Saturday, we had a BIG swim meet vs. a huge team from Sherwood (not the forest Dad). We were there at the pool for 5 hours Saturday morning. They began with warm ups at 7:10 am and then had the events in a different order than last week, so we had a bit of a wait before Zack and then Kammie had their first events. But they are improving.
Zack in lane 1 (Also #1 of course.)
We've got to work on his entry and make it more of a dive...
Zack earned 3 points for his freestyle 2nd place finish. (His time was 27.90-a bit slower than last week.)
Kammie improved her freestyle time from 20.29 to 18.47, and is now in the gold time category. She got first place in her division for her freestyle and earned 5 points for the team. One of the coaches told her after her relay team lap that she was beautiful to watch. And she said her motto always is "Swim Pretty"--that was a nice compliment.
Zack could have been disqualified in his backstroke, because he turned around to the front right at the end to touch the wall, instead of going into the wall on his back. But, the officials must not have seen and he placed 2nd again with a time of 35.30, moving up to the silver time category and earning another 3 points for the team.
Kammie ready to start...
the take off...
Kammie improved her backstroke time by 5 seconds with a 24.95 finish and earned 1 more point for the Maumelle Marlins swim team.
Yeah! We're done and we did great! (Zack's relay team did get disqualified. The third swimmer jumped a bit before Zack touched the wall. Oh well.)
Zack in lane 1 (Also #1 of course.)
We've got to work on his entry and make it more of a dive...
Zack earned 3 points for his freestyle 2nd place finish. (His time was 27.90-a bit slower than last week.)
Kammie improved her freestyle time from 20.29 to 18.47, and is now in the gold time category. She got first place in her division for her freestyle and earned 5 points for the team. One of the coaches told her after her relay team lap that she was beautiful to watch. And she said her motto always is "Swim Pretty"--that was a nice compliment.
Zack could have been disqualified in his backstroke, because he turned around to the front right at the end to touch the wall, instead of going into the wall on his back. But, the officials must not have seen and he placed 2nd again with a time of 35.30, moving up to the silver time category and earning another 3 points for the team.
Kammie ready to start...
the take off...
Kammie improved her backstroke time by 5 seconds with a 24.95 finish and earned 1 more point for the Maumelle Marlins swim team.
Yeah! We're done and we did great! (Zack's relay team did get disqualified. The third swimmer jumped a bit before Zack touched the wall. Oh well.)
This is fun to hear about. We're doing swim team for the first time this summer--well, Adam is--so I'm learning new stuff about being a "swim parent." :-)
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