Dan Holes life before he joined the swim team was lonely all that he cared about was school and getting good grades. When he first joined the team he didn't talk much and when he did it was always genius talk and whenever he talked like that Icko made him do push …show more content…
All that Tj wanted was to make a great swim team something theses guys can call home and most importantly it was to prove people wrong at Cutter High School that they can be somebody. Dan just wants to be apart of something and the whole time he kinda just kept quiet because he didn't really want to be noticed and then kicked off the team but they said they would never do that to him and that made him smile. With dan not being an athletic kid and not very built it was hard for him but having the team there changed to swimmer he is and the person he is and has become. If it wasn't for Tj bringing the team together and them having the long talks on the bus ride they would have never been together or even interacted for that