Rylan's meet was on Friday afternoon and Carter's was on Saturday morning at the Indoor Sports Complex (which is part of Williamson County Parks & Rec). Both boys did great! They both improved their times and we couldn't be prouder of how they did this season. Rylan is now a true swimmer. It's amazing how far he's come in a couple of months. These boys went to practice every single day and were excited to go. They never once complained.
Rylan swam the individual freestyle and backstroke events as well as the freestyle relay. Our team is still pretty small (it's only the second summer this pool has been open - I think we had around 150 swimmers). We were lucky to find four 6 & under boys to make a relay! One kid had refused to swim the individual events before the relay (luckily he swam the relay) and another is super, super slow. But they did it!
Freestyle: 34.90 seconds, 32nd place (best time by 2.27 seconds)
Backstroke: 34.48 seconds, 15th place (best time by 1.57 seconds)
Freestyle Relay: 03:18:46, 4th place
As far as awards go for this meet, for individual events, the kids get medals for 1st
- 8th place and ribbons for 9th - 16th place. For relay events, they get medals for 1st
- 8th place. Trophies are given to the top eight high point winners. Also, all 6 & under swimmers get a participation medal.
Rylan was very excited to get two medals and a ribbon!
I still can't believe Rylan got 15th in backstroke for the whole county!!! I'm so proud :)
Carter also got his best times of the season. Unfortunately (as expected), the stroke and turn judges were strict and Carter DQ'd in breast and fly. His medley relay team also DQ'd (not sure for what though). Hopefully Carter will get those two strokes down at the beginning of next season. I don't 100% understand the breaststroke kick and I think that is Carter's issue still. I believe he may have gotten DQ'd in fly for non-simultaneous arms. But he's trying and I'm super proud of him for that! I know he gets frustrated though and I wish I could help him more!
Here are Carter's times for the meet:
Freestyle: 26.47 seconds, 60th place (best time by 1.61 seconds)
Backstroke: 27.92 seconds, 38th place (best time by 0.49 seconds)
Breaststroke: DQ
Butterfly: DQ
Freestyle Relay: 01:43:82, 7th place
Medley Relay: DQ
Medley Relay: DQ
Carter's freestyle relay team also received a medal!
Rylan still has one more year in 6 & under and Carter still has one more year in the 7-8 age group. So they should technically both have better seasons next year since they will be older in these same age groups.
On Sunday our team had their end-of-season pool party. It was fun for the kids to have a couple of hours of free time to swim with their buddies!
We loved this team and will definitely be swimming with them again next summer. Coach Jim is extremely positive and encouraging to these kids. He includes everyone, no matter how good they are (we still had some at the end of the season that couldn't swim the length of the pool because they were too scared to try). He hires a ton of coaches and has just as many volunteer coaches who work with the youngest kids one-on-one.
We are already really missing our morning swim time!!! Even Gray and me!!!
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