Utah County Swim Meet

Swim team season ended last Saturday with the the Utah County Gold Swim Meet (there are 3 meets... Bronze, Sliver, and Gold, with the gold meet being for those with the fastest times). It was an interesting meet for Nolan. First, it was in Spanish Fork and those wicked canyon winds were blowing. It was FREEZING cold and we were not prepared! Nolan swam the fly in the medley relay, individual free, fly, and back, and was the anchor leg in the free relay. Something was up with his fly though... he's had fabulous times this season... sub-20 seconds was his standard. On Friday he came home from swim practice and said he just knew he was flutter kicking. I told him "no way" and to forget about it and swim fly like he had been all season. Well, he psyched himself out and his fly times were WAY off (by 5+ seconds). He ended up 14th in the county in fly. His medley relay team had a rough go as well. They had been undefeated all season, but the backstroker hit the lane line, the breaststroker had something weird going on with his stroke, and then there was Nolan with his butterfly issues... they ended up 3rd. Not bad. Nolan placed fifth in the backstroke. He was cruising until he got crooked and hit the lane line, but still had a strong finish. He finished second in the 50 free with his second best time of the season. Finally it was free relay time and his team was looking for some redemption from the medley relay disappointment. There was a false-start and their lead off leg didn't hear the callback and swam his leg... ugh! No worries though! He walked back to the block and swam another great leg. The next two legs were strong as well. Nolan's relay was ahead by about a body length when it was his turn. He swam a beautiful anchor leg, went sub-14 seconds and his team won by over 1/3 pool length. After getting over his disappointment with the fly, Nolan felt good about his other swims! Great season, Nolan!