This is your second semester blogger, Amanda. I am a sophomore here at Wheaton, I enjoy walks along the beach at sunset, good movies, and synchro! I am from Lakeland, Florida, and swam for the Lakeland Flamingos. I am currently undeclared but very interested in History and Secondary Education, as well as the athletic training route. This is my 12 season as a swimmer, and I am fortunate to have a duet and trio with some wonderful girls.
We have just started our competition season and while our Winter Training is over now, I feel you all should know how it went. We left for the great island of Puerto Rico on the 28 of December and immediately hit the water hard. While there we trained every day save our "rest day," which we spent the day lounging and dancing and blowing off the crazy at the beach and walking around Old San Juan. Our training consisted of an all day water day, then after showering we did cardio. Cardio Tennis was by far the highlight of our nights, and I'm sure none of you are surprised when I say we are all water people for a reason. While training was brutal in PR, we came back to school with a determined attitude to work hard until the start of classes. Our two a days were nothing easy, but the addition of Track and Basketball being on campus made for some wild nights. (Don't get any ideas now though, they were spent destroying the track or basketball kids at monopoly and taboo and or movie nights, because yes, we are that cool =])
We have just started our competitions and have just come from the high that can only be experienced at a home meet. The amount of students that came to see us was astounding. The walkout counters literally had to yell over the deafening cheers. The athletic directors were present as well, but the most important part, our friends, showed beyond our expectations. The parents that came also were a welcome site, sadly my own were unable to come. We had a good showing of schools come, and the meet (thank goodness) ran quickly and smoothly.
We head to Canisius in Buffalo tomorrow for a routines only meet, where my teammate Ana is from. One good thing about having teammates from the Northeast is the home cooked meals, and her parents have offered to make just that for us on our journey back to school. I for one am looking forward to a free meal that is not campus food (although our food rocks).
That is all for this post, I will be posting every week for the remainder of the semester, so be on the lookout! Here are some pictured from Puerto Rico and the BU meet for entertainment!
Hope everyones weekend is wonderful!
Amanda =]
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