Kristina, Cody, Tiffani and Echo spent last Sunday in Kenosha WI at the Illinois state swim meet. Hard to believe there are no facilities in Illinois to host a state wide swim meet. Maybe there is some other reason it is held in Wisconsin. I will have to check into it. Anyway, a couple weeks before, over a long week end, Cody, Tiffani and Echo, members of the Pelican swim team who is sponsored in part by the local YMCA, were in a district swim meet held in DeKalb IL. All three kids swam very hard and did well. They swam against other kids in their age group(s) each improving their individual best times. Tiff and Echo both received ribbons and medals. Cody was the youngest in his events and will have them all in his wake in future meets. Echo and relay team members advanced with state qualifying times in the 50 yard individual free style, 100 yard medley and 100 yard free style relays. Echo came into the meet with a seed time that put her in 20th place in the 50 yd. free style. By the end of the meet she had 11th place nailed down and had knocked a second and a half off her best time. The relay team placed 4th in the 100 yard free style and were disqualified in the 100 yard medley. I think it is safe to say all three kids like swimming. Kris described to me over the phone the smile that seamed to be permanently affixed to Echo’s face during and after the award presentations which says it all.
Check back to this posting, I hope to have pictures of the three swimmers and their medals/ribbons in the near future.
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