration dinner. i can't believe the season's over! that's so...weird. i've heard that the team has "unofficially" asked all three coaches back for next year, but i don't know what that means. i'm not sure if we're all actually going to be asked back or not, but...we'll see. AAAAND i've heard that another (unnamed) team is trying to get me hired for next year. we'll see what happens, though... i LOVE coaching summer league. sometimes i think i get just a little too into the races, but...what can i say? i'm passionate about what i do.
last night i was over at the crain's getting my hair and nails done. it was sooo much fun. but that was after the "pep rally" at the pool...and the ko swimming thing...and the crazy errands i had to run. AAANYWAYS, ok, so we had a pep rally at the pool yesterday at 6 and cut up the watermelons we used for crazy olympics and then did loads of fun cheers (cuz we ARE the most spirited and everything). then the kids all got to decorate all the cars for today. it was lots of fun. oh...i'm gunna miss this stuff next week...and the week after. i LOVE working with little kids. TRISTAN MADE PONDEROSA TODAY!!!!!!! i was sooooo proud of him. aww...it was soo cute!
*tear* well, i suppose i probably should put some going out clothes on cuz i'm supposively going to the movies with matt, chris and ann in about 15 minutes. i don't know what we'll see...of if i'll watch any of it (kinna exhausted) but...yeah. if anything else interesting happens, you know i'll blog it later!
7:37 PM
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