Decisions, Decisions

I have been swimming all of my life, since the age of five.  I got the hang of it at an early age and I have always been known as a good swimmer.  I have always made the Suburban Swim League championships, won a couple Boys & Girls club medals, and even won a gold.  Freshman year of course I went out for the swim team and had a pretty good season, as well as sophomore year.  What I never pictured myself is a really good swimmer until recently.  I will begin from the start of the season.  I debated on quitting my senior year, I thought I would have better things to do and to be honest I lost all interest, but mother was not having that.  I  figured since it is my senior year I would go all out and give it my all, something I had failed to do my previous high school seasons.  Over the summer I had been lifting weight habitually and gained around 15 pounds of muscle, and it showed in my stroke.  My first meet I had crushed my best times and received all firsts.  I continued going to practice and working my hardest.  Our second meet we faced a very improved team and Mr. Magearle talked to me before stressing that I and my teammate would have some very difficult swimmers we would have to beat in order for us to win. Again I gained my best times.  I have maintain this work ethic and my times have proven that.  Yet this is not when I discovered I am a really good swimmer, it was when Mr. Magearle called me out in lunch to ask if I intended on swimming in college.  This concept has never crossed my mind, and one of the colleges I applied to is York college. Although I most likely cannot walk on to a Division one team like the other colleges I applied to I can swim for York's team, division two.  Now I need to weigh the pros and cons of swimming on the next level.