State Swim Meet

Good Morning to Everyone!  I hope everyone is doing well!  We had an amazing weekend in Butte/Missoula.  First of all, the State swim meet was supposed to be in Butte Fri-Sun, well when the teams showed up for warm ups on Friday morning, the temp was between 69-72 degrees and the water was so cloudy you could not see the bottom or the wall.  After a few hours of making calls around the state we ended up driving to Missoul and cramming the events from Friday into Saturday and Sunday.  What a day!

Boy the cards did not fall into Haylea's favor.  She had 6 events to swim on Friday...hard ones!  But to say the least...I was SO proud of her!  She dropped 8 secs EACH in the 200IM and 200 Back and taking 8th and 3rd place, dropped a whole second in the 50 back and took 4th, their relay smoked Bozeman and got a Sectionals time in the 4x100 relay taking 1st place, 7th in the 50 free (at the end of the day barely taking any time off, .01) so hard to do after racing so many races and at the end of the evening swimming the 500 Free shaving 13 secs off with a race with the girl next to her the last 150...Haylea edged her out at the end.  All of this on Friday..I was exhausted.  The pool was jammed packed with people and extremely loud!  So to swim that hard with all those races I don't think I could be anymore proud of her.

Sunday was so much better only 4 races 100 free and 100IM and 2 relays.  They were trying for another sectional time in the relays....we got it in 1 of the other relays...but to take 2nd place to Bozeman (boo).  The 100 free (4th place) Haylea took another half second off and to finish off her individual events she took 1.3 secs - off her 100IM-3rd Place...The girls team took 1st overall and the Team took first!  Great job BAC!

We are hoping to head out to Seattle in a few weeks to swim at Sectionals.  We are waiting to see if the other girls parents wishes are.  They are allowed to swim in a Time Trial on Friday and Saturday also.  So they could swim in the 2 relays and 1 event on Friday and Saturday each.  Just the experience would be a blast!

When I get the results from swim connection I will fwd those on.

Love, Heather