End of the Season Wrap Up

Hello Swimmers and Parents,

Wow! What a great season! Core 2 finished the year on high note with countless best times at Regionals and Age Group State Championships. Congratulations to all of those that participated in either of the meets.

Individual point scores at the state meet were the following: Emma Kash finished 12th in the 50 Backstroke, Claire Russell finished 16th in the 500 Free, Athena Salafatinos was 16th in 100 Back, 15th in 100 IM, 15th in 50 Back, Pierce Salafatinos was 3rd in 50 Breast and 8th in 100 Breast, Gabrielle Snyder was 11th in the 50 Breast, and Matthew Wooten was 5th in the 200 Free, 12th in the 100 Fly, and 7th in the 200 IM and 500 Free. The 9 & 10 Girls Medley Relay finished 9th consisting of Emma Kash, Athena Salafatinos and Reilly Riggs. The 9 & 10 Boys finished 4th in the Medley Relay and 10th in the Free Relay. Pierce Salafatinos and Logan Phipps were on both relays. The 11 & 12 Boys Relay of Keegan Riggs, Philip Sajaev, Dominic May and Matthew Wooten finished 2nd in the 400 Free Relay and 3rd in the 400 Medley Relay- setting a new Maverick Team record in boy races. Finally, the 11 & 12 Boys B Free Relay of Janssen Gamilla, Ben Forbes, Ryan Smith, and Michael Hu finished 15th. Overall we finished 8th place as a team at the state meet.!

I would like to once again thank all of the parents for their support this year and all of the swimmers for their hard work. Good luck this summer and we look forward to seeing you next season!

Mike

Relays at Age Group State

Saturday: 11-12 BOYS "A" 400MR IS SWIMMING IN FINALS and 13-14 BOYS "A" 400MR IS SWIMMING IN FINALS. All other relays are in prelims and should begin between 12:15pm and 12:45pm with 13-14 relays beginning 1:00 to 1:30pm Relays swimming in finals should check with your coaches for warmup times.

Sunday: 11-12 BOYS "A" 400MR IS SWIMMING IN FINALS. All other realys are in prelims and should arrive no later than 11:30am.  11-12 Relays should begin between 12:45pm and 1:15pm with 13-14 relays beginning 1:30 to 2:00pm. Relays swimming in finals should check with your coaches for warmup times.

FRIDAY PRACTICE CHANGE 2/24

Due to the fact that the majority of Core 2 is resting for regionals, practice will only be an hour on Friday night, 2/24. Practice is now from 6:15-7:15 at Naperville Central.

Thanks,

Mike

Core 2: News You Can Use 02/22/12

Hello Swimmers and Parents,

First off, CONGRATULATIONS to all of the Feed The Fire Swimmers. We were extremely impressed with the swimmers, not only by their times but by their cheering and support for each other throughout the weekend. I also would like to thank all of their swimmers for their hard work and dedication this season. We had an amazing group and could not be any prouder of how they have performed.

This weekend is the Regional Swim Meet. This is the last meet of the year for swimmers to attempt to qualify for the Age Group State Championships. Warm ups will begin at 4:30 on Friday night and 7:30 a.m. on Saturday & Sunday morning. Please check the website for entries and additional information. It is important that the Regional swimmers eat healthy and get plenty of rest this week in order to be "fueled up" for the weekend. Good luck to all of the swimmers and we can’t wait to see all of the hard work pay off!

GO MAVERICKS!

Mike

Core 2: News You Can Use 02/13/12

Hello Swimmers and Parents,

Core 2 is coming off another successful weekend at the Fox Meet. We saw another large batch of time drops and built up some great momentum heading into the end of the season. A big congratulations goes out to Natalie Hey. Natalie set the Maverick team record in the 11 & 12 100 Backstroke with a time of 1:04.31.

This upcoming weekend is the Feed the Fire Meet. For many Maverick swimmers, this will be their final meet of the year. Feed the Fire is a prelims/final meet. Swimmers will compete in the morning and the top 16 or top 8 (depending on the event) will qualify for finals, which take place in the evening. All swimmers who qualify for finals are expected to swim. In years past we have seen huge time drops from prelim to final swims. Entries and warm up times can be found on the Maverick website. Also, as we head into Championship Season, only those swimmers with Regional and/or JO cuts will continue to practice after Feed the Fire.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

GO MAVERICKS!

Mike