Die Hard Cowboys Fan

Matt Finn, a LHU student volunteer this week, ran into Emmitt Smith at the Pro Football Hall of Fame this afternoon!!

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Monday AM Warm Up

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Saturday Night in Canton

Is not the best time to go and find a place to eat .... at least with a small group.

We went with a few different options .... and settled on a choice of 3 (cici's pizza, a chinese buffet & panera bread) ... all solid choices.

Earlier in the afternoon we went to the pool to check things out and drop some supplies off...looks great! As you can see from the previous post we have our banner already up :-)

GO HAVEN!!

tomorrow morning we are going to get our qualifers up at the "usual time” of 8am. Go on our first field trip (i.e. getting them out of the hotel) to a super wal mart for a supply run … I need to buy some deodrant (and soon!) then drop them off and bring the rest of the group to the pool to do a few final preperations before our crop of volunteers arrives.

Registration begins at 4pm…which is the same time the pool opens for the teams. I plan on getting the women in the pool in the evening.

Psych Sheet

Click HERE to view the 2010 Psych Sheet

We are here....

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This Week...

This week has been super busy ... AND, it's only Wednesday morning.  (but that is a good thing). 

Our 4 national qualifers are looking great in the water, swimming very similar workouts (and going just as fast ... if not faster) that we did leading up to PSAC's.

I will be providing daily updates with how our trip goes (starting Saturday night!)

National Rankings

The latest NCAA top times list has been updated...

Click HERE for the individual reports

Amanda Terray, 100 back, 56.80 (5th)
Amanda Terray, 200 back, 2:02.81 (4th)
Britt Rehrig, 100 breast, 1:05.58 (18th)
Jenna Brooks, 100 fly, 58.25 (T-39th)

Click HERE for the relay reports

200 Medley Relay, 1:45.75 (8th)
400 Medley Relay, 3:53.89 (17th)
200 Free Relay, 1:37.07 (22nd)
400 Free Relay, 3:38.12 (34th)
800 Free Relay, 7:58.55 (32nd)

~when qualifying 1 relay for  NCAA's we have actually qualified all our relays to compete.  When the Psych Sheet comes out we will move up (just slightly) in the rankings in the freestyle relays.

~same thing applies to Britt and Jenna in their events...they should move up (again, just slightly) in the rankings when the Psych Sheet is released next week.

GO HAVEN!!

Records Updated

Click HERE to view our Team Records, All Time Top 5 Perfomers & LHU Pool Records

Click HERE to view our Updated Season Top Times, Relay Splits & Top 6 Relays performances from this year.

Great Meet!!

What a great weekend! First thing that sticks out is just how FAST the PSAC is...from top to bottom we are a part of the strongest swimming in D2.

We qualified our first swimmer in school history 3 years ago ... This weekend we qualified 4 swimmers for the national championships (which we are hosting). What a great feeling.

10 school records were set this weekend. Even more all time top 5 performances. 2 relays made all psac. Britt is all psac in the 100 breast too. Terray repeated as the 200 back champion swimming her 2nd best time ever.

Amanda Palmer finished up a stellar 4 year career in style!!

I could go on and on but it's time for a little nap on the bus ride back.

PS - I have always wanted to have a set of parents that battle for seats together, wear the same special shirt, and get involved in a team cheer ... This weekend we had that set led by Mrs Campbell and Kim! Just awesome!

GO HAVEN!

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3 peat

Amanda Terray. 200 back. 2:02.81. 3 time PSAC Champ.
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SR swimmer

Amanda Palmer ... My first recruit from my first year @ the HAVEN!

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Sunday Prelims

Click HERE for results

Started with the 200 back this morning ... Amanda had a solid morning swim and will be seeded first going into tonight's finals.

100 free was the next event ... Sam Durham went a lifetime best, another top 5 performance, and will be swimming it again in the 15th spot.  Jenna Brooks also swam the 100 free and smashed her lifetime best!

200 breast saw Britt Rehrig go a lifetime best, just missing our school record...her time will have her swimming in the 10th spot tonight.

200 fly had 2 LHU swimmers.  Amanda Palmer had a season best swim and a gutsy last 50.  Shannon Milstead swam a lifetime best AND a time that puts her 4th on our all time top 5 list.

Kasey then swam the 1650 free with a time that has her seeded 9th going into tonight. If she beats any of the top 8 swimmers tonight she will make the top 16.  Her swim was a new school record, besting her time from last year.

~I wont have a chance to type up a full report after the next session, but will do my best to upload pictures and a few blurbs via the crack berry.

You will be able to check for the results by clicking HERE there will be a Sunday PM link with the results listed.

GO HAVEN!!

#1 (or #2) Fan

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Photo's

I didn't get to upload too many photos via the crackberry ... but once I get a chance to upload a bunch of photo's I will.

Go Haven.

Sat Finals

Click HERE for tonight's results.

WOW...great night of swimming for the Lady Eagles.

200 Medley Relay placed 3rd, All-PSAC honors, and another NCAA "a" cut (just a tad slower than thursday's time trial)

Amanda Palmer had her 2nd and 3rd fastest time every in the 400IM, a very grueling event and I am really proud of how she swam it.

Jenna Brooks...100 fly.  Rocked it!  ended up 8th overall ... breaking one of the oldest LHU school records!  58.25.  (before this weekend Jenna had never been under 1:00 on a flat start)

Britt Rehrig...100 breast.  Placed 3rd.  swimming a 1:05.89 this morning and 1:05.58 this afternoon ... her first 2 times under 1:06.  AWESOME!!!!

Amanda Terray...100 back.  Placed 2nd, 3rd year in a row ... 56.80.  Fastest time ever!!!

800 Free relay...same school record setters as last year ... (different order this year) lead off with Terray (1:57.30 ... 200 free school record!!) Campbell, Durham & Palmer ... broke their school record with a 7:58.55.  Placed 8th again this year!

BIG swims tomorrow, 2 sessions to go!

GO HAVEN!

Jenna 8th place 100 fly

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3rd Place 400 and 200 medley relays!!

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Early Warm Up

Amanda's are first ones in this afternoon!!

I believe in a good warm up ... It only helps!

BIG Night. Go Haven.

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Wegmans Lunch

Wegmans lunch is quite delish ... so delish that we saw a representative from just about every PSAC school there for lunch.  I enjoyed some Red Robin with my mom, sister, brian and fiance Kim (#1 fan ... though she says #2).

Just want to go on record now to say that ski jumping in the winter olympics is amazing ... perhaps another sport that relies on a great streamline for a quality result.

Go Haven.

GREAT morning

Click HERE for results

Started with Amanda Palmer in the 400IM ... she was right on her best ever/school record and came up less than a second short ... she will be in the middle of the pool tonight in the consolation heat.  (which is the best possible spot for her!!)

100 fly saw Sarah Navarro go a lifetime best, and Shannon Milstead just miss her lifetime best.  Jenna Brooks went a smoking fast 58.25.  Good enough for a new school record and to swim tonight as the 7th seed.

100 breast saw Sarah Navarro so another lifetime best, dropping some serious time!  Britt Rehrig went in as the 3rd seed and will be swimming tonight as the 3rd seed as she went a lifetime best/breaking her school record.

100 back saw 2 time PSAC runner up Amanda Terray break her googles right before the start of the race ... after a mad dash to get them went a really solid time (faster than her 400 med relay lead off last night).  She will be swimming tonight as the 2nd seed.

We will also add in the 200 medley relay ... we are the 4th seed, but if we go the same time that we did during the time trial Thursday night we will have a great shot making some more history.  It will be a REALLY great race.  Can't wait.

Going to try and nap now ...  GO HAVEN!!

Saturday

Saturday is a big day of swimming for us ...

Amanda Palmer's 400 IM

Sarah Navarro, Shannon Milstead & Jenna Brooks in the 100 fly.

Sarah Navarro, Britt Rehrig in the 100 breast.

and, Amanda Terray in the 100 back.

at night the 200 medley relay & 800 free relay.

can't wait ...

tonight's results

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special shout out section to a few loyal readers!

Granddad (of Britt) Rehrig, I will keep updating results asap!!!

Aunt (in law) Tracy, thanks for reading!! hope the sun is shining in California!!!

ANOTHER "A" CUT

Our 400 medley just qualified with a NCAA "A" time and finished 3rd!!!

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200 free relay

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200 Free Relay School Record

5th place finish breaking school record by almost 2 seconds!!

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results

click HERE for Friday prelim results

Lunch

Today's lunch was a subway / chick-filia option.  The team will be absolutely dismayed when they read this to find out that I have never been to a chick filia before...a few of them are moderately obsessed with that place.

I give my first dining experience a C+ /B- ... taking into account the waffle fries as bonus points b/c I LOVE waffle fries and the Styrofoam cups.  (although horrible for the environment, my drink stays colder longer!)  Negative points for the BBQ sauce.  It is a bit lacking in flavor and the packets are not made for easy dipping (huge waffle fries don't dip into the bbq very well).

Anyways ... had a reeses PB cup for dessert and now I am watching Curling.  This "sport" is fascinating and way too much fun to watch.

Crushing the Top 5 Times List!!

Kasey's 1000 last night ... new school record (#1)

Sarah Navarro's 200IM ties #5
Amanda Palmer's 200IM #3

50 Free
Jenna ended up 5th ... 3 heats later, Rehrig went fast enough to get 4th, which ended up bumping Jenna off the list .... but it's pretty awesome that in the matter of 5 minutes we had 2 top 5 times ... and in a matter of 45 minutes we had 4!! (200IM is the event before the 50 free)

In 2 Sessions we have had 5 new performances!!

Quick Update

Kasey's 500 free was very soild and after the 1000 it is tough to get up and do that race the next morning.

The 200 IM had sarah and palmer swim lifetim bests. Great start to the meet for them!!

The 50 free had jenna going a 24.9 (going 24 before she ever went 25) Milstead went a lifetime best. Sam had a tough start but came back very strong!! Terray and Rehrig made it back to finals in 13th and 15th place.

Add in the 200 free relay and 400 medley relay tonight!

GO HAVEN!!!

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results

click here for tonight's results

Kasey had just a solid swim from start to finish.  She has really come a long way this year and her new school record/lifetime best was just awesome for her.

The 200 medley relay exceeded all expectations I had for them ... just awesome.  We have some really good momentum going into the rest of the meet ... the tough part will be to keep them on cloud 9 so we can continue to swim as awesome as we did tonight.

prelims tomorrow...
500 free (kasey)
200 im (palmer / navarro)
50 free (brooks, milstead, terray, rehrig, durham)

GO HAVEN!!

1:45.75

200 med relay made it to nationals!!!!!!!!
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NEW SCHOOL RECORD

Kasey Campbell. 1000 free. 10:54.67 (or .71).

GREAT StART!!

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Arrived

We are all checked in ... After a quick wal mart run to buy fruit smiles (and other wonderful items). Heading to the pool shortly.

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Lunch Stop

Applebees ... A delish/ filling meal but took wayyyyyyy too long. not a big deal, we are still going to be fine time wise.

Food coma naps are on the way ...

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Movie #1

Now and Then on the bus and on my ipod the coen brothers classic, The Big Lebowski

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"say hi to the blog"

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PSAC's day 1

We will be boarding the bus to head to Cumberland Valley shortly.  With our annual stop for Applebees lunch (it's lucky)...after checking in to our hotel we will head to the pool.  Tonight we will have Kasey's 1000 and we are going to time trial the 200 medley relay.

More updates to follow...GO HAVEN!

PSAC's

PSAC travel day & 1000 freestyle tomorrow.  We are also going to time trial the 200 med relay and give them a shot at a fast time without any additional waves from other swimmers.  Looking forward to some great fast swimming!

GO HAVEN!

Last Morning Workout of the Season

We are actually all going to do the same workout this morning ...

(meet warm up then in reverse)

800 oyo
6 x 50 @ :55 (slk/dr/sw) x2
3 x 100 @ 1:40 descend
3 x 75 @ 1:10
2 x 25's dive
3 finishes
2 x 25's dive
3 x 75 @ 1:10
3 x 100 @ 1:40 descend
6 x 50 @ :55 (slk/dr/sw) x 2

(relay starts)

800 WD

PYSCH SHEET

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1 week to go

In exacatly 7 days from now we will be heading to the pool for the first night of swimming at the 2010 PSAC Swimming Championships.

Psych sheet should be up soon ...

PSAC Warm Up

For PSAC's last year, and again this year, we have started to do the same warm up each day.  This will allow the women to get used to what they need to do to get ready to race next weekend.

We always start swimming with everyone in the same lane ... this allows the team to get used to swimming with more than 2 or 3 bodies in the lane.

The Warm Up is:

800 oyo
6 x 50 @ :55 (slk/dr/sw)
3 x 100 @ 1:40 descend
3 x 75 @ 1:10
2 x 25's from dive (1 AO / 1 choice)
3 finishes from flags

7 more workouts...

...until PSAC's.

Enteries are due Wednesday...we should have the Psych sheet Thursday.  I will be sure to post the link once it becomes available.

Go Haven!!

Set O Sat

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PSAC Swimmer of the Week

For her efforts at the Vulcan Dual Meet Challenge Invite this past weekend Amanda Terray was named the PSAC Women's Swimmer of the Week.

Set of the week

50 @ :5 rest (perfect easy / drill ok)
100 @ :10 rest (build up to great finish)
200 @ :15 rest (negative split)
300 @ :20 rest (work turns)

Kasey did this 5 rounds all freestyle
Amanda Palmer did this 4 rounds, doing the strokes listed in the picture ... she was especially happy to end with a 300 fly.

Movies

#1 was Blue Crush ... a team classic and now #2 the Proposal
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FINAL RESULTS

DUAL Meet 1
LHU. 98
Mansfield. 30

DUAL Meet 2
LHU. 91
Chatham. 38

DUAL Meet 3
LHU. 83
CAL. 65

INVITE SCORE
LHU. 735
CAL. 609
Chatham. 548
Mansfield. 234

Top 3 place finishers ...
200 Free Relay
(2nd) durham, brooks, rehrig, terray

1000 Free
(2nd) milstead
(3rd) schaefer

200 IM
(2nd) navarro

50 Backstroke
(2nd) terray

100 Breaststroke
(2nd) rehrig

200 Butterfly
(2nd) palmer

200 Medley Relay
(1st) terray, rehrig, brooks, durham

400 IM
(2nd) palmer

100 Backstroke
(1st) terray

200 Breaststroke
(1st) rehrig

50 Butterfly
(1st) brooks
..........<meet record>
(2nd) rehrig

100 Freestyle
(1st) terray

800 Free Relay
(2nd) rehrig, durham, campbell, terray

400 Medley Relay
(1st) terray, rehrig, brooks, durham <
..........<meet record>
..........<pool record>

200 Backstroke
(1st) terray
..........<meet record>
..........<pool record>

50 Breaststroke
(1st) rehrig
..........<meet record>

100 Butterfly
(1st) brooks
(3rd) navarro

50 Freestyle
(1st) durham

100 IM
(1st) rehrig

400 Freestyle Relay
(2nd) durham, palmer, rehrig, terray
(3rd) milstead, williams, vagnoni, navarro

SUPER SPECIAL congrats to Becky Fountaine and Shannon Wilbur for finishing their 4 year swim career today. Awesome.


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Largest PSAC Team Ever

Sarah Navarro qualified for PSAC's in the 100 fly in a time trial making her the 8th individual qualifer and our largest PSAC squad in recent history!!  Pretty awesome stuff!!

We swam Mansfield this evening and won that meet with some really great swims.  Tomorrow morning we swim Chatham in the morning and California in the evening.

Looking forward to some more fast swimming tomorrow!!

Checked In

All checked in to the Hampton Inn ... Except Adam and myself (our room isn't quite ready). Had some quality Teen Mom on MTV time and now we are headed to the pool.

5pm start time.

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Lunch Stop / Movie

We have done a Sheetz lunch in Altoona lots of times, today was the quickest and most efficient. My turkey sub was delish.

First movie of the trip. Hangover.

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On the road

We are on the road now, headed to CAL for 2 days of swimming. Where we will have 3 dual meets. This is always a fun meet!!

Updates to follow.

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Our 3 Seniors

(fountaine, palmer, wilbur)

I am really proud of these 3 women ... my first recruits!  They sure have come a long way and 4 years sure does go fast!!!

Quick Update

We had a great showing at this afternoon's SR meet.  Both Cal & Kutztown are 2 of the strongest women's only program in the PSAC, so bringing them to our house provided some really good competition!

I honestly haven't had a chance to review all the results in terms of top 5 times, season best times etc, but I can tell you we had some spectacular efforts today.  Once I do get a chance to review everything I will post an update.

Special congrats to Amanda Palmer, Becky Fountaine & Shannon Wilbur ... our 3 graduating seniors!!

Go Haven!!

Sr Meet Tomorrow

We have our last home meet of the season tomorrow at 2pm. 
We are swimming California University of PA & Kutztown.

Amanda Palmer, Becky Fountaine & Shannon Wilbur will be swimming their last meet at the Haven.

Power Tower!

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Amanda's Birthday

Chair Cover Circa 1992
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Bday Cap!
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Amanda Palmer's Birthday Set

Today Amanda turns 22.  Not the best day to have a birthday since we are training a LOT today ... but we are going to allow her to celebrate a little bit this morning with 'birthday' set.

22 x 100
2 x
1 @ 2:00 kick (rd 2 easy swim)
2 @ 1:55 kick
3 @ 1:50 slk to first cone
4 @ 1:45 slk to first cone
5 @ 1:40 IM
6 @ 1:35 IM
7 @ 1:30 last 25 best fast
8 @ 1:25 last 25 best fast
9 @ 1:20 free
10 @ 1:15 free
11 @ 1:10 free

great set(s) from this morning

4 x 100 @1:55
4 x 75 @ 1:15
4 x 50 @ :50
4 x 25 @ :25
~descending each set of 4
~#4 is AO max effort
~keeping same stroke (or im) for all 4

then after a short pull we did

10 x
(50 AO from dive
(double arm stretch chords
(push up hold
(hold da world {love mary}

We did :50 on  / :10 off (extra rest after the 50 swim)
The 50 AO was stroke in the following order
free / fly / back / breast / free / free / breast / back / fly / free

40 minutes of intense work ... good stuff!!

Texas Camp Kick Set

We do this set once a week in the summer at the Longhorn Swim Camp and Katie brought it from Austin to Lock Haven.

It is a timed kick set. 
1 round is:
:20 FAST kick / :40 steady
:30 FAST kick / :30 steady
:40 FAST kick / :20 steady

we did it 4 rounds with shoes ... then 4 rounds without shoes.

Slide Races ~ **UPDATED**

I did recieve some text messages from a few women at the airport asking where their time was ... turns out we had 2 pages of results.  Here are the updated top slide times.

Andy (winner ... no matter who was timing)
11.12
Adam ~ 12.16
Joel ~ 12.33
Kasey ~ 12.40
Becky ~ 12.71
Jenna ~ 12.73
Amanda P ~ 13.22
Amanda T ~ 13.66
Kim ~ 13.67
Ashley ~ 13.88
Shannon W ~ 14.75

Slide Races

The Ron Jon Resort has a killer water slide ... on our last afternoon we had an impromptu water slide race. Kim did the timing ...

Here are those who participated top time

Andy (aka champion of the water slide racing universe)
11.12

Adam (the silver medalist)
12.16

Joel (not even close to gold or silver)
12.46

Kasey
12.40

Becky
12.71

Jenna
12.73

Kim
13.67

Amanda P
14.04

Shannon W
14.46

~once we get some photo's online I will add them!!

Team Photo Before Last Practice

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Ultimate Frisbee

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Pictures by Kim

NCAA TICKETS FOR SALE

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Ashley Gardner's new pet.

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DaKine the Doggy

Ali Schaefer's new pet

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Team Photo on the Beach

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The Guitar Slurpee Cup

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LUNCH!!!

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6th practice

6th workout ... half way point.

We had a great workout tonight!!  Ended up with all 8 lanes...so we spread out nicely.

500 oyo
5 x 100 @ 2:00/1:50/1:40/1:30/1:20

3 x
(3 x 50 descend rd1 @1:05, rd2 @:55, rd3 @ :45
(100 slk @ 2:00

100 easy

10 x
(2 x 100 @ 2:30 AO from a dive/same stroke
(1 x 100 @ 2:00 easy

50 AO max butterfly from dive
300 WD

Britt Rehrig Jumping for Joy

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More Lunges

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Lunges!!

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Jump Rope on Beach

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Beach workout

Don't let the sun fool you...it's still chilly

I decided it was just a little too chilly this morning to go swim ... so we all went back to bed and then went to the beach for some dryland.

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day 2 in the books

Tonight's workout had us divided into 4 different groups.  All of which had some rather intense portions of a workout...really great efforts in all 4 lanes!

This afternoon we took a small group to the Da Kine Diego Burrito stand ... a LHU swimming favorite.  We are planning 1 more trip this week.  Quick story ... This is our 4th trip in 5 years to Cocoa Beach ... year 1, this burrito stand was right in downtown Cocoa Beach....year 2 we were in Jacksonville, year 3 the burrito stand was gone, year 4 we found it ... 12 miles down the street from the hotel, we went twice!!  Year 5 (this year) we have re-discovered the delish burrito!!

2 practices tomorrow....Go Haven!!

sunny and (not so) warm Florida

Day 2's morning workout/meet with Edinboro & Northern Michigan wasn't any warmer than yesterday.  I am really proud of the how the team is handling it ... I told them at our team meeting that we really can't do too much about the weather, we just need to push through it and get the most out of every practice ... so far so good.

Tonight's workout will be our first one by training groups ... odds are we will keep the training group workouts for the duration of the training trip.

3 workouts down / 9 to go

Rooftop Dryland

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GREAT first practice!

but it was a little chilly...

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we have arrived!

Finally have everyone (and all bags). Quick team meeting then Wal Mart run.

(the no elevator rule went over really well, lol)

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Flights

As you might expect we have a delay with an arriving flight ... naturally, it's our last scheduled arriving flight so there will be a little extra time spent in the airport.

Now we will hope the luggage makes it!!

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Break

The team is enjoying some quality time at home for the holidays.  We are all set to travel to Cocoa Beach, Florida for our annual training trip.  Traveling down on Jan 4th ... until then the team will be working out hard at home (!) and planning for 12 intense long course practices in 7 days in (hopefully) sunny & warm Cocoa Beach!!

Happy Holidays everyone!!

ps-look for 'lots' of picture posts, starting Jan 4th.

National Rankings

Amanda Terray ~ 100 back (20th)
Amanda Terray ~ 200 back (9th)
Britt Rehrig ~ 100 breast (15th)

RELAYS
200 Med Relay (15th)
Terray, Rehrig, Brooks, Durham

400 Med Relay (15th)
Terray, Rehrig, Brooks, Durham

200 Free Relay (16th)
Rehrig, Brooks, Durham, Terray

400 Free Relay (T-14th)
Rehrig, Milstead, Durham, Terray

800 Free Relay (22nd)
Campbell, Terray, Palmer, Durham

Count Down

Our team tradionally loves a good count down...

• 7 days until our last practice of the semester
• 14 days until christmas
• 24 days until we are in Florida
• 32 days until we are back from Florida
• 35 days until we are back practicing at LHU
• 49 days until the Dual Meet Challenge (taper meet for some)
• 69 days until PSAC's
• 89 days until NCAA's
• AND for those counting 197 days until I get married

NCAA Commercial

Click HERE to watch the NCAA commercial for Nationals!!!

NCAA Website

Click HERE to view the 2010 NCAA II National Championships page

UPDATES

2010 PSAC TEAM
Top Times
Relay Splits
Top Relays Times

TEAM RECORDS
POOL RECORDS
ALL TIME TOP 5

Cool Fact-oid

We have at least 1, and as many as 4, PSAC qualifying time in every event (except the 1000)

Re-Cap

This weekend we totaled 4 new school records, 5 all time top 5 performances and a large number of season/lifetime best swims!!  With that being said, we are awhile away from our next swim meet so I will try and make the blog a little more "fun" and include more stories about the team etc.

One thing I will say about our team is that we are very supportive of each other while we race ... I like to look around at these types of meets and see what other teams do, more often than not most teammates are sitting down without a clue of what is going on ... I once saw a dude napping DURING a meet.  We have an amazing TEAM who support each other, and it is fun to see!!

Night Session

Started with the 1650 and our lone miler Kasey Campbell swam a great race. Finishing in about the same time as IUP.

The 200 back was a good event for us with Amanda Terray winning it and Ashley Gardner & Allison Schaefer dropping time.

The 100 free was a great event for us and the 200 fly too. 400 free relay capped off our night finishing 2nd.

Dinner was a small fest at taco bell and/or sheetz. Miracle is the movie of choice. I am going to rest my eyes now. GREAT 2 days of swimming!!

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Morning

We spent this afternoon chill-axe-ing at the grove city outlets or on the bus.

A few highlights...

Our 200 med relay broke it's 2 week old school record this morning.

Jenna Brooks and Britt Rehrig went 1-2 in the 100 fly.

Sam Durham qualified for PSAC's in the 200 free. Lisa Esachina and Allison Schaefer both dropped some time as well.

Britt Rehrig won the 100 breast with Sarah Navarro and Brittany Williams going season best times!!

Amanda Terray won the 100 back and Ashley Gardner swam a season best time.

Brittany Williams and Rachel (Santa Claus) Vagnoni timed trialed the 50 free, both going super fast.

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Day 2

Bit of a longer day today but some really good events for us.

Live results are being posted online at:

www.GCCINVITATIONAL.com

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Session 1

Ran pretty late and we are on our way to dinner. So I will let yah know quickly that we swam lights out!!

200 free and 400 medley relay broke team records! (400 was also a meet record)

Amanda Palmer's 200 IM puts her 3rd on the top 5 list.

Several new and or improved PSAC cut times!!

GREAT night to be a Lady Eagle Swimmer.

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Travel

Had a nice lunch stop in Clarion ... checked in with no problem and the team has a good 2 hours of rest and a relaxing shave before we head to the pool.  I am really looking forward to seeing the team race tonight!!

Tis the Season

ELF is the movie of choice to start our trip!

About half watching and half sleeping.

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Headed to Grove City

9am departure!!
Stay Tuned for some updates

GO HAVEN...

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EAGLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grove City
Aint it a pity
Flyin Eagles will make you dizzy
Their bubbles will be extra fizzy
Fast starts will cause a tizzy
Andrews whistle will make you giddy
Haven cheers will be witty
All new BTs will be pretty
Grove city will be left in a frenzy
Eagles soar againzy!!!!!!!!!

GOOOOOO Nella give them the smoking guns!!!

~Carla Kinard
(janel's mom)

Pysch Sheet

Click HERE to view the Pysch Sheet for our meet this weekend.

GO HAVEN!

Official LHU T-Shirts

We have a limited number of shirts left for sale...if you are interested in making a purchase please email me:

AWAEGER@LHUP.EDU

Cost is $12.

(only crimson color shirts remain)

Set of the Week

This morning was a good practice as we get ready for the Grove City Meet this weekend.

18 minute warm up swim
(every 4th alternating stroke & slk)

21 x 100
6 @ 2:05 kick
5 @ 1:55 25 dr/75 per
4 @ 1:45 every 3rd SLK
3 @ 1:35 bu/bd AO turn
2 @ 1:25 choice
1 @ 1:15 AO

75 easy

1 x 75 AO from dive
75 easy
1 x 50 AO from dive

600 WD

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)

Happy Thanksgiving

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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)

Stats/Records

Click on the following to view our updates:

TEAM RECORDS
POOL RECORDS
ALL TIME TOP 5 LIST
2010 PSAC TEAM
09-10 TOP TIMES LIST
09-10 RELAY SPLITS

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.

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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Team Cheer

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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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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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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

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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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!!!

Kicking With Shoes

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Haven's Got Talent

Lead off act!!

They were ROBBED by the judges...

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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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