Blue, Black, and White Swim Meet

The excitement in the air was crazy.  SUSA was headed back to pool for a swim meet.  The last meet we all attended was February in Cedar City.  We are headed to the SHAC for our team only meet.  The kids don't care who they are racing with only what the final results are.  They have practiced hard over the past 3 months and were ready to show their stuff.  

The new normal requires answering questions, providing a phone number for contact tracing, and finally masks for on deck.  Nobody on deck who isn't a volunteer or a swimmer.  This is the first meet in 3 years that all the volunteer slots were full the day before.

The pool is alive!!!
Warmups begin...

Masked Officials
Ready to blow the whistle and get the party started.

It looks like glass!
Getting ready to start the mile.

Flipping for each lap.

His cheering & counter section.
He refused to let me be the counter.
You will mess it up was his reply.

Lap 61 with only 2 more to go.
He & Claire were in sync with each other.
That is what happens when you work out each day together.
She beat him by 3 seconds to the finish.
"That was the most boring event ever"

The Blue Team won!!
All the kids worked so hard and best of all they were all smiles.

First Place Trophy!!

It was a great evening!!!  We are hoping that we proved that we can be safe and have fun.  You may ask why the swimmers themselves didn't were masks while on deck.  They have been practicing all summer together in and out of the pool.  Nobody has been sick yet.  The deck was extremely hot, humid, and full of chlorine fumes they needed to be free to swim.  However, we the officials made it through with the masks through it all.  I am guess temps were close to 110 if not higher.  

We all will be back to support our swimmers. Hopefully, sooner rather than later.

Ryder's Stats:

Male (14 & Under) 100 Breast:  3rd Place, 1:24.61

Male (14 & Under) 100 Fly:  2nd Place, 1:18.73

Male (14 & Under) 1650 Free (Mile):  1st Place, 22:34.18

Male (14 & Under) 100 Free:  3rd Place, 1:05.60

Male (14 & Under) 200 Back:  1st Place, 2:46.04