Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Final Top Times Listings
Friday, March 18, 2011
Live Swimming on TV ... sorta
Tonight (and tomorrow night) @ 7:45pm est espn3 will have the finals of the women’s ncaa swimming national championships from Austin Texas!!
Spring Training
Spring has sprung here at LHU ... we are enjoying some wonderful weather these past few days!
We are going to have 6 weeks (4 days a week) of spring training starting Monday. A good mix of weights, cardio (i.e. running, jump rope etc) and swimming.
Next season starts Monday!
GO HAVEN!
We are going to have 6 weeks (4 days a week) of spring training starting Monday. A good mix of weights, cardio (i.e. running, jump rope etc) and swimming.
Next season starts Monday!
GO HAVEN!
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Amanda Terray finished her stored career as apart of the Lock Haven University Women's Swimming Program this morning at nationals. She was a big reason why our swim program has reached the level it is currently performing.
She was the first NCAA II national qualifier and did so all 4 seasons.
9 x All American
3 x PSAC Champion
4 x PSAC Runner Up
07-08 PSAC rookie of the year
holds 3 individual team records and is a part of all 5 relay team records
holds 4 LHU pool records (including relays)
(picture coming at tonight's SR ceremony)
She was the first NCAA II national qualifier and did so all 4 seasons.
9 x All American
3 x PSAC Champion
4 x PSAC Runner Up
07-08 PSAC rookie of the year
holds 3 individual team records and is a part of all 5 relay team records
holds 4 LHU pool records (including relays)
(picture coming at tonight's SR ceremony)
Last Morning
Last prelim session this morning. 3 races to get ready for, Sam's 100 free, Amanda's 200 back and the 400 free relay. Should be another GREAT day of swimming for us. Can't wait to get it underway .... so excited that I have been up for about 2 hours already with zero chance of falling back asleep!!
prelim races on youtube
Friday, March 11, 2011
Got 'em Up
Also, have the 400 medley relay (prelims), amanda 100 back (prelims), jenna & britt 100 fly (prelims), britt 100 breast (prelims)
youtube uploads
uploading some footage from the weekend on youtube now...it will take a little while (meaning, won't be done and able to post until after we get back from tonight's session).
you can view them as they become available by clicking HERE
you can view them as they become available by clicking HERE
Thursday, March 10, 2011
quick re-cap of day 2
long day today ... the morning session was super long, writing this now it seems like almost 2 days ago that we swam the prelims. we had a -.01 exchange on the 200 free relay was lead to another heartbreaking dq, but we took our licks and in matter of a few minutes we were ready to move on and focus on the 100 flys and 400 med relay.
Jenna and Britt were both in the same heat of the 100 fly ... both had great swims and i would be lying if I said I remember much from it, other than the first 50 for both was wayyyyy faster than their previous best and when the finished the 100 their times were wayyyy faster than their previous lifetime best!! Jenna broke her own school record and Britt just missed moving into the 2nd spot on the all time top 5 list.
400 med relay prelims we preached SAFE / SLOW starts so that we'd be swimming at night for "certificates" ... our time this morning was faster than we had swum at PSACs and broke the school record ... tonight's finals was just wicked fast for us and the women swam an exceptional relay and dropped some more serious time, with safe exchanges. We are now coming how as HM All - Americans.
100 back for Amanda and 100 breast for Britt tomorrow morning.
Jenna and Britt were both in the same heat of the 100 fly ... both had great swims and i would be lying if I said I remember much from it, other than the first 50 for both was wayyyyy faster than their previous best and when the finished the 100 their times were wayyyy faster than their previous lifetime best!! Jenna broke her own school record and Britt just missed moving into the 2nd spot on the all time top 5 list.
400 med relay prelims we preached SAFE / SLOW starts so that we'd be swimming at night for "certificates" ... our time this morning was faster than we had swum at PSACs and broke the school record ... tonight's finals was just wicked fast for us and the women swam an exceptional relay and dropped some more serious time, with safe exchanges. We are now coming how as HM All - Americans.
100 back for Amanda and 100 breast for Britt tomorrow morning.
New School Record
In the last medley relay the quartet of Terray, Rehrig, Brooks, Durham will ever swim they smashed their school record from this morning with a 3:51.84.
HM All American's!
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Day 2
(Rehrig, Terray, Durham, Brooks)
100 fly
(Rehrig, Brooks)
400 med relay
(Terray, Rehrig, Brooks, Durham)
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Relay
We had a very solid swim this morning. A great prelim swim. There were a LOT of DQ's based on the reaction pads...they called us for a false start by -.04 ... everyone with both biasis and a nonbiasis opinions that I spoke too said no way. I am also in the no way category, but the way the timing system works anything from -.01 to -.09 cannot be overturned by human, the computer is always right.
We are going to take the session off tonight, and rest up for a big day tomorrow ... 200 free relay & 400 medley relays, along with Britt and Jenna in the 100 fly. As Josh Davis said at the banquet, if something bad happens put it behind you and move forward ... I told them that we will rest up and make statement tomorrow in the 400 Medley.
Go Haven.
We are going to take the session off tonight, and rest up for a big day tomorrow ... 200 free relay & 400 medley relays, along with Britt and Jenna in the 100 fly. As Josh Davis said at the banquet, if something bad happens put it behind you and move forward ... I told them that we will rest up and make statement tomorrow in the 400 Medley.
Go Haven.
Britt. 2:09.43. 2IM
Really controlled race. Just a little off PSAC's. Great start to the meet!! Sam's 50 up next!
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
had the annual championship banquet tonight downtown. we enjoyed some quality pasta and chicken, the traditional banquet dinner. we joined the Edinboro & Kutztown contingent at their table. Josh Davis was the keynote speaker ... very cool. I have had the privilege of hearing him speak multiple times on Longhorn Swim Camp Fridays and always enjoy it.
We received a copy of the heat sheet for tomorrow session. We start off with Britt's 200 im (heat 3 lane 2), Sam's 50 free (heat 1 lane 8) and then after a 20 minute break our 200 medley relay is in heat 3 (of 3) lane 3 ... right next to defending champion Wayne State ... a GREAT spot to be.
As Bart Scott says .... "Can't Wait"
pre race day
had another good warm up session ... followed by a little downtime at the hotel before i dropped them off at the alamo before heading to the mandatory coaches meeting. nothing groundbreaking really happened or was discussed at the meeting, just a lot of housekeeping items.
the women enjoyed some time downtown and had lunch of Dicks Last Resort ... after picking them up we stopped at the tower where they took a trip to the top ... 75 stories high. i have no problem admitting that i whimped out and stayed behind. i did purchase a really interesting looking book on the history of Texas.
We made it back to the hotel with britt's parents pulling in right behind us. We are heading to the banquet in about an hour. Love free food !!
Race Day tomorrow!!
the women enjoyed some time downtown and had lunch of Dicks Last Resort ... after picking them up we stopped at the tower where they took a trip to the top ... 75 stories high. i have no problem admitting that i whimped out and stayed behind. i did purchase a really interesting looking book on the history of Texas.
We made it back to the hotel with britt's parents pulling in right behind us. We are heading to the banquet in about an hour. Love free food !!
Race Day tomorrow!!
a little press
Monday, March 7, 2011
Day Trip to Austin
photos: stolen from Terray's facebook
(for those who don't know I have had the privilege of working the UT swim camp 7 summers and really enjoy the UT team, campus and the City in general).
Afterwards we did a quick "tour da austin" with stops at Mellow Johnnys (Lance Armstrong's rather expensive bike shop), the Coop & Tylers, the women bought a few souvenirs ... I have a new pair of Sanuk flip flops (and Kim has a pair waiting for her too!) ... we dined at central market with UT swim camp director Jon Alter (Central Market is a made to order type of wegmans)
A supply run at Wal Mart on the way back and we are all set to go. 8:15 wake up call / 8:45am depature for a warm up swim tomorrow. The team will have some down time in the afternoon at the Riverwalk (but I will be calling it the RiverSitDown....so they don't get their legs too tired) while I have a coaches meeting.
Should mention that our sweet van also still has the free Sirius Sat Radio so we have been rockin' out (when i say we I definitely mean the 4 girls and not me) to Sirius hits 1 and a little bit of the pulse (Channel 12) after hearing the same 20 songs for 2 days... i have yet to subject them to any talk radio.
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Travel Day was long but successful. Started around 11amish departing Lock Haven .... lunch stop at Red Robin. Made it to the Harrisburg Airport with about 90 minutes before departure. Got checked in and through security and had 60 minutes to spare. Found out the flight at our gate before us was headed to DC was canceled (brings me back to Kim and I's honeymoon ... but that's a different post for a different day). We switched gates and boarded the plane without issue. Relatively smooth flight all things considered (remember our monsoon?) landed in Chicago a little early, turns out too early ... we waited nearly 50 minutes for our gate to open up, and when it did we hustled up to our next gate. We had no time so as we ran past the pizza place and a dude carrying a lot of mcdonalds we all commented on how nice food would be ...
another smooth flight without too many issues ... landed and held our breath waiting for our luggage to come through. Success. We boarded the overly crowded shuttle bus to the Alamo rental car ... met and overly friendly worker who pointed us in the right direction. Terray picked the shinest of the 3 mini vans, turns out it had a mere 104 miles on it and reeked of new car smell. We stopped a What-A-Burger ... love that place, the women had either a chicken sandwich or a burger, not too bad. 30 minutes later we found our hotel, got checked in (found out that making reservations back in September was a good thing, as our hotel - 7 miles from the pool, is booked through March 2012.
Unpacked and now fighting heavy eyelids as I finish this post. We are doing breakfast 9amish, and heading over to the pool at 9:45am, going to check in, and get a swim in before adventure/exploration day.
another smooth flight without too many issues ... landed and held our breath waiting for our luggage to come through. Success. We boarded the overly crowded shuttle bus to the Alamo rental car ... met and overly friendly worker who pointed us in the right direction. Terray picked the shinest of the 3 mini vans, turns out it had a mere 104 miles on it and reeked of new car smell. We stopped a What-A-Burger ... love that place, the women had either a chicken sandwich or a burger, not too bad. 30 minutes later we found our hotel, got checked in (found out that making reservations back in September was a good thing, as our hotel - 7 miles from the pool, is booked through March 2012.
Unpacked and now fighting heavy eyelids as I finish this post. We are doing breakfast 9amish, and heading over to the pool at 9:45am, going to check in, and get a swim in before adventure/exploration day.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Airport
We are patiently waiting to board our flight to San Antonio through Chicago ... We had a gate change. The poor folks headed to DC had their flight canceled.
Lots of rain but as of check in we are on time.
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Saturday, March 5, 2011
Tomorrow (sunday) is Travel Day
We will start our adventure tomorrow morning at 11am...meeting at the Durham residence (aka keeper of many signs), loading up the cars (stoner is helping transport swimmers and/or luggage to Harrisburg airport. The scheduled pit stop is at Red Robin (yumm) in the Selinsgrove area. Flight is scheduled to leave PA around 4pm going to Chicago (o'hare) where we will have a layover of just under an hour (cross your fingers our luggage makes the 2nd flight). Scheduled to arrive in San Antonio, Texas 9pm (local time). We fittingly have a rental van from Alamo Car Rental...
The ipod is charging, as is the cell phone and digital camera ... looking forward to a great week of racing!
The ipod is charging, as is the cell phone and digital camera ... looking forward to a great week of racing!
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
PSAC RACE VIDEOS
Looks like the guys from www.swimutopia.com have all the races (prelims & finals) uploaded ... click HERE to view the section.
(there are multiple pages)
(there are multiple pages)
more youtube
this has nothing to do with swimming, but is hilarious (right becca fish?!)
(also testing ways to post youtube onto the blog)
(also testing ways to post youtube onto the blog)
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