BY KAIA KARPE
STAFF WRITER
Swimming is important because it helps exercise the body. It is important to exercise because it helps keep the body healthy and working. Another role to keeping the body healthy is by eating the correct food; for example, fruits, vegetables, grains, and proteins. Swimming is also a great way to get to know new people and socialize; are racing in the same lane you might as well get to know them. It also is fun because you don’t have to be in a stinky gym with tons of stinky people. Swimming is also relaxing if you take the time to observe. It is relaxing because it is fun to feel the water on sides as if you had fins (such as dolphin fins) along with dolphin kick in the deep side of the pool and feeling like you are a mermaid or a merman.