Our 3 Miracles: Swim season and first meet results

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Swim season and first meet results

We are back into swim season again. Sarah is loving is and especially loves having two friends from another ward in the stake. (Random side note: Sarah met these girls at the Women's Broadcast in March and they really hit it off. She saw them again at my mission reunion as their dad served in my mission (we didn't know that there was that connection); so weird that she'd met them just a couple weeks before. And now they are on her swim team. She's loving it!)

Team picture day. Do you see Sarah?

With Renee and Ellee.

Our cute swimmer!

Yesterday was the first swim meet of the season. Sarah did really well. In freestyle, butterfly and breaststroke, her time was her best time ever and in backstroke, it was her second fastest time. Not bad considering the lack of swimming since last summer! Here are all of her times:

Freestyle: 41.18 seconds (first in heat)

Backstroke: 50.75 seconds (second in heat)

Breaststroke: 1 minute 1.71 seconds (second in heat)

Butterfly: 50.56 seconds (first in heat)

We definitely knew she was having an "on" day when she took off flying for her freestyle race. She won that heat by a few body lengths!

The placement in her heat is simply that. They don't group the kids by time, just by age. In a different heat, her placement may have been different. For instance, in breaststroke (which I timed, so I can compare her time to other heats), she was second in her heat. In other heats, she would have been first and there was one where she would have been 4th or 5th. So it really depends. It's why we like to look at times and how her time changes from meet to meet instead of placement within the heat. However, her time for butterfly was definitely one of the top times for 9-10 year old girls and it was faster than any of the 9-10 boys. She really loves that stroke and boy does she fly!

Getting ready for her first race. I love how serious she looks!