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For the Swim team, each
meet and practice was an oppor-
tunity to overcome their personal
obstacles to break records at
meets.
Challenging their times
served as motivation for the
swimmers to train harder and
work to achieve goals.
“All of them hoped to get
better and break a KAIAC record,
and score more in KAIAC,” said
Coach Mircea.
Breaking records is very
important to the whole team
because each broken record
helps the team get closer to their
goal: to become one of the top
three schools in KAIAC.
Mostly all of the swimmers
indicated their goal and motiva-
tion for the season was to short-
en their personal times.
“When I broke my record [for
personal breaststroke] I felt very
amazed, I didn’t know that I got
this fast,” said Tae Kim, freshman.
In addition, sophomore Paul
Youn, new to the school, broke
the school record of the 50m
breaststroke with the time of
38.34 seconds. Matthias Buesing
broke the 50m backstroke record
with 34.88 seconds.
To each individual, improving
Top Row: Coach Mircea, Sungun woo; Paul Lee,
Mathew Ahn, Kelvin Kim, Woobin Cha, Brian Lee,
Vaughn Schneider, Coach Jung; Bottom Row: Eric Shin,
Matthias Buesing, Taehyung Kim, Andrew Kim, Christine
Kim, Kane Yoon, Michael Ahn;
Not Pictured: Aidan Schneider, William Lee
their personal times gave them
confidence and pushed them to
move on to the next level.
Likewise, Woobin Cha,
eighth-grader, agreed breaking
records was very encouraging.
“When you do the work and the
work is really tiring, but you finish
it, you feel like you have done it
[become successful].” He broke
the 100m backstroke record with
the time of 1’19”40 seconds
On the other hand, despite
the excitement shortening times
gave the swimmers, there was a
challenging process that stood
as a constant obstacle:“Break-
ing a record is a very big thing,”
Coach Mircea explained. “It has
to be perfect in order to break
a record; everything from the
bottom to the end, the beginning
to the end of the race, and every
single move that they’re doing in
their race.”
The main components of
breaking a record are experience,
time, and perfection.
Due to the persistent effort
that the swimmers put into their
practices and meets, the swim-
mers had a successful season
filled with many broken records
and accomplishments. In fact
new student, William Lee broke
four records in under one month.
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