Pretend it's Thursday. That's about how far I am behind in blogging things happening around here. So, it's Thursday, June 11th, 2009, at about 5:10 a.m. at the Indianapolis airport and Team Indy is getting ready to take off for Colorado and the Olympic Training Center. 27 Girls, 27 Boys.
CSC had the honor of having ten boys selected from their group of elite swimmers. Matt was lucky enough to be one of them.
We barely slept through the night as we were so excited to just get going. We were up at 4:00 a.m. more from the excitement than from the raging stormy weather, although it was a close call. We drove through rain, lightening, thunder, and road construction to get to the airport on time.
I had barely enough time to line up the guys (the girls were scattered all over the area chatting), for a group photo of the ten CSC boy OTC swimmers. Remember this was about 5:10 a.m. and all these guys are looking pretty happy to be getting on that plane that early in the morning. I've seen them plenty of times at that hour of the morning, but never looking quite this happy at that hour. Congratulations, guys...we all hope you have a wonderful time and bring home some new best times.
Reading left to right: John S, Daniel H, Josh J, Nik A, Matt G, Mike V, Harrison W, Jonathan A, Stevie S, and Tyler G.