He assembles a team of out-and-out losers that would make James Watt proud: "we have one swimmer of color, a representative from each end of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. looks beyond the negatives-there is no competition-size pool in town, there are no other competitive swimmers in the school, and he absolutely hates organized sports-to one overwhelming positive: this is his way of giving the finger to the school's stultifying sports culture. to swim for the school's brand-new team, T.J. When his ultra-cool English teacher approaches T.J. High-school senior The Tao (T.J.) Jones has learned to live with his status as the only student of color in his small, rural high school, but he has never learned to accept the school's suffocating reverence for the athletic establishment.
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