Parker Weekend

Parker had another long weekend of activities this past weekend. On Saturday, he had an all day chess tournament.  6 matches. 10am to 5pm.  He and 14 classmates represented Wildwood as it was a school vs school tournament.  He won his first two, lost his third, tied his fourth, lost his fifth and won his sixth. He came in 5th out of his teammates and he was pretty bummed about that because the top four get big-ass trophies. BIG ones.  Wildwood placed third out of 25+ schools so that is pretty good. He was tired that night but had a good time all day playing with his friends and playing chess. The most impressive this day was that he beat a 1102 rated player. Parker is only rated 551 so this was quite a thing!

On Sunday, he had a swim meet where he swam 4 events. 50 free, 50 back, 200 free, and 100 breast. This was his first meet as a 9-10 year old so the competition and the time cut offs were much tougher. He did great though, coming in 9th, 9th, 8th and 10th in his C division. (the lowest). He did make a B time on his 200 free so he'll be competing against even faster kids in that one. An A time is the one you want to get to and it will probably take him until he almost 11 to get there.  He was very happy with his results and pleased with his one ribbon (top 8 in each division each event) get a ribbon.

He spent a good deal of time re-organizing all his medals, ribbons and trophies on Sunday evening.