New England YMCA Championships 3/15/15

I just posted the video of Evan's Medley Relay yesterday. It's an exciting race! They are in the lane with the two men in white shirts - his teammates have the purple and black bathing suits and caps (Evan doesn't wear a cap). Evan swims the last leg - freestyle. You can see how far behind they are after the first two swimmers and then Antonio (No No)who swims our butterfly makes up some substancial time - then comes Evan who swims a 32.48 freestyle leg - his fastest time ever - to clinch first place in their heat! They came in 17th overall, out of 29 teams I believe. It was such an exciting day and race! I may have told some of you, but the kid who won most of the events is a 10 year old from the South Shore, MA. He broke the national record yesterday for the 50freestyle for boys 9/10year olds. He swam it in 26. something seconds! It was very exciting to watch! We took Evan out to dinner last night in Boston with the rest of his relay team and parents. He has made some new friends and you can tell he is so proud to be part of the team. Jeff and I are still floating today - so proud of Evan and just love seeing him confident and having fun. He proudly wore his New Englands tee shirt to school today and had fun telling his class all about it. We had a very nice e-mail from his coach last night saying how proud he was of Ev and how well he has done for a first year swimmer. This has just been such a positive experience for all of us. I never imagined that I would grow to love watching swimming so much! We have a month off now until the next meet and a month off from practice. Evan is bummed, but we are happy to have some of our family time back at night for a few weeks !! Enjoy the race!! :)

Medley Relay - New England Championships, MIT 3/15/15