Update from Portland Oregon…

Out here at the Western Zone Championships on the final day of the competition and it has been a great meet for Taylor. He opened on Tuesday with a best time in the 1500 (mile) with a 17:45:96 placing him 11th out of 25 swimmers in his age group.

He has been the leadoff in 2 medley relays doing the backstroke and both have been best time splits at 31 seconds. He swam the 200 backstroke on Wednesday and placed 8th which brought him back in the finals where he again swam a best time to move him into 7th place overall at 2:21:42.

He swam the 200 free on Thursday and had a best time of 2:09:38 placing him in 18th out of 48 swimmers in his age group.

Friday he swam the 400 Free and swam his seed time 4:32:50 placing him 13th out of 25 swimmers in his age group.

Today we just finished the prelims for the 100 Back and Taylor qualified for the finals in 2nd place so he will be in lane 5 with one swimmer to beat for the championship. He made a sectional cut by taking 2 seconds off his seed time to place 2nd at 1:05:14.

We will be going back for his 800 free and 100 back finals to cap the meet.

Overall it has been a very proud parent week for Justine and I. We have not seen Taylor this pumped up for swimming in a long time. He has been having fun and swimming well. Emily has been a trooper and we have done a bunch of sightseeing between events.

Will finish this post when I can…