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Long haul: Karin Grant will handle the distance events for the Cougars this
year. (Accompanied "Girls Swim Preview" from Sunday, September 2, 2001.)
One of the pictures that was meant to be used in the high school yearbook but
never was. Stephanie Bay, yearbook staff member and former swim team member, gave me this picture.
Garden City's Karin Grant wins the 200 freestyle against Crestwood on Tuesday.
(Accompanied "Crestwood stops Cougars, 115-54" from Thursday, October 31, 2002.)
Karin Grant is one of this year's captains for the girls' swim team. Grant recently
helped break the record for the 200 freestyle relay. (Accompanied "Breaking records and striving to improve" from Thursday,
October 31, 2002.)
Hey, let's have the fat chick break the board! (Even if I wasn't the heaviest
girl on the relay I still would've insisted that I break the board, being the senior and all.)
Watch me as I smash my face on the top of Jana's head. (Yes, I actually did
do that.)
The final break.
The original 2002 200 freestyle relay record breakers (in order from left to
right and in the order we swam the relay): Karin Grant (me), Jana Rosinski, Erica Ravi, and Liz Newcomb with a time of 2:06.0.
As the senior, I got first dibs on which piece of the board I got. I wanted
the time, of course. Jana wanted the year. Liz wanted the piece with most of her name on it. Erica got what was leftover.
Erica barely stay committed to the team that season, which is why she was replaced in the relay by Jessica Munoz. At leagues
we set the final record of 2:00.04 with the order of me (I was always first despite just getting out of the 500 free the event
before because of my incredible reaction time to the starter), Munoz, Rosinski, and Newcomb. We would've been under two minutes
had I not been sick but that record is still on the wall today.
The All-League crew and the three original captains for the 2002 season: Jana
Rosinski, Liz Newcomb, and myself. We were also on the Garden City Hurricanes together the one season I swam on that team.
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