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Maggie tagged my high school teammate, Mike Smith, in the following post about her daughter's swim team start.

Mike was my high school team captain way back when I was a squirrelly freshman.

He has coached junior high swimming for many, many years.  Truly a one-of-a-kind guy.

Guess who's 7th grader decided to join the swim team this year? I picked her up from her first day of practice in tears.. she's never swam on a team before and felt there was no way she was a strong enough swimmer to stick with it.. then came the Maggie stories of how hard it was for me, and how I rarely placed in anything but last..but how swimming made me learn to push myself mentally and with the support from great coaches, like you, I always felt encouraged to keep pushing myself along. Yesterday at practice pick up...she was full of smiles and declared to me "I love it, Mom, I'm gonna do it!"