Monday, November 30, 2009

National Rankings

Here are the LHU Swimmers that rank nationally (as of 11/27)

Britt Rehrig
100 Breast (1:06.95)
T-11th

Amanda Terray
100 Back (58.83)
T-9th

Amanda Terray
200 Back (2:05.41)
4th

LHU RELAY'S
200 Medley Relay (1:49.44)
Terray, Rehrig, Brooks, Durham
7th

400 Medley Relay (4:00.46)
Terray, Rehrig, Brooks, Durham
10th

200 Free Relay (1:39.58)
Durham, Brooks, Rehrig, Terray
12th

400 Free Relay (3:40.99)
Terray, Milstead, Rehrig, Durham
14th

800 Free Relay (8:08.57)
Campbell, Terray, Palmer, Durham
9th

(this will be updated after this weekend as there are a TON of fast meets that other teams will be resting up for)

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving


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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Post Invite Practices

We did a long easy 6,000 yesterday and below was today's morning workout. The team is now off until Monday (with expectations to do a few workouts at home).

700 wu
5 x 200
~odd @ 3:20 3rd 50 no free
~even @ 4:00 slk

10 x 100
~ 4 @ 1:30 (75 easy/25 fast)
~ 3 @ 1:40 (50 easy/50 fast)
~ 2 @ 1:50 (25 easy/75 fast)
~ 1 @ 2:00 (fast)

600 easy pull (BE 3/5 by 100)

3 x (300, 250, 100)
~ @ 4:30 n/s
~ @ 3:45 (1/4/7/10 - fast choice)
~ @ 2:15 fast kick w/ board

600 easy pull (BE 3)

2 x (3 x 75 @ 1:00, 1 x 75 @ 2:00)

300 WD

(6750 total)

Saturday, November 21, 2009

team photo



After checking out of the hotel in the morning we didn't have anyplace awesome to go too after prelims so we had a nice 'sit down' lunch ... this was taken right before the coaches received their meal.

100 breast finals



4 of the top 6!!

Team Support



Cheering on Maguire's first ever 1650!!

Longhorn Swim Camp Counselors

Saturday

Didn't get to update y'all after our morning session...quick run down for our day.

200 BACK ... we had 4 swimmers make it back ... Faulstick & Gardner ended up racing neck and neck only to finish .15 seconds apart. Schaefer ended up 11th and Terray ended up winning the meet with a new meet record!

100 FREE ... Durham moved her way onto our all time top 5 performance list with her 54.90 (from prelims) ended up going 54.91 in finals to finish 3rd. Vagnoni smashed her lifetime best in the morning only to go faster at night, finishing 8th. Brooks finished 9th, Navarro finished 10th and Mills finished 12th.

200 BREAST ... Fountaine dropped about 5 seconds from her prelim swim at night! Navarro dropped about 3 seconds to finish 2nd and Rehrig swam a much smarter race at night to finish 1st ... that's right sports fans, a 1-2 finish in the 200 breast!

200 FLY ... Kinard, Milstead & Palmer swam the grueling event in style, looking very good the whole way.

400 FREE RELAY ... we won the previous 4 relays, so we were going for the sweep ... to spare you the suspense we swam another GREAT relay to finish first. Winning all 5 relays. Love it.

Sorry for the lack of awesome stories on this trip ... too many totally awesome swims to report on. I will be sure to include many more awesome stories for our loyal readers.

Friday, November 20, 2009

session 4

okay ... we had some pretty awesome swims tonight.

All 4 of our 200 medley relays swam just freaking great. The A relay set a new school and meet record!! (1:49.44)

Amanda Palmer won the 400IM with a 4:50.66.

All 6 of our 100 flyers scored points tonight ... Shannon Milstead just missed the PSAC cut time (more on this later).

The 200 free had Ali, Dub & Becky all dropping some good time from their morning swim tonight! Kasey Campbell got her PSAC cut time going 2:02.29.

The 100 breaststroke was a banner event for us ... 4 of the top 6 swimmers were from LHU (see previous post for picture). Britt won the event with a 1:07.06 (her prelim swim of 1:06.95 was a new school record and her first NCAA "b" cut(!)) Sarah Navarro dropped almost 2 seconds from her prelim swim and Rachel Vagnoni & Brittany Williams placed 4th and 5th!

Terray won the 100 backstroke with a NCAA "b" cut of 58.83.

We won the 800 free relay with a time of 8:08.52 (for those counting at home, we have won all 4 relays so far!...1 more to go).

More on Milstead ... we decided to do a time trial after the 800 free relays. Swimming right next to Jenna Brooks (aka the rabbit)...Shannon went right after it going out hard and fast ... and finished with a lifetime best and her PSAC cut time!!

Awesome night of swimming!!

2 more sessions to go!

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A final 100 breast

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session 3

quick run down today ... quick turn around today.

400 im - amanda palmer goes into tonight as the top seed.

100 fly - all 6 of our women (mills, kinard, durham, brooks, palmer & milstead) made it into the top 18.

200 free - has 4 lhu swimmers going again (campbell, schaefer, wilbur & fountaine)

100 breast - all 4 women made it into the top 6 for this finals ... actually the top 5!! rehrig swam a smoking 1:06.95 ... good enough for a new school record & her first NCAA 'b' cut.

100 back - 3 women making it back for the night session ... terray, mills & faulstick.

sorry for the shortness of this one.

we add in the 200 medley relay and the 800 free relay tonight.

GO HAVEN!!

Day 2

Some great events for us today ... Goal in the prelim swims is to get as many women back at night to swim in finals ... To do that (as I heard many, many times) "you have to swim fast in the morning"


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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Grocery Run

Mary pushing our cart of breakfast/snack items, in the rain, from wal mart to the Super 8.

(The cart was returned to the proper cart collection area)


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Session 2

Going to deliver a quick recap of tonight's action.

Meet started with the 200 free relay ... Sam lead off with her first PSAC cut time of the season (25.40). Jenna, Britt R & Amanda Terray followed with some great splits and we just missed our school record by .01 seconds!! We did end up winning the race!!

The 500 free was next. Ali & Kasey both swam great swims...both were slower at the 300 mark than their prelim swim, but both ended up finishing about 3 seconds faster than their prelim swim!! Shows they're in great shape!!

The 200 IM was next. Lucy, Sarah & Amanda Palmer all swam great race staying within a second of their prelim time. Palmer swam fast enough for a PSAC cut time!

The 50 free was a great event for us ... we has 7 of the 18 swimmers. Vagnoni, Milstead, Williams, Brooks, Durham, Terray & Rehrig. It was a wicked fast event and scored us some mucho points!

Durham, Terray & Rehrig had PSAC cut times.

The last event of the night was the 400 medley relay. Terray (bk), Rehrig (br), Brooks (fl), & Durham (fr) swam some great splits to establish a new LHU team record & meet record!

We are in 2nd place (out of 7) going into tomorrow.

2 sessions down / 4 to go.

GO HAVEN!!

(sorry if there are typo's...didn't proof this post)

50 Free

It has been a REALLY long time since LHU has been so well represented in any event at this type of meet.


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Session 1.

Couldn't have had a better morning session. We have set ourselves up to swim fast and score a good bit of points too!!

In the 500 we have 2 women swimming in the top 18 (campbell 6th & schaefer 16th).

In the 200im we have all 3 women who swam it swimming again tonight. Mills is seeded 12th and navarro and palmer are both in the top 6th with sarah 6th and amanda being 2nd.

In the 3rd and final event of the morning, the 50 free, we have 7 of the 18 swimmers in the event.

Williams (17th)
Vagnoni (16th)
Milstead (14th)
Brooks (11th)
Durham (5th)
Rehrig (4th)
Terray (3rd)

Tonight we add in the 200 free relay and the 400 medley relay.

Go Haven!!!



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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

evening

After warm up we dined at the world famous Fire Mountain Dinner Buffet. The rolls were as good as when I last enjoyed them.

Before the food coma set in we had a quick team meeting ... then joel, adam, (fairmont/future groomsman) Coach Pat and I made our supply run to Wal Mart ... got plenty of breakfast items for tomorrow.

Spent some time visiting coach pat eating reese's giant peanut butter cups before headed back to the room to check out the heat sheet and post this...now time for some sleep. Great day of racing tomorrow!!

Warm Up...

... went really well, getting really excited for some fast swims!!

Time for Fire Mountain dinner buffet (minus dessert & dew)


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All Aboard

Later than expected departure due to a train holding up a few of the women. No harm no foul.

Movie choice of the day ... The Ugly Truth.

Plan is to go right to the pool for a warm up swim ... then go to dinner (fire mountain buffet) ... then check in.


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IUP Invite

We are headed to IUP (again) this afternoon for the traditional 3 day invite that starts tomorrow morning. We have traditionally swum very well at this meet and I expect nothing but the best again this weekend!!

Here are LHU swimmers that rank in the top 6 of the Psych Sheet.
200 free relay
(1) A relay
(6) B relay

500 free
(4) kasey campbell

200 im
(1) amanda palmer
(6) sarah navarro

50 free
(4) britt rehrig
(6) sam durham

400 medley relay
(3) A relay
(5) B relay

200 medley relay
(1) A relay
(5) B relay

400 im
(1) amanda palmer

100 fly
(3) jenna brooks

100 breast
(1) britt rehrig
(3) brittany williams
(4) rachel vagnoni
(5) sarah navarro

100 backstroke
(1) amanda terray

800 free relay
(1) A relay
(2) B relay
(5) C relay

200 back
(4) amanda terray

100 free
(2) amanda terray
(4) sam durham

200 breast
(1) britt rehrig
(4) brittany williams
(6) sarah navarro

200 fly
(4) amanda palmer

400 free relay
(1) A relay
(3) B relay
(5) C relay

1650 free
(2) kasey campbell

Saturday, November 14, 2009

IUP meet

Today's meet at IUP with Kutztown and was supposed to be with Salem as well ... Salem wasn't able to bring any female swimmers SO we won that meet by forfiet.

We took the opportunity to move some people into events they usually don't swim ... And had some really great results with it.

Our only new PSAC cut time was Amanda Terray in the 100 free.

No movie on the way back but as usual I have the ipod going.

We are headed back to IUP wednesday night for the Crimson Hawk invite which is a 3 day meet starting Thursday morning.


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Bus Ride

Safe arrival to IUP with Phil the busdriver.

Movie of choice was remember the titans.

Pit stop at the sheetz in altoona...its a palace.

Warm up in 30 min. Meet starts at 1pm.

GO HAVEN!!


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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Last Day of Phase II

This afternoon's workout is the last one of our second phase of training ... tomorrow we shift into the "rest" phase. In an effort to have everyone swim super fast and make some cut times in the middle of the season we do a mini-taper for the IUP invite next weekend. We will be swimming the weekend after Thanksgiving too ... so we will have a few opportunities to swim super fast before we start phase 4 (my personal favorite) winter training!!!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Kicking With Shoes

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Sunday, November 8, 2009

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Haven's Got Talent

Lead off act!!

They were ROBBED by the judges...


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Friday, November 6, 2009

Quick Run Down

Final score was 130 - 132. Lots of really close races and we stepped up big time. I am incredibly proud of the team.

2 all time top 5's
--Rehrig 100 & 200 breast.

2 new ESU pool records
--Terray 50 back lead off (actually broke the LHU swimming legend, Joy Sundberg's, record from 1980!!)
--Rehrig 100 breast.

new PSAC cuts
--Rehrig 100 & 200 breast
--Terray 100 & 200 back
--Brooks 100 fly
--Palmer 400 I'm

((Movie choice for the ride back is the Office season 5 ... WAY cooler than Boys Meets World!))


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Team Dance at Kasa's in Stroudsburg

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Movie

Break Up ended up being the movie of choice.

There is an actor in the movie, Justin Long, same guy that's in all the Apple computer commercials ... Hilarious dude.

(Reminds me of my all time favorite show ED)


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On the bus ...

Jack is today's bus driver. Taking the rare 220, through Williamsport, route to get to I-80.

No movies yet, but I have the Big Lebowski on the ipod. All time classic ...


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Monday, November 2, 2009

Becky Fountaine's the Apple Bob Champ

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Sam Durham's Belly Flop

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Rachel Vagnoni's Belly Flop

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Kasey Campbell Belly Flop

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The Halloween Pumpkin...

sorry Mr E


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vs. Mansfield ~ PANCAN.org



This past Saturday's meet versus Mansfield was against Mansfield. We also sold a large number of Purple Shirts (see crazy jo-el for the modeling photo) in support of www.PANCAN.org. An organization to support Pancreatic Cancer Research. Team looked great rockin’ the purple shirts.

We had a great meet. Our women have a tremendous amount of team spirit … I don’t think we have had such a supportive group of teammates in any of the previous seasons. Britt Rehrig added to her tally of PSAC qualifying times with the lead off leg of the 100 backstroke and her swims in the 200 IM & 200 breaststroke. The IM was good enough for 4th on our all time top 5 performance list and the breaststroke ranks her 3rd.

Another standout performance was Alison Schaefer’s 1000 free … we may have found her calling. Sam Durham and Kasey Campbell battled it out during the whole 200 free (.04 apart after the first 50, .40 apart after the 100, .05 apart after the 150) with Sam finishing 1 tenth of a second ahead of Kasey. Fun race!!

Jenna Brooks and Rachel Vagnoni went 1-2 in the 50 freestyle, Britt and Sarah Navarro went 1-2 in the 200IM with very impressive swims. Amanda Palmer won the 200 fly. Sam also won the 100 free, with Brittany williams placing 2nd. Our 200 breaststrokers, Britt, Amanda and Sarah had the times to go 1,2,3.

The team was rewarded was some wonderful Halloween treats … complements of Katie (our GA), Kim (my fiancé) and Mrs Rehrig (britt’s mom). Tonight we are going to have our 5th annual Halloween practice. I am happy to report (sorry Mr E) that I broke the record in terms of poundage of candy purchased.