E-Squared Swims

Tuesday night the girls swim team had a meet against Broadway, we had many swimmers out of town so my girls had to swim a fair share of events. This is only the 1st year of swimming on the team for Lil' e and it was only her 2nd swim meet, the 1st meet of the season her nerves got the better of her and she scratched out, then last week (meet #2) she told them to give her just one event the Back stroke (25 ft). But this week they gave her 3 Events one being a relay where she swam Free Style (not her strong suite yet) the others where a 25 free style and 25 back stroke. She did Great in all of these, but I wish you could have seen her face before she started the 1st event (which BTW was event #1 a free style relay) she was green around the gills and looked like she was going to lose it all over the pool deck. But she over came her nerves and swam great, I think they placed 6th in that event. When her back stroke event came up she was very confident, she had swam it last week, this week she did amazing I think (don't have the official times yet) she shaved about 12 seconds off her time. Then came her last Event again another Free Style, but this time she got in the water an swam like she was a fish, I was so proud of her. I can see her confidence growing by leaps and bounds.

Big E also swam she had 5 events, she too swam in event #1 but not on the same team as her sister, which I'm not sure if that is good or bad. Her relay team came in 5th place, then she did the 100 free style this is a 1st time event for her. and by the end I could tell her had given it her all, but she came in in 5th place, way to go Big E. the Next 2 events where the 50 back and the 50 free, she did well but I don't have the times yet to see where she placed. I do know that she need to work on her turns she loses a lot of time on those turns, but she swam great in between.
Then her last event for the night was #70 which is almost the end, it was also a relay but one fo the boys on the team didn't stay around for the event and they had to scratch that one, she was a little disappointed and relieved at the same time, I think she was tired. This was the 1st time that she had to swim so many events in fact she was maxed out they are only aloud to swim 5 events. I can see a lot of improvement in Big E this year especially now that she got over the attitude that she knew everything and didn't need to learn from the coach.

Way to Go Girls, keep swimming and leave the other team to EAT YOUR BUBBLES and Kiss Your Feet.

Update on the swim meet results from Tuesday night.

Evelyn-
200 Free Relay- 3.56.95 6th place (1st time swimming relay)
25 Back- Last weeks time 1.02.27 this week 49.45 didn't place very high but beat her own time.
25 Free- 48.63 again didn't place high but was !st time swimming a free style race.

Elisabeth-
200 Free Relay- 3.25.14 5th place (1st time swimming this relay)
100 Free- 1.55.83 5th place (1st time swimming this race)
50 Back- she was DQ not sure why but will work on.
50 Free- Last weeks time 55.16 this week 52.48 (didn't place but we really don't care)

I think that my girls are awesome swimmers they can beat me in the pool which isn't saying much.
Keep it up E-squared.