Sunday, February 20, 2011

Congrats to the MIAC Head Coach of the Year!

Read on with us as an excited Mom (Stan's sister Linda) explains exactly what happened to our niece's St. Kate's swim team last night. We think it was all really terrific, and we're so very proud of Coach Shana. That's a jubilant Dad, Shana and Mom in the picture, taken with Linda's Iphone.

Linda writes:
Last night was the culmination of a six month concentration of effort on preparing the swimmers for the MIAC. Shana's girls moved up to fifth place, broke 12 school records...some standing as long as 1981..., all of them had time drops to dream for, St. Kate's diver was Diver of the Year - won both diving contests (excellent diving coach) and Shana won Head Coach of the Year. She deserved it.
The night was simply perfect. There are years in sports where no records are broken, not this year. And since Shana has been doing the recruiting for the past three years, they have broken records each of those years. The diver will be going to nationals (has automatic scores) and one of the swimmers probably will go as well...she earned consideration times in three events but they wait until times are in from all over the nation to pick the 25 or so who can compete in each event.

You go Shana!  See if you can spot her in the middle of the team crush.