[Breeze]

Emory & Henry - ODAC Championships - DAY 2, PRELIM RESULTS

Brett was looking at two individual events on Day 2, the 100 breast and surprisingly the 400 IM.

200 Yard Medley Relay

- 6) E&H Women - (2:01.14) - Trotter (back), Mumpower (breast), Sweigart (fly), Simmons (free), swam the relay in 2:04.57, and finished 6th. I expected this relay to be reworked for finals.

- 7) E&H Men - (1:54.16) - Justice (back), Breeze (breast), Gardner (fly), Barr (free) - in a relay that it appeared E&H might struggle to make the top 8, the team finished 7th with a time of 1:47.96. Brett split a 29.68, which was an all time best for him, and he was very excited to have broken 30 seconds on his leg.


400 Yard Individual Medley

Women
- 11) Scarbrough - (5:04.51) - Savannah stepped up to take on this event and she qualified for the 'B' final in the 10th spot with a 4:57.99 swim.

Men
- 11) Madaris - (4:59.81) - Blake ended up 13th, his time was crushed by his breaststroke leg which took over 1 and a half seconds. 4:49.86.

- 18) Breeze - (NT) - Brett's personal best in this event was a 5:02 from back when he was 14. Coming into ODACs Brett was originally scheduled to swim the 500 free, but in practice his fly had improved so much that Cody started training him for the IM. Cody initially didn't believe Brett would be ready to compete in the 400 IM, but changed his mind a few days before the meet. Brett was anxious about this race, because it had been so long since he swam it, and because it is a grueling event. On the other hand, he was intrigued by the opportunity, knowing he was much bigger and stronger and a better swimmer. I was hoping Brett would go in the 4:50 range, and Cody had a goal time for him of 4:45.

The race started and Brett opened with a fly leg just under 1:05. It was a shock to see, and while he was probably 6th in his heat to the wall after the fly, he was only around a half second to 1 second behind the majority of the pool. The back, which is now Brett's weakest stroke didn't really hurt him. He posted a 1:12 split, but was actually slightly faster than the average time in the heat. In fact, Brett managed to pass 1 swimmer and close on a second. In the breast leg, Brett separated from the majority of the field. he split a 1:17, which was the second fastest in his heat. He pulled into 3rd overall in the heat during this leg. On the freestyle, he opened with a 35.64 second 50, but the swimmer next to him was closing hard, so Brett sprinted home in the last 50 to hold on to his position and he finished with a 30.84 split. Overall, he finished with a time of 4:41.61, a personal best by a mile, and good enough to seed him 10th heading into finals. This swim blew me away. I had no idea he could go this fast!!!


100 Yard Butterfly

Women
- 12) Tunstall - (1:03.37) - swam a time almost identical to her seed - 1:03.35. Seeded 13th heading into finals

Men
- 21) Gardner - (1:03.40) - went sub60 - 59.95, but still didn't qualify for finals.
- 25) Moore - (1:11.53) - big time drop 1:05.46


200 Yard Freestyle

Women
- 2) Anson - (1:55.40) - blistered prelims with a 1:54.61 and was top seed headed into finals.
- 22) Simmons - (2:16.39) - managed to drop a couple of seconds and slip into the last qualifying spot - 2:14.22

Men
- 17) Henningsen - (1:55.59) - Mack dropped down to 1:51.82 and moved up to 14th so he qualified for the 'B' final
- (28) Barr - (2:11.96) - - Nick dropped 6+ seconds and finished in a 2:05.07, finishing 17th overall, just missing the finals by 1 spot (but also by 6+ seconds)


100 Yard Breaststroke

Women
- 6) Sweigart - (1:09.50) - Cat managed to drop about half a second and hang onto 7th place with a 1:09.08. Qualifying her for the 'A' final.
- 13) Scarbrough - (1:11.99) - swam a 1:11.29 - and qualfied for the 'B' final in the 10 spot.
- 20) Mumpower - (1:19.47) - dropped over 6 seconds to climb all the way to 14th and a spot in the 'B' final - 1:13.25

Men
- 10) Justice - (1:05.28) - Braxton's huge pullouts help propel him to a 1:03.52 time and a 10th place spot in the 'B' final.

- 17) Breeze - (1:08.75) - Given his 2 good swims in the medley relay the day before, and his nice split in the 200 medley earlier in the day, I was excited to see what he might be able to swim. I was hoping he could go under a 1:06.69, because that would give him the Georgia state cut and make him eligible to swim at long course state in July. He and Braxton were next to each other during this race, and Brett was chasing the whole way. He would fall behind on every wall, then he'd close in the middle of the pool, only to reach a wall and start chasing again. Brett said, "I'm closing hard on him every lap, I get to his shoulder, we turn off the wall, and I'm staring at his damn feet again." Regardless, it helped push Brett to a personal best swim of 1:05.50. After the race the two hugged over the lane rope, it was pretty cool to see the comradery between Brett and his teammate. This swim was good enough to place him 14th overall. It was also Cody's goal time for Brett next year.


100 Yard Backstroke

Women
- 25) Simmons - (1:12.73) - dropped time to 1:11.32, but only climbed to 21st.
- 32) Trotter - (1:22.42) - dropped 10 seconds to 1:12.81, placing her 22nd in prelims.

Men
- 23) Madaris - (1:01.41) - only dropped a fraction of time at 1:01.26, which was outside the top 16.