Cassadie had her first swim meet today and she had a lot of fun. She swam in two events, the 50m freestyle and the 100m backstroke. She did really well for her first swim in a meet. Her coach was very proud of her, as was I. She was very nervous this morning, but I think I may have been more nervous for her. She was so nervous, she forgot to put her goggles on for her first event. They were still on the top of her head when she dove in. I was almost sick to my stomach watching her because I felt so bad. Her coach told her he was so proud of her, he said any other 1st timer would have just stopped, but she swam on and won her heat. I tried to download the video (about 10 different times) with no success. They are on my facebook and myspace.
She ended up taking 10th out of 23, which I think is great considering all. She was definitely not swimming her fastest.
Her backstroke went well. Her coach told her that her arms looked great but he would have liked her to have kicked her legs for the entire race. When she watched the video back, she said "yeah, I probably could have kicked harder than that." She could have been disqualified because apparently she has to finish the race on her back and she flipped to her stomach as she was reaching for the wall, but the judge didn't see it I guess.
She had a blast, and has another meet in Cheney, November 22-23. We're looking forward to it.
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