Auburn Swim Meet

Bode and Ashley have been up at Auburn for the past weekend. Bode was swimming in a big swim meet. This meet was a little different; they had preliminaries in the morning, and if you qualified for the finals, you came back to swim for the afternoon. They had multiple"finals" for each event; Bode was fortunate to make the finals in all his events. He swam personal bests for all races. He swam the 50-meter butterfly in 28.26 seconds, and he placed 20th overall out of 61 swimmers in the 13-and-over age group. He then swam the 200-meter freestyle in 2:11.44, and placed 44th out of 128 swimmers. On Saturday, he swam the 50-meter back in 30.88 and placed 19th out of 62 swimmers. He also swam the 50-meter freestyle in 27.30 and placed 44th out of 160 swimmers. Saturday night, Ashley took Bode out for a big steak dinner, and big is the operative word. The big man ordered a 24-oz ribeye and ate the whole thing.

Sunday was Bode's day of glory. He qualified for the C-final for both the 100-butterfly and the 100-freestyle. Based on his experience on Friday and Saturday, Bode knew that if you won your final's heat, you would get a t-shirt.

The first final was the 100-free. Bode is in lane five (5th from the bottom); he doesn't look like he's doing great at the turn, but he poured it on to finish in 59.02 and win the race.

He was quite pleased when he got his shirt.

The final race was the 100-butterfly. Bode is in lane 4. As in the previous race, it doesn't look like Bode is going to win, but he really had a strong finish and won by 0.04 hundredths of a second.

Here is a nice shot of Bode, Sawyer, and Fisher after the meet.

Bode had a great meet, and we are very proud of him. Ashley learned a new expression that the kids use. The term is "glowed up" (as opposed to growing up). This is what happens when a younger person suddenly transforms into the beautiful swan. Apparently some of the girls on the swim team are saying this about Bode :-) Pleasant week to all.