Waveney's 2009 Swim season

Waveney is having a wonderful Swim season! Like, Grace, Wave is at the bottom of her age group. She is a 9 year competing with 9/10 year old girls. Our teams top 2- 10 year old girls, Lauren and Gracie S., are the fastest 10 year olds our conference has ever had. They both hold conference records from last year when they were 9 years old. They are amazing to watch and we are so proud of their talent and success. Wave swims with them throughout the year. Then their is Macy, a 10 year old who does not swim year round, only does the summer swim team. She is faster than Wave in freestyle and breast stroke, and has earned a place on the teams A relay team. She's got pure talent. All other strokes, Back, Fly, and IM, Wave is the 3rd fastest on the team. This is pretty amazing for a 9 year old to hold this placement on our team, to place right after our top two swimmers. If she were on any other team in our Conference she may have the 1st or 2nd fastest time. She works very hard, practicing for an hour 5 times a week, and 1.5 hours twice a week, in addition to running or biking to our neighborhood swim pool.

Above: Wave diving in for her freestyle race. Above her in the picture is Gracie S. flying through the air. Wave finished this race in 3rd place, behind Gracie, and Macy.
Above: Wave preparing for her backstroke race.
Below: her amazing take off!
Wave finished backstroke in first place.

Above: Waveney diving in for Butterfly, the red suit above Wave is Lauren C.

Below: Butterfly race, Lauren is amazingly fast. Wave finished second!

At this point in Wave's swim career it is hard for her to consistently drop major time. The swims will fluctuate by .5-1 second depending on her competition.

--------Meet 1-----Meet 2-----Meet 3-----Meet 4----Team Ranking

Free----19.25-------17.94-------18.77--------18.82---------4th

Back----21.80-------21.20------21.36--------21.70---------3rd

Fly------21.67-------21.19------21.16--------21.49---------3rd

IM-----1:47.19-----1:48.34----1:51.68--------na------------3rd

Breast----na----------na---------na---------28.43----------6th

When Waveney earned her 17.94 freestyle time, she was paired with a girl on the other team who had a faster time than Waveney. They were in lanes right next to each other. Wave could see her through the whole swim, and it was very obvious that she was digging hard to keep up with the girl next to her. At one point, passed the half way mark, I noticed Wave move an inch behind the other, girl, she apparently noticed as well because she really pushed herself to keep even and try to pull ahead. Wave happens to be one of the best starters (as seen in pictures) and best finishers in the conference! I didn't know Wave had that kind of fierce competitiveness in her!

Above & Below: My swim girls on picture day!

Below: Many of the 9/10 girls swim team. They are pretty funny, and have a lot of fun together!

Below: They can take a nice picture too!

Below: 2 of Wave's boyfriends. On the left, neighborhood friend, Brock. He has orange teeth from eating Cheetos. On the right, soccer friend Jack. Jack was on the opposing team during this meet. We all love Jack's fro!

Below: Waveney's IM race!

Above: Her perfect dive to start the IM race.

1st stroke: Fly -Fastest 25m Fly time 21.16
Below: Turn for 2nd stroke.

2nd Stroke: Back -Fastest 25m Back time 21.20

Below: Turn for 3rd stroke

Below: 3rd Stroke Breast -Fastest 25m Breast stroke time 28.43

Below: Turn for final stroke

Final stroke and home stretch: Free -Fastest 25m Freestyle time 17.94

Wave Finishes the race in 5th place. -Fastest 100m IM time 1:47.19

Below: Done with her IM race and with the meet. This was her 6th race of the night!

At each meet Waveney swims 6 events. She swims 2 relay races, a Medley relay, and a freestyle relay. Wave is on the B relay team. The A team is seeded first, the B team is seeded second fastest. The relay teams are made up of boys and girls in the age group, (9/10). Each team has to have at least one boy and one girl on it. Our A team is all girls and one boy. Our B team is all boys, and Wave!

After the 2 relay races, each swimmer is allowed only 4 individual races, choosing between, Free, Back, Fly, Breast, or the IM. If a swimmer, swims the IM, they have to drop one of the other 4 strokes. Wave typically swims the IM, so she drops her slowest stroke, Breast. At the 7/1 meet she swam breast for the first time this season so that the coach could determine her seeding for the Conference Championship next weekend.

Last year Wave was on both A relay teams, (7/8) team went undefeated throughout the season and won the medley relay in 2008 Conference finals by 1 tenth of a second. It was an amazing race, and we have it on video. Wave was the anchor of the team finishing with freestyle. She was in second place when she dove in, and pushed herself to pass the kid in the lead, and made it to the wall first. We were so proud of that race!

Stay tuned for Conference results in a few weeks! We expect Wave to make into Conference finals for free, back, fly and IM and maybe even an A relay team, which means a top 12 fastest time among all 8 Conference 9/10 girls teams (approx. 100 girls).