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    11 SIGNS YOU WERE A SUMMER SWIMMER

    You may be grown up now, but you're still nostalgic for the overwhelming smell of chlorine on a hot summer day. Swim Team for Life.

    1. Your first memory was being thrown into the pool around age five.

    2. You had an impressive collection of swim caps.

    3. And goggles.

    4. You always had that one coach who was a total dreamboat.

    5. You swam with someone who swam with someone who swam with someone who raced Michael Phelps.

    6. Unless you swam year round, you were probably there for the social aspects.

    7. 6AM wakeups for morning practice? No biggie. As long as the parents brought breakfast after.

    8. You’ve had “Eat My Bubbles” written in Sharpie on your back at least once in your life.

    9. You had a vast arsenal of cheers that you knew by heart.

    10. Your non-swim team friends could never understand why you refused to go on vacation until the end of the season.

    11. You sat through countless long meets and struggled through hundreds of grueling practices, but your teammates made it all worth it.