The first swim meet

Ellie is doing swim team for the first time. She has been practicing for 2 weeks. Once softball ended she moved to two hours of swim team practice a day. She swims a lot of laps and is a great swimmer. For her first meet she swam in the IM relay with the 11-12 year old girls, she swam the backstroke length. Then for individual events she did the IM, backstroke, and freestyle. She finished in the 9-10 year old freestyle relay. She got a first and second place for both relays. She did well for her first time. She needs some practice with diving and understanding it's a race and you are trying to go as fast as you can. But that will come. We are so proud of Ellie!

Backstroke is one of her best strokes

Preparing to dive, which ended up being a jump in the water.

She fell asleep at 7:45 after this meet.