Dual meet at Jasper

Each swimmer could only swim 2 events at this one day meet, so we picked the 100 free and the 50 back. Rachel's timing was off on most of her flip turns, especially the one for the backstroke, but she still ended up cutting about .6 second. If she had gotten a good push off the wall, it probably would have been more like 1.5 seconds, but that's ok....it's still a cut! We have had numerous problems this year with her goggles coming loose when she dives in, and we thought we had worked out a fool-proof solution....goggles on first, then cap over the top. Well, we never took into consideration that perhaps her goggles are what helps hold the cap in place! On her 100 free, we saw the error in our ways. She completes the first 50 in decent time, then....her swimcap floats off! She had hair going everywhere! Needless to say, she didn't take off the 2 seconds she needed to make that divisional cut. We decided next time we will try to remember 1. swim cap - 2. goggles over cap - 3. another swim cap over goggles. We may get a system that works eventually...hopefully before divisionals!