Today we had our first session of "open-swim" at the pool. Debunking more myths than those pertaining to leadership (people are born leaders, the best leaders are the most-outgoing, etc), Sports Challenge challenges the myth that one cannot swim within 45 min of eating as the pool was filled with student-athletes after lunch before their afternoon sports session. As far as I know, no one cramped up!
The highlight of the pool time was a creative version of volleyball that a big group of soccer kids started on one side of the pool. Somehow dividing into teams, the kids hit, punched, or threw a volleyball over flags that serve as markers. Yelling, screaming and having an all-around good time, the kids' makeshift game turned into an aggressive competition between the soccer and basketball players (who had been jealously eying the game for the past several minutes).
Temporarily segregated by sport and after some whooping, pointing, and laughing the two sports were able to compromise into one big game and thereby giving Coach Hellerman a clear lane to finish up her 70 laps! This game lasted for the rest of the pool session, leaving everyone happy, fatigued, (though vocal chords perhaps a little scratched), and relatively relaxed and loose for today's last session of sports!
-Coach Alexa Caldwell
Brown University '11
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