Blogging at 11:10? Yeah, I feel compelled to send some messages. First of all, lets check out the numbers!

We picked 17 swimmers and 3 divers to be our official scorers at this meet. For the first time in my five years all 20 athletes came back at night and scored the team points. Wow!

Next, there were 6 individual events tonight - and this was the first time we had someone in the Top 8 of every single event!

Brent Graham - 8th / 400 IM

Adam Petro and Kyle Weaver - 5th and 8th / 100 Fly

Jordon Blackwell - 7th / 200 Free

Robert Dent - 8th / 100 Breast

Tony Caldwell - 4th / 100 Back (52.45 NCAA B-Cut!)

Rob Fenoglio - 6th / 3M Diving

Now for our relays...

Our 200 Medley Relay swam 175 yards neck for neck with Kenyon and Denison. They both pulled away on the last length (yeah, they anchor with the 4th and 5th fastest guys in the country!)... but when all was said and done, we had dropped 6 tenths from the morning, came in 2nd place (All-Conference), and swam a very strong B-Cut (Caldwell (24.4), Dent (26.5), Weaver (22.4), and Cooper-Surma (21.3) - 1:34.7).

Our 800 Free Relay came out on fire too! It was a battle for 3rd place the entire way with Wooster and Wittenberg, but in the end our training and heart paid off with another All-Conference performance - and the fastest time I've seen since I've been here! (Blackwell - 1:45, Cooper-Surma - 1:48, Sanders 1:46, and Petro 1:45 - 7:05.15)

Honestly, at times today the fatigue of a 3 day meet against the top 2 teams in the country showed - and some guys swam a little flat, but all in all we are swimming tough, and the training we did this year is going to pay off tomorrow more than ever. Stay tuned for more exciting news.

WAF!

†