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31 Things That Will Happen At Age Group Nationals

1. Packing tons of clothes even though you will just wear bathing suits the whole time

2. Lying to airport security about what kind of sport you do

Um yes we are a skydiving team heading to the national skydiving championship.

3. Treating the chaperone like your mom

4. Taking hundreds and hundreds of photos

5. Packing tons of snacks for the pool and eating them all in the hotel

6. Putting up signs and decorations on your hotel room door

7. Walking into the pool deck for the first time like you own the place

8. Team cheers before each routine

9.  The adrenaline rush you get while walking out for your routines

10. The USA Synchro clothing and gear table

11. Seeing your friends from teams across the country

12. Swimming in an outdoor pool when you practice indoors

13. Being amazed by the fact that the facility has 4 pools, 2 diving wells, and like 3 hot tubs 

14. Pre-competition nerves

15. Team hugs after you get your prelims score

16. Going out in public with gel in your hair and seeing boys

17. Making it to finals

18. When figures take forever

19. Dodging your coach after you messed up a figure

20. The post-figures nap

21. Lining up for the Parade of Athletes

22. Pep talks from the coach before your last swim

23. The crowd going crazy during finals

24. The moment you realize it's the seniors' last nationals

25. Getting your awards

26. Seeing how ridiculous you look in every routine picture

27. Going out with your team wearing matching outfits

28. The first thing you do after you're done competing

29. When your coaches tell you they're proud of you

30. Making memories with your closest friends that will last you a lifetime

31. Going home and sleeping for days because you just competed at the largest synchronized swimming competition in the world

Good luck to everyone competing at the 2014 eSynchro Age Group Nationals and congrats to all of the seniors!!

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25 Things That Happen At Every Synchro Meet

1. Waking up ridiculously early because doors open at 6am

2. When your coach tells you a warmup and you weren't listening

3. Finding one of your teammates to talk to during figures

4. The one judge that yells for everyone to quiet down

5. When you realize you're nowhere near the banner during a figure

6. When you're done with figures before anyone else on your team

7. Your coach during routine warmups

8. When another team does a really good lift 

9. Walking around without your parka

10. Getting all of your makeup and glitter on

11. When your knox gets goopy 

12. You when other teams are swimming

13. You when your teammates are swimming

14. Trying to get out of the pool when the gutter is really tall

15. When a routine scores significantly higher than the others

16. How you feel after you swam your routine

17. When your coach doesn't let you eat something unhealthy until you're done swimming

18. That one person who always has an interesting solo walkout

19. Having only 1 minute to get ready for awards

20. When you place better than you expected in figures

21. Trying to get through the hordes of people leaving the pool

22. The post-competition team dinner

23. Taking your makeup off at the end of the day

24. When your friends at school ask you why there is glitter on your face after you're back from a meet

25. Realizing you have to do it all again next week

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22 Things Only Synchronized Swimmers Will Understand

1. When you meet random people who did synchro

2. How you feel during figure warm up 

3. Decorating your suits

4. The difference between your regular smile and your synchro smile

5. When people use Knox gelatin to make actual gelatin

6. Post-practice feasting on anything and everything

Because you just burned like, 2,000 calories 

7. Difficult spin hybrids

8. When you swim to the wall and your coach is like

9. Getting your figure draw right next to the national champion

10. That one person who can't put their own lipstick on

11. "Headlights out!"

12. Learning new routines

13. Makeup disasters

14. When Friday night practice gets cancelled

15. Seeing your coach's face when you drop every single lift the practice before a meet

16. Team Spain

17. Food cravings at the worst time possible

Like halfway through a routine

18. That one person who's name is always pronounced wrong

  19. Your non-swimmer friends think you talk about synchro too much

20. When someone bumps into you while you're doing a figure

21. Being away from your teammates for more than 2 days

22. "I can't, I have practice"

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20 Things You Will Miss About Synchronized Swimming

1. Learning your new routines 

First you're like

By the end of the routine you're like

2. Killer workouts and under sets

3. Plastering your face with makeup

4. Splits

5. How amazing you feel in your routine suits

...and how awful you feel trying to put them on

6. Spending time with your teammates

Also known as excessive eating

7. Coaching the younger swimmers on your team

Now who am I allowed to torture, my coworkers?

8. Glitter

Note: You will not see another sequin again until you go to a nightclub

9. Knox gelatin

And how your hair feels like it should be in a Pantene commercial after

10. When your coach tried to make you and your teammate do something awkward

11. Figures

You just have to trust me on this one

12. Lifts, lifts, lifts, and more lifts

Except if you're the base and they land on your head. That part you don't miss

13. The constant explaining of what synchro is  

14. Watching your rival team's routines

15. Your duet partner

She will probably be the maid of honor at your wedding

16. Spending your birthday and every holiday with your team

17. Cheering on everyone you know during finals

Even if you only met them once

18. The adrenaline rush you get as you walk out for a routine

19. Your coach and life mentor

They watched you grow up. They saw you in your best, and worst moments. They shaped you to be a better person without you even knowing it.

20. A team bond unlike any other

No matter how many miles or years separate you, once you reunite it's like no time passed at all.