Makenna had her first long course swim meet on Saturday and she did great! For those of you not familiar with swimming, the long course is when you swim the long length of the pool, so when you swim a 100, you swim 2 laps of 50's with just one flip turn. Makenna has always competed in short course meets where she would have to swim 4 laps of 25's to swim a 100. She happily embraced the new challenge. Because of the weekend swim schedule, she could only compete on Saturday. She competed in the 100 Freestyle and the 50 Breast stroke. We don't have the official results yet, but she had good times. An added challenge to this meet is that she had a birthday since her last meet, so she moved up an age group. Now, instead of being one of the older kids in her age group, she's back at the younger end of her age group and she's competing against some girls that are nearly two years older than her. As usual, she swam her heart out and had some great times, so we're not going to worry about where she placed once we get the official results. The most important thing to us is that she has fun and enjoys swimming competitively and that she continues to improve her times. With that said, she's a champion!
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