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Originally Posted by kermitology
My eldest (12) is a competitive swimmer. She's at the pool 6 days a week for 2 hours each session.
I love swimming as a sport for her. While there's obviously competition between swimmers, it's mostly a sport where you compete with yourself to improve.
One of my favourite things is when you have a kid obviously swimming their first longer distance (200m+) and everyone watching cheers them on to finish.
The chase to drop tenths of a second is so real.. my daughter is currently working on trying to qualify for provincials in either 50 or 100m free. Needs to drop about 1.7s and 3.2s respectively.
Swim meets suck so much though. It's so long, and so much noise. Our club doesn't require fundraising, just volunteering. We're hosting the Canadian Swim Trials next weekend and I'm looking forward to watching Summer McIntosh in person. She's swimming with our club's national team and those kids are SO excited.
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Which club? Are you in BC? My daughter (12) is about 1/3 of a second from qualifying Mansask. She swims with the Elk Valley team, I may in fact run into you if our kids make it into the same meets.
Long course season has started, I’m thinking she qualifies in one of those meets pretty quick here.
