Swim

Sarah's life right now consists mostly of school and swimming. She is enjoying swim. We have been able to watch her swim at a few meets and snapped a few pictures. Most are from a meet in Scottsdale over Fall Break.

Swimming freestyle at her first home meet courtesy of the team photographer.
(Me timed this event and so wasn't able to get photos.)

Pictures from Scottsdale:

Ready to start the meet with the backstroke leg of the 200 Medley Relay. (She swam a 50 yard backstroke.)

A couple photos of her swimming backstroke.

Diving in for the 500 yard freestyle. This is a long race (20 laps) and the swimmers have people who help them by counting laps for them. Me timed her splits and, with the exception of the first lap which was a few seconds faster, each lap took her about the same amount of time (within 1-2 seconds). Her coach was impressed with how consistently she swam, saying that it's unusual for a freshman to show such consistency. Go Sarah!

Swimming those laps! When she finished, she said she wasn't even that tired.

Waiting to swim her leg of the 400 Freestyle relay.

Diving in as soon as the previous swimmer finishes.

Look at her go!

In case you are wondering why Sarah swam in the events she did, here's a little background. In meets, swimmers can swim in up to 4 events, either 3 relays and 1 individual event or 2 relays and 2 individual events. The coaches determine in advance who is swimming in each event/relay. Sarah typically swims in 2 relays and 2 individual events. However, at the Scottsdale meet, she swam in 2 relays (200 Medley swimming backstroke and 400 Freestyle Relay) and 1 individual event (the 500 yard freestyle). She'd also been scheduled to swim the 50 freestyle but the coach decided at the last minute to have her skip the 50 freestyle since it occurs right before the 500 freestyle.