Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Crimson v. White & Alum 2009 edition

The day started quite spirited with both teams sporting some really nice “costumes”. (see pictures below). The White team entertained with a wonderful dance….

Sad faces appeared when I told them it was time to set up the lane lines and get ready to swim. Once we set everything up we had a really nice warm up and the stands began to fill up. Lots of family and friends, along with the women’s soccer team, supporting the teams.

We had one of our Alum’s show up with her racing suit on, Carole Kepler, and Mary Ewanich (our intern assistant for the semester) raced as well. They started by sharing duties on the medley relay. Ended up racing the 100 back and the 50 free … the team was very supportive of the Alum’s races.

There are 9 events offered and this year we had 4 new meet records!! Amanda Palmer broke 2 of her own records (100 fly, 200im) and Britt Rehrig broke the 100 breaststroke record (with an unofficial PSAC time & good enough for 3rd on our all time top 5 performances list). The 4th record was the White team’s 200 free relay of Sam Durham, Becky Fountaine, Amanda Palmer & Brittany Williams.

It was a really fun, exciting way to kick off the season. I am really excited for our first opportunity to race another team. In just about a month we will head to Canton OH, to race Univ of Findlay, Malone College and Urbana College. It is going to be an awesome opportunity to race in the same pool as the NCAA national championships!

Friday, September 25, 2009

Our 2 Alumnae Swimmers

Carole Kepler & Mary Ewanich
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CRIMSON & WHITE TEAMS

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CRIMSON TEAM

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WHITE TEAM

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Team Mascot: Andrew Joel

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bottle holds

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Circuit

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Amanda Palmer rockin' the Texas Wheels

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Another early morning!!

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Monday, September 21, 2009

NCAA POOL

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Workin' Hard

We have had a great first 3 workouts. The returning women, as a whole, ended up swimming faster than they did last year during the same practice. Dryland has been intense, but spirits remain high.

Yesterday’s water workouts included a good bit of AO (all out) flutter kick with a board (rarely, if ever, will we kick easy) and this morning was spent running from the field hockey/lacrosse turf to the top of the hill a total of 6 times. Not too easy.

Looking forward to giving a really tough water workout tomorrow…should be our first “set of the week”

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Mary Dishing It Out

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First Morning Workout Continues

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First Morning Practice

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Friday, September 11, 2009

Practice #1 is Monday

It is time to start updating the blog on a more regular basis...finally!

We have had all our meetings...team meeting, LHU administration meeting and a 1-on-1 goal session meeting. The women have had their first team only team building activity. Our swim lesson program is a week old and going very well. The only thing left now is to start practicing...finally!

Here is the first workout of the season. I always give it out to the team before they leave for the summer (mailing the incoming freshman a copy as well) so no suprises await on day 1.

200 swim/100 kick x 3 (no board)
8 x 75 drill/kick/swim @ 1:30
(can't do same stroke 2 times in a row)

12 x 25 im order @ :35
(every 3rd is fast)

125 easy

4 x 50 AO from a dive
(1 each stroke)

6 x 100 @ 1:50
odd k/s by 50
even s/k by 50

5 x 50 @ 1:00 build to AO
75 easy

200 AO for time
100 eash
50 AO choice for time (best stroke)

300 WD (3700 total)

A lot of what happens on Monday will determine just how hard we will be working for the preseason phase.