Swimming
Helena’s Regional Results – 2017
We are super proud of the hard work Helena has put in swimming over the past year, but especially since the swim season began in September. She seems to set new personal bests every time she jumps in the pool. In some cases she has taken more than 30 seconds off her previous best time.
This past weekend was the 2017 NE Regionals, which is a qualifying event. Impressively, Helena qualified in 7 different events. I got the privilege of getting to see Helena swim 4 of those events on Sunday, which also included a 40+ mile drive home in a nor’easter.
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We are all super proud of Helena and her swimming. To be fair, we were very proud already, but when we found out that she qualified for the regional swim meet we were both shocked and excited. Helena is 6 years old and she is swimming in the 8 and under group. I never even looked ahead to see what the schedule of the regional swim meet was because I thought it was impossible that a six-year-old would ever qualify.
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