johnnybv June 28, 2009 Share June 28, 2009 (edited) Just a proud dad moment! A short race from today where my 10 year old daughter crushed a 2002 team record by more than a second! She is in lane 3 from the bottom up, slow start but then kicked it! Swimming runs in the family blood, especially breast stroke (mine & my brothers stroke many years ago) http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j135/joh...nt=P6271771.flv Edited June 28, 2009 by johnnybv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctenophore June 28, 2009 Share June 28, 2009 WOW that is fast for a 10 year old, and great mechanics too. Congratulations to both of you! I swam from around that age through college, hated breaststroke the entire time. Fly was my only good stroke. I can't wait to teach my kids! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gadgets June 28, 2009 Share June 28, 2009 Awesome John. U should of had me there taking pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoozilla June 28, 2009 Share June 28, 2009 Well done. Congratz to you and your daughter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanman June 28, 2009 Share June 28, 2009 Woohoo! She killed! I did IM, Freestyle, Back, Fly, 1M springboard, 3M springboard - also hated breaststroke. bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLazar June 28, 2009 Share June 28, 2009 That is awesome! Please send our congratulations. I think you should send video to Michael Phelps...........she'll be his competition at the Olympics in a few years! Swims like a fish ............ Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikryd June 28, 2009 Share June 28, 2009 Thats cool! I am sure you are a Proud Pappa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowardofNOVA June 28, 2009 Share June 28, 2009 Congrats sir!! I'm sure family is quite proud!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Garrison June 28, 2009 Share June 28, 2009 Congrats Johnny, I know the feeling of being proud of your little swimmer. I need to get mine back in to it now that things are settling down after the move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhcorals June 28, 2009 Share June 28, 2009 Congrats to your daughter John. I know you and the family are very proud of her. Lynn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsedlack June 28, 2009 Share June 28, 2009 Excellent effort. Are you thinking what I'm Thinkin'?- college scholarship! BTW - it's nice to read about good things on this board. Keep us informed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luceneck June 28, 2009 Share June 28, 2009 Wow John, she really crushed those in her group! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan June 28, 2009 Share June 28, 2009 Proud papa and rightlfully so. Wow, she's a little swimming machine. Definately encourage her to keep it up and look into scholarships for this talent. Congratulations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami June 28, 2009 Share June 28, 2009 Cool! Congratulations, Johnny. I'll bet you're one proud daddy! She's sure got talent - run's in the genes, too, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wfoxfox June 29, 2009 Share June 29, 2009 Congrats - so, a weak and proud Dad moment - 25% 0ff all livestock? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnybv June 29, 2009 Author Share June 29, 2009 (edited) Thanks everyone! both my brother and I held several records, so its really cool to see that it is truley in the blood! She is away at a swim camp this week, we just dropped her off at UVA, first time ever away from us!!! She is having a blast and hoping to improve some of her other strokes, she is really close to a few other records as well, so this should be an interesting year. It is pretty incredible to see her just turn it on and literally look like she just shifted gears as she pulls away from her competition! One proud daddy! I think I will have to come up with some sale this weekend to comemorate her achievment! John Edited June 29, 2009 by johnnybv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnybv June 29, 2009 Author Share June 29, 2009 That is awesome! Please send our congratulations. I think you should send video to Michael Phelps...........she'll be his competition at the Olympics in a few years! Swims like a fish ............ Maureen She used to idolize Phelps, but the whole pot smoking thing kinda ruined that! We know several other olympic swimmers that we can communicate with! Rik was in I think the 1994 games, in a relay. john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLazar June 29, 2009 Share June 29, 2009 (edited) She used to idolize Phelps, but the whole pot smoking thing kinda ruined that! We know several other olympic swimmers that we can communicate with! Rik was in I think the 1994 games, in a relay.john That's why I want her to crush all his records! Edited June 29, 2009 by MLazar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar Magnolia June 29, 2009 Share June 29, 2009 Wow, she really took off! Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kengar July 1, 2009 Share July 1, 2009 you really want to help her crank things up? start putting some large moray eels into the water behind her when she practices! (yeah, yeah, I know, salt water versus fresh water! In that case, you can resort to the bull sharks, which are VERY capable of surviving in fresh water and have been found as far as 2200 miles up river!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capsfan July 1, 2009 Share July 1, 2009 Gads, bullsharks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnybv July 1, 2009 Author Share July 1, 2009 you really want to help her crank things up? start putting some large moray eels into the water behind her when she practices! (yeah, yeah, I know, salt water versus fresh water! In that case, you can resort to the bull sharks, which are VERY capable of surviving in fresh water and have been found as far as 2200 miles up river!) she wants to be a marine biologist, so she would probably stop and try to examine them...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leishman July 1, 2009 Share July 1, 2009 Rik was in I think the 1994 games, in a relay.john '92 in Barcelona. Individual 100 fly and the relay. I did NOT do my best. I got 8th at the World Championships in '91 and was ranked 9th in the world going into the Olympics. I finished 17th! Ouch..... I still hold several records at various age group levels back home in Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales and N Ireland all have their own records but the best one of those is classed as the British record). I have one British Record that is 27 years old, I remember setting it in Ealing (a 'burb of London). Swimming is a tough sport to be at the top of; you need to smash every world record out there (in the same day) for anyone to know your name! If I could fish for Bass at the same level I swam, I'd be worth millions and have my own producyt line!!!! That being said, I hit 29 countries, trained in Hong Kong for a year got a full ride to the best boarding school in England and full ride to USC (***** not Trojans). Best of luck to your daughter. Olympic sports may not be the most fun to watch, but I love them for the fact that 90% of them rely on the athlete to do his/her job - no team mates to take up the slack on an off day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kengar July 1, 2009 Share July 1, 2009 From wikipedia: The shark has been reported 4,000 km (2,220 mi) up the Amazon River at Iquitos in Peru,[8]. It is also found in the fresh water Lake Nicaragua, and in the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers of West Bengal and Assam in eastern India and adjoining Bangladesh. It can live in almost any water including water with a high salt content as in St. Lucia Estuary in South Africa. After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, a large number of bull sharks were sighted in Lake Ponchartrain.[9].Bull sharks have occasionally been seen in the Mississippi River as far north as St. Louis[10]. Even more rare, due to cooler waters, bull sharks have made their way up the Illinois River and into Lake Michigan such as an encounter off the coast of Chicago, Illinois[11]. In that incident the shark was verified by U. of Illinois biologists as being a female 6 feet 9 inches and weighing over 300 lbs. See, no bull! (Get it? :D) Re finding them in the Mississippi near St. Louis, I grew up there and not infrequently heard about this. This is how I knew about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallyBackm July 1, 2009 Share July 1, 2009 Outstanding! Also, awesome Rik I didn't know that about you...very impressive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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