Sports : VSU girls swim competes at Kennedy High School match

The VSU girls swim team had a tall order in front of them last night - with 4 members of the team ill or injured, there was a lot of shifting done to the "usual" lineup. But the girls really stepped up. VSU improved their times on 20 individual swims, many of those times being lifetime bests.

Click to see resultsThe biggest time drop came in the longest event - the 500 Freestyle - where Chloe Juhl cut over a minute off her time to come in 5th in 7:16.67. Chloe also had a personal best of 2:37.97 in the 200 Freestyle, good for 3rd place. Chloe has been working hard in practices to become the team's distance specialist. Her work is paying off already, and she's still got more potential to tap into.

Lexi Goodell, Justyce Dominick, and Geordyn Webster all came away with personal wins and new season best times in their individual events. Mara Spalding and Maren Redlinger also put up improved times to give VSU big supporting points in their individual events.
Sadie Hennings, Lauren Upmeyer, and Angela Ahrenstein bravely (and quickly) took on new events due to other teammates being ill - and they showed they can rise to the occasion.
This is always an exciting and encouraging time of the season: hours in the pool start to translate to faster times. The trick now is to maintain the work ethic and focus, and then hopefully maintain the time drops.
VSU will be in competition at Waterloo Saturday for a 5-team invitational.