WOW!!! Flowers at school...
Colin ended up doing GREAT on both days at his swim meet...we had a really good time! On the second day he ended up winning another medal for 8th place in the 25 yard breaststroke. He won 9th place in the 50 yard backstroke. We are so excited with what is to come with him...he only started on this swim team in August. He is a very determined competative little boy. The boys 8 and under group ended up winning the meet...because they had the most points. Since we had to leave on Sunday as soon as Colin was finished (because Jason and Kennedy had a stomach virus) they waited to take a group picture until Tuesday at swim so Colin could be there. It will be in the newspaper sometime later this week or next.
His times:
100 yard freestyle 149.35 sec. 15th place
25 yard backstroke 22.96 sec. 13th place
50 yard breaststroke 58.10 sec. 7th place
25 yard freestyle 19.79 sec. 16th place
25 yard breaststroke 25.69 sec. 8th place
50 yard freestyle 45.76 sec. 15th place
25 yard butterfly 24.91 sec. 14th place
50 yard backstroke 49.60 sec. 9th place...he was so mad after this one...he wanted to place at least 8th so he could get a medal.
WOW!! What a great day...Colin did so good. He placed 1st in his heat on 3 of the races he did today and 3rd on one...in case you don't know how this works I will TRY to explain. There are ususally about 4 groups that swim in the same race and there are only 1o lanes in the pool they have to break them down...heat 1 is ususally "no time" racers (kids who have never raced before). Then heat two is racers with times but are not the fastest racers and all the way to heat 4 with the fastest swimmers. From all of these groups of about 32-35 or so swimmers they take the fastest times...the top 8 in each race gets a medal...(this is really a big deal). Colin will get at least one medal tomorrow for the 50 meter breaststroke...since he placed 7th overall. On the other 3 he swam in he placed anywhere from 12-14..I think! I will be finalized tomorrow. I will list in the next few days all of the events he swam in and his times...and of course there will be more pictures to come after tomorrows race!!! We hope he does as well tomorrow...he is sort of getting the "big head" now that he knows he is getting a medal...we are trying really hard to tone him down! :)
