Fishburne Swimmers Make a Splash Against MMA

Great win by our Caisson aqua men!

Fishburne 48
Massanutten 43

Swimming against Massanutten is always exciting and this match was no different.  We were neck and neck in the beginning of the match but then Massanutten pulled ahead in the 50 free and the 100 Free.  Going in to the second half of the meet Massanutten was up by 10 points.  But then Fishburne stepped it up. 

In the 100 Back (usually our worst event) Cochran got first place by nearly half a pool and Burkard came in second (after a Massanutten swimmer DQ’ed).  In the 100 Breast we got another 1-2 finish with Montgomery and Barat, who smoked the competition leaving the Massanutten swimmers in their wake.  After these two events we knew it was a close meet and that everything came down to the final 400 Free relay.  We started out slow and were about 10 yards behind Massanutten after the first two swimmers, but then Cochran came flying off the blocks and managed to close the entire gap.  It was down to the final two swimmers and Massanutten had saved their best for last.  Connor Smith was anchoring the Fishburne Relay and started falling a bit behind, but between a last burst of speed from Smith and a bad turn by the Massanutten Swimmer, Smith was able to finish first and clinch the win. The entire team was hoarse from cheering the relay swimmers on. We also had some very close events. In the 500 freestyle, Smith and the Massanutten swimmer were neck and neck the entire event, but at the very end the Massanutten swimmer edged ahead.  In the 200 IM Barat missed first place by tenths of a second, and the same happened with Foetsch in the 50 Free.  Our swimmers all did a fantastic job today, everyone dropped time and showed real improvement.

-Coach Gray