This year I was captain along with another Senior. We have been given more responsibilities this year than the captains have been given in the past. We were put in charge of making the relays for the relay meet, designing the t-shirts for the team, and choosing our teams for the Homecoming Relays. This responsibility meant that we had to put aside our wants and needs, to put the team before ourselves. One of the important lessons that leadership teaches is putting the team before the individual. When we were making up the relays for the relay meet we wanted to make sure that all the swimmers had four events. We had four girls that only had three events but they did not all specialize in the same events. One of the girls was a breaststroker
