I was dragging my feet when I first heard Ellie mention doing swim team with her friend. I have done swim team in the past and it is a lot of driving. Every. Day. I love summer and I love not having a schedule so swim team was anything but appealing. However, after a little convincing from my friend I decided to sign Ellie up. We agreed to only go to 3 of the 5 practices each week and to carpool to each practice. That made it a lot easier on both of us. Plus, instead of being in the afternoon they had it in the morning which worked out well other activities we might want to do during the day.
Ellie is competitive. She likes to win (wonder where she gets that?!). She was so worried that she wouldn’t be any good at swimming. She couldn’t have been more wrong. It turns out, Ellie is quite a good swimmer. She is fast and focused which I find impressive for a six year old. She ended up winning several of her events and placing in all of them. I don’t think she got anything less than 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in her events. She had three meets and kept getting better each time. She came away from swim team with trophies and many, many ribbons. She wasn’t experienced enough to do the more complicated strokes. She would do the 25 freestyle, 50 freestyle and the 25 backstroke at the meets.
Ellie was really nervous to be on swim team. I am so proud of her for trying something new and giving it her all. Not only did she find a new sport that she was good at, but she gained a lot of confidence along the way. Love you Ellie!
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