Alumni Swim Meet and Homecoming Weekend!

Pioneer swimmers from years past joined us in Zehntbauer today for the annual Alumni Swim Meet. We had swimmers from the 70’s laughing, racing and cheering alongside recent grads and current swimmers.

This meet could loosely be described as unorthodox, but this takes nothing away from the serious competition and hard-fought races.

Just before the meet, alums gathered to throw a cheer at the varsity and then throw some water in their direction, as well.

Relay power!

Victory dance..?

And to top it all off, the football team won their Homecoming game 57-35 this afternoon? And several swimmers joined the horde in rushing the field when the clock ran down.

Where in the world are Susie, Kim, Catherine and Lee?

The short answer: Greece. Following text by Susie Trexler:

As you may have heard, we took a class this month called Attic Tragedy that involved reading (a LOT) and the performance of one play, The Suppliants (Aeschylus). This performance was last night. Lee took a leading role as the sole Greek, Pelasgus and the three of us are members of the chorus of Egyptian suppliants running away to Greece. The costume of the chorus was all black and I was seamstress and sewed our sashes which were of varying colors.

You can't see it very well but everyone we walked past on the way to school could: we all had Egyptian eye make-up.

An hour after the show found most of us in the library working on our papers (due today) and I can only imagine how that looked to anyone who didn't realize what was going on.

We're off to Lesbos tomorrow for four weeks; it's a rather large island off the coast of Turkey. Swimming? I hope so.