Head coach Joe Abing is confident about the men’s swimming team’s mentality for the upcoming meet on Friday March 15 against Mt. San Antonio College and Rio Hondo College.

The swimming team looks to pick up two victories when it meets at Mt. San Antonio College, two weeks after letting a win get away at home against El Camino College losing 144.5-136.5.

Abing believes that the Falcons can get the job done.

“The mentality is good. We’re excited for another swim meet, ” said Abing. “We have another week of practice. We had this last weekend off. So we’re looking forward to it.”

He added, “We’re looking to improve our swim times. We’re always looking to swim faster. So hopefully we drop some times on our races this meet.”

Improvement is a key aspect as the team hopes to improve overall from its last competition, specifically in relay races, where freshman Marcus Delgado believes led to the team’s downfall last meet at home.

“We (Falcons) just have to work on our starts and finishes for our relays. That’s what cost us in a meet a few weeks ago,” said Delgado. “It made us lose about four races. So if we get those down I think we’ll be pretty good.”

Freshman Jacob Ramsaur shared Delgado’s viewpoint claiming that the relays are one of the most important races of the meet.

“We’re training hard and trying our best in practice,” said Ramsaur. “We’re looking to beat everybody at Mt. San Antonio College and Rio Hondo (College).”

Despite the loss to El Camino College, they still picked up a nice win against Long Beach Community College, 170-111.

Splitting victories is not an option this time around however.

“We’re feeling good. I feel that we have a good team this year and we can really do some good work this meet,” said freshman Joshua Owens.

“We just want to get two wins and get it out the door. We just got to keep going little by little.”