Swimming

     Swimming is my favorite sport. It has been ever since I started swimming in 5th grade, and chances are that it always will be. It's a sport where you can get awesome exercise while you have a good time with your friends. It doesn't matter how old you are, you can still swim. In fact, there are people over 80 years old who still swim competitively. If you're naturally athletic, you can try a sport for the first time and be amazing at it. It's not like that in swimming, you have to work very hard to be good. The water is such an alien environment to the human body that you simply can't just get into the water and be amazing. I've been working very hard in swimming lately, and I have seen it pay off. In fact, my goal is to take the school record in the 100 yard freestyle and then to go on and swim in college, possibly at Gustavus Adolphus. Swimmers have the highest rate of graduating from college out of all the different athletes from the assortment of college sports. Considering everything that the sport of swimming has going for it, it is a shame that it doesn't get more credit than the small recognition that it gets in the realm of high school sports.
            
                                                 -Andrew