The Eagles had quite a weekend at the Holland Aquatic Center competing at the D3 Mid Season Invitational. 

The Mid Season Invite is always a wild meet with some teams swimming at peak condition, while others are slugging through the mid season training regiments. The Eagles fell right in the middle of the pack with a 6th place finish. While placement was not at the top of the teams priority this weekend, big swims and cut times were! An exciting 5 state cut times were swam through the duration of the meet! Burrows in the 100 Free, Turner in the 100 Breast, Klaver in the 100 Back and Winkle doubling up in the 50 Free and 100 Free! This was a huge confidence boost for the team getting these cuts at mid season which leaves more time to focus on the conference and state championships without dancing around cut times.

On the scoring side (top 16) - The Medley Relays (A& B) finished 6th and 13th, Burrows took 6th in the 200 Freestyle, Nelson took 10th in the 200 IM, Winkle took 3rd in the 50 Freestyle, and Grix took 14th on the boards.  In the second half of the meet Carpenter and Nelson took 10th and 12th respectively in the 100 Fly. In the 100 Freestyle Burrows took 2nd, Winkle took 5th, and Bremer took 15th! There was an unfortunate disqualification of the A 200 Free Relay which left the B relay to score 11th. In the 100 Backstroke, Klaver took 9th, Bremer took 11th, and Speulstra took 16th. In the 100 Breast Stroke Turner took 6th and Erffmeyer took 15th. Finishing up the meet, the 400 Free relay took 5th in the A and 15th in the B. 

Overall it was a challenging, but successful weekend for the Eagles. The team looks forward to the back half of the training season with many great races and meets ahead! This week they will compete at HOME against the Forest Hills Northern Eastern combined team.