SWIM TEAM
It's hard to believe that Nico is going to be 10 years old this year, and although he has been in the pool since he was 6 months beginning with Mommy & Me Classes, it's been such an amazing experience this year watching him swim. We started swim Team when he was just 7 and although he could swim the length of the pool it was a slow start, but he was learning his stokes and getting faster each meet. This Fall, being almost 9 years old he had to be in the 9 and under mark, which meant no more 25m he has to do 50m....which was intimidating at first. The first meet, he rocked it and although he didn't win it was a great meet and he was so excited!!!! As were we, the Season went on and by the end of the 4 months he improved over 15 seconds on both freestyle and backstroke which I couldn't believe was possible in his 1st year of 50m.
I never thought when we started this so young, and went through his Pike class for over a year without passing that he would love swimming as much as he does. It's funny I look back and one of the conversations I had with his swim teacher when was 3-4 years old, I was like, what's going on he has been in the pool for a year and he can't get it.....he laughed and said don't you worry he'll get it and funny thing is we took a session off and he got it the next time. We would joke he is going to be a pike forever....such good memories.
Here we are Fall swim season is over and although it's nice to have a few months off, we'll still be in the pool either private lessons or regular lessons and it's so amazing to watch him love a sport so much. I hope one day he'll look back and think what fun memories and lessons learned although it's not a team sport the are very much a team.
Very proud of the young man Nico has become and the awesome swimmer he is! Can't wait to see what Summer Swim Team brings and hoping to start a new adventure in the diving world......so many opportunities to learn new things. Just hoping he continues to love swimming as much as he does today and he knows how proud of all the goals he set and achieved in such a short period of time!
Until our next swim adventure.....
