Triangle Aquatic Center (TAC) in Cary hosted their Halloween Bash Meet on Halloween weekend and Brock's Lifetime Swim Team was invited. This was the big time! TAC is where the best swimmers swim in the Triangle - Olympian Claire Curzan of Cary swims there!
Brock was on the tv (broadcast on tvs inside only)! Lane 5! Pretty cool to see his last name on his lane!
Brock's 25m Fly video. We were all the way up in the stands and we didn't see his jump from the block.
He swam amazingly! Best personal record! 17:07 SMOKED the competition.
Unfortunately, we would find out later, his time was disqualified. We were so bummed for Brock. The referees were not messing around at this meet. Brent had downloaded the app and we saw that within each event, probably 35% of all competitors were disqualified. Brock's Coach inquired on why - "asynchronous arms". We don't see it.... and to DSQ an eight year old for that?? Ugh.
We had to wait a bit between each event (first event was #26 heat #4, and second event was numbered #32, heat 3). Second event was his 25m Freestyle.
He had some tough competition, but secured first place in his heat (and the entire meet!). TAC has touch pads to ensure the timing for each event is accurate - more exact when the human element is taken out of the equation.
Last event was Brock's 50m Breaststroke. This event was a 10 & Under event (so he was up against 9 and 10 year olds!)
Coach David and Brent assumed he'd place top 5 or so out of all competitors - nope, he secured a first place spot for this event too! (Look at how much taller the boy to the left of Brock is in the video!)
Only swimmers and coaches were allowed down on the floor, so Brock's Coach wrote each swimmer's events on their arms so they would know when was their turn!
Brock's celebratory meal - Cook-out cheeseburger & cookies & cream milkshake. He's a happy boy!
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