The beginning of dive

Tuesday evening was Robert's first dive meet.  Andrew was working there as a school district employee, and I was planning to be there in between dropping Thomas off and basketball practice and picking him up.  I now have a better idea of how this works...they do half of the swim meet, letting the (very few) divers dive, and then resume the other half of the meet.  There were seven divers all together, and Robert was the end of the rotation.  Andrew and I got to our seats just as Robert did his first dive (there are six rounds) and we heard his scores...4's & 5's.  We are so clueless about this that we had to ask a nice lady sitting near us how many points were possible (10).  The highest Robert was able to get from any of the three judges was a 6, and unfortunately there were some 3's thrown in there as well.  I reminded him though, that at his first track meet last year his discus throw didn't go 40', and his PR by the end of the season was 112'...so he's got plenty of time for improvement.  He was also the only one of the seven who had absolutely no experience with any of this before.  We are very proud of him taking these chances, and looking forward to whatever the season brings!