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Racing into the recordbooks
The Aqua Knights swim team throws up one finger in triumph, showing their place in the ECC meet.
The Aqua Knights made history last week, nabbing the first combined ECC win in program history.
“It’s awesome to get that combined win, because it takes the effort of everyone involved. All of our swimmers have been training day in and day out all season to contribute to our overall team success.” Coach Lindsay Six said.
A portion of swimmers practice with their club teams daily and only compete with the school team. Six stresses how important the contributions that swimmers who practice with Kings daily helped the success of the team.
“The swimmers who are with us daily have shown how dedicated and motivated they are, which paid off with the win so that’s really fulfilling.” Six said.
Both the mens and womens teams have won the conference in the past, but they had never claimed the combined title until this year.
“Winning was huge for us. It got us a lot of recognition which is something that we don’t really get much of as a team usually.” Sophomore Ashleigh Bender said.
Strategy plays a big role in swimming, especially when it comes to relays and the order that coaches place swimmers in.
“Every year separately boys and girls have an ECC strategy talk. We talk about how we’re gonna take the meet, and some specifics about who is gonna do each race and stuff like that.” Bender said.
Coaches and players prepared together extensively, leading to such a successful season thus far.
“Club swimmers have been putting in a lot of work outside of Kings as well as the people who just swim for the school. I know that both Mizener and Seis, along with some of the swimmers, worked for days on strategic relay orders for the fastest finish.” Sophomore Faith Rudowski said.
Rudowski herself had an extremely successful meet, helping the girls team place in the top 3 for the first time.
“I finished 2nd in the 50 free and 1st in the 100 free. I also anchored both the medley and the 400 free relay.” Rudowski said.
Six emphasized the next goal of getting as many swimmers as possible to state, on February 25-27 in Canton.
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