Oklahoma swimmer blogs during camp at Olympic Training Center;
Day two filled with breaststroke, backstroke and food
May 8, 6:30 a.m.
Now that I’ve finally gotten more than three hours of sleep, it wasn’t too bad to hear the alarm go off alerting us to breakfast. We’re eating eggs, sausage, hash browns, oh, yum! Good thing we don’t swim until 9.
May 8, 8 a.m.
After breakfast, I go to a session led by Micah Lawrence, a crazy-good breaststroker. She gives us very good insight on how to get better as a swimmer and person. She even comes to swim with us.
May 8, 9 a.m.
A little before swim practice, I get anxious to see what we’re doing today. Soon I find out; it’s a breaststroke day. In the middle of practice, I was pretty sure my legs had fallen off. Luckily, they’re still here.
May 8, 1:30 p.m.
We have a session with Dr. Regina Lewis, founder and CEO of ReginaSpeakingLLC. She tells us to be our own leader. This was followed by the sweet victory of smoothies.
May 8, 5 p.m.
At our second practice, we focus on backstroke. I don’t think I could have been happier in my life! It was just two hours of backstroke.
May 8, 7:15 p.m.
Finally, it’s dinner time! I eat chicken, steak, and pasta. It was so, so good.
About Kade: Kade Knoch, a 14-year-old sectional swimmer for Oklahoma City’s King Marlin Swim Club, got into swimming at age 10 when baseball didn’t work out. He decided he liked it when his coach got in the water and made a game out of learning to swim. Since then, he’s swum all across the central United States working on that next best time. Kade currently holds 11 Oklahoma state records and has two appearances on USA Swimming’s All-Time Top 100s list. He also swims for Santa Fe High School in Edmond, Okla., and in his first year, set two individual records for his school. Now, Kade is working toward a Junior National cut. When he’s not at the pool, he can be found splashing in the creek behind his house or in his kitchen eating a huge bowl of pasta.
About KMSC: KMSC is a competitive USA Swimming team with locations at Oklahoma City Community College in south Oklahoma City, The Lighthouse in northwest Oklahoma City and Mitch Park YMCA in Edmond. The team was created in spring 2014 by longtime Oklahoma City area coaches John Brown, Kathy Mendez and Josh Everett.
As Kades mom, I can assure you it is him and he wrote this!!!! He’s had a blast!! Hope the next one gets posted soon. It’s really good!!
Good job blogging, my kid is there and having fun too. Hope you all have a smooth flight home now that it’s snowing in Denver.
As one of Kade’s friends, I’m confused. This doesn’t sound like him at all!