Delmarva Christian swim groups assured on the break

Hosting an ESIAC quad meet Dec. 19 proved to be an early current for Delmarva Christian’s swim groups.

The boys scooped up their first two wins of the yr by besting Sts. Peter & Paul 41-4 and Salisbury School 39-15. Salisbury Christian’s gifted workforce bought one of the best of the Royals 49-31.

“Tonight, we just got every guy qualified for states,” stated senior Cole Parker. “Last year, almost everybody went.”

A legend was born through the quad meet when the 200 freestyle relay workforce certified. Trax Rogers was the second swimmer to leap off the blocks, and in case you can consider it, the junior had simply wrapped up swimming the five hundred.

“The 500 is distance, a long-haul race, and Trax gave it his all in that race and turned around and did the relay right after,” stated coach Laurel Kamosa. “He did great, and they ended up qualifying for states at the exact time, which was amazing.”

Diving over to the ladies, they bought a style of every end result within the quad meet, edging out the Dragons 39-36, tying the Sabres 31-31 and dropping to the Jaguars 66-16. The ladies stand at 2-3-1 with simply three meets left after they come again from their January time period.

“We’re doing really good,” stated senior Libby Dawson. “We’re pushing ourselves to be the best we can with limited practice in limited time.”

At 2-5, the lads have a bit extra floor to make up, however fortunate for them, one of many three meets is a tri-meet and one other is a quad meet.

“We’ve had our ups and downs a little bit, and like Libby said with limited practices and stuff, I think that’s made it a little bit tougher, but other than that, I think all the guys at least have been pushing themselves, and that’s just great to see,” Parker stated.

“We’ve got a lot of good swimmers,” Kamosa stated. “We’re working on technique, we’re working on getting faster, and we’re definitely seeing that with the kids. At the end of the day, we want to have fun and have a good time, but make strides along the way, so I think we’re doing that.”

Gains this season are a results of buy-in from the older swimmers who’ve seen this system develop yr by yr.

“Freshman year to now, the growth is insane, and just building the program more and more each year is just the biggest thing we can do,” Dawson stated. “Building it more in our school and putting more of a light on swimming at Delmarva Christian.”

“The confidence is definitely building with the kids,” Kamosa stated. “They’re building that camaraderie with each other, and with the other teams as well. I really appreciate their sportsmanship with the other schools.”