The Annual IMI: Is MVP Invincible?

All joy, no Sarro. (Ok, maybe not my best pun ever there.)

You can read my thought in the title of this blog post. Technically, the IMI is an acronym for the Individual Medley Invitational meet. But if we want to be honest, we can just start making it an acronym for "Is MVP Invincible?" Another gaggle of speedy IM swims by your Gators makes this 10 years in a row on top of this meet.

If you haven't read last year's blog on the topic, you should. Just click the link and review it. There is some background on the event and how it is scored as well as some situational set-up to understand the history of the event, and MVP's place (and dominance) within that history. Last year we officially pulled even with Waynewood for the all-time lead in IMI victories. And if you are even remotely good at math, you can see that this year's win puts us atop the heap alone as the all-time winningest IMI pool. Damn it feels good to be a gangster.

We had three swimmers win the overall title for their events:

Natalie Crowther, Girls 8 & Under Fly: 19.93 (8 & unders swim Fly instead of IM at this meet)
Helen Milito, Girls 9-10: 1:35.56
Alex North, Boys 11-12: 1:14.71

Sometimes the Fly photo isn't last...

We also had a bunch of seconds, thirds, etc. Check out the full results from the meet here. But, to be honest, with all of the age groups and different division breakdowns in the results sheet, it's a little bit too much information (did I just say that?) So, if you just want the simplified Gator-only results, you can see those here. All the IMI photos are here.

Final scores of all the teams (broken down by division) are here.

With the rainout of the Gator Romp in the Swamp on Wednesday, that makes the IMI the final regular team meet of the season. The team is now moving into the post-season playoffs. Next up is the Individual Divisional Championships, in which the top two swimmers in every stroke from each D3 team vie for superiority and berths into next week's individual All-Star Championship.

... especially if there is a trophy photo! Champions!