Your Wabash College Little Giant swimmers went to Houston and swam six events, came home with four Lifetime Bests, two All-American Certificates (Honorable Mention), and countless congratulations from other swimmers and coaches from around the country. Simply put, people took notice. People were impressed.

Coach Steen from Kenyon (while winning his 28th Title and watching his own swim team put together the most impressive meet of his career) stopped our boys to tell them that, "Swimming your best, against the best, is simply the ultimate in this sport." His respect for the program and the athletes representing Wabash was both obvious and sincere.

Ultimately, I felt lucky to be coaching two such great athletes. They came to a meet with the right attitude and vision. They believed in themselves. And they scored more points than they were supposed to on paper. That improvement over seed-time placed them in the top 30% of teams that competed. The norm at the national meet is to end up swimming slower times than you did at the†conference meet. Not these two though... they wanted more than the "norm."

Congrats to Adam and Tony - and the entire Wabash Swimming and Diving Family. Without a doubt, the entire team was on their mind - the entire weekend. More than once they mentioned to me that their teammates could compete at this level - and need to compete at this level. More than once they wanted to be celebrating with their boys. And more than once they wanted their teammates there belting the school fight song louder - and with even more passion.

I'll see you on the pool deck,

Coach

(Pictured above Top Right - Adam and Tony on deck at the meet. Bottom Left - Tony, Coach Casares, Larry Knauff '62, and Petro)

Family was a big part of the weekend. Adam poses here with his Mom and his boss(!), Diane. Tony is surrounded by Mom, Dad, and his sister Michelle.