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Oh What a Year! 2020 in Review

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 January 2020

We started the year with a bang. Zach Ward traveled to Knoxville to compete in a TYR Pro Series meet. This was a long course meter meet at which Zach swam personal bests in the 200 fly and 400 IM and he lowered team records in both events.
February 2020
February brought the start of our swimmer's Championship season, starting with the High School Championship series. Ben Dunham placed top 16 in the Division 2 state meet! Regionals were held at OSU and coach Laurie did a pushup for each second dropped (lots and lots of pushups)! The Junior and Seniors went to Auburn, Alabama with the Bobcats and 98% of all swimmers achieved personal best times!
March 2020
Our littlest swimmers attended the Mini Meet which ended up being our last big meet for some time. Our 8-unders loved the treats and trophies given to each swimmer. 13 swimmers qualified and trained for Junior Olympics while our seniors prepared for Sectionals. It all came to a halt on March 13.
April and May 2020
We found our footing and worked through COVID-19 and quarantine. We started having zoom dryland and swim school. We had the opportunity to speak to Anita Nall a former Olympian on how to fuel our bodies properly. Fuel, Compete, Repeat. We took full advantage of zoom swim school and started air swimming, hoping that results would translate to the water, fingers crossed.
June, July, and August 2020
We were finally able to get back in the water at Minerva and Northland. We trained and found that the air swimming did pay off! With not a single meet on the horizon our swimmers continued to train as hard as they could. Coaches saw improvements by leaps and bounds from the last time we saw them swim back in February.
September 2020
We closed out the summer season with a Zoom meeting with National team member Emily Escobedo. We moved inside for training at the Columbus North Sports Club, it took a lot of work to get ready for swimmers, but we could not be more excited to have a place to practice. The entire team pitched in to help in the cleanup and re-opening efforts! We continued to train and train hard with things starting to look up at possibilities for meets.
October 2020
We were invited to have in-person dual meets with Dublin. Swimmers looked great in the water and we had tons of fun watching them get to compete again.
November 2020
Dual meets with Dublin came to an end, so we adapted to inter-squad meets. The Senior group headed to the US open and Zach Ward archived new personal bests in the 400IM and 200 butterfly!
December 2020
We got new blocks at Columbus North Sports Club and we had our first sanctioned meet! A dual meet with Bobcat, officials and all! At 18 and Under championships we had 8 new sectional team qualifiers and 31 new best times from Juniors, Seniors, and NPG! Junior, Senior, and NPG got another chance to rock the pool at the Mason meet with 10 best times! Zach Ward secured a summer national cut in the 200IM. Will Elsrod got a winter Jr cut in the 100BR.
Congratulations to all swimmers this year. Here’s to looking forward to a fast and healthy 2021!

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