Central and Eastern European Schools Association Tournament
Reuben has been preparing for this meet all year! 7 International School Swim teams gathered : students from Moscow, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Albania, and Czech Republic.
Swimmers from literally all over the world. We hosted a young man from Poland and another from Canada in our home for three nights. The meet began on Friday and continued into Saturday finishing with a swimmers and coaches spaghetti dinner. It was a really great time for everyone.
And was even made more special because of a new student initiated idea (Thanks so much Oscar!) of streaming the meet LIVE on the Internet for parents, grandparents and friends to watch from their very own homes! It really brought many people so far away, very close together. Mary was asked to be a part of that Stream Team (7 students) and had a wonderful time interviewing swimmers and coaches, principals, the director of AAS and even an Russian Olympic Swimmer,Vladislav Kulikov,
(she actually held his silver and bronze medals) who was on hand as a stroke judge/referee and to award medals.
But back to Reuben.
He was pumped... coach had fired the team up and challenged all the boys to shave their arms and legs. I never thought I would be helping my son
shave his legs! But those hairy legs and armpits were a challenge!
Reu's results - 50 free - 1st, 27.66 (missing the school record by .06 seconds -oh well)
100 IM - 2nd place, 19.57
100 free - 1st, 1.05
200 Medley relay (where he swam the butterfly) - 1st place
200 Free relay (High School- they pulled him up to
the HS team for this one) - 1st place
2 comments:
He got this orange cap when he qualified and raced in the European Championship, back a couple years when we lived in Germany. It is his "lucky" cap... but we all like it cause we can pick him out in a sea of swimmers!
I signed in to watch online for a few minutes. It was the last event before lunch, no Reuben in that event. What a great idea to broadcast so family all over can see. Way to go, you've got quite the swimmer! I loved your beach vacation, we need some warm sunshine too. :)
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