Titusville swimmers are experiencing another strong season, especially on the girls side of the pool. Today they head to Slippery Rock for THE match of the season.
"What I can tell you about this one? Setting up the line up is going to be a giant chess match," said girls head coach Seth Come. His undefeated girls have, on paper, their toughest team matchup of the year. It is a meet that could likely determine the region title.
"They have some strong swimmers. Mollie Massella is one of their top competitors and I wouldn’t be surprised if she ended as the Region 1 Girls Swimmer of the year. She can swim anything very well and that is where the chess game comes into play," Come said as he tries to work out a strategy to maximize overall point totals. "When planning a line up, I have to predict what events I think their girls will be swimming and tailor our line up to best combat. For example, in the past they have had strong butterfliers. One strategy we can take is try to stick one of our girls in that race to split the points up or we could let them have the points in that event and we could stack another event to try and even the score that direction."
Last year Slippery Rock had the advantage, but this is a new year. "I’m hoping we can compete better against them than we did last year. They did lose a couple studs, so I hope that is a concern for them," he said. "I’d love to get that region title this year and the girls are definitely hungry for it."
The boys are also in action hoping to improve on their 2-2 record. They have lost to Oil City and Grove City by small margins.
"What I can tell you about this one? Setting up the line up is going to be a giant chess match," said girls head coach Seth Come. His undefeated girls have, on paper, their toughest team matchup of the year. It is a meet that could likely determine the region title.
"They have some strong swimmers. Mollie Massella is one of their top competitors and I wouldn’t be surprised if she ended as the Region 1 Girls Swimmer of the year. She can swim anything very well and that is where the chess game comes into play," Come said as he tries to work out a strategy to maximize overall point totals. "When planning a line up, I have to predict what events I think their girls will be swimming and tailor our line up to best combat. For example, in the past they have had strong butterfliers. One strategy we can take is try to stick one of our girls in that race to split the points up or we could let them have the points in that event and we could stack another event to try and even the score that direction."
Last year Slippery Rock had the advantage, but this is a new year. "I’m hoping we can compete better against them than we did last year. They did lose a couple studs, so I hope that is a concern for them," he said. "I’d love to get that region title this year and the girls are definitely hungry for it."
The boys are also in action hoping to improve on their 2-2 record. They have lost to Oil City and Grove City by small margins.
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