Kelly had her first official swim practice tonight! CRAZY! It is SO incredibly different to be on the parent side of swimming. I understand being a swimmer as I swam competitively for 17 years and I understand the coaching side as this will be my 15th year as the head coach at Wahlert)......add those two together and that is 32 years! Now....taking my daughter to swim practice and sitting in the bleachers....that is just plain WEIRD! Kelly has ALWAYS loved the water. She passed her level of swim lessons last month and she could either move to the last level or try DASH (Dubuque Area Swimming Hurricanes - the club swim team that I used to swim on). She was all about trying the swim team as she wants to be like "Mommy's swimmers!" DASH has a two week (no obligation) free trial for anyone interested......so we thought we would give it a try. Her age group practices twice a week, for an hour. Tonight was her first practice and she loved everything about the 45 minutes in the water......the only thing she didn't like was the stretching/dry-land before they got in the water. I told her that was always a part of it and she said it was ok then. We'll see how she feels at the end of the free trial. I think Mom is more hesitant than Kelly on signing up for DASH.....as I UNDERSTAND the world of competitive swimming!
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