County Swim Meet Prelims

Jackson particpated in the county swim meet preliminaries yesterday. That is quite a marathon event let me tell you. We got up at 6:30 in the morning and made it there by 7:30 for warm-ups. The meet started at 9:00 am and we rushed out of there at 2pm, the second Jackson hopped out of the water after his last race, so we could babysit for a friend.
Jackson had a great time and he kept busy swimming 5 races. They are as follows.
1st - Medley relay - Jackson did backstroke (For those non-swimmers 4 kids/4 strokes-back, breast, fly and free)
2nd - Freestyle relay - 4 kids all doing freestyle
3rd - Backstroke
4th - Butterfly
5th - 50 meter Freestyle
The best swimmer in their age group, Will M., wasn't able to swim the relay with them because he got osteomyelitis in his toe. This is kind of like the star quarterback breaking his arm before the big game as Will's freestyle is like 6 seconds faster than everyone else! So the boys were bummed but another little boy, Will. L, stepped up to help the team out. Those boys swam their little hearts out and placed 6th in the freestyle relay and 10th in the medley relay. Yea!!! The top 10 teams come back for the County Finals today so we'll be back with the crew.

Taking a picture of 4, seven and eight year old boys is like trying to catch the wind. John S., Will L, Jackson and Sam made up the 8-U relay team.

The top 20 finishers in the individual events come back for the finals as well and Jackson placed in the top 20 for both backstroke and butterfly, too. So it looks like he'll be swimming in 4 events today. Pretty darn great considering he moved up an age group this year and is competitive! He is pretty excited for this big day. We'll let you know how it plays out.

Getting Ready