Val made the cut for her Jr. High Softball Team this week. After the first day of try-outs, she was confident she'd make the team, but it was a good ego boost on both Wednesday and Thursday when she found she had made the cuts.
Val wasn't going to try-out for softball if she was swimming at State Jr Olympics this weekend. She could not have missed practices to attend tryouts, and of course she would not volate the tapering requirements for the week of the meet. Since OSSC decided to put all 4 fastest girls on one team, they couldn't take 2 relays in her age group because the B team was just short of qualifying. Although Val was very upset, perhaps it was meant to be because she's now on the softball team. We picked up new cleats for her this weekend and now she's ready to hit the field with gusto.
This weekend, Jason swam a great 50 backstroke in his State Jr. Olympics medley relay. He hung in there with all those state qualifiers and was in the top half of the heat when he got to the wall. His team came in 4th in their heat. Ohio State Swim Club's (OSSC) 9/10 boys are really amazing this year. They qualified 3 relays: the A relay came in 2nd (behind a team that set the JO record), the B relay came in 13th, and Jason's C relay was 22nd. Jason's C relay beat 2 other teams' A relays. There were 27 relays overall.
Val's friends did well in the meet, too. Kelsey was 2nd in the 50 breast and 1st in the 100 breast as an 11-year-old in the 11/12 division. Miaya was 8th in the 50 back. Miranda was 3rd in the 100 fly. If Val had qualified to swim at State, she would have bested 3 swimmers in the 100 breast and 6 in the 50 breast (comparing her Regional time to their State times). The competition was pretty tight on the 50 breast, the difference between 6th place and 19th place was just .6 seconds. That's crazy!
Overall, OSSC placed 8th out of 41 teams.
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