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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Swim Team


I found an awesome swim team. It is the best in all of Canada! They won overall at Nationals last year. The team is called Cascade. We do drylands for 45 minutes -1 hr 3 out of 6 days. We use weights, jump ropes, medicine balls. We run and do a lot of different stretches and exercises. On Tuesday mornings we practice at 6-7:30, so I have to wake up at 5! We do a lot of different drills, too. Sometimes I even have to do backstroke with a water bottle balanced on my forehead to stop my head from moving when I rotate my shoulders! One of my coaches is named Ildi. She's from Romania, and I really like her. I am really glad to be on this team.

~Madison

3 comments:

Lindsay T said...

that's good, that you found some good friends in canada!

Lindsay T said...

and had a chance to be on the swim team!!!

Hannah said...

Cascade sounds like it's a really fun swim team with all the weights and everything. I wish I would be able to swim there! That's to bad that you had to leave it. That was really cool that you found a swim team in Canada and kept swimming.........Talk about some Perseverance!