County swim meet

Once again, I'm very proud of our little athlete. Last Thursday and Friday brought the county swim meet at Emory University. Thursday was the preliminary round where all swimmers in the 8 and under age group swam to qualify for Friday's finals. Evan swam in the 6 and under team relay, the individual freestyle and backstroke. The top 10 relay teams advance and the top 20 individual swimmers in each race advance. Though Evan didn't advance in either of his individual events, his relay team qualified (with the second best time) to advance to the finals.

We had a lot of time in the "bullpen" on Thursday between warm-ups and Evan's events, so we got a little creative and tried to re-produce the Wahoo team logo onto Evan's back in sharpie marker. I am NOT an artist, but I was pretty proud of the result. (I did not take pictures of the logos drawn by the mothers who do have some artistic talent. You would be much less impressed with mine if you saw theirs.)

Here is Evan with his buddy, Jason, from our neighborhood. Jason swims the anchor leg of their relay team and took 2nd place in the county for both the freestyle and the backstroke.

Here's the whole 6 and under boys relay team. (I took about 6 pictures of them and this was the best one. I guess it is hard to get four 6 year olds to hold still for a picture when they are hyped up on sugar and competition.) They took THIRD place in the county meet! We are SO very proud. Evan swam his little heart out.

This is Evan getting ready to climb onto the block for his leg of the relay in Friday's finals.