There is a meet at the end of the summer called Invitationals. In order to qualify, a swimmer has to swim each stroke in a certain amount of time. Beckett qualified in 3 strokes - Freestyle, Breaststroke, and Butterfly. Grant qualified in all of the strokes and chose to swim Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly. They each also swam in a relay.
So on July 10th we headed up to Texas A&M University. The meet was held in the Aquatic Center on the University campus. Our team swam against 12 other teams from around the Austin area. It was a really fun day.
Beckett, Grant and their friend Joe ready to head into the aquatic center.
Here is one of Beckett's races. He is in the silver cap at the bottom of the screen.
The names of the swimmers was posted at the end of each race. Beckett is at towards the bottom with a 3rd place finish. :)
Here is Grant's best race. He is the second from the bottom in the silver cap.
As you can see - he got 1st place!!
Wide shot of the pool area. 3 pools. One for warm ups. One for the boys races. One for the girls races.
The final culmination of the season was the swim banquet. Right off the bat the boys were able to check their folders and gather the last of the season's ribbons. These are the ones they earned at the Championship meet.
At the championship meet, the swimmers earned points for their team based upon how they placed in each of their races. Beckett received this trophy for placing 1st in the 6 and under category. He earned the most points! WOOHOO!
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