2008 Potomac Valley Senior Champs

22 FISH swam in the PVS Senior Champs last weekend. The small contingent scored heavily, with Michael Flach and Matt Benecki as double event winners. Michael won both the 200 I.M. and the 100 back, and Matt won both the 1000 free and the 500 free.

Matt achieved his Junior National cuts in the 1650 free and the 1000 free, adding these to his 500 free.

Michael added several more events to his growing list of agonizingly close events in which he is less than 1 second away from a Junior National cut.

As of this writing, final team scores have not been posted, but the FISH did place very well. By my best estimates, the FISH finished with 387 points, gathered over just 34 scored events.

Numerous team records were broken, by Charlie Badawy, Michael Flach, Matt Callahan, and Matthew Benecki. In addition, all four men's relays totally obliterated some very old team records.

The focus of this meet was to allow most of the Awesome FISH to swim some of their off-events, especially with Sectionals the following weekend. Additionally, our presence was intentionally low on Friday, since we didn't want to miss two Fridays of school in back-to-back weeks.

Considering most of the Awesome FISH were not swimming all their best events, and Kate wasn't even entered, the consensus among the team, indeed, other PVS teams, too, was that the FISH performed spectacularly.

Onward to Sectionals!