Adilyn has had a rough time getting certain qualifying times. She seems to be right there, but she misses it within .5 seconds or so. Most of the time it's not too big of a deal, but this particular one stung a bit. We were at a meet, and she had an amazing 50 backstroke, like crazy fast and surprised everyone! Once her official time was posted we realized that it was crazy close to a TAGs time. TAGs is the championship meet for all of Texas, and only like the top 10% of swimmers in the entire state make it. Honestly, I never thought she would have even gotten close. Her coach told us that she could try one more time in a "time trial" type race at the end of the meet to see if she could get it. It was so stressful! We had to time for her, and she was so nervous. We were so nervous, and I was so hoping that she could shave off those few tenths of seconds to get her qualified. She had a great race, but unfortunately still didn't quite make it. She was disappointed, of course, but also very proud that she even got that close.
A couple days later I was looking at our account, and I realized that it said that she was going to be in the medley relay for TAGs. Nobody had said a word to us about it, but apparently, they wanted to take her to fill the B relay for backstroke. She was so excited, she could hardly stand it! It wasn't quite the way she wanted to get there, but at least she got there. She had a decent race, and their relay ended up 10th overall and they were the number one B relay. She was so excited to be there, and I hope it's not her last time to go!
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