Green & White Ends With Dramatic Score.

As Kermit the Frog often says, "It's not easy being green."

Not easy, but at least victorious when it comes to the MVP Green vs. White meet this past Monday.

The GREEN team squeaked out a win over WHITE, 106 - 105.

At this point in the season more than 200 Gators have participated in meets.  So throngs of new swimmers -- hit the deck Monday. The 68 and unders having been waiting for weeks to strut their strokes. For the boys they were: Jude Lopson, Hugh Sullivan, Liam Garvey, Gavin Moore, Christopher Delaune, Eddie Muir, Grayson Norman, Frazier O'Leary, Jack Hills, and Luke Adrian.

Girls dipping their toes in for the first time included: Caroline Myers, Delancey Adrian, Samantha Cowen, Nora Hixson, Ginny Grubbs, Elizabeth Delaune, Sarah Petz, Catherine Delaune, Rose O'Brien, and Sarah Coggeshall.

Extra big cheers for our youngest swimmers diving, or not quite diving, in the pool on Monday: Four year olds Josie Cowen, Lizzie Grubbs, Michael Hills, and Tommy Kelly (they are all nearly five, and are allowed to join swim team because they showed enough prowess).

Close to 85 heats ran through the pool during the evening yet the Gators managed to finish before a darkness on the edge of town. Single heat winners were: Antonio Marcucci, Alex Heurtas, Jude Klopson, Hugh Sullivan, Jackson Hannah, Cecily Theriot, Jill Humphreys, Simone Burdick, Lizzie Grubbs, Chris Kelly, Connor Dunn, Paige Humphreys, Tyler Dunn, Olivia Johansson, Cole Snodgrass, Bea Heratsch, Kevin Adams-Mardi, Leigh Orleans, Matthew Makin, Kathryn Coggeshall, Elizabeth Delaune, Kenneth Krogh, Will Freidman, Mary Claire O'Brien, Donovan Kovalsky, Ella Fischer, TJ Heck, Nick Dupuis, Lily Penn, Kelly Riley, Kaila Stein, Jayne Orleans, Jack Dupuis, Cole Miller, Elaina Phalen, Juliette Fore, Taylor Makin, Mollie Passacantando, and Cyrus Adams-Mardi.

 Multiple heat winners were: Colby Webber (2), Joseph Humphreys (2), Jackson Hannah (2), Katya Zaitsev (2), Isabella Van Damme (2), Delaney Adrian (2), Olivia Blondin (2), Dom Heratsch (2), Sara Bertram (2), Olivia Heck (2), Molly Rutherford (2), Cage Theriot (2), Claudia Theriot (2), Tristan Colaizzi (2), Emma Jones (2), Anna Fracasso (2), Ian Baker (2), Jessie Bricker (2), Clark Bayer (3), Sean Jansen (3), Juliana Skopp-Cardillo (3).

More than 130 personal bests were posted. Swimmers dropping more than 5 seconds on their times were: Sean Oelschlager, Calvin Sullivan Wiliam Milito, Sam Sabo, Andrew Sabo, Noah Webber, Lauren Scott, Simone Burdick, Kathryn Coggeshall, Chris Kelly, Boede Offringa, Mackenzie Dickerson, Zach Staples, George Schulte, Jill Humphries, Giovanni Marcucci, Olivia Blondin, Juliette Fore, Emily Makin, Frances Webber, Cole Miller, Bea Heratsch, and Carl Questad.

Stay tuned for the next B meet versus the Piranhas of Mansion House on Monday 7/8 -- thunderstorms permitting. Diving for pennies to pep up swimmers for the meet right after morning practice. Make sure you sign up your swimmer and yourselves to volunteer.