Summer Swim Part I

First Summer swim meet was held Tuesday, June 14th against the Regency Riptides! Very first summer swim season for Kade! Cut-off is June 1st for Summer Swim, so because he has a June birthday, Kade swam with the 6 & unders. 

After a few relays from the bigger kids (6 & unders don't do relays), Kade swam his 14m Free at 14:31, earning second place! His time for backstroke was 17:60 (swimming 2nd heat), but unfortunately earned his first and only DQ this season on his breast stroke. 

Kade is in lane 3 - spending the longest time underwater of all the competitors. 

Brock's turn!

Brock swam 25m Free at 17:09, securing a second place finish behind the Regency boy - his buddy, Garrett, from baseball actually! Backstroke is his least favorite stroke (even though he's still really good at it), so he swims 2nd heat - backstroke time 22:87.  

He placed first in Breaststroke and Butterfly, with a time of 24:57 and 19:13, respectively. 

Here's Brock's breaststroke win!

So nice to be back with his old teammates! 

Brock lined up on Lane 3. 

We missed the next meet because we were at the beach, but picked back up for June 28th's swim meet at Dutchman Downs - our first away meet since 2019! Now this pool is different - a yard pool.  

Kade swam really well - placing first in Freestyle with a 15:50 time for 15 yards, 21:40 for Backstroke (2nd heat) and 23:06, placing Third for 15 yard Breast. 

Brock was ready - swimming against another old baseball teammate! This time, he secured his First place Freestyle win with 15:47 for 25yards. 

Brock with the blue swim cap in the middle, Baseball buddy Max to his left

Brock swam second heat for 25y Back (20:03), placed first for 25y Breast (21:19), placed first for 25y Butterfly (17:90) and was the anchor for the 100y medley relay with a team time of 1:31:54 for 100y. 

There was a lot of downtime and tried to make it fun by bringing beyblades and legos for the boys to play with. 

The next meet we were back at Lifetime! July 5th we went against Woodcreek. The request for this meet were lightning bolts down all the boys' backs!

Kade had a GREAT night! He started the night with Freestyle, placing Fourth with an 18:28 (14m), but shortly made up for that, winning his 14m Breaststroke with a time of 23:85, for a blue ribbon! Look at him looking around at his competition!

He was also needed in the 7-8 year old 100m Freestyle Relay (because they didn't have enough boys to swim) and helped secure 3rd place for Lifetime! He really gave it his all!!

More boys and more lightning bolts. 

Brock was ready, but he had some mighty competition this night. He placed first with his 25m Free at 17:13! 

Competition was stiff and beat out Brock in Breaststroke and Butterfly - he did well enough to earn second place in both (23:22 in Breast and 18:66 in Butterfly).