Every summer my kids participate in the Mesa Parks and Rec Swim Team (except last summer stupid covid). It's a 6 week long swim program. Mason is my only kid so far that really enjoys it and never complains. Poor Noah and Callie have such a mean mom. LOL Even though they are both really good at swimming it's just not their thing. Mason is and has always been my little fish. During the program they compete weekly against other assigned city pools and at the end of the summer session you can sign up to compete in the Qualifying Meet where you compete individually against all swimmers in the city program If you finish in the top 16 you advance to the Championship Meet. Mason has tried really hard with swim this summer. He qualified for Finals in all 3 of his events the Backstroke, Freestyle and the IM. The IM is an insane 200 M race with 2 laps of each stroke. It's swam in this order: the Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, and ending with 2 laps of Freestyle it looks completely exhausting. Watching him swim that race was incredible. Butterfly is NOT his stroke and he started off pretty much in last place after the 2 laps of butterfly, but then BAM! He starts his backstroke and watch out! It's crazy how he made up a 7 second deficit. He ended up finishing the race in 5th place overall. I was so proud of him, he shaved 4 seconds off his best IM time and all after he had a goggles malfunction at the start of his race. Backstroke is really his stroke and he ended up placing 3rd.
Mason's STATS July 2021:
Backstroke 50M - 30.96 seconds
Freestyle 50M - 27.7 seconds
200M IM - 2:40 mins
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