Bluff City Blue Fins!

We have had such a fun summer so far!  One big part of our summer has been the swim team that both kids are on.  They swim for the Bluff City Blue Fins.  They practice at a local YMCA.  They are the only Y in the league though, it's mostly country clubs.  This year both kids are at the top of their age groups (Bryce 9-10) (CeCe 6U because she was 6 at the start of the summer).  They have been racking up the 1 and 2nd place finishes all summer! We've known Bryce is a great swimmer since he swam in Savannah and he's still got it!  CeCe shocked us all...she is awesome!  It's so cute to see the smallest one (even though she's the oldest in her age group, she's almost always the smallest) jump in and fly across the water!  Butterfly has been his best and it's now her best too!  They are both going to be in for a rude awakening next year when they are the youngest in their age groups, but we enjoyed this while we could!!

Today was the much anticipated city meet.  All of the summer swim teams compete in one huge meet.  

Bryce has been fortunate to not have to compete against many year round swimmers this season but he found them all here at city meet!  He ended up doing great though.  7th in freestyle, 5th in the IM (Individual medley, they swim all 4 strokes in one race), 14th in breast (his weakest) and 2nd in butterfly!  This is out of about 45 9-10 boys so it's great!  He finished 7th overall in his age group!  He also swam up an age group in a relay and helped them get 2nd!  

Waiting to start the IM

LOVE watching him swim the FLY! 

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CeCe Duke rocked the city meet!!  Her age group was smaller with about 25 girls in it (with maybe no year round swimmers in it).  She ended up getting 2nd in freestyle, 4th in back and breast and 1st in FLY!!  She also swam on 2 8U relay teams and they got 1st place in both races!!  

Swimmers take your mark...

BEEP

I think one reason I love summer swim is that both of my kids get to do it together! 

My parents have been awesome to come to most of the meets.  Especially today, it was HOT and LONG but they stayed the whole time!  

At the end we thought they were just going to announce the team winners but we were surprised when CeCe got 2nd overall in her age group!!  It was the first group announced so it was fun to be surprised!  So proud of my little bird!  

Best news of the day.....Bluff City Blue Fins win the city championship for the 11th year in a row!!!!  With their super awesome Coach Bess.  She's been the best swim coach we've had so far!

As if I haven't bragged enough in this post :) I'm going to brag some more!  These are CeCe's ribbons from the 5 regular meets this season.....

 And these are Bryce's!!