A Proud Coach!

As some of you may know, I am a swimmer. For several years I took advantage of that by becoming a life guard, swim teacher and eventually a swim coach for KYAT (Kearns Youth Aquatic Team). This Saturday I had the wonderful oppertunity to go watch one of the little girls I taught in swim lessons and coached on KYAT do her very first swim meet! She did AMAZING! I was so proud of her. There were a lot of people competing, most of which were older than Meridien by a year or two, and she was extremely nervous, but she still managed to qualify for state in 5 of her 7 events. Here were the end results:

50 Back ~ 1st in her race, 1st in her event with state qualifying time
50 Free ~ 1st in her race, 8th in her event
100 Breast ~ 1st in her race, 4th in her event with state qualifying time
100 Back ~ 1st in her race, 1st in her event with state qualifying time
50 Fly ~ 1st in her race, 5th in her event (missed state qualification by fractions of a second)
100 Free ~ 1st in her race, 4th in her event with state qualifying time
50 Breast ~ 1st in her race, 4th in her event with state qualifying time

Backstroke


Meridien ready for her first race

Take your mark!



Go!

All that's left after her start

Side view of her backstroke

Front view of her backstroke



My favorite little swimmer!





Butterfly


Meridien's fly

Close up of her Fly!

Freestyle


Take your mark








Swimming her free, notice no one else in sight? She is that
far ahead!

 

 

Breaststroke


I taught her breaststroke, now she is better at it then me...

Did I mention KYAT won the meet too?

Meridien and Katelyn standing with the trophy
and some of the current coaches

Part of Meridien's cheering squad, me and my
sister Rachel

Our little swim superstar Meridien



Meridien's little sister, and my assistant
coach, Caelyn