From the time she was very young, we have been amazed by Amanda’s swimming skills. She has worked very hard to develop into a competitive swimmer. Her goal this year was to make it to \u201cState\u201d in one individual event. She exceeded that goal by qualifying for both the 50M and 100M freestyle.<\/p>\n
The big challenge was getting tickets for the event. Our daughter Kelly camped on the computer and got 4 ticket for her family. I was also camped on the computer but the tickets were gone within minutes and I missed out. We were bummed, but resigned to follow the event via texts. However Amanda’s mom (daughter Lisa) was able to get us two tickets and we were elated.<\/p>\n
Tickets for these events are generally in tight supply, but this also happened to be Missy Franklin’s last high school swimming event. We got to witness, firsthand, what an amazing swimmer she is!<\/p>\n
Amanda did not qualify to go to the finals in the individual events, but her relay team did qualify for the finals. <\/p>\n
As an added note, both of Amanda’s brothers are on swim teams and seem to be wonderful swimmers. Kelly and Damon’s two daughters have just started swimming in club competition this year at ages 9 &7. Looks like we will be going to more swim meets! Then you add in Judy and Tom’s kids band events and basketball games \u2013 these grandkids keep us hopping.<\/p>\n
Attached is a photo of Amanda and Missy:<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\nThat is all for trip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hello from Fort Collins, CO Saturday evening February 9, 2013 (First travelogue of this trip). Well, actually I am cheating a bit, since I am writing this from Evergreen, CO. However I wanted to document a fun day trip that … Continue reading