Seals swim for records and prepare for busy summer

Seals

swim for records and prepare for busy summer

The Southside Seals

are swimming hard during the summer competition season

which will culminate in the Dixie Zone LongCourse

Championships July 14-16 and the Georgia Games

Championships on July 23. The Seals are looking to break

their teamrecord of 12 medals set at last year's Georgia

Games.

Several

Seals swimmers have posted impressive results in the

competitions leading up to these championships.

Karol

Welling and Ken Sharpe posted great times and finishes at

the Classic City Masters Meet in Athens, GA in early

June.

Karol won

the 100M backstroke, 200M backstroke and the 200M

breaststroke. She also added a second and third place

finish in the 100M breastroke and 400M freestyle

respectively. She also earned four Top Ten rankings in

the Dixie Zone Top Ten Times list for the 1999 Long

Course Season. She placed seventh in the 50M backstroke,

ninth in the 50M breaststroke and the 400M freestyle, and

10th in the 50M butterfly.

Ken placed

second in the 50M freestyle, 50 M butterfly, and 100M

freestyle, while finishing fourth in the 50M

breaststroke. He also achieved the national qualifying

time in the 50M freestyle.

Steve

Justice won the 400M freestyle, 100M butterfly, and 200M

Individual Medley at the Snellville Masters Meet in

mid-June. He also earned five Top 10 rankings in the

Dixie Long Top Ten Times List, placing second in the 200M

backstroke, third in the 50M backstroke, fourth in the

100M backstroke and the 100M breaststroke, and sixth in

the 200M freestyle. Kato Eiji captured three Top Ten

rankings himself. He placed fifth in the 100M freestyle,

and eighth in the 200M freestyle and 50M freestyle.

The end of

the Georgia masters summer season will be our very own

"Endless Summer" SCY Meet on 26 August at

Kedron Aquatic Center in Peachtree City. Come and support

the Seals as they take on other top Georgia teams.

Three

Southside Seals swimmers were named in the Dixie Zone Top

Ten Times list for the 1999 Long Course Season.