Day 6 - Elijah Sanders ‘10

Just another day in paradise for the Wabash swim team! Actually, we had a rather eventful day … starting with morning practice and ending up stuck on a bus forthree hours! As usual we woke up early and practiced but this afternoon we came back to the pool to compete in a relay meet against SUNY New Paltz and Davidson College. After getting beat up all week by Coach, I think we all did an awesome job. I could tell the guys were really tired, but we stuck with it until the end. Vetor had a tough 200 free, but still brought it back to have an excellent race in the 400 Free Relay. Blackwell had a good meet posting several 49s in the 100 free too. Most exciting though, for the first time in the history of Wabash Swimming we had a female swimmer compete - Coach Rokosch swam in the 200 fly relay and proved she could still swim with the big boys. Although the meet was somewhat relaxed we still swam hard and after winning the last relay ended up losing to Davidson (a Division I College) by only 8 points – a huge moral victory!!

After the relay meet, the evening became even more eventful. We had our class dinners. The freshman and sophomores went to Fort Lauderdale and ate at Hooters and Cheeburger Cheeburger (respectively). The sophomores, all except for Rutz )our animal rights activist) took down the one-pound burger. The freshmen got a big disappointment when we found out Florida does not have all you can eat wings on Wednesdays. We were hoping to see how many wings Vetor could eat, but we made due giving him all of our leftovers (after a Tabasco clam chowder and a lot of wings, Vetor proved once again that he can out eat everyone). Zajac and Rockefeller made themselves miserable by eating about 40 wings, but proved no match for the “human garbage disposal.”

Now to the fun part, we got back on the bus - stuffed with food and ready to watch a little Seinfeld on the trip - all of a sudden we smelled burnt rubber. We stopped and I saw a small cloud of smoke roll in front of our bus, one of our brakes locked up. Three hours and two Seinfeld disks later, the mechanic showed up and we are able to finally take our trip back to the motel. Surprisingly, there was no complaining and everyone just joked around as usual during the 3-hour excursion. Yeah, we're enjoying the hard work and fun down here, but all of us are ready to go home and relax before classes begin. (Pictured above: The team at the meet, the Freshman at Hooters, and the Sophomores at Cheeburger Cheeburger)

Graham taking out the 100 IM

Vest, Trayton, O'Keefe, and Kasey at their class dinner.