Although the City High Girls Swim team has only 17 members — 16 swimmers and one diver — they’re excited for the upcoming season. Throughout the season, the girls will swim against teams with upwards of 40 swimmers, but they aren’t letting that faze them.

“Having a smaller team is better, because we all know each other better,” Annie Hartley ’15 said. “When you’re on a big team, you don’t know all the people, so it can be slightly awkward.”

The team swims a total of approximately 6000 yards in the pool everyday, but Tuesdays and Thursdays the team swims more than 9000 yards. They also run in the mornings and do weights before swimming after school.

“The hardest part is the commitment,” said Alix Sharp ‘16. “We do it every day for about five hours.”

The swim team isn’t only close on the pool deck, however. Randi Pitzen, the other senior co-captain, said that her favorite part of swimming was the team aspect.

“I love the team dinners and gatherings,” Pitzen said. “It’s just really fun to be a team, and its a great team to be on. We’re all really close.”

The team has a team dinner before each one of their home meets, after practice on Monday, to get pumped up for their meet on Tuesday.

“I like being a part of something where, every single day, we all go through the exact same grueling, awful thing,” Vargason said, “but at the end of the workout, we can come back to the locker rooms and talk, laugh, and just be a team.”