Charlie's First Swim Meet!

I posted a few photos of one of Charlie’s first swim team practices recently. Well he just had his first swim meet! He was supposed to swim 4 events, but one of his teammates went M.I.A. before their medley relay, so they were DQed. Oops. But he did the 50 free, the 50 backstroke, and was the final leg of the 200 free relay (each kid doing 50 yards).

Diving in for his first 50 free!


Go Charlie! His first 50 was clocked in at 0:49.04.


Ready for his backstroke.


Charlie at the top!


Now at the bottom, being beat by most of the field (finishing just under 60 secs).


Charlie’s dive was better than some of his teammates. Here’s the 2nd leg of the 4x50 free...


... and the 3rd leg was EVEN WORSE. Oops.
(With Charlie waiting in the background to anchor the relay.)


Charlie did NOT want to go too soon!...


... and then he had a great dive!


Final 50!


Go Charlie!

He did NOT want to do those two 50 freestyle events, but then ended up LOVING them. He’s hooked!