The Summer of Swim Team

This was the 2nd year I was the manager for our neighborhood swim team.

We had 85 swimmers on the team.

We won 1 meet, tied 1 meet (with a team we've never beat before)

lost 2 close meets, and had 1 blow-out loss.

But my kids had a great year.

Russell doing freestyle

Julie after her IM (Individual Medley)

She swims 2 lengths of the pool for each of the 4 strokes.

A total of 200 meters.

Janelle preparing to start her race.

Janelle set at the block.

Where is a picture of Rachel, you might be asking????

That would be a very good question to ask.

Since I worked every meet the picture taking was left up to Todd.

The girls all swam at the Smokey Mountain Invitational.This meet is the biggest outdoor meet in the United States.

Janelle got first place in her 2 individual events and helped her freestyle relay team take first in their heat(at Smokey).

She also got to help coach the rookies and the youngest group of swimmers.

Rachel improved tremendously as noted by her coach.

She also took a 1st place in 1 individual event at Smokey and swam on the same freestyle relay team as Janelle.

She helped with the little swimmers as well.

Julie enjoyed swimming with some of her good friends this year as they joined our team.

We joke that we need to put her on a stretching machine. She has sooo much drive but not the height that most of the girls in her age group do.

Russell took first place in his heat in one of his races at the City meet and got to "swim up" for a freestyle relay in that same meet.

He did not swim at the Smokey Mountain meet as the younger kids swim on Sundays.

We hope that next year, Christian will feel comfortable enough to swim with the team.