This is now June 2010. (The boy on the far left below, Ben Brown, is sitting right in front of Spencer in the 2001 picture.) The four boys on the left in the picture below had just won a relay race. They have all been swimming each summer together for the past 10 years.
Waiting for their ribbons after a race
My picture taking at the meets this year was pretty sorry. My camera delayed just enough to get weird action shots. But these are what I've got to work with. Here is Spencer swimming breast stroke.
Taylor swimming freestyle
Spencer swimming butterfly
This video shows a 50 yard freestyle race. Spencer comes in first place and Taylor comes in second.This is those four boys swimming the medley relay at the Meet of Champs, the last meet of the season with all the fastest swimmers on all the teams from two out of five divisions. Marc Outlaw first swims backstroke, then Ben Brown swims breaststroke. Spencer then jumps in and swims butterfly and Taylor finishes with freestyle. They got first.
This is Spencer swimming the freestyle event at the Meet of Champs here. Our children usually don't get put in the individual races because if they are in the top three, they get slated for the next day at the All Star Meet (which is always on Sunday) with the best of the five divisions. (Relays only swim on Saturday, so the kids participate in those.) And we chose as a family 12 years ago that we wouldn't swim on Sunday. But for some reason, the coach had him swim anyway, and he won! Of course he didn't swim the next day, but that was cool.
