It was unexpected when Toby announced that he wanted to join the swim team at our pool. Mainly because he had shown no interest when his cousin signed up back in May, and the team started daily practices through June, and started with a swim meet at the end of June.
So when he told us he wanted to sign up, he was already a month behind on practicing, not to mention being a total rookie - it took us a couple weeks to even get him to take the deep water test to use the slide this year!
His first swim meet was a couple of days later, and he was put in to swim the butterfly and backstroke. He was disqualified for form from the butterfly race, and cried about the backstroke, refusing to swim it!
For the next few weeks he was doing the butterfly every meeting, and then freestyle in a relay and breast stroke. He went to practice at 8:30am five days a week, learning the strokes and how to dive off the blocks.
We were both surprised and proud when we found out his times at the league semi-finals last Saturday, were enough to be in the top 6, from 8 teams! So, this week we headed to the league championships, for a butterfly and breaststroke.
It was unseasonably chilly and wet, but he gave it his all, coming in 4 of 6 in both races.
But that was more than enough for him to receive this award at tonights banquet!
It was a short season, with daily practice and weekly competitions, but Toby seemed to thrive on it and is sad that he won't be carrying on for the rest of the summer. We'll have to see where it goes from here!
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