We are in Week 5 of the Fall 2020 semester. Several naysayers didn't think we would make it that far -- on ground, in person; numerous colleges and universities haven't made it this far. We are fortunate and we are glad we are still here and still thriving, as much as we can "thrive" in a pandemic. This morning, we achieved another milestone in this most unusual semester -- our first team lift. For many years now, our sprinters have lifted on Tuesday and Thursday in the fall semester, early mornings -- meet at 5:45 a.m. for warmup, in the weight room with Coach Suma at 6 a.m. Because of Covid precautions (maximum of 20 athletes at a time in the weight room), and because our sprint team has grown (this is neat, and Cuesta, I know you approve of this!), we are split by gender for morning sprint lift -- women on Tuesdays and men on Thursdays. In our beautiful new weight room, each of our 12 ladies (2 pods of 6) had their own lifting racks. They were masked up (of course), and there were no "lift sheets" -- we emailed Coach Suma's lift to the team last night and they used their phones as reference to the sheets. And we had to be done by 6:40 a.m., to ensure proper cleaning of equipment before the next team (water polo) entered the weight room. Little victories.
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