We are so incredibly proud of Christian for his first swim season and earning a LETTER as a freshman! At our school, if a student participates in at least one varsity athletic event, he gets a letter. Easy to do on the swim team which is a small group, and they needed to pull Christian into varsity swimming events nearly every swim meet!
Swim team was definitely a challenge for Christian, as he'd never competed in a sport - ever! But he persevered, learned a lot, made some friends and had a wonderful can-do attitude with his team (at home, there was lots of complaining, but ... well ... that's how it goes around here).
Christian says he won't do swim team next year, but we're hopeful that with time off from swimming for a few months, he'll be willing to give it another try. The carrot we'll dangle is "If you do a second year of swim team, we'll get you a letter jacket for that letter!" :)
But for now ... on to SUMMER!
