First of all, we got the girls’ swim pictures back. I love the picture the photographer took of the pair of them together.
I think that one is going up on our wall somewhere.
I am also very humored by the team picture.
Notice any one swimmer looking different from the rest?
Why Bri is raising her hand is anyone’s guess! But I think it’s pretty funny.
Swim season is over, and we haven’t gotten the results of the last meet, but I’m so proud of both girls. Bri could swim a length of the pool at the beginning of the year and not much more. By the end of the season she had managed to compete breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly without being disqualified. Swimming a 25 butter is no joke! Her fastest time was 32 seconds for the 25 free, which is not bad at all.
Isla drastically improved her swim times. In freestyle, she came with a 27 s PR for the 25 free, and finished with a 19 s PR for the 25 and 46 s PR for the 50. She improved her backstroke PR from 34 s for the 25 to 52 s for the 50. She improved her breaststroke PR from 34 s for the 25 to 1:01 for the 50. She went from being DQ’d in the butterfly to swimming 23 seconds for a 25 butter. And she swam 1:45 for the 100 free and 1:54 for the IM. She learned how to do a freestyle flip turn and did it in most of her meets.
Both girls had a blast and loved their wonderful coaches. Swim team is intense in the summer, but it’s one of the most fun things we do. For about eight weeks, it seems like we’re constantly at the pool, but the girls (mostly) love it, and I really enjoy watching as well.
