The Panthers are in sunny Fort Lauderdale, training at Pinecrest Academy, both short and long course. The team hotel is right on A1A on the beach for the fourth-straight year. They will be on the trip through the 15th of January before resuming the regular season schedule second semester against Carthage College on Jan. 16.
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The second blog entry comes from senior Rachel Rebitski:
It's day three in Florida and I think I am starting to miss the Wisconsin weather ... not! The weather today was gorgeous; it was in the mid-70’s! (The weather in Milwaukee was mid 20’s)!We started off the day with an 8-10 morning swim. Nothing too bad, although we did have ANIMAL kicks. For those that don’t know, animal kicks is a really hard kick set that we do … not really sure why they are called animal kicks, but they are, and it's hard!
After practice most of the team was able to enjoy the sun and soak up some rays on the beach. There was a manatee spotting, a few people jumped in to see it, but I chose to stand on shore and watch it.After a few good hours in the sun we went back to the pool for a meet against Hills Dale. We all got to pick our events and we got to do some fun relays! Everyone had a good time.
Today was also our team dinners, so after two long practices we definitely took advantage of eating out! The boys stuck to tradition and went to Bubba Gump and the girls went to Aruba.
We had an exciting day … seven to go!
