Haines Dolphins Swim Team coach Erin Pratt grinned at practice last week while describing to fellow coaches and swimmers the nervous energy she felt at the Alaska Swimming Age Group Championships in Fairbanks.
“You should have seen me trying to keep it together,” Pratt said, pantomiming her own contained excitement, “while the swimmers were trying to keep it together.” Pratt’s pantomime was “edge of your seat” as she conceded she may have been just as…