Swim Team

Another summer, another swim team season.  Ella and Jack swim A LOT over the course of the six weeks of swim season, but I think being a part of the team is mostly about hanging around with friends (oh, and the snack bar food at meets).  Ella moved up to the 11-12’s this year which meant 50m races—as only a summer swimmer, that was quite an adjustment but she really built up her stamina throughout the season.  Jack was in the 9-10s, a tough group with a deep group of year-round swimmers but he hung pretty well and was on the rotation for the A relay team.  As the years go on the performance gap between summer swimmers and year-round swimmers grows, but Ella and Jack still both racked up ribbons this year.  We’re so proud of them for all of their hard work on the swim team! 
Here are just some highlights from the season (among them, Jack’s many goggle malfunctions…he swam about half of his races with no goggles or goggles around his neck and even lost a pair of goggles somewhere between the parking lot and the opposing team’s pool):  









I took photos of the entire swim team and this is the slideshow I created for the team at the end of the season: