Caleb did great at the morning preliminaries for the 50 meter backstroke. He cut over a second from his best time and placed 5th in his classification so it was back for e finals. A side note...Dalton Herendeen, a former Concord swimmer who is now swimming for the University of Indianapolis, has had Caleb sitting with him and the USA team. What an awesome time for Caleb. Coach Grace had given Caleb a couple NASA swim caps to trade with other teams. Caleb asked Dalton to help him get some caps. Well Dalton did better than that, he introduced Caleb to 3 beautiful young ladies who took him around to make the trades. Needless to say, he was in heaven and came home with 2 Australia team caps, 1 Canada team cap and a USA team member cap. It was funny.
Finals went very well for him. His goal was to go less than 50 sec on the 50 back and he went 47.80. He dropped 2 seconds from his morning swim and set a new lifetime best. After a dinner at TGIFridays with Coach Grace, we headed to a hotel near the airport for our morning flight.
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