Jake the Swimmer

At the beginning of the story, there is a boy named jake which is training for the freestyle heats that's coming up and he has two other friends who were Emma and Josh. They are training for the heat's coming up but josh is not he's a geek and Jake wins the race by all the things that Encouraged him to do it which was, Ignore everything don't let anything hold you back and just be patient and then that what  was what made Jake win.