October 26 - Halloween Spooktacular

Dream Team: Reese, Jules, Danielle, Kennedy

Swim update! I know it sometimes gets confusing with the different swim teams we do so here is some clarification. The PineBrookwood Orcas is a summer league team (friends and family from home, like Charvale or Woodlin). The season runs from May through June with a championship meet series in July for those swimmers who qualify. All events are short course yards. Aquastar is a USA year round swim team (friends and family from home, like the Schenectady-Saratoga Swim Club). Short course (yards) season is August through February and long course (meters) season is March through July. Julia is currently in the midst of short course season and she is practicing 2-3 days a week. The thing I love about swimming is that it is very inexpensive compared to everything else and the schedule is so flexible. There are practices offered at 2 different pools Monday through Friday with a Saturday morning practice offered as well, so it's very easy to find something that works with your schedule. 

In an effort to avoid burnout, we forced Julia to take a break after the Orca championship meet series in July. She started back up with Aquastar in September. We skipped the first meet of the year and went to the 2nd meet last weekend. Julia swam three 50's (back, breast, free) and three 100's back, breast, free) and did fantastic. She had best times in every event, go Jules!! Her next meet is in November and she's really challenging herself, swimming the 200 free (new event for her) and 200 IM (grueling event).