Thursday, November 25, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving

A very happy thanksgiving from the Lady Eagle Swim Team!

Our women are enjoying some quality time away from campus, but not away from the pool (!!).  We are back to practice Monday morning to get ready for the Grove City College invitational.  

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Final Day

Saturday Prelim Results click HERE
Saturday Final Results click HERE

I feel asleep way before I had the chance to type an update for our reader.  Click on the links above to view the final day results.  I am really looking forward to watching a few of the races, along with some of the dance moves, from swimutopia.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Stats

This weekend school records were broken 3 times... Britt Rehrig in the 200 im and her 200 breast prelims & finals!
We had a total of 10 all time top 5 performances...
Sam Durham 50 free - 5th
Britt Rehrig 100 free - 5th
Sarah Navarro 100 breast - 5th
Britt Rehrig 200 breast (p) - 1st
Britt Rehrig 200 breast (f) - 1st
Sarah Navarro 200 breast - 4th
Britt Rehrig 100 fly - 3rd
Britt Rehrig 200 im (p) - 2nd
Britt Rehrig 200 im (f) - 1st
Sarah Navarro 200 im - 5th
PS - dvd player didn't like harry potter, so we made the switch to Anchorman
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On our way home...

Busy day today with no computer / internet access. Apologies for no blog update!

I will get a through update on today's swimming when we return.

Until then, we are loaded up on taco bell and wendy's and on the way home. In preparation for the new harry potter movie, we are watching harry potter 6 ... (The below picture is adam workin the controls of the dvd player)

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Happy Birthday Ciara!

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Friday, November 19, 2010

Friday Finals...

Results click HERE

Spectacular night of swimming for us.  Our 200 medley relay finished 2nd in a great race to Cal U, with a NCAA 'b' cut!

Shannon Milstead dropped 6 awesome seconds in the 400im from her prelims swim.  Britt Rehrig swam a NCAA 'b' cut in the 100 fly prelims, scratching finals to focus on the 100 breast ... Jenna Brooks swam to a 4th place finish with a time that was a little slower than her prelim swim.  Sam Durham improved her PSAC cut time in the 100 fly to a 1:01...Kristin Taylor and Gwen Buss both dropped some time in finals of the 100 fly as well.

The 200 free was another great event for us ... Sam Durham just missed breaking 2:00 in the 200, (although my stopwatch had a 1:59.99 - legit).  Kristen Capretti the 18th seed, won her heat from lane 6, dropping over 3 seconds.  Kristen Taylor also dropped a little time!

All 6 of our 100 breaststrokers made it back!  All swam great races!  Very impressive.  Highlighted by Britt Rehrig's 1:04.9.  Good enough to break the meet record and a NCAA "B" cut!

Amanda Terray and Sara Daversa swam the 100 backstrokes.  With Amanda winning the event with a solid B cut time.  Our 800 free relay all had some great splits!

Really looking forward to tomorrow's session!!

Friday Prelims

results can be found HERE

I dont have much time to type this morning as I was out on a mission in between sessions to get some menu's for tonight's dinner and tomorrow lunch.

GREAT session for us today...we have a LOT of 2nd swims tonight! 

GO HAVEN!!

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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Thursday Finals

results can be found HERE

We started off the night with a very respectable 200 free relay placing 2nd ... our time broke the previous meet record from 2002, but we were bested by CAL who won the event.  We split up the B - E relays giving some of our "sprinters" the opportunity to lead off the relays to get another shot at a flat start.

The 500 free style had 2 LHU swimmers, Kasey Cambell and Kristin Taylor.  Both were in Lane 6 right in front of us and swam very similar races to their prelim swims, just a hair slower.  The 200 IM was goo event for us with Kaitlyn Druby swimming the bonus heat again just a hair slower than her prelim swim.  The final heat at 2 LHU swimmers, Sarah Navarro and Britt Rehrig.  Sarah didn't have the swim that she did in the morning and placed 6th ... Britt had a fantastic race and dropped her time some more.  Another "B" cut and all time top 5 performance.

We had 5 swimmers make it back in the 50 free ... but Britt scratched the final so that she could get a little extra rest.  So we had Amanda Terray and Jenna Brooks just missing PSAC cuts ... freshman, Kristen Capretti making her first ever PSAC cut and Sam Durham swimming a lifetime best over in lane 1, and placing herself on the all time top 5 list in the event.

We finished the night with the 400 medley relay ... and we had some really great swims across the board (we entered 5 relays).  Our A relay placed 2nd ... the same 4some was about 4 seconds faster this year than last.

We had a feast at Ruby Tuesday (to go) and I went on another supply run to wal mart for some additional breakfast items and juices (i got myself a dew...sorry kim :-) ) ... went on my run and now I am blogging the days events.

Tomorrow should be a great day for us ... 100's of stroke and the 200 free.  Really looking forward to another day of swimming fast and kicking some A money money.

GO HAVEN

Dinner!

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Thursday Prelims

click HERE for results.

What a spectacular morning of swimming!  Out of 29 swims this morning all but 3 were season best times ... with a good number of them being lifetime best swims. PRETTY AWESOME.

Swims of note include Britt Rehrig's 200IM (ncaa "b" cut) - 2:11.22, which is also good enough for 2nd on our all time top 5 list.  Sarah Navarro's PSAC qualifying time in the 200 IM - 2:16.41.  Sam Durham's PSAC cut time of 24.89, also a lifetime best swim.

We had the worlds longest trip to Subway followed by some quality rest and relaxation.  Headed into finals adding in the 200 free relay  and 400 medley relay.

GO HAVEN!

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no longer a Hampton fan ... BUT, we have live webcast of the meet!

Long story short ... Hampton Inn didn't receive the contract I mailed back or either of the 2 faxes I sent, so with a little luck we are back at our old stomping ground (super 8) with Coach Pat and the Fairmont State Falcons.  That is all I am going to type about that.

I am not going to have a chance to blog too much this evening BUT I have a few links for you to follow.

Click HERE for the live streaming of the meet!!
thursday prelims 11am / 6pm finals
friday prelims 10am / 5pm finals
saturday prelims 9am / 3pm finals
(all times EST)

Click HERE to view the psych sheet!

Have a great night ... GO HAVEN!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Adam and our grub

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We r here and warming up...

We have done the same meet warm up the past few practices so the team knows the "drill" and their bodies can feel/know when they're warmed up.


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16 miles

We have 16 miles to go. The plan is to go straight to the pool to get in a warm up swim, get the bus ride out of the system ...

Followed by a traditional dinner @ the Fire Mountain Buffet...

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Movie #1

First movie of the trip is "He's Just Not That Into You" ... For me it is an ipod random selection of "Barton Fink" a Coen Brothers classic!


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IUP invite bound

We are headed to IUP in a little over an hour.  This is one of my favorite meets of the year ... pretty laid back with lots of opportunities for 2nd swims at night.  Stay tuned for a LOT of updates / pictures throughout the weekend.

GO HAVEN!!

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Lucky Suit Practice

...a sight for sore eyes!

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IM set

We did a great IM set yesterday with Britt Rehrig.

2 x

(2 x 100 im @ 1:20
(1 x 300 free @ 3:50
(2 x 50 breast fast @ :45
(:30 rest
(2 x 200 im @ 2:45
(1 x 100 free @ 1:15
(2 x 50 breast fast @ :45
(:30 rest
(2 x 300 im FAST @ 4:15
(1:00 rest

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Big win against ESU

We had a great meet versus ESU.  That started off with a moment of silence in remembrance of Fran Crippen (click HERE to learn more about Fran).

Our team really wanted the W and showed it from the get go having come up a few points shy in last year's dual meet.

First event was the 200 medley relay ... we went 1-3 just missing the pool record set by the same foursome (terray, rehrig, brooks, durham) 2 weeks ago.

Next up was the 1000 ... going 1-2 with commanding performances by Kasey Campbell and Kristin Taylor.  Sam Kaleck swam it for the first time ever and did very well.  Sam Durham won the 200 free in a PSAC qualifying time.  Amanda Terray won the 100 back also with a PSAC cut time.

Britt Rehrig won the 100 breast with a NCAA "b" cut time and new Zimmerli pool record.

Event 6 (200 fly) was the first event we didn't win, but we rebounded well with a Capretti, Terray & Brooks...1-2-3 finish in the 50 free, followed by a Durham, Capretti 1-2 finish in the 100 free.  The 200 backstroke was another event we didn't win, but the 3-4-5 finish helped with keep the meet in check.

Britt Rehrig won the 200 breast in a PSAC cut time with great swims from Sarah Navarro and Kaityln Druby.  The 500 free was up next and ended up being another event we didn't win, but Campbell, Milstead and Kinard swam very well.  Jenna Brooks had a great come from behind win the 100 fly.  Sam Durham and Kristin Taylor had a great 3-4 finish.  Britt Rehrig won her 4th event of the day in the 200 im.

The 200 free relay ended the meet, with our women going 2-3-5.

Final score was LHU 159 / ESU 103

Click HERE to view the full results.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Saturday's Meet vs ESU

Here is the order of events for this Saturday's meet versus East Stroudsburg (1pm start)

200 med relay
1000 free
200 free
100 back
100 breast
200 fly
50 free
<15 min break>
100 free
200 back
200 breast
500 free
100 fly
<10 min break>
200 im
200 free relay

points for relay events are 11-4-2
points for individual events are 9-4-3-2-1

there is a 4 event maximum for each swimmer

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Pretty good set today ... Mixing in a LOT of strokes.

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Pancreatic Cancer Awareness / Fund-raising


 Kasey Campbell the Artist!

Kristin Taylor & Mindy Rudy 
taking their turn at selling the shirts!

Monday, November 1, 2010

Sara's bellyflop

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Sharks and Minnows

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The Pumpkin

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Kasey's Apple

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Apple Bob

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Halloween Practice Goggle Toss

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