Captain Rosas To the Rescue
12/17/2007 1:04 PMCaptain Rosas to the Rescue
By Editor Hlee Vang
Swimming is an individual competition but the lack of a captain last year caused JHS Boys Swimming team to have a bad season.
The boys ended last year’s season by winning one out of five games.
“The team didn’t act like a team last year and we didn’t really have a captain last year,” explains senior Jonathan Rosas.
Rosas has been swimming for four years at JHS now. He swam for seven years total, three years at Humbolt Junior High.
“It was a rebuilding year. We lost our seniors and had a couple of new guys.” Rosas added.
Now that Rosas is the new captain, he says he will change the team’s scores this year.
“We have a much better captain this year. Rosas, he pushes us more and we’re doing more swimming, diving and I’m learning some new dives.” Adam Bolle, a diver for the Boys Swim team.
Bolle also said that Rosas was an “encouraging” captain.
He motivates, supports, and pushes them more to do better than the one last year.
“The captain last year was good but this year’s captain was a better captain,” agrees Robert Hoveland.
Leadership was not the only thing this team wants to have improve. They also wanted to get new and “legal starting blocks, a deeper pool, better lanes and timers” complained Rosas.
This team really ‘is’ a team. They agreed on basically everything; the pool, the timers, the blocks, the leadership skills a captain needed and that more people are needed for this team.
Bolle explained that there are “bolts sticking out of the sides and when you dive, they cut your hands and fingers.”
Hoveland added that the pool shouldn’t have so much chlorine in it because it hurts to have so much chlorine in the pool.
A new team player, sophomore Sam Heifernan says the team will have a good season this year.
Although this team has a shortage of people, ‘we have some really good divers, some fast swimmers…” said Heifernan. “I think we have a good chance this year.”
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