Swim Team

Nolan did swim team this year.  Whenever we would see people at the pool or in the neighborhood we would be asked if we had done or would be doing swim team.  Kids can start pre-swim at age 4.  We didn’t do it last year because of being busy with a brand new baby but knew we would do it this year.  We had heard what a great program they had and how pre-swim would teach them how to swim if they weren’t swimming yet.  At the very first practice there was a little skills test to see what section of the pre-swimmers Nolan would be grouped with.  He was placed in the “better” group and practiced with the 6 and unders.  Within a short period of time he was swimming so well.  We were out of town for the first swim meet but had a few once we returned.  We were told that the beauty of pre-swim was that he would swim at the very beginning of the meet and we could go home after that.

At his first meet he jumped in and swam the entire length of the pool by himself with no help! During pre-swim there is a coach in each lane to help if needed. The coach said since he was doing so well he would be swimming an actual event at the next meet. This was great but meant we actually had to stick around the meet! He was in event 19 which was 25m freestyle. He swam in the last heat and came in dead 3^rd out of 3 swimmers in his heat. We were so proud of him for swimming all by himself though. The last meet of the season he once again swam the 25m freestyle. This time he was the second to last heat and came in 4^th out of 5 swimmers so he already improved by so much in just one week. Swim season is over now and I can’t say that I will miss the daily practices. He loved it so much though. I’m sure he will continue to practice his skills throughout the summer.