AKA "Connor's First Swim Meet" (with the exception of seeing Auntie Laura swim while I was pregnant!)
Oh wait, a quick pic with almost uncle Jay from the night before!
Connor and I went with uncle Will to his team pasta dinner. Swimmers also usually shave before a big meet - helps you to feel more streamlined and quick in the water. Here is the "before"...
Coach Shannon starting the balding process.
Coach Jamie finishing it up.
Now Will and Connor look more alike! Today Will looked in a mirror and said, "Ah! I'm bald! I keep forgetting til I see myself." Hahaha.
Go F-M!
I pulled out my green '98 sectionals shirt and my "F-M Swimming and Diving" hoodie (circa 1996) for this one...it was a big deal!
Okay so after a long walk into the pool, we were in plenty of time for the first event, the medley relay. Will had told me the night before that even though they had already gotten the state cut time, they were out to beat West Genessee, who had a faster seed time. The medley relay (for you non-swimmer readers) consists of 4 people each swimming 50 yds. The first person swims backstroke, the next breaststroke, the next butterfly, and the last (Will) freestyle. West Genny was ahead by about a half a body length to a full body length through most of the relay. Here is Will off the block...you can see the kid from WG is in slightly ahead (his feet are sticking out of the water!)
Will crept up on him throughout the 50 years (which is a very short amount of time/distance to catch someone and they hit the wall almost together - not that you can really see from my long distance pic from behind the railing.
Well, after screaming and screaming we all looked at the clock and F-M had done an amazing time of 1:37.87. West Genny had a 1:37.88. Will did exactly what a strong swimmer should and didn't let up at all - touched the competition out by one one-hundredth of a second! They will fae each other again on Sunday, should be exciting! Oh, and for all you swimmer readers, his split was a 22.30 which was a personal best and totally awesome!
Will crept up on him throughout the 50 years (which is a very short amount of time/distance to catch someone and they hit the wall almost together - not that you can really see from my long distance pic from behind the railing.
Well, after screaming and screaming we all looked at the clock and F-M had done an amazing time of 1:37.87. West Genny had a 1:37.88. Will did exactly what a strong swimmer should and didn't let up at all - touched the competition out by one one-hundredth of a second! They will fae each other again on Sunday, should be exciting! Oh, and for all you swimmer readers, his split was a 22.30 which was a personal best and totally awesome!Here is their relay team and WG (#2) all trying to fit on the awards podium!
Will's 2nd individual event was 100 breaststroke - he's the baldy closest to the bottom of this pic. His time was 1:06.27, which put him in 8th place after the Class A prelims. I took a video of his 50 Free swim, which was also excellent, but of course....can't manage to get it onto the blog!
Connor was wearing his green and white frogs to cheer for uncle Will - but this is how he spent most of the meet because it was extremely hot and sweaty. I can't tell you how many people made comments like, "Lucky! Wish I was dressed like him!" Lol...he did such a great job at the meet, being Will's biggest fan!
Here's will getting his 8th place award from breaststroke.
Yay Will! Can't wait for finals!
Whoa Baby!
Connor was wearing his green and white frogs to cheer for uncle Will - but this is how he spent most of the meet because it was extremely hot and sweaty. I can't tell you how many people made comments like, "Lucky! Wish I was dressed like him!" Lol...he did such a great job at the meet, being Will's biggest fan!
Here's will getting his 8th place award from breaststroke.
Yay Will! Can't wait for finals!P.S. We weren't with Laura but she also did AWESOME swimming today! She swam a 57.2 in the 100 butterfly and placed 12th overall. WOOOOOOO!
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