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I finished my swimming season last Saturday at North American Challenge Cup in Edmonton, as part of Team Canada. The meet went well, I was close to all my best times and it was a great experience to see what it's like to be part of a National team.
In my individual races I won 2 gold's in the 200m and 400m IM, I was 2nd in the 400m Fr, 5th in the 200m Br, and was part of 2 gold medal relays and 1 silver medal relay. This was a competition between Canada, Mexico, Southern California, and Northern California . It was a great international experience and good way to finish the season.
The meets I had before the NACC, were Senior Nationals, and Age Group nationals.
At Senior nationals I placed 8th in the whole country in the 400m IM with personal best time of 4:33.77 , and was part of a relay that set a new Canadian Age Group Record in the 4x100 Medley relay with a time of 3:55.02. I swam the butterfly leg and split 56.93.
At Age Group Nationals I won the 400m IM by over 7 seconds, which leaves me at a 3rd year in a row winning the 400m IM and being 1st in Canada for my age. At both of these competitions I swam the 200m amd 400m IM & Fr, 100 Fly at Sr. Nationls, and 200 Fly at AGN.
Out of Sr. Nationals and AGN a team was being chosen to go to Australia in the winter for 2 weeks of competition. I qualified for this team and have a good chance of going. It is not official yet but I was told that I will be going by the person that does the selection process. I'm very excited about going to Australia and competing there. It'll be a great experience and I cannot wait.
I will start swimming again in September and will start up a new swimming season which will last until the end of August because Canada Summer Games are then. This is a meet where each province sends a team of athletes from every sport to compete at a national level and is like the Olympics and is held every four years. These Summer Games will be held in P.E.I.
My goal is to make this team and others along the way next season. For the rest of this summer I will be going to a cabin in Montreal and rest until the new season rolls around in a few short weeks.
Well thank you again and I hope you have a great summer and thank you again for the sponsorships.
Sincerely,
David Dimitrov
