On the Road Again

This afternoon, The Girl begins a new chapter in her swimming life.  She has decided to join a club team so that she can continue to practice between the HS season and the summer season.  So I begin the road trip driving her back and forth too.

She is anxious to refine her stroke and increase her speed.  This club team will help her with that.  Even as she went to speak with the coach yesterday, there were maybe a dozen swimmers in the pool.  Just that smaller coach to swimmer ratio will help her.  She'll have someone to work with HER, not just the group.

I am glad she wants to continue improving.  She has a talent for this, and she enjoys doing this.  Event he monotonous practices.  And this may even help her learn some techniques that will help her as a coach of the youngest swimmers on the summer team--she was asked to be a coach at the end of the HS season this year.  So this will help her on that front too.

She has set a goal for herself to make it to the HS state swim finals next year.  And to make the podium by the time she is a senior.  How can I not assist her with ambitious goals like that?!  I can't.  So I am driving her each day to the neighboring town's indoor pool.  Everyday, including Saturday.

If nothing else, she will develop her own talents, initiate new friendships, and fine tune her self-discipline with this project.  I just hope her swim goals will also be met.