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Emma was terrified of water as a young child but overcame her fear through weekly swim lessons. While it took her a long time to learn strokes like freestyle and backstroke, she found that breaststroke came easily. At age nine, she tried out for and made the local Kyat swim team, swimming with them for five to six years. Racing in her first high school meet as a freshman, she discovered the adrenaline rush and joy of competing while being cheered on by teammates. Overcoming her fear of water allowed Emma to gain valuable swimming experience and memories.

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Emma was terrified of water as a young child but overcame her fear through weekly swim lessons. While it took her a long time to learn strokes like freestyle and backstroke, she found that breaststroke came easily. At age nine, she tried out for and made the local Kyat swim team, swimming with them for five to six years. Racing in her first high school meet as a freshman, she discovered the adrenaline rush and joy of competing while being cheered on by teammates. Overcoming her fear of water allowed Emma to gain valuable swimming experience and memories.

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Emma Tibbitts

Keep Pushing

One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do was learn how to swim. I was always
afraid of the water. When I first started swimming I was 5 years old, and I was terrified
of the water. I would kick, scream, and cry; I´d do anything to get away from the water,
but that’s what anyone would do to get away from something they’re scared of right?
But what’s important is that we overcome that fear. And that’s what I did.

My mom put me in swim lessons and I went every week. At the beginning of my lessons
I learned the simple things like how to blow bubbles, back floats, and kick. Once I was
able to do all those things, I thought I was able to do anything because I'd mastered
that, but boy was I wrong. My teacher started showing me how to do freestyle and
backstroke. It took me a long time to be able to do both. When I finally was able to do
both strokes I moved onto butterfly.

In my opinion butterfly is the hardest stroke out of all of them. The timing of the kick and
to get out of the water was really hard for me to understand. Next I went on to learn the
last stroke, Breaststroke. Breaststroke is one of my favorites. This stroke took no time at
all for me to learn. I loved it so much that I would practice it non-stop, so I would be able
to become really great at it. Then the time came that I was finally able to try out for the
Kyat team for Kearns.

I remember I was terrified, I was shaking so bad. I tried out when I was nine years old
and I made it. I swam on that swim team for five to six years. During that time my
coaches worked with me on all my strokes. When I was 15 I was able to be on the
highschool team. The highschool team was a lot different than the Kyat , but it was a
good different. When I did Kyat I never went to meets, either they were too far away or I
was scared to do them.

Racing is the scariest but best moment ever. The first meet I went to was when I was a
freshman. It was so fun going up to the block and being able hear your teammates
screaming, and seeing the other people swimming, it brings this adrenaline rush to you,
and you know that's when it’s time to race. The best feeling is when you’re racing and
you look over and you can see your teammates screaming and cheering you on, it
makes you want to go faster and push harder.

Without overcoming my fear of the water and pushing myself out of my comfort zone I
wouldn’t have been able to get all the memories I have, and friendships I've made.

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