Swimming Update

What a crazy busy and great 2 weeks of swimming for Jamie.

Her home swim meet on 31 Oct was OK. She had 2 best personal times -in 200m Free and 50m back. She finished 5th in the 200M free and 3rd in the 50m back. She also swam in 2 relays.

On 7 Nov, she participated in a challenge swim with the team - each swimmer in her group had to individually swim 50x100m freestyle or 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) - yep - that's right!! Jamie swam 5km.

This past week she qualified for all 3 events in the European Forces Swim League Long Distance Championships in Italy over Thanksgiving weekend. Unfortunately, we had not planned on going this year................

- Tue 10 Nov she qualified for the 400m Individual Medley.

- Thur, 12 Nov she qualified for the 800m Freestyle.

- Friday, 13 Nov she qualified for the 1,500m Freestyle beating the qualifying by 2:10 min.

Today, 15 Nov, she had a swim meet in Heidelberg and she did really well. She improved in all her events. Her two relays finished first in their heats. All three times are new best times.

- 50m Back - she finished 3rd and improved 1.2s and is just 1 sec from qualifying.

- 100m IM - she finished 4th and improved 1 sec but is still 5.5 sec from qualifying. She dies on the last leg of freestyle or she might have qualified.

- 200m Free - she finished first and improved 3.8 sec and is just 1 sec from qualifying.

Her next meet is this saturday here at Ramstein. We will be hosting 4 kids from Berlin and Belgium for the night and Oma will be here to cheer her on!!

Jamie preparing for her backstroke.