HAYES: For many, the SWISA memories are thick
For many, the SWISA memories are thick
Commentary Pete Hayes Telegraph Sports Editor
July 16, 2021
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Scott Osborn during his days as a competitive swimmer. Now 41, the former Gaslight Gator and Edwardsville Breaker lives in Edwardsville and has two children swimming for Montclaire Sunday in the SWISA Championship meet at Summers Port. Osborn is one of many former swimmers for whom the SWISA meet brings back special memories.Submitted photo
Swimming demands discipline and grueling hours of training, but it provides special memories in return.
Oh, what memories.
The SWISA outdoor summer swim league has produced its share of standout efforts - and memories. This year’s Southwestern Illinois Swim Association Championships meet is set for Sunday at Summers Port in Godfrey.
HAYES: In 2020, the story was COVID and not much else
Pete Hayes Sports Editor
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For all of us.
With 2020 just in the rear-view mirror, there are hopes for something better in 2021. And while the coronavirus and the resulting pandemic made last year horrible for most, it could have been worse. That’s hard to imagine, but it’s so. There could have been more deaths, more suffering.
But because of modern technology, schools have been able to go virtual with remote online learning. It’s not been an easy adjustment, but thanks to the miracle workers we call teachers, laptops and Zoom meetings have become as familiar as chalkboards were in the old days. Imagine if this pandemic had happened 30 years ago.
HAYES: In 2020, the story was COVID and not much else
Column Pete Hayes Telegraph Sports Editor
Jan. 1, 2021
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Lewis and Clark Community College women’s soccer coach Tim Rooney, wearing a protective face mask, speaks with his players during an fall practice at LCCC. It was his team’s first off-season practice of the year, since the NJCAA moved the season from fall to spring because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic affected nearly every sports story of 2020 in some way from March on.Pete Hayes | The Telegraph
Just when area prep basketball teams were focusing on March Madness in 2020, it was pulled out from under them. As it turned out, that was only the beginning of a wild, frustrating, scary 10 months.