Fish out of water...

Kids, it's your mom here and she's going to report on your swim team results.  So, the results are ...YOU ARE ALL FISH OUT OF WATER!!!!!

Kalen, Gwyneth, Reece, and Georgia how is it that not just a one of you but all of you are fish?  Oh yeah, your dad is a fish.  I guess that'll do it because you kids are the BOMB swimmers!!! 

Okay, on a more serious note the report is as follows...

 

Kalen swam for this "family" swim team, the Encore Dolphins, last year along with Gwyneth and Reece.  He showed some great skills and was asked on to another year round swim team called Quicksilver.  He has swam for Quicksilver all year long.  Encore is not year round.  That has surely paid off, to swim all year.  When he started Encore a few weeks ago, he had to be bumped up to the last age group.  He practices with the fifteen through eighteen year olds but competes in the twelves.

 

Kalen is in second place.  The kid in first place is super good.  He's always first.  But, Kalen is so close with him.  His mom actually found me last year and asked me how long Kalen had been swimming and I told her it was his first season.  She said, "wow, we've got competition." 

 

Kalen came in at 3rd place for his entire age group in the Free Style event.  This is out of about forty kids that he placed third.
 

They all handle pressure differently.  Some are proud, some are praying.  Ya know...  :)
 

They post time results every thirty minutes.
 

Reece is up for one of his events and his big brother is coaching him.  No surprise there.
 

I'm learning that a race can be lost right off the blocks.  So it's super important to learn how to dive off of these things efficiently.  Reece took first in this event.  He's ahead the whole time.
 

Sweet Coach Bryan is leading the "sixes" to the event tent where they wait to get on the blocks.
 

This was a proud moment.  This girl is six.  Six people!  I've seen her swim at the pool, but that's just playing around and at practice I don't see her very well because she's on the far side of the pool.
 

Man, she dove in and those other swimmers didn't stand a chance!!  I was star struck.  Yes, my daughter is a star!  I can't even swim like this for Pete's Sake!
 

You don't see the other swimmers because they are so far behind.  Just clarifying is all.  :)
 

After her big win, her big sister was there to give her a hug.
 

Gwyneth is goofing around under the event tent waiting to be placed.
 

Doesn't she look like a professional?  I thought so too!
 

She's neck and neck with a swimmer from Santa Theresa.  They are one of the best swim teams in the league.  Gwyneth and another girl are the top two swimmers on their team, Encore Dolphins.
 

Gwyneth pulls ahead.
 

Also neck and neck with the same girl during the back stroke.
 

Luckily random girls just kept coming under our tent and holding William.  I had no idea who most of them were, but it was great to have free babysitting. :)
 

I love watching you kids swim.  Swimming is hard and you are great at it but you also love it and have fun with it.  Until next swim meet...GO FISH OUT OF WATER!!!!!