Act
William Lee
Grade 10
My name is William lee. I started swim-
ming when I was in first grade, at about
6 years old. In the KAIAC match, I thought
GSIS did really well. I think we came in fifth
place. When I got third place in KAIAC, I
was really happy. I tried really hard, and
the results were good. In the future, train-
ing is going to be more rough for us. For
our final competition we had to train hard-
er. If swimming doesn’t interfere with my
studies, I’m planning on keeping up with
swim next year.
The Varsity Swim team strove for self-improve-
ment and discipline rather than winning their first swim
meet held at Seoul Foreign School. The team each
focused on beating their own record.
Junior Andrew Kim said, “Our main
Swimming Records
Names
Matthew Ahn
Michael Ahn
Matthias Buesing
Woo Bin Cha
GeonYoong Kim
Tae Hyung Kim
David Lee
William Lee
Xingshen Liu
Samuel Rhee
Johnny Tuohy
Tommy Wigenton
Strokes
100 Free
50 Free
100 Back
50 Fly
50 Free
100 Breast
50 Back
50 Fly
50 Free
50 Free
50 Breast
50 Free
Times
1:29.34
32.93
1:21.87
32.10
35.48
1:26.75
51.40
28.14
40.40
34.91
47.31
34.68
focus was not winning, but to break
our own record.”
To prepare for the meet as a captain, Kim tried
to “cheer up” and “encourage” the team during prac-
tices while preparing for their first meet. He also tried
to be more fit and practiced flips for some strokes to
improve his personal record.
Seventh grade Matthew Ahn said the team tried
to take advantage of all the training time. His goal
was to always try to swim faster and beat his personal
best even if only by a “millisecond.”
Woobin Cha prepared for the meet by repeat-
ing Tabata routine and worked on various exercises
such as sprinting, diving and turning.
For William Lee, performing in his races well
and placing third in KAIAC overall was counted as an
achievement.
He said, “I prepared for my KAIAC events by
training hard, even outside of school, eating clean
and sleeping well.“
“I performed well in my rac-
es, which was a result of my hard work
and also luck. I felt excited before races,
looking forward to what result I would
bring out.“
Both of their teammates Michael Ahn and
Taehyung Kim picked William’s races
as the highlight of the meet.
Michael said, “ Even though our
goal was not to win, it was
exciting our teammate
did very well with
his record.”
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