Stat Boy's Notes

I received a request to post Stat Boy's notes on the Gator team blog.  Despite Stat Boy's reluctance to share his secret formulas, the power of a free press prevailed.  (Stat Boy can be a bit of a prima donna!)

∙ Our 2015 MVP Gators!  They won the Individual Medley Invitational trophy for the sixth year in a row, tied for first place for the Divisional Relay Carnival and finished 4-1 in Division 3 for their third straight winning season in this the second season in a row.

∙ MVP has been in the NVSL for 59 years.  The last time MVP had four or more victories in division 3 or higher was. . .never.  By the measurement of number of wins in top divisions, this is the best Gator team of all time.

∙ For those of you newer to swim team than Carol and I, which is everyone but the Fracassos, when our oldest daughter started in 1999, we were in Division 12, so we’ve jumped over nearly 60 teams – and been in D-3 for four of the past five years.  Btw, there are 102 teams in the NVSL, and around 18,000 swimmers.  By some estimates, it is the largest sports league in the country.

∙ We scored the most points against undefeated Little Rocky Run, four more points and we win the meet.  By the way, we were only 0.23 seconds away in one race from an undefeated season.  But, I did not figure out how close we were to a winless season, although it wasn’t nearly that close!

∙ The point is NOT to say, darn, we should have been undefeated.  The goal is to show everyone how close and exciting these meets are.  We were 0.23 seconds away from being undefeated – shows you how close and exciting swim meets are.

∙ We had 274 swimmers join the team – making us one of the largest teams in the NVSL.  We had 144 girls and 130 boys.  51 6 & U, 69 7-8 year olds, 53 9-10 year olds, 45 11-12 year olds, 27 13-14 year olds, and a record 29 15-18 year olds.

∙ We had 221 swimmers swim in meets, including 100 who swam in A Meets.  Fully 65 kids scored points in A Meets, including 33 girls and 32 boys who scored individual points.  Last season there were more boys scoring points than girls for the first time ever.  Now, it’s a one person advantage for the girls!

∙ For individual events, the boys scored 498 points, and the girls scored 445.5 points.  First time ever in the history of Stat Boy that the boys scored more points than the girls.

∙ In the 13 meets tracked by Hy-Tek, we had 2,919 “splashes” and that’s 17,514 starts and stops by timers.

∙ Andrew Baker was the Splash King with 41 swims in those meets, while Donovan Kovalsky was the Splash Prince title with 40.

∙ On the girls side, Sheridan Phalen and Isabelle Van Damme were the Splash Queens with 44 swims in those meets, while Lily Palmerino and Juliana Skopp-Cardillo were the Splash Princess with 38.

∙ We had 13 swimmers with perfect attendance at meets – Torie Bolger, Cassidy Crowther, Jackson Foerster, Ginny Grubbs TJ Heck, Jack Klopson, Donovan Kovalsky, Lily Palmerino, Sherican Phalen, Charlie Ruppe, George Schulte, Juliana Skopp-Cardillo, and Isabella Van Damme.

∙ We had eight swimmers score points in all ten of their individual A meet events.  Stand up – Cassidy Bayer, Kevin Adams-Mardi, Matthew Makin, Tyler Swartz, Sheridan Phalen, Gabrielle Greszler, George Schulte, and Andrew Baker.

∙ Family scoring the most points – In fourth place, the Greszlers with 39, third place the Phalens with 44, in second place the Bayers with 55, and in first place – with 22 points more than last year – the Makins with 119! It’s nice that Coach Paul contributes to the team!

∙ We sent ten relay teams to All-Stars, finishing 10th overall – out of 102 teams.  We scored more All-Star relay points than Waynewood, Mansion House, and Hollin Meadows combined.

∙ Four team records set today and fifteen total for the season.  There were 10 individual team records and five relay records broken.  The oldest record broken was from 1972 – Matthew Makin today!

∙ For the girls records – 1 from last century (8 & under 25 breaststroke from 1985), 6 from the last decade (the aughts), and 30 from this decade.

∙ For the boys records – 11 from last century, two from the last decade, and 24 are from this decade!

∙ Call up the team record setters – 13 boys and four girls: Cassidy Bayer, Jessie Bricker, Parker Fulghum, Elaina Phalen, Matthew Makin, Alexander North, Tyler Swartz, George Schulte, Andrei Zaitsev, TJ Heck, Andrew Baker, Clark Bayer, Sean Jansen, Kevin Adams-Mardi, Gus Leyden, Cameron Morey, and Tristan Colaizzi.


∙ Divisional Championships were held today at Vienna Woods.  Stat Boy did some complicated math – Gators took a top three in 23 out of the 48 events.