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Summer Swim Meet Sunday at Mission Pool

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A child in a yellow and blue swimsuit and cap stands near a pool with three adults on the edge.

Swim meet Sunday at Mission Pool in San Francisco — the old outdoor pool on 19th Street in the Mission, built in 1916 and still the only outdoor pool the City runs. Ninety feet by forty, which felt about right watching the smallest swimmers work their way down it.

Our kid spent most of the morning at the edge of the deck with the coaches, yellow cap and goggles on, running through streamline arms while the heats ahead finished. One of the coaches crouched down with the heat sheet for a last word before the backstroke, and there were high-fives all around after the races came in.

Between events there was a lot of standing behind the blocks watching other lanes splash by. The kid waved over a shoulder at me at one point, then went back to business.

A young swimmer in a yellow and blue suit stretches by a pool with four other people.Five people are near a swimming pool, including a young swimmer in a yellow and navy suit with arms raised.A child in a yellow swimsuit and cap stands by a swimming pool, watching another swimmer in the water.A child in a swimsuit and cap waves at the camera while a person crouches beside them at a swimming pool.A child in a yellow and navy swimsuit waves beside a pool, while a person in sunglasses squats and another stands.A child in a swimsuit stands by a swimming pool while two people crouch beside her.A young girl, an adult man, and other people give high-fives at a swimming pool with spectators in the background.A young girl in a yellow and navy swimsuit, cap, and goggles stands by a swimming pool with other people.

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