The Bear River swim team finished competing at region Saturday, February 3rd and now they are getting ready to compete at state. State swim is on February 16-17 down at BYU. In order to qualify for state the athletes prepare all season aiming for their best times. Brodie Rowley, a junior at Bear River High School has been on the team since freshman year. He has qualified for state every year. Brodie said, “The way you get to state is based on the times you get when you swim. They take your best time from the whole season.” Making it to state is going to be difficult for both the boys and girls. Cordell Cluff, a junior, has been on the swim team for 3 years. Cordell said “Out of the 4A schools in Utah only the top 30 best swimmers get to go to state.” Nearly every member of the swim team worries about qualifying for state. If they didn’t make it to state, their swim season ended right after the region competition. Preparing for state is no easy feat. First, the coaches take the times that the team earned at region and compare them to the times of the rest of the state teams in 4A. Then they look at the top 30 swimmers to see who may have qualified for state. Two weeks before state, the swim team performed at region 11 as the last meet to have the best chances to make it to state. After region, the coaches look at the top 30 swimmers that get to make it to state, then they start practice. They start out with harder sets and workouts then everyday they start cutting down the yards that they do; this is a process called tapering. Danny Esplin, the coach of the boys swim team, said “The purpose of tapering is that all season we have broken down the muscles and tapering is just to back off and give the muscles time to heal and save energy so they can perform their best.” In order to get ready the team does some mentalizations, and works on the necessities like their starts and flip turns. Right after region the team goes back to longer, harder sets and then they go back to tapering to help prepare them more for state. This year there were 6 people from the team that made it to state; Aaron Betourney, Jace Hamblin, Jaden Hyer, Brodie Rowley, Bryson Winkler, Jason Winkler and then the three relays, which haven’t been selected yet. When you see a swimmer wish them luck for when they go to state. And off they go to state. By: Shayna Higley & Croydon Pebley Cordell Cluff doing his 100 Butterfly race. Photo by: Shayna Higley
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