Regionals

The Region 1 swim meet was on Thursday. Most of the team qualified for regionals, so Choctaw had 16 or so swimmers in the meet, which was just awesome. We all stayed in a motel the night before, and the kids had a great time--overnight trips are always fun. We woke up Thursday morning, had a team breakfast in the lobby, and then we headed over to the venue. It is a very nice pool.

Bode's first event was swimming the butterfly leg of the medley relay. The boy's came in with a qualifying time of 1:49. They swam great and finished in 1:45.

It will be extremely close as to whether or not this relay qualified for the state meet. We won't know until tomorrow, but we are hopeful. Bode's next event was the 100-fly, and this, by far, was his best race of the day. You can hear Ashley, Katie, and Sarah (Zach and Jaicob's moms) cheering hard for Bode.

He finished in an amazing time of 53.78, easily his personal best, and it should be good enough to qualify him for the state meet. He was 4th overall in the region which is just awesome.

His third event was the 100-back stroke; he swam a person best of 57.23 seconds, which will be very close for state qualifying. We shall see.

Finally, the 4 x 100 relay team swam; each boy swam their personal best in the 100-free, so they could not have done better. Bode swims the anchor in this relay, and his split was a 49:89.

The boys should qualify for state with their time of 3:28, but we just won't know until Sunday. After their swims, the boys were goofing around and taking pictures.

He was even nice enough to pose for a picture with us.

We are very proud of Bode and the team, and we hope they will be going to state next week!