My oldest grandson is a senior in high school. He has an excellent academic career, his high school soccer team has gone to semifinals of State and he is a band leader in a very good high school band. He has been accepted in universities for pre-med studies and has a good job to earn money for his studies.

With all this going for him it was with great surprise he announced he was joining the swim team. He has no record of being a good swimmer and certainly none in dividing, his chosen specialty. Yet here he was diving today in an high school invitation dive meet. With our grandchildren we have been to all kind of football, basketball, soccer games as well as track meets and band and orchestra events but today we were at our first diving invitation.

I asked him over the holidays why with his busy work, music, academic and sport schedule why he went out for the swim team. He said the swim team needed some more divers and swimmers and that the two a day practices and learning how to dive gave him a challenge at which he was getting better.

He did not score high in the diving contest today but one can see that he gave it his best effort and was a team player in this individual sport. We are proud of him and are glad he choose to dive rather than not to dive.

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