This post should be titled “Never say never”. Two years ago Mark said he would never want to do swimming again. Ever. And yet...when the time came in 2021 to decide if maybe he wanted to do summer swim for two months, he actually agreed...after much thinking. Swim=cross training, so technically he did it for the reason of getting better at tennis, but it worked out!
Last year’s season was canceled by Covid. Alex even had an interview, and everything, to be an assistant coach in 2020. Then this year, he again applied to be an assistant coach (and swim as well) and got the job! He was quite busy with it, teaching 6 year old how to swim and assisting with pretty much everything. He is such a good sport and always helps out with whatever is needed for the team. The sad part..again..is that he just doesn’t like pictures! And because now he was so self-sufficient that we didn’t need to supervise him as he worked or train, we hardly watched him unless it was a swim meet. No excuses here...we need more pictures of Alex.
Oh wait, I have one more of him here. Can you find Alex in the back row? This is a picture from the End of Season Banquet for Mark’s age group.
Alex has definitely improved his swim times! He also participated in numberless relays and always enjoyed them! As long as we brought him dinner, watermelon and cucumbers, he was happy. We saw him for a few minutes on Tuesday nights (meet nights) but otherwise he was out there with his team and coaches having a great time!
And here is Mark, under Tuesday night lights at our downtown pool. In fact, most meets were at our pool this year AND virtual...meaning, our team swam as normal, but we didn’t have the other team on site and they swam at the same time in all their events and then we compared the times and placements. I know the energy wasn’t the same as usual BUT the meets were shorter and we were all feeling just grateful that they could make the season happen this year.
We had a special guest come for the last meet of the season--our awesome mayor of Apex, Jcques K. Gilbert. Mark introduced himself to him and I reminded him about how the year before, in April 2020, he personally called me on the phone to explain me the situation about the tennis courts being closed. I was flabbergasted that he called, so I didn’t even care after all that they were closed (well, they were opening up a few days later). But it was really neat to feature him on Mark’s Instagram account and for Mark to be introduced on his.
It was a successful swimming season for sure! Mark got much more confident in his swimming abilities, Alex had a grand time with his swimming buddies (and made $500) earning valuable experience. What will happen next year? Not sure! So glad our kids know how to swim properly!
Lyana.
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