Season Finale

The women's season ended on Saturday, February 20th. It was a great finish for all the women. Even though we did not make it to finals, we still had 21 best times! Now, that is after all of the best time at NEACs. So the women have taken off a tremendous amount of time.

Highlights:
Day 1
500 FR - All 4 women took off at least 5 seconds off their best time - Meg (FR) took off 6 seconds (6:37.79), Gwenn (FR) took off 3 seconds (6:31.40), Tiffany (SR) took off 11 seconds (6:31.34) and Colleen (SR) took off 9 seconds (6:19.62)
200 IM - Idolyn (SO) took off another 2 seconds (2:34.03)
50 FR - Erika (FR) got a 28.78 and this is her first season ever as a competitive swimmer!

Day 2
200 FR - Meg (FR) took off 5 seconds (2:29.62), Tiffany (SR) took off 3 seconds (2:27.08) and Colleen (SR) took of 6 seconds (2:25.74).
100 BR - Erika (FR) took off 4 seconds (1:26.80) and Kelsey (SR) took off 2 seconds (1:26.23)
100 BA - Bev (SR) took off 1 seconds (1:24.95) and Idolyn (SO) holding her 2nd place spot on the all Wells top ten times brings her time down to 1:08.95. She is inching her way up to becoming the record holder for Wells (1:06.)

Day 3
100 FR - Erika (FR) shaved off another second (1:05.88)
200 BR - Kelsey (SR) shaved off 2 seconds (3:05.78)
400 FR Relay - Tiffany (SR), Kelsey (SR), Idolyn (SO) and Erika (FR) shaved off 6 seconds since NEACs with a time of 4:21.87
1650 FR - Colleen (SR) was only .02 away from breaking 22:00! It is okay because she took off 25 seconds!

*pictures coming soon*

NEAC CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS!!!!!

1st place - Men's Swim Team
2nd place - Women's Swim Team
NEAC Swimmer of the Year - Jeff Dick

Coaches & Captains
Left to Right: Court, Trish, Carolyn, Kelsey

Seniors
Left to Right: Court, Trish, Kelsey, Colleen, Tiffany, Bev and Carolyn

Event: 500 FR
3rd Place - Colleen
4th Place - Gwenn
5th Place - Tiffany
6th Place - Meg

Event: 100 Fly
1st Place - Drew
4th Place - Dan
5th Place - Chris

Drew actually picked me up to give me a BIG hug!

Event: 1000
1st Place - Court

Event: 400 FR Relay
1st Place - Mike, Jeff, Drew and Court

Event: 500 FR
2nd Place - Colleen
3rd Place - Gwenn

Event: 400 FR Relay
2nd Place - Idie, Kelsey, Erika and Tiffany

Event: 500 FR
2nd Place - Mike
4th Place - Court

Senior Meet

From Left to Right: Trish (Coach), Tiffany, Kelsey Court, Bev, Colleen and Carolyn (coach)

After "surviving" Florida's 40 degree weather, we thought it was only fitting to give each Senior a scarf with the words, "Florida Training Survivor" embroidered.

The Seniors also poked fun of the unusual cold weather and made shirts that referenced the Titanic!

Powerade Challenge

During J-term the team (and coaches) get a little "crazy" and we do something out of the ordinary like a Powerade Challenge. The rules are simple.

1. Chug a 20 oz. Powerade
2. Sprint 50 yards
3. Repeat until you can no longer drink another sip or... just look at the pictures!

Setting up. Everyone had to have a bag... just in case

Step #1: CHUG

Step #2: SWIM

Step #3: REPEAT

This challenge was NOT mandatory and everyone who you see drinking the powerade choose to participate. Unfortunately, you can't see the people who did not participate. We all just laughed!

NEAC CONFERENCE RUNNER UP!!!

The women's team were mentally strong throughout this meet and earned many PB.

First Place: 100 BA
Second Place: 100 BR, 500/1000 FR, 200 FR Relay, 200 Medley Relay
Top Ten Shifts - Idolyn dropped 4 seconds in her 200 BA and went from 7th to 3rd fastest swimmer in Wells history. Idolyn also went from 3rd to 2nd in the 100 BA.
Score
Cazenovia College 508
Wells College 369
CSE 341
SUNY IT 182
SUNY Cobleskill 133

More highlights and pictures coming soon.

NEAC CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS!!!!!

The men's team were the underdogs going into the meet because we weren't fully shaved and tappered and we had 2 less swimmers than our strongest competitor SUNY IT. The men's team swam as strong as I have ever seen them.

Here are the highlights:

First Places - All 4 relays, 100/200/500/1000 FR, 100/200 BR, 200 BA, and 100 Fly
Broken Records - 100/200 FR, 100/200 BA, 100 BR, 200 Fly, 200/400 IM, 200/400 FR Relay, 200/400 Medley Relay
Scores:
Wells 470.5
SUNY IT 410.5
Cazenovia 295
SUNY Cobleskill 133

Also our very own Jeff Dick earned NEAC Swimmer of the Year for being undefeating in the 100 and 200 breaststroke throughout the season plus during this championship. Jeff was also in all 4 undefeated relays!

Pictures coming soon.

This weekend is a big weekend for the Express. Both the women and men's teams are seated 2nd going into our NEAC conference championships! We are all very excited!

Court (SR), Idolyn (SO), Jeff (JR), Drew (SO) and Mike (JR) are all seated 1st in their events.

After each session, I will post updates of the team's swims and hopefully a few pictures.