Lenexa Lazers vs. Roeland Park Stingrays

The 2017 Swim Team season has arrived! First of all I just have to say YAY for Morgan for getting up early every weekday morning to go to swim team practice on her Summer break! She’s so stinkin’ cute and never utters a complaint.

Tonight was her 1st meet for the 2017 summer season with our community swim team, Lenexa Lazers. This was a long course meet – meaning the pool is a 50m pool, so no flip turns necessary unless competing in a 100m race.

I’m definitely Morgan’s super fan and we have gotten our swim meet packing down to a science along with staking out a good spot on the side of the pool. However, tonight I was quickly reminded how much swim families annoy me! I think I’ve said this before and I’m apologizing up front for offending any ‘swim teamers’ but seriously! They holler out and act ridiculous on the side of the pool and don’t they know that the swimmers cannot hear them!? There’s a lot of weird cheering and I choose to go about my business like I normally do at sporting events. I know this is going to sound weird, but I actually watch what is going on and keep my comments to myself. Particularly when I’m at a swim meet. I mean you blink your eye and your swimmer has made it to the other end of the pool so you better pay attention! I’ve only missed 1 race because I wasn’t on the ball and I will never do that again! I mean all this effort – at least SEE the 30-50 seconds they’re in the pool!

Both of us were cracking up that we didn’t even know if her times were good tonight! I really have zero competitive bones in my body so just watching this cute face does it for me! Way to go MoMo!We should probably brush up on her previous times so we have something to compare it to! All I really noticed is that she is very strong in the first 25 meters then she loses momentum. But the fact that anyone can make it that far in less than a minute mesmerizes me regardless! After checking the app tonight, I see that she got 5th out of 16 swimmers in 50 freestyle with a 38.28 time, 2nd out of 8 swimmers in Back Stroke, 48.13 seconds, and 5th out of 12 swimmers in 50 Breaststroke, 56.99 seconds. Hey – sounds great to me and since she said she could barely feel her legs after her first swim, I’m thinking these finishes have to be a success!She has meets against other community swim teams every Thursday night so we have much more swimming to come!

In the meantime, this little darling has begged and pleaded to join Lenexa Lazers and since I’ve clearly proven I can’t say no to kids’ activities, here she is soooo excited to put on her swim cap for the first time!