Alum Meet
Alumni Meet was yesterday and it was fun like always. Just mostly messing around under the pretense that we are actually racing. Anyways, by about halfway through Kim called everyone, alumni and current swimmers over to a bench. It was a bench dedication to a four year swimmer, two time team captain who graduated in 1999, who had died in early July, 2006, at age 29. There was a short speech made then a moment of silence in order to honor him. The moment itself was very powerful. Even in the freshman you saw a small look of sadness and confusion. As well as the alumni starting to tear up. What hit me so hard that I have to write about it though, is after the moment, before we started the meet again, one of the alum, looking to be at least 30 or so, goes "Go Slugs on 3, 1-2-3" Concluding in the whole team shouting "Go Slugs!" Its fucking amazing when you hear 15-20 generations of Slug Swimmers shouting the same cheer as you do at every meet, at every gathering. It just hit me how big this is, how much it means. I don't know what else to say. But knowing your a part of something so big, thats been going on so long, and requires so much dedication is just an amazing feeling.