High School State Meet 2011 - Knoxville, TN

We left home on Thursday morning. The roads here were snow and ice covered. It took us an hour just to get to the interstate (10 miles.) Fortunately, after about two hours, the roads opened up and all the winter stuff disappeared. Schools were cancelled too. The swimmers were excused but did not miss classes. Yahoo!

This was a great trip. Fifteen swimmers made the trip to Knoxville.

A friend took this shot of Pumpkin coming in to the wall. I love it. He's making his approach to the wall at the 75 yard point in the 100 Breast.

The swimmers are only allowed to swim two events. Pumpkin swam the 100 Breast and the 500 Free. And, he swam in two relays, the Medley and the 200 Free Relay. He had personal best times in everything finishing 20th in the 500 Free. He is so close to the finals podium that he can almost taste it!

Here is the team waiting for the shuttle after the first day of competition.

Here's the team at the hotel pool before finals. The team captains are wearing white.

Here is the amazing relay team. They took 10th! Each boy left it all in the water. The 8th and 9th place teams were only 1/100th of a second faster. Watch out for next year!!

Now, I have to regroup and get a handle on this week. Today is Valentine's Day and I have to get the china out for dinner. It might help to run to the grocery first...