Charlotte and the Shorecrest Girls Swim & Dive Team had an incredible Districts Swim Meet this weekend! Shout out to our coaches who have prepared the swimmers so well for this meet and to our senior swimmers who have led the team with kindness and enthusiasm all season! It was so fun to sit with all the parents and fans to cheer for the girls! The team who finished second in the meet overall, getting barely outscored by Edmonds-Woodway. Charlotte's hard work all season had a big pay off tonight: she finished 2nd in the 200 FR, 3rd in the 500 FR and her 400 FR Relay team are first place district champions! She is moving onto State in those events. Amazing work Shorecrest swimmers!
I got to chat with MY former high school teammates who are now coaches: Rita at Stanwood and Tracy at Lynnwood. They both are so kind to me and my daughter - Rita even got to give Charlotte her 500 Free ribbon. Charlotte is now inducted into the WESCO Girls Swimming Club.... it is a powerful and wonderful thing to be part of! We also celebrated Nana's birthday with a lunch at LFP Bar and Grill. Such a great day!
For Charlotte, Prelims was a mixed bag with highs and lows. She swam hard and got herself into the "A" Finals for both her individual events the 200 Free and 500 Free, getting a PR (personal record) in her 200 with a 2:04 in the process but adding 5 seconds in her 500 Free. Her relay teams for the 200 Free and 400 Free swam hard and finished first in both, but sadly, the officials DQ'd the 200 Free Relay for an early take off.
Charlotte rested up, ate well, and turned it on for Finals! She swan her heart out in the 200 Free, dropping another two seconds and earned a 2:02.34 and second place. She had almost written off her 500 Free, but was feeling good enough to give it everything she had. She dropped five seconds off her best time for a PR of 5:33.59, swimming in a crowd and touching out another swimmer to earn 3rd place. Finally, everyone on the 400 Free Relay team had incredible swims and they dropped another couple seconds to finish fist: WESCO District Champions at 3:43.85! Top four finishers in each event move onto state! So Charlotte will have a great meet to look forward to next weekend with her teammates. Many of her teammates had time drops today and are also going to state. In fact their team finished second at Districts, just behind Edmonds-Woodway by 14 points, even without points being scored by their 200 Free Relay. To celebrate, Charlotte and her teammates went to Red Robin. I know realize I need to thank my mother for enduring all the post-swim-meet team dinners at Red Robin from my high school days. LOL!
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