Today was swim preliminaries. This is where all schools in the league swim against each other to qualify for finals which are on Wednesday. The top 12 swimmers/teams in each event qualify to compete in finals. 1-6 compete, and 7-12 compete, so if you qualify below 6th place you can't end up placing in the top 6, even if your time ends up being better. So it is important to qualify in the top 6. Also, the points in finals help determine the team placement for each school, so the more swimmers qualify in an event the better your chances are to win league. Tyaan swims 4 events (the max allowed per swimmer) and qualified top 6 in all of them! She swims the 4x50 medley (4 swimmers each do 50 yards, each girl doing 1 of the 4 strokes) and they placed 2nd overall. She swims the 200 freestyle and placed 2nd, only 1 second behind the 1st place girl. She swam the 100 fly and placed 3rd (getting her best time ever of 1:15), and finally she swam the 4x100 relay (4 girls each swimming 100 yards freestyle) and they placed 1st. She had a great day and I'm a very proud mom! I can't wait to see how Wednesday goes, but she's guaranteed a top 6 finish in each event, but hopefully it ends up similar to today and she ends up 1-3 in everything.
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That is fantastic!! Good luck tomorrow Tyaan. We'll have to make sure to show us her "scales" since she swims like a fish...or is she more like a porpois.
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