Sibling Rivalries and the Green and White Meet

Gators ready for action. 

Throughout history, there have been many sibling rivalries, many of which you probably know well. Some of the rivalries have been deadly such as the cases of Cain and Abel or the "Brother against Brother" battles of the Civil War. Some of the rivalries have been great for television and ratings, such as Venus and Serena Williams or Peyton and Eli Manning. Some of them have created personal challenges like the one that goes on in my house every day. :-/  Some of the best rivalries of all happen at Mount Vernon Park once a year at the famed "Green and White" meet. So many Gator families have multiple swimmers on the team who get divided up by the secret formula used to create the Green and White teams. Brother versus Sister. Classmate versus Classmate. Neighbor versus Neighbor. We've got them all. The stakes are huge, the swimming is fast, and the bragging rights are sweet. It all went down for real at the pool on Monday, July 3rd, 2017.

The Green team was "All Muscle." 

We all know White is the color that the good guys always wear, and Green is the color of envy.... or is it that Green is the color of good luck and White is the color of those easily destroyed snowflakes. I'm not quite sure. Either way, every Gator was assigned to one of the two teams creating those aforementioned rivalries between all manner of friends, relatives, and neighbors. I've heard conflicting reports about who won the meet. One parent, with a substantial wager placed on the Green team, was sure that they had one by a single point. (He also stated that he tried to sabotage his own child's performance for the White team by feeding him lots of junk food and tiring him out during the day in order to win the bet... so his judgment may be suspect in this case.) The last thing I heard was that final results were still being counted and there were some "hanging chad" scenarios on the swim cards that have kept the final outcome in suspense. 

The White team was "All Hustle." 

So, while the official winner of the epic match-up may never really be known, we do know that Gators were dropping some serious time in their swims! Collectively, the two teams of Gators cut 116.74 seconds from their previous best times! That's no small feat at this point of the season, since so many of the swimmers had already been cutting times over the past three weeks in the various A and B meets. You may not be able to squeeze blood from a turnip, but apparently Gators can squeeze time out of any swim! 

The full results of the the Green & White meet are available here. Below is a listing of some of those great time cuts of a second or more: 

Battle ready. 

Swimmer	Stroke	Time Cut	New Time
Evan Prible	Free	-2.32	22.20S
Anthony Campbell	Free	-3.36	28.62S
Fionn Miller	Free	-5.38	32.00S
Ian Hixson	Free	-2.94	32.96S
Addison Thornburg	Free	-3.79	33.59S
Ella Prible	Free	-2.04	25.86S
Dakota Edwards	Free	-2.30	27.93S
Sean Kovalsky	Free	-3.28	42.53S
William Milito	Free	-1.90	43.78S
Joseph Bucca	Free	-1.66	46.59S
Hunter Edwards	Free	-4.00	49.81S
Dylan Todd	Free	-2.57	1:07.99S
Jill Humphreys	Free	-1.08	40.85S
Elizabeth Whitson	Free	-1.63	44.24S
Carter Hamilton	Free	-1.32	50.49S
Caroline Miller	Free	-1.05	37.48S
Cameron Morey	Free	-1.02	28.60S
Fionn Miller	Back	-1.24	38.53S
Hartley Weyrauch	Back	-2.98	28.89S
Ella Prible	Back	-3.09	29.27S
Sean Kovalsky	Back	-2.95	55.25S
Catie Hicks	Back	-2.37	1:00.94S
Donovan Kovalsky	Back	-1.69	38.93S
Shaan Nagda	Breast	-4.29	55.48S
Jill Humphreys	Breast	-3.90	59.97S
Saira Nagda	Breast	-1.45	51.37S
Liliana Fore	Breast	-1.53	1:04.10S
Helen Milito	Fly	-2.76	25.90S
Nora Hixson	Fly	-2.50	21.12S
Caroline Miller	Fly	-1.18	40.72S
Lily Palmerino	Fly	-1.03	42.47S
Tj Heck	Fly	-1.08	33.05S
Grace McGee	Fly	-2.17	41.20S
Cecilia Morales	Fly	-1.31	43.22S
Nora Hixson	IM	-3.73	1:51.65S
Jill Humphreys	IM	-1.69	1:54.27S
Abigail Leach	IM	-2.80	1:59.16S
Addison Dickerson	IM	-4.74	1:56.16S
John French	IM	-4.04	1:22.87S
Mackenzie Dickerson	IM	-1.95	1:47.08S
AnnaGrace Dickerson	IM	-1.66	1:32.62S

Watch me shake my Team Spirit. 

Congrats on all the great swimming, Gators! 

All of the photos from the Green & White meet are available here. As a reminder, there are lots of great pictures always available after meets and other events on the MVP website here. 

The next competive match-up on the schedule is an A meet on Saturday July 8th at 9am against Vienna Aquatic. And speaking of sibling rivalries, this next meet is going to be an epic Gator-versus-Gator match-up. It is sure to be a very exciting and competitive meet. Go MVP Gators! 

Butterfly pictures are the best pictures.