As some of you know, Spencer is now swimming on a competitive swim team. It's called SWAC, SouthWest Aquatics Club. His group is the Piranhas, which are 8 and under boys and girls. He started around the second week of April. Its been a big change from his once-weekly lessons through our YMCA. Once he tried out and made the team, its been a bit of a whirlwind ever since. He's got practice 4 nights a week for 45 minutes each. His strokes have improved, as well as his endurance. But he enjoys it so far.
This weekend was his first swim meet. SWAC hosts 4-5 meets a year. There are many other meets around the area and you can choose which ones to partipate in. This particular meet, the Spring Splash, was the last SWAC meet of the season. It was up to Spencer's 3 coaches (Coaches Amber, Brittany, and Kelly) on which events each swimmer will do. They try to pick the strokes the kids are best at and make them stretch themselves distance-wise. Spencer is definitely strongest in freestyle and backstroke. As such, he swam both in this weekend's meet. On Saturday, he swam the 50m backstroke and 100m freestyle. Today, he swam just the opposite, 50m freestyle and 100m backstroke. Here are his results:
50 backstroke: 14th overall (out of 21 swimmers), time 1:03.65 (minutes, seconds)
100 freestyle: 9th overall (out of 20 swimmers), time 1:50.27
50 freestyle: 8th overall (out of 20 swimmers), time 0:50.25
100 backstroke: 10th overall (out of 16 swimmers), time 2:13.34
Not bad considering this was his first competitive meet! Here's some video from the meet. The first video is the 50m backstroke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pA5v5zvqBM
This next video is the 50m freestyle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKJfb3QKxRU
I'll try to keep posting new videos as he competes.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
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