Here is video of Bryden's VERY FIRST swim, in her very first swim meet! She is 5 years old, and she was the leadoff on the 8 and under 100 Free Relay. She was a little nervous, got right up on the block, then panicked a little. After talking with her for a couple minutes, she decided she wanted to start from in the water. No problem, even though she can dive off the block and everything, she just wasn't quite comfortable doing so today! She swam so great, I am so proud of her. It was tough for me because I couldn't truly enjoy the moment since I am coaching the team and had to watch the other swimmers too, but I got to see her races today, and she did AWESOME! Thanks to Nanne and Grampa and Uncle John for enduring the heat today to watch Bryden, and to get photos and videos for us since Jim and Emmy are in Maine!
Here is Bryden's very first time she swam breaststroke! It was totally illegal, but she actaully has a great stroke, we just have to get the timing down, make it only one breast kick, and take out the freestyle kicks...maybe by the end of the season she will be legal! She soooo wants to do breaststroke though, especially since Mommy was a breaststroker!

Here is Bryden's 25 individual Free. Her stroke already looks better from her first race, and she definitely swam faster! She even had great sportsmanship, she blew the other two girls in her heat out of the water, it's not in the video, but she sat on the edge of the pool until both girls finished their race! How awesome! We didn't even talk about doing that!