Before the soaking...

My assumption – that high school swimmers can make a clean entry in the diving start to their races – was wrong. They might as well do cannonballs...

I'm hoping chlorinated water won't ruin clothes...

Appleton East High School's Lauren Sell, front, starts off the block during the eighth heat of the 50-yard breaststroke during the Patriot Pentathlon Swim Meet at Appleton East High School in Appleton, Wis., Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008.