The 2010 Long Course Metro Championship Meet is history and the Armada swam great. There  were numerous best times that included several new long course JO standards and even a few new Armada club records.  We finished second in the large team division behind a much larger Lakewood Aquatic Club.  Every year it gets harder to win this meet as we tend to lose swims due to the JO cap on the meet (s swimmer cannot swim an event at the Metro Champs if they are JO’s for that event).  So, as we get better our team loses some of its scoring potential at this meet – it’s actually not a bad problem.  We should be very proud of our efforts and successes at this year’s Metro Champs.

The High Point winners for the meet include the following:
Senior Group
  Randy Wang         181 points           7 events              
  Lilith Huang          141 points           6 events
Gold Group
  Lavona Harper     136 Points           6 events
  Justin Ault            134 Points           8 events
Bronze Group
  Milan Robinson   133 Points           5 events
  Jacob Tarango     47 Points            6 events              

            Relays were very interesting for the 10-unders because the pool’s shallow end meant the #2 & #4 swimmer had to push-off the wall (no dive).  Turns out that we aren’t very good at this and we got two relays DQ’ed, oh well.  By the end of the meet, across all the age-groups, we had 5 relays DQ’ed, ouch – that’s a lot of points.  Still, it was a very good meet and a great finish to the summer.