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Speed swimmer

By Angie Frederickson, Staff writer | September 24, 2015

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Brazos Donovan

Seventh grader Brazos Donovan (pictured) earned several medals at this year’s Memorial Spring Branch Swim Conference Meet of Champs. He represented the Afton Village swim team in the boys 11/12 age group and placed first in 25-yard breaststroke, second in 50-yard freestyle, and fifth in 25-yard butterfly. Now a competitive swimmer with Dad’s Club, Brazos began swimming, unassisted, just before his third birthday. He joined the Afton Alligators summer swim team at age 4. He swims five days per week and hopes to join his sister, Peyton, on the Memorial High School swim team in a couple of years. Brazos recently participated in a swim clinic with Olympic gold medalists Ian Crocker and Garrett Weber-Gale.

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