Southridge Ice Breaker Day 1

An amazing day today! Rachel said at the beginning of the meet, "I'm going to win every race!" Well, she didn't do that, exactly, but she did shell out some amazing (for her) swims. Her first race was the 100 Freestyle. Her seed time was only .5 of a second from a B time...and she wanted it! She won her heat, and took off 7 1/2 seconds! Her time was 1:31.77; she swam it in 1:24:15. She is now only 2 seconds away from the divisional time in the 100 free! She came in 15th out of 42. Then came the 50 Backstroke. She cut off .23 of a second (Her time is now 47.56). Next was the 50 breast stroke, in which she cut another .59 of a second and swam it in 56.14. Her last individual event was the 100 butterfly. She led all the way until the very end, and was out-touched by another swimmer. She made another small cut of .29 second, down to 1:51.68. She placed 14th out of 20 (The 100 fly usually doesn't have a lot of takers at this age!) Then, the swim that stands out as the most exciting...Rachel was substituted onto the 200 Medley relay B team due to a couple of swimmers from the team not being there. They put her as the anchor, swimming the freestyle leg of the medley. She started out her swim being a fair distance behind the leading team. She showed some grit and determination, and passed the leader at the end, resulting in her team winning their heat! All the parents from our team were SCREAMING at the top of their lungs...it was so exciting!!!! She swam the 50 free (according to the stopwatch of another parent) in under 36 seconds...more than a second under the divisional time! So....if she can do that again tomorrow...we will be heading to Columbus IN in March! (Lord willing.) Stay tuned.... : - )