Each year at the end of the season we have our swim team awards banquet towards the end of April.  Prior to the banquet, we show the team’s year end video highlighting the team’s success and fun during the season.  Many of the snapshots are contributed by the athletes from their collection and other pieces are collected from video taken at meets during the season.  Much of it is quite humorous and provides great opportunities for quotes.  The pictures throughout each page of this newsletter are taken directly from the video including the snapshots of the award winners on this page. 

 The banquet itself was held at the prestigious Radisson Paper Valley Hotel and was attended by coaches, swimmers and parents.  The awards and awardwinners highlighted in the surrounding pictures were voted on by their teammates.  Besides these awards, I presented the Coach’s Award of Merit, chosen by me, to the two athletes who best display the outstanding traits that make our team a success.  I also presented two Honorary Coach’s Award of Merits to two non-athlete supporters who graciously gave of their time and efforts to help us succeed.  Honoraries were awarded to Laura Houser, an injured swimmer since her freshman year who stuck by us as a deck coach and meet assistant; and Brenna Kunkel, an assistant who took a weeks vacation out of her own time to help escort us around Florida.  Also awarded at the banquet were the traditional “silly” awards voted on by the swimmer and presented to the winners by the captains, awards such as, Most Likely to Coach, Best Couple, Best Deck Wardrobe and Most Likely Not to get Back in the Water. 

Chris Sarasin, Men's Most Dedicated, mentally prepares for his next event.

Megan Cole (left) voted Women's Most Improved and Caitin Monnens, Most Dedicated.

Tom Carroll (left) Men's Most Valuable with fellow team captain Steve Wolfe at MWCs.

Jodie Primus (right) was chosen Women's Most Valuable for the third consecutive year, shown here with teammate Tiffany Pannier after they finished one-two at MWCs.

Paul Schook here shown training in Sarasota on the winter break trip was votes Men's Most Improved for his second time in three years.