Story of a Swimmer

Connor made Sky View's swim team this fall.  Go Connor!  We need to thank Aunt Karen for starting us on this path.  About two summers ago, while watching Connor swim across the beaver pond at Wildhorse, she commented on what a pretty stroke he had.  Said he should be a swimmer.  I had tried to get Con to try swimming a couple of years before, but he hadn't been interested.  That comment got both he and I thinking about it again.  That fall he took one more set of lessons, then starting swimming for an age-group team called the Gators.  One year of hard work later, he made the high school team and he LOVES it.  So THANK YOU Karen.  Chase and Katie are both swimming for Gators now also.  Things we love about swimming:
  1.  It keeps you in awesome shape
  2.  You can do it your whole life.
  3.  You mostly compete against yourself.  My kids don't do well with the pressure of a team sport like soccer,
         etc.
  4.  You're still a part of a team.
  5. It's both boys and girls, so you can make lots of friends.
  6.  It's competitive (you give it your best) but not too much.
  7.  It's not about winning and losing, just getting your best time.

It's so fun as a parent to have my kids be excited about this.  I don't have to make him go to practice.  He wants to.  It's a big commitment.  He swims everyday after school and three days before.  He is definitely learning to budget his time and to work hard.