This past weekend was highlighted by Trinity's first dual meet of the year. All in all, things went well - although many of our kids were a little tired from our training sessions, the usual rigors of academia, and the occasional "bugs" that put college students on their tail ends for a day or two (dorm life and/or lack of sleep).
Our women outscored Southwestern 167 - 81, and our men tallied a 181 - 57 win in a meet that witnessed some of the SCAC's leading performances of the season. We didn't score diving, but All-Americans Hayley Emerick and Lindsay Martin both tallied NCAA "reportable" entry scores.
Swimmers achieving top-of-conference times (for the fall of 2009 to date) included sophomore Alex Miranda (1:59.20 in the 200 butterfly), sophomore Andrew Battles (4:49.14 in the 500 freestyle), FY Sean Fronczak (55.87 in the 100 backstroke), and FY Lisa Tucci (5:21.43 in the 500 freestyle and 2:13.53 in the 200 butterfly).
Other event winners for Trinity's women were junior Mary West (1000 freestyle), FY Rachel Berude (200 freestyle), FY Leslie Butts (200 IM), junior Kristin Zinser (100 backstroke), junior Leigh-Anne Ladymon (100 butterfly), and FY Ana Price (50 and 100 freestyle). Men winning races for the Tigers included senior Graham Mullings (50 freestyle), FY CJ Robison (100 freestyle), FY Spencer Bard (100 butterfly), and FY Audel Mehrinfar (100 and 200 breaststroke). In addition to their aforementioned wins, Andrew Battles also won the 200 freestyle, Sean Fronczak took the 200 backstroke, and Alex Miranda captured the 200 IM.
This coming weekend, we will travel to the Dallas-Forth Worth metroplex to compete in an eight team invitational meet at the Carroll ISD Natatorium in Southlake. The three session meet always offers up terrific competition for our athletes, so we are looking forward to some exciting racing. We'll warm up at home on Friday morning and then bus north on I-35 so that we are ready for the meet's opening session at 7:00. We'll be staying at the Marriott-Solana in Westlake.
Aside from swimming and diving, we want to offer a hearty congratulations to Trinity's volleyball team for accomplishing two upset victories (defending NCAA champion Emory and 2009 SCAC Champions Southwestern) on their way to the NCAA Regional title this past weekend. The Tigers are practicing and competing as a team. By working together, they are accomplishing great things. Way to go Tigers!!!
-Coach Ryan
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