the power of a team

OK this swim team thing is just so much more than we expected. We want our kids to grow up being apart of teams to learn to respect and follow a coach and to understand supporting and working as a team. Our swim team totally provides that. There are 4 of the cutest assistant coaches who are teenagers. (two of them go to our church which is great because we knew them) They are like youth camp counselors who are just constantly patting them on the back and supporting them. The have the most awesome chants and cheers. Every week they have a theme for the meet. Today was Mission Impossible. So when our team came out they were in all black with the theme playing and they came out of no where scaling the walls. Last week was Rocky. It really builds team spirit and gets the kids excited. The Swim coach is like something out of a Disney movie. He is cute, wears his Boston visor backwards, energetic, runs along side the pool during every meet, jumps in the pool during practice to give high fives when they do something great, is just a total motivator, teaches the kids the importance of being on time, demands respect and deserves every bit of it.
so, this is what we were hoping for by having her join the team, but the fact she could swim and do well, this is just a bonus and total shock!

She got to swim again in the Saturday meet and swim three events. Freestyle, Breast stroke & back stroke. She placed in each one and won the breast stroke. She was part of a three man sweep for back stroke which does not happen very often so that was so great!I can't believe I got a shot of the reach

When she swam the breast stoke it was down the wire and she was even behind, but at the very end she reached as far as she could and touched the end of the pool a tenth of a second before the girl who got second.this was her looking up at the timer to see her time ( I don't know why but the coach always says "get your time!" when they are done. She has no idea what is a good time but always looks up to find out.

What is so fun about this whole thing is that she doesn't even really care about winning and is almost surprised every time she gets out of the pool.

Jeff, who I often say does not show his emotions, surprised even me and was all emotion. He was like a cricket jumping all around the edge of the pool and smiling from ear to ear! Sporting events is his arena and cheering for his kids comes so natural to him. This is his dream to cheer for his kids and watch them compete. Today really almost seemed too good to be true!