Last night was the end of season awards banquet for summer swim team, and it was bittersweet.
BK will be in a different age bracket next summer. Our fall/winter team might have a summer team in 2027, after having taken three summers off due to pool problems.
Our summer team these past three summers is a big team, over 120 swimmers this year! It's outdoors (which feels like summer), & has a dedicated pool. It has lots of home meets. (Our fall/winter team has never hosted a meet in our experience, which means lots of traveling.) And it has longevity. The current coaches swam on this team as children. The head coach is the grade school PE teacher in that town, so knows ALL the public school students.
Many swimmers on our summer team ride their bike, walk, or scooter to the pool. Our fall/winter team's pool is miles from a town, (literally surrounded by fields; no gas station or DG for miles & miles) and draws swimmers from a large geographic area.
Both BK & LM have made great friendships on our summer team. We will miss our summer team friends! In an ideal world, we would do fall/winter ten minutes from our home, and summer back on this team.
Who knows? Maybe we will!
There are more than 160 posts on this blog tagged "swim." Most report days we swam ... including on vacation. :)
Here's a roundup of some summary posts I have written:
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