MS Swimming State Awards Banquet & Clinic

Saturday, September 25

was the MS Swimming State Awards Banquet

and swim clinic in Jackson. This year, Olympic gold

medalist, Ryan Lochte, held the clinic and was

also the keynote speaker at the banquet. Emily received

her award as a Top 5 state time holder for her age group

for the 2008-09 swim season. We had a great time and

Emily was very proud to represent her team.

Group getting instruction from Ryan, a very recent

Olympic and World Champion, what a thrill!

Em is in the yellow cap listening to backstroke

tips. Lochte won the gold in the 200m back last

year in Beijing, so I hope she listened well.

Well now I think she and Delora were

just goofing off.

Ok, so I may have a few shots of just Ryan,

but how often do get to be face to face with

someone who has accomplished Olympic gold, and

World records...and look so good doing it??

And I did actually take pictures of Emily too. She

just didn't stay as still all the time.

Breaststroke

Florida Gator tattoo

And then on left arm..Olympic rings tattoo

Emily with teammates Delora and Alex

posing with Ryan and Rex Tulliur. Rex is Ryans

room mate at training and they were both

University of Florida swimmers. He was

there to help with the clinic.

Later that evening we attended the banquet

which was held at the Fairview Inn Bed & Breakfast.

It was very nice. A different look for both of them huh?

Emily and her swim friend, Madi, who swims

for Hubfins in Hattiesburg.

Emily and Madi with Ryan

Emily and Madi with their autographed awards.

Tide Swimming

Tide swim meet, Thursday 9/17. Pics are of Lauryn getting ready for her leg of the relay. She also swam the 200 free and 100 fly. It was the first time she swam those events and turned in really good seed times. Emily also swam exhibition and had some great times, even though they didn't count. She thinks it's cool to swim with the high schoolers.

Piranhas Swim Banquet

The Piranhas had their end of the year banquet

Saturday night. It was very nice..great job Kim!

Both the girls received awards..Lauryn was awarded

"Most Improved Fly Stroke" and "Most Improved Freestyle".

She has worked really hard and it's paid off...she had

her first high school meet last week for the Tide and

did very well. There are no age brackets for high school

so she is swimming as a 7th grader against all of them.

Emily took the award for "High Point" for 8 & under girls

and was also the highest scoring swimmer for 08/09 season.

Way to go Peanut!

She was also the recipiant of one of the "Coach's Awards".

We are looking forward to another great season, #6 for Emily,

I hope she stays dedicated to the sport.

The girls with Koach Ray and Coach Bev. Not sure

where Lisa ran off to.

Football Time

Football season is here!

Roll Tide

Beach Pics

Fun in the Sun

Still more of Panama City. I had so many pics that

it was easier to put in multiple posts. The weather

was so nice, Keith and I set up on the beach and the

girls kinda did their own thing. Everything at the resort

is real close so they could go from the beach, pool and

aqualand and they were never far from us.

Lauryn and Emily took part in all the kids

activities they have at the resort, which keep

them entertained for a good while.

Emily just chillin

Notice how calm the water is. It was like that

for 2 days. Not good for boogie boards but real nice

for just floating and swimming.

Cooling off in Aqualand

Sack races on the beach..like thats not difficult

enough, try it in the sand.

yeah..Em didn't win that one

Now racing with the staff members