Big Ben - Freshman Ben Bowser bettered his school record swim by 0.5 seconds to finish 19th in the nation.
Wednesday morning was a good session. Ben Bowser dropped a half-second off of his 200 IM record and finished nineteenth. Both Caleb and Timmy’s prelim heats were called back because of false starts. In Timmy’s heat, the guy right beside Timmy was the culprit and he was disqualified. In Caleb’s heat, Caleb was the one who false started but only one of the officials caught it (a DQ requires dual confirmation) so he was still allowed to swim. Coach Fritz was furious and then excited about thirty seconds later when they didn’t disqualify Caleb. That night, Caleb took back his record in the 50 free by becoming the first and only swimmer in Grove City history to go under 20.00 seconds (Timmy went 20.00 in prelims).
Outside of the pool, we went to Jimmy John’s for lunch, which sounded a lot nicer than it actually was. It was basically just a glorified hoagie shop with absolutely no hot food at all. While Coach Fritz was pulling into his parking space, he hit a nail and got a flat tire. After about an hour of waiting, we finally had the spare tire on the car and he took it back to the rental place to get a new vehicle. That night, after finals were over we tried to go to Olive Garden for dinner. Coach Brozenic accidentally put in the wrong street name when she printed out the directions and we followed them all over Minneapolis and eventually ended up at our final destination- which was the middle of a residential neighborhood that was many miles from our intended destination. It turns out that the Olive Garden was literally about five minutes from our hotel, but we spent over an hour looking for it. We were all a little cranky and tired after that adventure. But being tired didn’t stop Peter from heading down to the hot tub, which was filled with collegiate gymnasts who were here for some kind of competition.
GCC Sprint - Three seniors and a freshman collaborate for a 3rd place finish in the 200 Free Relay. Drew, Caleb, and Timmy have achieved a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place finish in this event over the past four years.
Thursday morning was a really great morning. Our 200 free relay broke the school record and qualified third for the finals. In the last event of the morning, we came into it ranked thirteenth, but after some amazing swims from Peterman and Timmy (when Timmy entered the water, we were in 15th place) we moved all the way up to 8th! We had lunch with some of the parents at Applebees and then went back to the hotel for a quick nap before finals. In the finals, our 200 free relay broke the school record again. Kirk was absolutely flying down the pool in the second leg of the relay, but he flipped a little too early and missed the wall on his turn (he pretty much barely touched it with his toenails) so we were in eighth place when Timmy hit the water. Timmy and Caleb made up some major ground and brought us all the way back into 3rd place. His turn really didn’t affect the outcome and it was still an amazing swim! Peter allowed Ben Bowser to take his place in the 400 Medley relay that night, giving Ben the chance to earn his first All-American citation and an eighth place finish. As of this moment, Grove City has 7 new All-Americans… all freshmen and sophomores.
Medley - Grove City swimers finished 8th in the 400 Medley Relay.
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