High School Swimming

  My name is Austin Dukes and I'm a swimmer. I have graduated high school and I was a swimmer. As a swimmer I have heard everything about how swimming isn't hard or how swimming isn't important as a school sport. Many people who did other sports like basketball and soccer have said swimming is dumb and isn't hard to do. This blog is to tell you that actually swimming is a very hard sport to do than any other sport.
  The skills you have to have for swimming in order to be a good swimmer needs to be high. There are many skills that are needed for swimming like endurance and strength. With Endurance you need to be able to hold a speed for the time of the race. Endurance will help in the long run in swimming. It takes a lot of time and effort to build your endurance as a swimmer.
  The different strokes in swimming can be easy for some and be hard for others. For me I can do all the strokes well because I practice a lot and have built my endurance and strength to help with them. There are four main strokes, Freestyle, back stroke, fly, and breast stroke. As a swimmer who competes competitively I have to be able to do all four strokes. Free style is the easiest to do because everyone does it when they learn to swim. I find free style to be easy but breast stroke to be my best.
  The truth between swimming and other sports is that swimming is one of the hardest sports to do. People have said swimming isn't hard and that anyone can excel at it. The truth is that you have to work hard in order to do good. it takes years to excel at swimming and to perfect it. it has taken me six years to get to where I am as a state swimmer. I'm not saying swimming is the only hard sport but people don't understand how hard it is to be a swimmer. You have to hold your breath and swim even when your muscles are tired. As an example of how hard it can be a friend of mine joined my swim team and he played soccer. After the first practice he said how hard it is to swim than it is to play soccer because of all the different skill and types of work we have to do to be a successful swimmer. 
  Wanting to inform you on how hard it is to be a swimmer than just having this image that swimming is easy is something I want to show you because there are many people who believe it is a easy and useless sport in school even though it is one of the sports that will bring great reputation to your school.