Lukey's first swim season

This summer Lukey joined the Colony swim team.  He did a great job!  Yesterday was the league meet (I didn't take any pictures of the league meet, all the pics were from dual meets) and he won all of his heats and got his best time in his 25 freestyle.  Tim looked at the best times for the whole league from the season and he got the best time of any 6 year old in freestyle by about 2 seconds.  He loved being on the team and had a lot of fun with the kids.

Anna was pretty good about coming to all the meets and practices (because Luke had perfect attendance) without complaining too much.  It will be nice when she's on the team next year though because sometimes she got a little needy.

The big kids hung out after their practices to help the little kids at practice and were great about cheering for them and helping them.

Luke's starts got a lot better throughout the season.  Even yesterday after it was all over, he continued to practice starts in the diving well after the banquet with some of his friends and do races.   

For most meets, Luke swam a 25 free, 25 backstroke and free relay.  The first time he found out he'd be doing backstroke he started crying because he was scared he'd run into the wall.  He soon got over his fear and started liking backstroke.

All the 8 and under kids swam the free relay.  Eliana was in his relay for a lot of the meets.  These two were pretty crazy together!  They had a lot of fun!

At their meet at Northville, there was a dance party after the relay!  It was a great idea!

At our last home meet, kids that aren't on the swim team yet got to swim in a heat.  Anna agreed to swim!  She was with her friends James, Charlie and Calleigh.  

Lukey swam right before Anna's big event.

She said that she would not go off the blocks.  I told her that was totally fine and she could get in on the side.  We were all surprised when she went off the blocks!!  She was in lane 4.  You can tell from this picture that she took off a few seconds after the rest of the kids.  But, she did it!

She did great!

They gave all the participants of this event a freeze pop and a ribbon.

I swam too in a parents relay.