Midland Dolphin Invitational -- Last Meet of the Season

It's the last meet of the fall season. That's right, winter doesn't arrive until December 21 -- even though we've already had over a foot of snow.

Lexy has had a tough start to the 9-10 age group, but she's slowly but surely chipping seconds off her times. The winter season, starting in Janaury, should be pretty good. To put it into perspective, Lexy has taken 10 seconds off her 50 Breaststroke since the start of the season. She started out in the one minute range, and she's down to 49.68! That's a huge improvement. She needs to make 47 seconds to qualify for the championship meet in March.

The Midland Dolphin invitational was a success this year -- 14 teams and over 500 kids participated! There were so many kids in the afternoon session that they had to cut them down to three events from four.

Lexy swam in the morning session, where she swam four individual events and two relays. Her relay team came in third both times, and she held her own in her individual events. She cut almost two seconds off her 50 Free, and this qualified her to swim at the state champ meet in March. She will also swim the 100 Free at that meet. We're trying for one my qualifying time -- either 50 Breast or 50 Back. We have a few more meets to try for those times, and we're only talking about a second or two.

Sometimes the winter break gives the kids just enough rest to let them pull off some big upsets when they get back in the pool! Either way, we'll have fun on the way.