ELLISON: First Swim Meet of the Season

Thursday, June 20, 2013

First Swim Meet of the Season

On Saturday Chloe had her first Swim Meet of the Season. Despite the tough competition she totally rocked! She swims in the 9-10 year old division this year and just turning 9 she is up against some pretty good 10 year olds. In fact one of the girls she was swimming against could stay under water for almost the entire first length-it was impressive. Not to be outdone Chloe has for the last few days been practicing staying under water for farther-ha ha. She also has to swim 50 meters this year instead of 25, which now involves a flip turn on some of the races.

Here are the numbers
200 Meter Free Relay-her team took second with a time of 3:28.11
50 Meter Breast- Chloe took 3rd out of 21 girls with a time of 1:05.13
100 Meter IM-Chloe took 4th out of 5 with a time of 2:11.45 (this is a really hard race-not many swim it)
200 Meter Medley Relay-her team took second with a time of 4:26.63
50 Meter Free Chloe took 3rd out of 24 with a time of 51.03

Her coach said this might kind of be Chloe's slow year, since she will be one of the youngest in her age division and also since she is just so tiny compared to the other girls. I'd say those are pretty good results for a slow year :) However, she might not get the first place wins like she was used to a lot last year, but that's okay as long as her time is improving each time.