Central Swimmers Improve from First Meet

By Coach Osborne

            Football coaches are fond of saying their teams make the greatest improvements from week one to week two.  The Central Swim team followed true to form last Saturday at Crawfish Aquatics.

            Matthew Arnold won both his individual events.  Matthew completed the 200 individual medley in 2:08.62 and the 100 butterfly in 56.69 seconds.  Meanwhile, Matthew Usher finished second in the 100 backstroke in a time of 1:07.64.  Also, Acacia Porch finished 8^th in the 100 freestyle.

            The coaches decided to challenge the other swimmers by having them compete in more events and some different events than they are accustom to swimming.  The entire team responded to that challenge.

            Lyndee Debetaz dropped her 50 freestyle and 100 freestyle times by a total of 6 seconds.  Stephanie Pourciau, Brooke Demoulin, Devin Avery, and Tejah Scott cut their 50 freestyle by 2 seconds. 

            Geremy Porch, Emily Hollier, and Tejah Scott competed in the breastroke and backstroke for the first time and performed well.  Madison Hadden and Jack Way showed strong improvement from the previous week as well.

            The Wildcats have 3 weeks to work hard and prepare for their next meet in October.