Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Williams First Season of Swim Team - Gardner Acres Sharks

What a season it has been.  William who really just started to swim last season said he wanted to do swim team this year.  So we went with it.  Of course we just paid the fee to join the team and not the $35 tight swim trunks.  Instead if he liked it and wanted to do it next year we would buy the swim suit for him then.  Since he only had 3 meets and a league meet he was fine.  Not to mention he has an awesome "shark" bathing suit and we're the sharks so that worked well.  He was so dedicated and didn't complain one bit.  He went to both morning and night practices when we could and worked really hard.  We were so proud of him and how much he improved by the league meet.  His dedication and hard work paid off.  He swam in the 6 and under meets so next year if he does it again he'll move up to 7 and up.  He did 3 different strokes and I couldn't believe how well he picked up each one.  I remember in the first meet asking one of his coaches if he even knew how to do back stroke?  He picked up the strokes so fast.

Williams times:                 Freestyle     Backstroke     Breast
June 12 - (first meet)         1:16.76        1:47.26        1:13.71
June 19 - (second meet)    1:33.31        1:30.19        1:16.40
June 26 - (third meet)        1:10.20        1:25.12        1:14.42
July 10 - (league meet)         51.76          59.54         1:06.62

He swam in two relays, Boys 6 and under 100M Free relay and they did well.  He enjoyed that and the atmosphere in the relays are wild.  Lots of cheering.  In the end he was so proud of his ribbons.

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