1st Annual Alumni Swim Meet

We our having our 1st annual alumni swim meet on Friday July 24th. The meet will be held at the Holt High School Pool. This meet is open to any active Holt swimmer or any Holt Alumni swimmers. Warm-ups start at 5pm and the meet begins at 6. All swimmers will be able to pick their events during warm-ups. Come out and watch this annual event! It'll sure be a good meet to watch.        

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Golf Outing Was A Success

Well, we did it again!!! This years golf outing was another success. We would just like to thank everyone who helped make this possible. We couldn't have done it without your support, so thank you. If you took any pictures of the outing that you would like up on the website, I would be more than happy to get them from you. Just send me an e-mail at holtswimming@gmail.com with your name and phone number. Once again, thanks to all of you who helped make this a success!!!

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NEW WEBSITE OWNERSHIP

 This website is now under the ownership of Jason Ziolkowski. I'm planning on redesigning this site COMPLETELY to make it more convenient for you. I want to change this site to meet the needs of you. Please give me suggestions on what NEW features I should create, and what old features I should keep or get rid of. You can do this by sending me a E-Mail at: holtswimming@gmail.com

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This past Friday Holt Swimmers ended  their season with a trip to the D-1 State Finals.

Mitch Fisher        200yd Freestyle               1:52.25

Mitch Fisher         50 yd Freestyle               50.46

                              200yd Freestyle Relay    1:33.32

Dustin Haskel/Erik Dawdy/Kaleb Hebert/Mitch Fisher

Matt Morgan         100yd Backstroke           56.31 (17th)

                                 400yd Freestyle Relay    3:26.34

Dustin Haskel/Erik Dawdy/Kaleb Hebert/Mitch Fisher

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR

HOLT RAM SWIMMERS

(Link to D-1 Prelim Results)

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State Cuts are tough to get and historically even tougher at the 2nd Shave Meet.  Holt 200yd Freestyle Relay posted a 1:32.57 which is not only a state cut but would have won the event at the Conference Finals.  CONGRATS to;  Mitch Fisher (22.64), Eric Dawdy (22.92), Dustin Haskel (~23.50) and Kaleb Hebert (~23.51)

One final task .....can we re-taper for States?  After this past weekend I wouldn't bet against it.

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Mitch Fisher:  200yd & 100yd Freestyle

Matt Morgan: 100yd Backstroke

400yd Free Relay: Mitch Fisher, Kaleb Hebert, Eric Dawdy, Dustin Haskel

WELL DONE

Well you train all season.  Get frustrated when you don't drop time in mid-season.  Get upset when you're sick and don't drop time......Wonder if you'll ever break through.  Threaten to quit and question if it's all worth it.  If you're a swimmer at any level you certainly go through this.

YES - IT'S ALL WORTH IT !!!

Not only did Prelims see 2 State Cuts but every swim except 2 were lifetime bests.  That's impressive.  That's training, that's motivation, tapered and ready to swim.

After a long day of swimming the Holt Rams 400yd Freestyle Relay wrapped up the day with another STATE CUT.  All total the Rams will be sending 2 individuals and 1 relay to the state finals.  NICE JOB AT ALL LEVELS

MEET RESULTS (excel file)

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The Holt Boys really laid it all out at Prelims with 2 state cuts.  Congratulations to Mitch Fisher STATE CUT 200yd Freestyle and Matt MVP Morgan STATE CUT in the 100yd Backstroke.  Both Mitch and Matt are the #1 seeds going into finals on Saturday.

First year coach Marty Pohl has the boys peaking at the right time and they are ready to play the spoiler role at this years CAAC.

Meet is @ East Lansing High School, come on out and cheer them on.

GO RAMS!!!!

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Holt 185.5    Everett  121.5

Senior Night was huge success with more great swims.  Wrapping up their home swimming careers was Alex "Prance" Hoffman and  Matt "MVP" Morgan.  It's been awesome watching these guys swim over the years.

Seniors leading the way tonight:  Alex Hoffman with 2:22.96 in the 200yd IM and then 1:12.30 in the 100yd Breaststroke.  Matt Morgan 1st in the 200yd IM with 2:15.98 and won the 100yd Backstroke with 58.44.

Other personal bests came from Jason l with a blistering 59.76 in the 100yd Freestyle.  Continuing to grind out personal bests were Adam Stasiuk with 5:40.58 in the 500yd Freestyle and Gabe Murley with 5:35.40 in the 500 as well.

Ali Ramer rounds out the super swims with 1:20.00 in the 100yd Breaststroke.

The last Duel Meet of the season will be away at St. Johns next Tuesday.

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Tuesday 2/5   Holt 185   Mason 125                                      Holt went on the road to Mason and came away with  victory.  The 200IM saw personal bests from Alex Hoffman (2:24.21) and Adam Stasiuk with 2:30.92.  Nice job guys and keep training for conference.

Also posting personal bests in the 100yd freestyle was Mitch Fisher rolling in with 51.41 and Kaleb Hebert posting 53.94.  Shaved and tapered could we see a few state cuts!!!!

Rounding out the evening was the All Freshman and All Junior 400yd Freestyle Relay teams.  The Juniors taught the Freshman to respect their elders edging out the young hot shots.

Juniors:  Hebert-Ramer-Flores-Fisher        3:45.31                    Freshmen:  Majeske-Tuttle-Smith-Dawdy   3:46.25

Saturday 2/7:   Our Rams placed 4th at the DeWitt Invitational.  Coach Pohl is right on track with another 17 personal best times. 

Thanks to Cracker Jack Reporter Denise Morgan for the updates!

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Holt 160   Grand Ledge 154

Little know factoid-- Tonight's Scoring was all 8 lanes and for what it's worth, I liked it.  Every race was important and every place was important.  Some of the best races of the evening was for 4th-5th & 6th-7th place.  Everybody's swim counts no matter what place you're competing for.

Here are the personal bests:  Eric Dawdy in the 200 free went 1:58.35 and 53.33 in the 100.  Dustin Haskell's personal best of 54.89 placed 3rd in the 100 free.  Mitch Fisher won the 500 with a 5:19.88 and Adam Stasiuk earned 4th in the 500 with his best 5:44.98.  Keleb Herbert won the 100 breast with his personal best of 1:09.56.  Rounding out the personal bests is Gabe Murley with his 59.75 in the 100 fly.

Great Job Guys !!

Photo Gallery

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Holt boys hit a rough patch this past week.  We dropped a meet to Okemos last Thursday and lost to Jackson on 1/22.

Holt swimmers rest up and get ready for a tough meet with Grand Ledge next Thursday at 6pm @ Holt High School.

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Holt 138     Lansing Eastern 42

Holt Rams swimmers cruised to 2-0 on the CAAC Season and are ready for the showdown with Okemos on Thursday.

Holt won every event and finished 1-2-3 in 4 of the 11 events and 1-2 in 5 events.

HyTek Results

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Holt 177     East Lansing 135

Holt Rams pulled out a close one.

This was a tight one going into the 100 backstroke with Holt @ 121 & EL @ 115.  Holt finished 1-2-3 in the 100 Back to slam the door. (1st Eric Dawdy 1:02.22, Gabe Murley 1:04.59, Kurtis Smith 1:08.46)  Kaleb Hebert  locked the door with a win in the 100 Breaststroke @ 1:11.20.

Other notable swims were turned in by Freshman Erik Dawdy, 53.99 in the 100Freestyle.

Technology played a big part for Lane 1.  While the touch pad was acting up again, parent Mark Majeske text the watch times up to the control for entry into the computer.  Way to go Lane 1 !!!!

Click here for full set of HyTek Resluts

Click here for photos from this event.

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Click here for a few pix from the Quad Meet.