Swim Team '11

This year, all four of our kids were on swim team! We had a great time going to meets as a family. Yes, it's hours of sitting in the HEAT, but we bring shade & food & drinks and it's really fun watching the kids compete. Also, I love that the kids got up early every morning for 6 weeks and spent an hour swimming laps during practice.
The true athlete with her swim cap and gatoradeThe kids mostly got "average" placement in their races, but they were happy with that.

The kids each swam in their preliminary meet to try to qualify for the championship meet. Molly was the only one of our kids to qualify, which she did in the 50-yd breaststroke. The top 16 times qualified, and Molly had the #12 spot going into the Championship.

(We had some time to kill at the championship meet...)

Molly's heat was made up of the slower 8 swimmers, and she won the heat! We didn't know until the end of the meet, though, how she'd placed overall. Her prelim's time for this event had been around 56 seconds, and at the Championship meet she swam it in 50! Shaved a full six seconds off her time! So... she ended up getting the 3rd place medal! How exciting!

Here she is posing (and flexing) with her medal while we were at Lake Powell ... I occasionally have her flex for people because I'm so impressed by this girl's muscles! Hooray for a great swim team season!