Saturday, May 16, 2009

Swim Finals

This week has been busy with swim prelims and finals. Jason did really well this year. He has gotten much better since the season started. Last night was the Varsity League Finals at Valhalla. It was so exciting. They have the finalists line up behind their little mascot and are marched out to their blocks with music playing to get everyone charged up. Here's the Valhalla Mascot. As you can see, their colors are orange and blue.Here are the teams for one of the relays. Jason's got the yellow cap on in the front of his group (toward the back). During the last relay, which is the last race of the day, they played "We Will Rock You". I imagine it was really cool to walk before everyone with that playing, and getting all pumped up. It was exciting to watch it. Here are Jason's relay teams...

Jason's stats:
100 yard breast stroke - 1:10:23
200 Yard Medley Relay - 1:52:23 - 4th place
400 Yard Free Relay - 3:44:21 - 4th place
200 Yard Free Relay - 1:44:56 - 5th place
He had a personal best for all his races. He worked really hard to get here. Usually he doesn't wear a swim cap, but he did to shave off time. Here's another way he SHAVED off time...

He had a couple friends come over Thursday night to shave his legs for him. Oh, to be young again! It must have worked. Next week he goes to CIF Prelims. He probably won't make finals, so only one more meet!! Way to go, Jason!
























1 comment:

Prescott family said...

That's funny that Jason let those girls shave his legs... ohhh la la. Ha ha. Funny boy! Looks like swim has been a blast for them again this year!! Congrats.