From February 19th to February 21st, Park City High School Swimming and Park City Swimming qualifiers attended the 2015 Utah Senior Championships in Washington City (St. George). This meet allowed swimmers with qualifying times to compete against each other for a spot in a finals heat later that day. Each swimmer swam the events they were registered for in the morning, and, in the races that their times qualified for finals, swam again at night.
To qualify, a swimmer needed to swim a certain time in an event. Swimmers with at least one qualifying time, were allowed to sign up for that race in the meet, along with two additional bonus events. Swimmers were allowed to sign up for a total of six races, with no more than three events each day of the meet.
During the preliminary competition, many events consisted of eight or more heats of the event, making the morning session last many hours into the day. Finals didn’t last as long, for the meet only permitted there to be three heats of the top swimmers of each races.
The difficult part about Senior Championships is that most of the swimmers that attend are over fifteen-years-old. These swimmers are much faster than most of the other swimmers signed up for the same event. Since there are so many of these fast swimmers, it makes it much harder to make it back for finals.
This meet was full of tight suits, fast swimming, team bonding, and excitement. Just behind Wasatch Front, Utah Valley, and Hilltop Aquatics, Park City finished the meet in fourth place with a total score of 793 points.
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