Good Evening Frog Families 🐸💦!

The Dale City Frogs made a big splash this weekend — leaping, lunging, and laughing our way through another successful swim meet! Whether we were ribbiting with excitement or just hopping to the finish line, every swimmer gave it their all. 🐸💚 I am happy to report that the Frogs came away with a win this weekend with a final score of DCST - 2244.0 to BLST – 1359.0!! What a great way to start the season!! Please see attached meet results document for your use.

I want to personally thank all of the Frog families for hanging in there Saturday, overcoming not only a rain delay but also having to navigate an entirely new process for how the meet runs due to the new software. As we continue to communicate the importance of accurately committing your swimmers to the meet, we were able to see just how hectic things can be when a team does not emphasis that process. BLST had 40% of their splashes “No Shows” compared to DCST’s 6%. Having accurate data leading up to the meet makes the events much shorter and less stressful for all involved you all did an amazing job getting those commitments in!

The Frogs had 35% of their swims result in time improvements. These improvements were based on best times from last year and do not reflect our mock time trials last week. The new software is tracking time improvements slightly differently than the old system, so I will provide more information on how that will work going forward as the season progresses.

We were able to get a few new stroke and turn officials training on Saturday which will be helpful each week. These wonderful volunteers, who have the hardest job of them all, which is having to disqualify sweet little innocent Frogs, truly make our events fair and timely. Sadly, 16% of our swims Saturday resulted in DQ’s, which is actually quite low for the first meet of the season. We will have to track how this metric trend this year, but for now, great job Frogs!!!

As for other volunteers, we had 52 families enter the meet and all but 4 of those families signed up for at least one volunteer shift! As you all know, we need our volunteers to run the meets, so please continue to get help out where you can. And keep in mind volunteering during swim meets is a requirement of being on the team, it definitely takes a village to pull off these events, or maybe in our case it takes an “army”. Which, fun fact, is what a group of Frogs is called.

Here are some ribbit-worthy highlights from the meet:

🌟 Top of the Pond Performers

These swimmers landed in the top 3 in all three of their individual events. That’s no small feat; they’re clearly at the top of the toad-em pole! Frogs with **’s by their names placed in FIRST place in all 3 of their events.

• Beck, Nik
• Bussenger, Ryan
• Carter, Rania
• Corrigan, Jet **
• Diaz, Jack
• Fanion, Jacoby **
• Fanion, Justis
• Green, Ayden **
• Howard, Amare **
• Kulikowski, Meli **
• Kulikowski, Vivi
• Linares Postillos, Stephanie
• Staats, Amelia
• Torres Claudio, Ale
• Whitehurst, David
• Williams, John

⏱️ Leaping Ahead

These swimmers improved their time in every individual event, proof that hard work and dedication can really jumpstart progress. Talk about amphibious acceleration!

• Beck, Nik
• Corrigan, Jet
• Diaz, Jack
• Fanion, Jacoby
• Hackett, Skylar
• Kulikowski, Vivi
• Martinez, Cam
• Torres Claudio, Ale
• Voith, Amy
• Williams, John

🐸 Mega Time Droppers

Sometimes our Frogs make huge splashes, dropping more than 5 seconds on a single swim! That’s like going from tadpole to turbo in one meet.

• Joseph, Lizzie 50 Breast 34.66
• Williams, John 50 Fly 26.52
• Linares Postillios, Stephanie 100 IM 25.63
• Troncoso Azocar, Catalina 25 Back 23.63
• Corrigan, Jasper 100 IM 20.51
• Kulikowski, Vivi 100 IM 18.79
• Gorosito, Anna 100 IM 17.91
• Fanion, Jacoby 100 IM 17.3
• Beck, Nik 100 IM 16.44
• Kulikowski, Meli 50 Breast 16.09
• Torres Claudio, Ale 100 IM 15.34
• Martinez, Cam 50 Breast 15.16
• Linares Postillios, Stephanie 50 Breast 14.83
• Williams, John 50 Free 14.77
• Fanion, Jacoby 50 Breast 13.85
• Beck, Nik 50 Breast 13.16
• Martinez, Cam 50 Fly 10.78
• Valdez, Andy 25 Free 10.14
• Williams, John 50 Back 9.56
• Reyes, Annabelle 50 Free 9.47
• Linares Postillios, Nathan 25 Free 9.21
• Diaz, Jack 100 IM 8.0
• Martinez, Cam 50 Free 7.66
• Downey, Grace 100 IM 7.3
• Corrigan, Jet 25 Fly 7.23
• Hossainkhail, Ariana 50 Fly 7.06
• Diaz, Teddy 50 Free 6.77
• Corrigan, Jet 25 Back 6.3
• Alfaro, Lucy 50 Fly 6.18
• Corrigan, Jasper 25 Breast 6.06
• Fanion, Jacoby 50 Free 5.74
• Reyes, Annabelle 50 Breast 5.13
• Torres Claudio, Ale 50 Back 5.13
• Miroff, Allie 25 Fly 5.09

Whether you hopped into the top 3, dove into faster times, or just gave it your all, we’re proud of every Frog in the pond. Keep practicing those strokes and remember, every great leap starts with a good kick! 🐾💦

Don’t forget to have your swimmer pick up their ribbons at practice this week! And of course, if you have any questions about our results, the new app, or something else please feel free to reach out to me. See you on deck!

Ribbetingly yours,
Stephanie Staats
Volunteer Computer Operator 🐸
Dale City Frogs