When someone becomes a part of a team, they become part of a whole. It's more than just cheering each other on, hanging out in the locker room, going through the grueling practices together. It becomes a family, a sisterhood, where support and love overflows from the pool and into our everyday lives. No matter what the sport, the bonds one forms with one's teammates stick with that person through the thick and thin.
With Breast Cancer Awareness Month occurring, the sense of camaraderie couldn't be stronger, especially for the North Haven High School Girls' Swimming & Diving team. With this specific cancer hitting close to home for all of the girls', it wasn't a question that something had to be done to raise awareness and money.
On Sunday, October 16th at the North Haven Town Pool, the girls will put to the test just how strong their bond actually is. The North Haven Swim-A-Thon will occur, raising money with each lap to help fund research and hopefully a new idea to end breast cancer. With each stroke a girl swims, more money will be donated towards the Susan G. Koman Foundation. No matter what worries in the pool or in our daily lives, all of those will be left at the door as the girls swim as a whole. No racing, no records to beat, no competition. The only competitor the girls face Sunday is breast cancer, which they have gladly agreed to face head on.
They say that blood is thicker than water, but in a pool filled with over 40 girls swimming for their loved ones and loved ones of others battling the disease, it seems that love will be the thickest solution of them all.
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