Senior Recognition Meet

A couple of weekends ago was Tommy's last home meet for his high school swimming career.  With swimming being a part of his and our lives for 13 seasons, it is hard to remember a time when our lives haven't revolved around meet weekends and swim practice.  

Tommy wishing a teammate luck before a race

Tommy has a few pre-race rituals….

Looking pretty intense after a hard swim

While Sam no longer swims, she keeps herself busy at meets taking awesome photos

This particular weekend, we host 2 days worth of swimming, and there is an award ceremony at the end of the day on Sunday.  Before the awards were handed out, our team had the senior recognition ceremony.  Since Tommy is our only senior, he preferred to call it Tommy recognition!  The team lined up and created a hand bridge for him to walk through.  We were supposed to have an entrance song, and it was to be Tommy choice.  He did a lot of searching for good walk-in songs, and thought about songs that mean something to him.  He had it narrowed down to 2 songs, Eye of the Tiger or Ghostbusters.  Both are kind of special to him, but he had concerns…Eye of the Tiger is kind of overused, and Ghostbusters is not a typical walk-in song.  So we got in the car to head over to the last practice before the meet and Tommy was flipping through the radio stations.  On some random Italian station, the Ghostbusters theme was playing.  I can't tell you the last time I heard it on the radio, it was definitely a sign!  Unfortunately, there were some technical difficulties at the ceremony, so no song was played.  However, now Tommy knows his walk-in song should he ever need it again!

Looking so gorgeous after 2 long days of selling concessions!

I waited for Tommy at the end of the bridge.  He had flowers for me and I escorted him to the front

As Tommy stood in front of everyone, his coach read his swim biography.  This part was a surprise to him.

 

After the senior recognition, he went on to win his age group at the meet.  His team gave him a standing ovation.  It was all really nice, and a great way to close out his high school swim experience.  However, there are still several months and many meets left before he is really done, we'll just be traveling across Europe for those!