Swimming

A friend on our swim team had her professional photographer friend come to our Divisional swim meet and take pictures of our kids. They turned out great. 

Both Colin and Norah made Divisionals. Norah was actually our highest point winner for the entire swim team.  She rocked the 9/10 girls this summer.  It helped that her mother was the team co-rep and she had to be at every practice.  We realized we spent 6 hours a day driving to and from practice and going to both afternoon practices and evening practices.  It was a fun season but we are glad to be done with swim team right now.  Norah always helped with the guppies during the first practice when her age group swam and then swam the second practice with all the middle and high schoolers.  She kept up.  Unless she was in a lane with Joel. Then she would pass him and whether that bothered him depended on the day and his mood. 

Joel enjoyed the summer with all his friends. He would also swim both practices and actually never complained or "retired" this summer. Joel is funny swimming.  He doesn't care at all for his individual events but put him in a relay and he swims so much faster.  He was moved up to a 13/14 boys relay when someone (a year round swimmer) was on vacation. With Joel, two years younger, on the relay they only went 6 seconds slower.  So his 50 free time is actually 10+ seconds from his individual time.  Unfortunately for him they choose the relay teams based on your 50 free time so he didn't make Divisionals.  He was actually close in 50 fly but his coach said not to tell him or Joel would swim slower in a meet! ha! But true! I asked him once why he swims so much faster on a relay and he said its because other kids are counting on him and he doesn't want to let them down.  When he swims on his own he doesn't have to worry about letting anyone down - just swims for himself. 

 

My cute little swimmer!