The swim season keeps on keepin' on! A week ago today Lacey had the district swim meet. There were 8 teams competing from our district. It was a notable experience for our freshman swimmer. She dropped nearly 5 seconds in her 200 free. (Which doesn't sound like much but in the water events are won and lost by fractions of a second.) She dropped time in her 100 fly and that earned her an 8th place ribbon. It is worth pointing out that in high school swimming you do not compete by age, you compete against teams which means in your heat you have 9th-12th graders on the blocks. Finally she was on a 200 free relay team with another freshman and two juniors. They swam their way to a 4th place finish - narrowly missing 3rd by one second. The exciting part of this is that they are now qualified for the regional meet in Dallas on Friday. (Top 6 in each event continue on.) Lacey finds this all to be rather grand, she gets to miss the school day on Friday. She will find herself with the afternoon free so we will be using that time to dress hunt in Dallas for the swim banquet in March. She has been window shopping online for weeks!