Swim treads into the water for a new season
With practices at least five days a week, the NPHS boys’ and girls’ swim teams have been preparing for their new season with high hopes of success. The first meet takes place on Feb. 16, and the teams can not wait to dive back in.
Emma Lythgoe,the head coach of NPHS’ swim teams, has been working on building a community within her teams, and creating swimmers that can make it to CIF. “I think my biggest goal is just to kind of unify together, unite ourselves as a team and really just have an awesome and fun season,” Lythgoe said.
Madalynn Copeland, junior on the JV swimming team, has been playing with the team since her freshman year. Within her years at NPHS, she has grown both as a swimmer and as a person through the program. “Swimming for the first time freshman year and since then, I’ve always dropped time, every race,” Copeland said.
Junior Kenzy Attia is a Varsity swimmer on the NPHS team. Attia is ready for the start of the season, especially the start of the meets. The meets occur at least once and sometimes twice a week after the start of the season. “Swim meets are basically grouping swimmers into heats based on their seeded (fastest) time. Heats for each event progress from fastest to slowest,” Attia said.
The expectations for this season have been raised tremendously, due to the teams’ success last year. The teams can be seen during meets pushing hard as they reach for gold and above their limits. “I have a lot of high hopes just for doing better at league championships for our CIF qualifiers,” Lythgoe said. “Just for those new swimmers to be able to do things I never thought they’d be able to do,” Lythgoe said.
