Division C Championship Swim Meet

Yesterday, we had our last swim meet of the summer swim league season. Although we're glad to get some free time back, it's been an exciting season, with Eric swimming faster and faster and beginning to start swimming breaststroke and butterfly (although not legally yet), and especially seeing Natalie swim in races again.

I took this first picture at Momak's Backyard Malts and Burgers, where we had our team party and awards after the meet. We sat outside for the first time. Usually we sit in the balcony area there, but we had more room outside, and we could keep a closer eye on the kids playing in their large play area. Luckily the weather cooperated with us and it didn't rain, but there was a nice breeze keeping the temperatures tolerable. Interestingly, Patrick went inside a few times so he could keep an eye on the World Cup Group of 16 game of Brazil vs. Chile.

Natalie didn't oblige me with a picture of her with her medals, but at least she let me take this picture of her with two of her friends who swam in the Medley Relay with her.

Everyone got a personalized team trophy. Eric got a fifth place ribbon for the 100 yard Freestyle Relay and a fifteenth place ribbon for the Backstroke. He got a third place medal for the 100 yard Medley Relay. Natalie got four medals--3 gold and 1 bronze (for 25 yard Freestyle). Natalie's teammate (who got first place in the 25 yard Freestyle ahead of Natalie) won the award for being the top point-getter, and apparently Natalie was just behind her by one point.

Now, for the boring part of the post, Eric and Natalie's meet results are as follows:

Eric--
Boys 8 and Under 100 yard Freestyle Relay (Leg 2)--They came in last out of five teams with a time of 1:41.89.

25 yard Free--Converted Seed time 29.25--Final time 30.08 (31 out of 33).
25 yard Back--Converted Seed time 34.34--Final time 31.76 (15 out of 30).

Boys 8 and Under 100 yard Medley Relay (Leg 4--Freestyle)--They came in last out of five teams, but two of the teams were disqualified, so they got third place with a time of 1:58.32.

Natalie--
Girls 11-12 100 yard Freestyle Relay (Leg 4)--They came in first (easily) with a time of 55 plus seconds, but they were disqualified because supposedly Natalie left early, but she was sure that she saw her teammate touch the wall before she took off. Two of our other girls' freestyle relays were also DQ'd, which really hurt since our team came in 4th place out of the five teams only by around 200 points, and the top 3 were within 12 points of each other. Each relay counts as 40 points for coming in first place.

25 yard Free--Converted Seed time 12.00 (not real)--Final time 14.32 (3 out of 28). They were manually timing the races and it looked pretty close. First place had a time of 13.98 seconds, and second place had a time of 14.09 seconds.
25 yard Back--Converted Seed time 16.19--Final time 15.93 (1st).
25 yard Fly--Converted Seed time 15.85--Final time 15.12 (1st).

Girls 11-12 100 yard Medley Relay (Leg 4 Freestyle)--They easily got first place out of five teams with a time of 1:10.84.