We love Swimming

      Lauren has tried of soccer(which I am not at all upset about), so we have been looking for a new sport. She has always been my little water baby, sometimes concerning her mother with how long she would hold her breath in the tub, so we thought we would try swimming.  We joined the local club team, called Rock Creek Flyers, starting with pre-team. We did not have any actually meets, but a few mock meets that were very fun.

Very Serious about the backstroke

 

Ready on the blocks

Top Lane - working hard

Lower Lane -the race is on

Big improvements off the blocks- with amazing help from Coach Lisa

Look at her go! She had a lot of improvement with her form 

   We had practices three times a week for about 6 weeks and she had an immense amount of improvement over those few weeks. I am not completely sure that she knew she was racing that first meet, so that might make up some of the longer times. She certainly did get better as the summer went on. Best thing is she had fun!

   
  Here are some stats from the season... I am sure she will be so ready to compete on the team next summer.

       25M          First Meet                                         Last Meet                                 Improvement
Breaststroke      1:08.38                                               48.12                                           20.26
Backstroke        52.37                                                  46.06                                            6.37
Butterfly            1:21.32 *                                            40.88                                           40.44
Freestyle            54.15                                                  45.93                                            8.22

* She might have not really realized at the first meet it was a race and stopped to adjust the her googles for a few seconds..... so