Swim Meet #2

The boys had their second swim meet of the season on Tuesday.  The meet was a home meet for us again and we had to be at the pool by 7 am for warmups (though we got there around 6:40 am to make sure we got a good place to sit in the shade of the team's pop-up tents).

Rylan did the individual freestyle and backstroke races this race.  He was in the second heat of both races which meant he was racing against the weaker half of the swimmers in those events.  Rylan did awesome!  So awesome that he won heat ribbons in both events!!!  He placed 5th overall in both events as well.  He was so proud of those heat ribbons!

Rylan swam the freestyle race in 40.12 seconds (beating his time from last week by 11.63 seconds).  He swam the backstroke race in 1 minutes, 10.41 seconds.

Carter did amazing as well but had a tougher day.  This week he swam the individual backstroke and breaststroke races and participated in the freestyle and medley relays.  Unfortunately the stroke and turn judges were a lot stricter this week and DQ'd the 7-8 year old boys in almost all breaststroke and butterfly races.  The judges tend to be less strict in the summer because not that many of the kids swim year round but these judges seemed to record all infractions.

This was Carter's first time swimming breaststroke and he DQ'd.  He swam backstroke in the medley relay but the relay team DQ'd because of their breaststroke and butterfly.  So even though Carter swam in 4 events, his times were only recorded for 2 events.  He got 3rd place in both of those events though (which is really awesome!).  If Carter hadn't DQ'd, he would have been 2nd in breaststroke.

Here is a video of Carter swimming in the individual breaststroke event ...

Carter swam the backstoke race in 31.06 seconds (which beat his time from last week by 0.17 seconds).  His freestyle relay team swam the event in 2 minutes, 23.60 seconds (which was 7.29 seconds faster than last week).