The Jet

The beginning of a new team means new everything, especially when it is D.C. Everest’s first Boy’s swim team. With the team’s first year comes hard work and opportunities.

Talk about organizing the team had actually started last year but there was no follow through. This year the team captains, juniors Austin Foss and Jordan Thieler worked effectively to reach a minimum of thirty sign ups to have the school reconsider the boy’s swim team. With practices five days a week after school, he team has devoted themselves to strive for the best they can be. They practice hard enough to catch up to the teams already in the conference.

“The boys trained hard, they started on basic strokes and are now working on speed and technique,” said Coach Bree Sandquist. Practices in the early weeks of the season consisted of “swimming really far and wall sits after school,” said Thieler.

He also added that many of the swim teammates felt the pain, but kept after it.

“I was tired because I have never swam before and I got the motivation to go back to the practice because I liked it and wanted to get better,” said Foss.

All of the practicing led up the their first meet on December 13, 2008 in Rhinelander. The team took 9th place, only trailing by 2 points to the 8th place team. Foss’s goals for himself, as well as the team is to simply get better and to not end up last. With the help of coach Sandquist, a swimmer of eleven years, the team is well on their way to building a stronger and more united team.

Written by Marly Lee