State Day One

Cullman Swim Team is hosting the ARPA State Swimming Championships, and it went off without a glitch.  Great weather and fast times were the theme for day one.  With the addition of the water cannon pool temperatures have been perfect for competitive swimming.

Cullman was lead today by the 8-under girls, Reese McNeil taking the Freestyle and Claire Ogstad and Kelly Warren finishing in the top three in Breaststroke.  Skipper, Ogstad, Adams and McNeil blasted the field and won the Medley Relay. Another great performance in the 8-under girls was Kelly Warren dropping and incredible 8 seconds in the Individual Medley to finish first for Cullman and 5ths over all.

Other notable performances for CST were Michelle Pilcher finishing 2nd in Senior Breaststroke, Morgan Matz 7th in Freestyle (28!), Kacie Donaldson 2nd in IM and Neil Norris 2nd in IM.

Pool and team records are falling...

District 2011

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Cullman Divers Crush District!

Cullman Diving Team crushed the competition at the District Championships in Madison taking the first place trophy with ease.  The divers now are preparing for the the next home meet, STATE!

Cullman Swim Team finished a strong 3rd at the District Swimming Championships in Guntersville.  CST had so many great races but what about those 8-Under girls, they continue their dominating march to the State Meet. Other swimmers with great Districts; Michelle Pilcher winning the IM and Breaststroke in 15-18 girls and Neil Norris winning the IM, Butterfly and Long Free in 9-10 boys. Outstanding meets by these swimmers!
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These guys did what needed to be done, broke the ancient Medley Relay record for 15-18 boys.  All four had very nice splits and smashed the prehistoric record.  More will fall at State.

Dialing it in....State Awaits!

CST Closes out Dual Meet Season

CST cruised through the last remaining dual meets of the season showing some momentum.  CST out swam Arab, River City, Guntersville and Albertville.  It was a lot of great swimming and fast times as the team prepares for District this coming weekend in Guntersville.  Its been a fast season with the team only losing to mighty Madison in dual meets.  Right now the hay is in the barn, we have to work hard and be ready for this weekend. 

Drew Fillinger after his great 50 Freestyle.  

Morgan Matz joins the sub 30 Club.  Who can go to camp for two weeks and come back and crush a 50 Freestyle? Morgan can!

Ethan Hendrix looking ready for breaststroke against Guntersville

Alberville coach Sam Bates and Bennett Glasscock prepare for a dual in backstroke.  They blew smoke with Sam out touching Bennett.

TVC

Cullman Swim Team came up short in the TVC Championships losing to NASA which is the resurection on Florence and Sheffield swim teams.  It was a tight meet with several age groups from CST swimming strong, but once again it came down to winning those relays.

The 9-10 boys relays put up a valliant fight for CST winning both medley and free relays in  a dominating way.  These guys are are the showing how hard work and coming to practice pays off. Lookout for them at disctict and state.  Shown below are the relay team of Neil Norris, Clay McAlpin, Elijah Miller and Samual Stewart.

You got to hand it to the coaches of NASA they did a great job and had a very impressive team spirit.  TVC is one of the oldest swim leagues around starting back in the 1960s.  There is a lot of prestige in taking that trophy home with you.  On the podium was NASA won followed by Cullman, Jasper and Oneonta.

Cullman continues to swim strong and fast.  A notable performance was Bennett Glasscock breaking the Senior 100 Freestyle record held by Ryan Akers (1998).