Out of the many sports available to middle school, Seehyun Park (8) has shown his love for swimming by participating in the after school Middle School Swim teamfrom October 29th to December 7th . Although the swimming season has ended, Seehyun continues to take swimming lessons outside of school.
“Swimming is just something I enjoy, not particularly because its super fun and exhilarating or anything, but because I guess its something I’m pretty decent at and enjoy doing,” Seehyun said. “I just like swimming. Although some practices were harsh on me sometimes, I make it through every practice, which makes me proud.”
On days in which practices were extremely harsh, the swim team would in total swim around 1,200 meters. The continuous laps of swimming without breaks often triggered physical and mental exhaustion.
“I would often swim first in my group because it always gives me a little push to keep on swimming, to never stop because I knew that if I did, my peers would overlap me,” Seehyun said. “Although, I do slow down when the exhaustion starts, I never stop and just keep it going. Days on harsh practices, I think my strong mentality keeps me from stopping in the middle of the pool.”
Like many people on the MS swim team such as Andrew Ham, Ryan Jang and Andy Kim, Seehyun takes swimming lessons outside of school at Jonghap Gym, which includes a large swimming pool. He takes lessons five times a week, for either one or two hours. Because of his passion, Seehyun passion was chosen by swim coach Melissa Hubley to participate inhe all star competition at YISS.
“I started swimming with Seehyun six months ago and to be honest, in the beginning he wasn’t such a great swimmer,” Andrew said. “However, through his hard work and his determination, he now became an all star swimmer who represents SIS. He goes to practice everyday even when people like me who are lazy skip lessons sometimes.”
“Swimming is just something I enjoy, not particularly because its super fun and exhilarating or anything, but because I guess its something I’m pretty decent at and enjoy doing,” Seehyun said. “I just like swimming. Although some practices were harsh on me sometimes, I make it through every practice, which makes me proud.”
On days in which practices were extremely harsh, the swim team would in total swim around 1,200 meters. The continuous laps of swimming without breaks often triggered physical and mental exhaustion.
“I would often swim first in my group because it always gives me a little push to keep on swimming, to never stop because I knew that if I did, my peers would overlap me,” Seehyun said. “Although, I do slow down when the exhaustion starts, I never stop and just keep it going. Days on harsh practices, I think my strong mentality keeps me from stopping in the middle of the pool.”
Like many people on the MS swim team such as Andrew Ham, Ryan Jang and Andy Kim, Seehyun takes swimming lessons outside of school at Jonghap Gym, which includes a large swimming pool. He takes lessons five times a week, for either one or two hours. Because of his passion, Seehyun passion was chosen by swim coach Melissa Hubley to participate inhe all star competition at YISS.
“I started swimming with Seehyun six months ago and to be honest, in the beginning he wasn’t such a great swimmer,” Andrew said. “However, through his hard work and his determination, he now became an all star swimmer who represents SIS. He goes to practice everyday even when people like me who are lazy skip lessons sometimes.”