My girl has decided she IS a swimmer. It's summer vacation. She gets up at 5:30 and does a 2-hour long-course practice for high school swimmers... then she goes to our summer pool and does a 75 minute practice with her summer team... then she coaches for two hours as an assistant to her stroke coach. And she's happy the whole time. And excited, and yabbers about how awesome the drills were en route between the two pools. And goes back to the pool later in the day for recreation splashing. And then for Dive practice.
But more than that.... She had her first big win 6 months ago and hasn't looked back. That was great. And she's been winning events at our dual meets -which is cool -she just aged up so some girls could be 18 months older..... But as I was looking over the times today, I saw that she was the fastest
in the pool every meet, every stroke she swam. She's 13.5 and she's beating 17yo boys in the fly and the free (breastroke is her stroke, so we kinda expect that there....). that's pretty fuckin awesome. She didn't swim the backstroke race. (She's crap at that, comparitively
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So, do we get reduced citizenship fees for potential Olympians
07-10-2011, 09:59 PM
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