This post is a recap of the events finishing up Faith's Junior year of swim team-- both her high school team and her club team. February feels like one big, long swim meet, and it is exciting and fun to see all the hard work pay off at the end of the season. Here is Faith before heading off for the 6A High School State Championship down at BYU.
She qualified for several individual events, but each swimmer can only swim 2 individual events. She decided on the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke, plus the 200 medley relay swimming backstroke.
Here's the thing--- if you don't have a really good camera and you aren't down on deck, it's pretty much impossible to get really good pictures at a swim meet. And yet, six years into high school meets, I keep trying. Faith is in the gray suit second from the bottom.
I do know of a fellow swim parent who got a lot of great pictures. I'll try to get a hold of some of those to share.
Do you see Faith's facial expression in this picture? For the sake of truth and transparency, let it be known that that is an accurate depiction of how she felt about me for most of the month of February. Parent/teenager growing pains--that's how it goes sometimes. And then things get better as we try to understand each other and communicate. And we witness tender little mercies and angels stepping in to help soften our hearts.
At the end of last year's high school state championship meet she declared that next year she WOULD medal and make the podium. And if you know Faith, you know she did just that! She got 8th place in the 100 fly.
She is on the far right-- I guess technically she is not on the podium, but the top 8 are who get medals.
She is a winner!
Riverton's state team
These three are the only Riverton kids that medalled.
At the end-of-season team banquet, Faith was pretty darn happy to be named as one of the four captains for next year-- her senior year. You know, it's just another day of Faith meeting another of her long-term goals.
Sporting the captain's hat.
Faith and her bestie Braxton were both Rookie of the year as Freshmen.
As sophomores
I assure you, they really are just great friends-- but aren't they the cutest! They have been loyal swim buddies for a long time.
Later in February Faith and I headed down to St. George for Senior State Swim Championships with her USA club team-- Lehi Aquatics. Here we are-- first stop-- the local Chick-fil-a for dinner.
Second stop, the hotel-- where the first attempt at waffles in the morning did not go well.
Third stop and most frequent and lengthy stop-- the gorgeous facility at Utah Tech. Three full days of meets. I did not mind it in the least. Faith is third from the bottom. She added the 100 free, 200 IM, and 200 backstroke to her 100 fly and 100 back. She dropped a lot of time in some, not so much in others. Day two was her most important day (to her) and sadly, that was the day that didn't go so well. I quote her, "That was a really crusty day of swimming. " That's how it goes sometimes. Even still, we had a great time down in St. George.
One of their relays
I enjoyed a lovely walk over to the St. George temple during early morning warm-ups. I also volunteered to do quite a bit of timing on deck. That was fun to be down near the action.
Here are a few cool pictures the professional photographer took of Faith swimming her fly.
I like this one.
Interestingly, there are no pictures with both of her hands in the picture.
See?
So close, but still only one hand.
No hands-- even better
Faith has worked so hard and it would appear that Greta want to be just like her:)
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