State Swim

We are at the hotel getting ready to head over for the second day of the State Swim meet. It is being held at the BYU pool. It started yesterday with about a 1/3 of the events held last night and the rest this morning.

Each athlete can only qualify for two individual events and two relay events. Only the top 24 can swim in each event individual event, and the top 16 relay teams.

Emily was able to qualify for the 200 Individual Medley event which was held yesterday. In this event each swimmer swims 50 yards each of the 4 strokes (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle). She was in the 23rd seed out of 24 and I think she took 23rd but I could be wrong on that. It was pretty exciting to hear them call her name at the block. There were only 4 Freshman that qualified so we were pretty proud of her.

She also swam in the 200 yard medley relay. She swam the breast stroke leg of the event. Their team took 10th in this event.

Today she is swimming another relay but I'm not sure if it is the 200 freestyle relay or the 400 freestyle relay. Her other individual event is the 100 breast stroke. This is the one that she will swim as the region 8 champion and with the top qualifying time in 3A for this event.

We are all so nervous for her. While she won region easily, her time was about a second slower than her best. The other qualifiers in her heat for the 100 breast are only fractions of a second behind her. She is the only freshman in the top 16. No one on the Richfield High Girls Swim team has EVER medaled at state. You have to be in the top six to medal.

Anyway we honestly don't care if she wins, we just want her to feel like she did her best. We have all been sick with the flu. What a time to get sick.