Just Keep Swimming

To end my swimming years of high school I am glad it ended with a different goal than what I had in mind. I was planning on making it to divisionals again in the 100 backstroke but in the beginning of the season I volunteered to swim the 500 after the girl who was supposed to got sick. (If anyone does not know the 500 freestyle is 20 laps in a 25 meters.) I always swam this event sophomore and junior year and never progressed, so typically in this event no one wants to swim it including myself and when I watched all the freshman hide after Buzz asked who would like to swim I stepped up and took over. When I finally ended the race I had dropped 22 seconds from my junior time. From then on I swam it almost every weekend and once i made it to divisionals i had dropped 31 seconds! Once I finished in divisionals and beat out everyone in my heat with a strong finish I ended my season with 36 seconds off my time!