Another Great Swim Meet

Nate had another great swim meet this weekend. This meet was a Dual Meet, which means just 2 teams. Its a smaller meet and goes much faster, so that part is nice. The coaches chose which events the kids swim and they can only swim in 4 events. This can be good and/or bad. The coaches chose the events based on what they think will get the team the most points, so the kids don't always get to swim their favorite event, and sometimes they don't even swim their best event, because someone else on the team might be good enough to get the same amount of points in that event and the coach might think you have a shot at getting some points in a different event.

Here's how Nate did:

100 yard Medley Relay- 1st Place: Nate really likes this event. He likes the team work of swimming with 3 other boys. Alec swam back stroke, JJ swam breast stroke, Ian swam butterfly and Nate swam freestyle. They took a couple seconds off last weekend's time. The other team didn't have a relay for this event so our team automatically got the blue ribbon, but that part doesn't matter to 8 year olds.

100 IM- 4th place; This event is still challenging for Nate. Its 1 length of each of the different strokes. Nate likes breast stroke but still struggles a bit with the kick. Last weekend he got his best time ever but got disqualified. Today we told him to focus on doing the strokes right. He was a little slower than last weekend but didn't get DQ'd so that's an improvement!

25 Butterfly- 2nd place: Nate likes the butterfly. Its a hard stroke but he seems to get the rhythm of it.

25 Backstroke- 1st place and a personal best time! Nate says he doesn't really like backstroke but he is really good at it. Last weekend one of his team mates edged him out in backstroke so today Nate wanted to win. He took off strong and led the whole way. You should have seen his face when he got out of the pool. Pure Joy!