Sunday afternoon, Eli competed in his first County Swim Meet. As I've posted before, Eli had a great swim season this summer. He rose to the top of his team (in his age category), and he fared well in his races against other teams each week. When we finished out the season, his coach asked if he wanted to compete at the county level. I was surprised he wanted to, given that only a handful of kids from our team would be attending. In fact, Eli was the only participating swimmer under 9 years old from our neighborhood team.
Touch pads, high diving blocks and all, Eli decided to compete in the 25Freestyle and Backstroke. We did not expect Eli to place, but we knew he could improve his times, so that's what we emphasized. Eli improved his freestyle time by over 1/2 second, which we expected. His backstroke (which we didn't focus or work on this season) improved over 4 1/2 seconds and he upped his county ranking from 29th to 21st.
Eli's 25M Freestyle:
25.21" (17th of 41)
Eli's 25M Backstroke:
31.03" (21st of 30)
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