3:37.34 - Boston College

More documents

Recommendations

Info

The trip to West Point during the 2011season turned out excellent. First- this year the weather was excellent so we got to enjoy the ride and we got to walk around the beautiful West Point campus. The next marked improvement was the way the meet was run. The 2010 problems had been solved and a well run meet was conducive to some excellent swims. We stayed comfortably ahead of Stony Brook and the Vermont meet slipped away from us, but the BC-Army meet kept going back and forth. The Eagles were trailing but the diving 1-2 of Erin Rademaker and Ashley Driscoll got us closer. Then when Kathryn Raplee won the 200 individual medley it meant that for the second year in a row the meet had come down to the last relay. Lauren Nightingale led off with a 54.28 followed by Patty Kautz‟s 54.26. Then the California seniors Mackenzie Campbell and Lia Breunig contributed a 54.05 and a 54.75. All four team‟s A relays came off the last turn and charged to the wall close together. When the final touches showed up on the scoreboard they all registered 3:37 but the Eagles had the fastest hundredths for the win in both the last event and the win in the meet over Army. The Army pool had once again provided us with another excellent conclusion to a Boston College-Army dual meet.
2011 Award Winners HAROLD M. GRODEN MD AWARD - Outstanding Performance Last year in this same spot I started with this quote of a quote, “As I stated above “This has always been one of my favorite awards” and it is even better when it takes a team.” This year in choosing the winner of the Groden Award – one of the tougher parts was – Which Meet? There were four distinct choices. So I started to look them over and one stood out to me in so many ways. As I started to look through the results, I started to re-live the emotion of that day – and there was so much emotion. Part of it was concluding the first semester‟s competitions, some of it being a chance to possibly beat a school like us only with a funded program, of course the noisy emotion of a few Fordham Prep boys, but mostly it was just Boston College Swimming & Diving at its best. This picture adorned the cover of the program for that meet. It is such a BC picture with so many swimmers working so hard to help an Eagle swimmer or two succeed in a race. This John MacKay photo from the Terrier Invite shows our team at their best – and all day long – we were at our best against Fordham. No slight at all about Williams but on that day Fordham was the target and the motivation. The meet started with the 200 medley relay and Stickney, Stephens, Thilo and Spaeth started us off with a 1:37.29 to 1:37.57 win. That was as close as Fordham would get all day. Boretti, Panzarino and Carroll swept the 1000 and we were off to the races. A 1-3-4 in the 200 freestyle led by John Maloy came next followed by something that would happen only three times all day – a Fordham win in an individual event. And in each of those three events (100 back, 50 free and 100 fly), BC took 2-3-4 so the Rams total gain was three points for their three wins. The Eagles made much better use of their wins as they notched a pair of 1-2‟s with the 100 breast and the one meter diving. Four times we took 1-2-3 (1000, 200 breast, 500 free and 200 IM) – each of those good for a plus thirteen for BC. Also, amazingly, our 200 flyer‟s chipped in with a 1-2-3-4-5 finish in the meet. Fordham did take the 400 free relay, but true to form we took 2-3 to minimize another race‟s damage. The final result was Boston College 203 – Fordham University 95 The Outstanding Performer chosen for the win that day was The TEAM – and proud to say that is the recipient of the 2011 HM Groden Award for Outstanding Performance – The TEAM. Sorry, I don‟t have the money for fifty trophies so I am giving one each to our three captains – Dominick Boccio, Brett Bromann & John Maloy (each who won an event in the meet) and one to Marty Long who was victorious off both boards. My Congratulations and a copy of the Award to the rest of you. Eagles Over Rams
Page 1: 2011 Award Winners HAROLD M. GRODEN
Page 5: 1999 Ken Barton ‟01 Meridan, Conn

3:37.34 - Boston College

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?