Tag: swim team

Entering the world of swimming

Samantha loves to swim.  I’m not sure how that happened because she was terrified of the water for several years.  We had some good lifeguard swim instructors from ages 3-5, and she slowly began to enjoy the water.  I had no idea just how much she would enjoy it.

At the end of summer 2014, she was so sad to say goodbye to our neighborhood pool.  We had been bouncing around at sports, so we decided the next sport would be swimming.  After calling around and ending up at the Y, we started in this weird world of swimming.

We go back to our neighborhood pool during the summer, but we have been swimming twice a week for 2 years now.  It’s great exercise and she enjoys it.  I finally convinced her to try a swim meet.  She loves being timed, but was afraid of the competition from some reason.  After much convincing, we finally made it.

She had a blast.  She only swam in four races (a 25 m of each of the strokes) but she did come in 1st in her heat during two of those races.  Lots of fun.  She wants to try more of the smaller meets.  What an interesting world.

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Swim Team

I try to encourage an active lifestyle for the girls, although I don’t do a good job myself.  We have been trying to find a sport for Samantha since she was 2.9.  We’ve tried 3 sports so far, but none have really been her thing.  However, each summer, we swim and swim and swim.  Lots.  She loves it.  Because she has become so confident this summer, I decided to give swim team a go for the fall.  We are already doing soccer, but I keep telling myself that soccer is only 8 weeks…

So, off we go to the pool two or three times per week.  She likes it so far, but she is in the lowest group while she is working on perfecting her strokes.  She can’t wait until she gets her swim cap.

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Meanwhile, her sister is a trouper while being drug around to all these after school activities.  She can find the best of most situations.  She, on the other hand, discovered gymnastics at a very early age, and has been smitten.  She would probably be smitten with dance too, but I don’t have the courage to let her do more activities yet.  We still need to add piano lessons to the list.