Atlanta North Division - Meet 1
We are underway!
Ladies, gentlemen, swimmers, swammers, and swim curious, the 2022 Grown-Up Swimming Season has officially started! As the writing of this Flip Turn Folly, we have completed one of the 24 meets scheduled nationally. Twenty. Four. You know what that means? We have a Michael Jordan’s worth of swim meets left in the next 3.5 months. Gen-Z folks: that’s 23. Jordan wore number 23.
Meet # 1 was set at the picturesque Martin’s Landing Lake Pavilion Pool. How picturesque? Check it out on Instagram. Soooo many pool-lake-sunset pics. Tag me!
Typical of any summer afternoon in Atlanta, a storm rolled through. We safely decided not to be in the pool with lightning and hail raining down on us. It was so bad we started looking for George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg in a fishing boat. But, the storm proved imperfect. All we did was cut warmup short, start the meet 40 minutes late, and we still finished before 9pm. Gotta love splitting up into divisions! Apparently word of the heroic efforts from our swimmers under such weather-constrained conditions, has made its way to Team USA. They’re so moved that we are now bulletin board material for them during Worlds. Again, that’s just the word I’m hearing. You’ll probably see it on SwimSwam later if it’s true.
Meet Results
Here are the individual results from Friday 6/17. The team scores are below, but that reminds me of something one of the finest philosophers of our time said:
Welcome to Whose Line is it Anyway where everything’s made up and the points don’t matter. That’s right the points are like team scores in a Grown-Up Swimming regular season meet.
- Drew Carey, 2000
Team Scores:
Roswell Rapids - 2,441
Medlock Bridge Manatees - 1,640
Martin’s Landing - 1,361
Mill Glen - 636
Piranha Mamas - 585
Maria’s Minions - 187
Berkley Hills Grown-Up Barracudas - 126
Independent/Unattached - 55
Congrats to the Rapids for their totally overwhelming performance. They’ve got like a million-year streak going of finishing top-3 in the Championship of the World of Atlanta, and it looks like they’re on track to keep it going. But, the real winners from the evening was anyone who got the loaded fries from the food truck: Spiedie Zone. The Big Mac Loaded Fries, specifically. Sweet Mercy.
Special thanks to Martin’s Landing and EVERYONE who helped set up and breakdown before and after the meet. You make the crew’s job so much easier. See you out there in a few weeks!
Disclaimers, Corrections, and Explaining the Joke Before We Get Sued: 1) Drew Carey didn’t say that seven years before the Atlanta Adult Swim League started. 2) The writer of this post apologizes for the three references from the turn of the millennium. But y’all just as old. You get it. 3) Team USA does not derive their motivation from Grown-Up Swimming. 4) The Grown-Up Swimming Championship of the World of Atlanta hasn’t been around a million years.