That’s it, swim season is over once again. Today was the big conference meet, the last event of the season. Corwin swam in five races: medley relay, freestyle relay, 50m freestyle, 25m backstroke and 25m breast stroke. Corwin did tolerably. He wasn’t actually last in any of the events, although he was disqualified in the breast stroke, presumably for bad form (it looked like about a third of the entrants got DQ’d in that race — the judges were being particularly strict apparently). We left at the half way point. The conference is all day so rather than have the kids sit around for extra long periods of time, the younger kids go in the morning and the older kids in the afternoon. Corwin’s team was in second after the morning, but given their problems in older boys their lead might not have lasted.
Of course, Corwin was involved in yet another scheduling mixup. He apparently fell in with the wrong group of boys for his last relay and they told him he wasn’t it in. But eventually it was worked out that he was in it, just with a different squad. So he got to swim all of this races, although not with out a bit of stress.
I think Corwin had an enjoyable season, presumably he’ll go back next year. We’ll see if Charles is ready for it, although there were at least a couple of kids during the conference who required adult assistance to finish the race. So maybe he doesn’t really have to be able to swim the whole length.
P.S. It turns out that Mara’s team did pull ahead of Corwin’s later in the day, so Corwin’s team finished third in the conference.