Swimming with the Fishes, 2013

Kenrick and Anthony were on the swim team again this summer. I took about four hundred pictures. Here's ten.

The Monticello Marlins, 2013. The boys are in there somewhere.

Kenrick (in the foreground) gets off to a good start.

He swam mostly freestyle, backstroke and butterfly during the season and improved in all three.

Anthony would swim a mix of any four of the events during the season, and began to favor the breast stroke towards the end. He was also starting to do quite well in the butterfly, below.

It's tough to get unique and interesting pictures of swimming. It helps to have a fast camera that can freeze the action mid-splash. I thought this was kind of a good picture of Anthony.

Kenrick's backstroke starts were always hard to capture, but fun to watch. He got pretty good at launching himself down the lane.

Both boys qualified for the Conference meet. Anthony swam the anchor leg of the freestyle relay and his team won by a mile. His coach (with the clipboard) cheers him on to the finish while the timers look for the touch.

Kenrick swam in five events at the Conference meet, including both relays and three individual events. He made it to the finals in the butterfly and finished fourth. "Swimmers take your mark..."

Mid-flap in the fly, one length left in the last race of the season. GO KENRICK!

Whew, this is hard work.