It's been a busy summer of swimming culminating in some great news! First, Julia swam in the Narragansett All Pool Meet on August 6th and 7th. Her goal was to make it to swim in the finals (top 16) of at least two events. I am very proud to say that she accomplished that in BOTH her events - Individual Breaststroke and Butterfly. And on Sunday she finished 13th in breaststroke and 12th in butterfly! She was thrilled!!
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| ready! |
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| take your mark! |
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| the first three medals! |
At the swim banquet she received her first three medals as well as the Coaches Award! It was given to 5 swimmers on the team who had the best attitude, participation, flexibility and overall good spirit. Julia showed up at practice everyday with a smile on her face, ready to jump in the pool. Her excitement was evident and her coaches noticed!
The second bit of news is that on the following day, about 4 hours after she was lamenting to me how sad she was that summer swim team was over, she was promoted to the year-round swim team at the swim club that she takes lessons from, Envious Swimming! So she is now a year-round swimmer with practice 3 times a week. She was beyond excited and literally could not keep the smile off her face - it was fantastic to see! She kept saying that she had been working so hard to make this goal, and she had finally achieved it. Which was exactly what she did do but it was nice for me to hear her recognize the direct connection. Our schedule is going to have a change a bit but we're thrilled that she's found something that she absolutely loves!
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