great kick day today

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Swimmer Spotlight ~ NICOLE FAULSTICK

Nicole Marie Faulstick

SR - Elizabethtown PA

Born in Lancaster PA... Graduated from Elizabethtown High School ... Majoring in English ... Parents are Robert & Sandy Faulstick, has 1 sister Samantha (23) and 1 brother Shawn (18) ... has 1 dog, Speedo (RIP) ... Dream job is to be a beach bum ... Lists best non-athletic talent as singing  ... Hobby outside of swimming is reading.

Chose LHU over East Stroudsburg.

Top Events / Times
100 back - 1:07.13
200 back - 2:28.48
100 free - 1:03.17

Birthday - 6/27/1990
Height -5'7"

Chose LHU because of the swim team and her major.

FAVORITES

Part about Swimming ... the free food
Food ... pickles
Ice Cream Flavor ...chocolate peanut butter cup
TV Show(s) ... friday night lights
Movie ... running scared
Cartoon Character ... doug funny
Actor/Actress ... ryan reynolds
Pro Athlete ... shane victorino
Color ... blue
Place to Shop ... gucci

Set of the week

After a good warm up we did station work outs. 6 ten minute sets with about 90 seconds in between each round.

Swimmer Spotlight ~ SAM DURHAM

Samantha Joy Durham

SR - Walkersville MD

Born in Rockville MD... Graduated from Walkersville High School ... Majoring in Elementary Education ... Parents are Sharon & Bo Durham, has 2 brothers Scott (19) and Alex (15) ... has 1 dog, Mystic and 1 cat, Summer ... Dream job is to own a bakery ... Lists best non-athletic talent as being organized  ... Hobby outside of swimming is baking.

Chose LHU over York & Hood.

2 time Academic All American

3 All American performances

Top Events / Times
50 free - 24.40
100 free - 53.14
200 free - 1:58.55

Birthday - 2/1/1990
Height -5'5"

Chose LHU because of the swim team and elementary education program.

Current School Record Holder

200 free relay
400 free relay
800 free relay
200 medley relay
400 medley relay

Current Pool Record Holder

200 medley relay
800 free relay

Currently Holds Spots on All Time Top 5 List

50 free (4th)
100 free (3rd)
200 free (3rd)

FAVORITES

Part about Swimming ... achieving personal and team goals
Food ...spaghetti and meatballs
Ice Cream Flavor ...cookies & cream
TV Show(s) ... none
Movie ... remember the titans
Cartoon Character ... tom and jerry
Actor/Actress ... ryan reynolds
Pro Athlete ... ryan lochte
Color ... pink, green & orange
Place to Shop ... wal mart

Gauntlet Swim

Swimmer Spotlight ~ KASEY BLESH

Kasey Lynn Blesh

SR - Feasterville PA

Born in Philadephia PA ... Graduated from Neshaminy High School ... Majoring in Therapeutic Recreation ... Parents are Brian & Terri Campbell, has 2 brothers Brad (26) and Jared (19) ... has 1 dog Mikey Johnson ... Dream job is to be a baker or interior designer ... Lists best non-athletic talent as art & shuffeling ... Hobby outside of swimming is reading & art.

Chose LHU over Bloomsburg & Savannah College of Art & Design.

Top Events / Times
1000 free - 10:47.69
1650 free - 18:07.77
500 free - 5:19.63
200 free - 2:00.62

Birthday - 12/19/1989
Height - 5'4"

Chose LHU because of the swim team.

Current School Record Holder

1000 free
1650 free
800 free relay

Current Pool Record Holder

800 free relay

Currently Holds Spots on All Time Top 5 List

1000 free (1st)
1650 free (1st)
500 free (2nd)

FAVORITES

Part about Swimming ... meets & hanging out with team
Food ... chinese
Ice Cream Flavor ... coffee
TV Show(s) ... how i met your mother, office, 30 rock, parks & rec, food revolution, modern family
Movie ... garden state
Cartoon Character ... Belle from Beauty & the Beast, Patrick from Spongebob
Actor/Actress ... Jason Segal, Tina Fey
Pro Athlete ... Chad Ochocinco
Color ... green apple (NOT lime)
Place to Shop ... DSW, urban outfitters

Thursday's Shoe Practice!

POWER TOWER TODAY!!

Drag Jumps

Golden Kickboard circa 2007-2008

Team Building

Quad Meet!! Will be here before we know it...

Afternoon Set !!

Crimson v. White

Couldn't think of a better way to get our racing season started. 

We saw 3 meet records broken.  Freshman Allie Muha broke the 500 free record of 5:42.50 (previously held by Kelly Grieneisen) with a time of 5:42.08.  Britt Rehrig established 2 new records.  First was the 100 back record of 1:02.67 (previously held by Amanda Terray) with a time of 1:02.01.  (this was also good enough for an all time top 5 performance) also broke the 200 im record of 2:26.05 (previously held by Amanda Palmer) with a time of 2:18.74.

What was most striking was our depth.  With the addition of some really talented freshman to our already talented squad we have more than 1 person than can excel in each event.  It has also made for some really fun practices.  We finished the day off with our new home meet tradition of tale gating up in Gym #1.  Delish!!

This week starts Phase 2 ... which will add in some doubles & Saturday workouts.

TEAM Haven!

Signs from C v. W

Signs from C v. W cont.

Team HAVEN

TEAM White

TEAM Crimson

Record Board

After a few year hiatus Adam and I put it back together this morning.  We are hoping to have many updates to do throughout the season!  We have a few minor corrections to make before this weekend, but I wanted to share with our followers the update!

Also, this morning the crimson and white teams redid the bulletin boards around the pool. A few are still a work in progress, but we will get them on here when they're all done.

Great Set Today!!

Swim Across America with the Kinards

Senior Janel Kinard (left) and her sister (Anna a recent graduate and 4 year swimmer from Shippensburg University) recently participated in the Swim Across America.  All money raised went to Cancer Research at John Hopkins University.

Congrats on a job well done!

Sorry for the delay in posting...

It has been awhile since our last team update.  We are in the final week of our swim school (aka lesson) program and I am pretty happy with how the annual fundraiser turned out.

Saturday will be our intra-squad/alumnae swim meet meet.  We have heard from a few recent alum who plan on swimming along side the team this year.  Pretty awesome.

Our teams were finalized after a pretty intense game of paper rock scissors between Nicole F & Kasey B to determine which squad gets which "color".

Winner of the game (Nicole) selected CRIMSON for herself and the following swimmers, Capretti, Rehrig, Druby, Muha, Miller, Vagnoni, Schnars, Kaleck, Henry, Mutschler, Smith & Taylor.

Meaning the loser of the game (Kasey) got "stuck" with WHITE for herself and the following swimmers, Milstead, Durham, Conklin, Nitchie, Kury, Kinard, Curran, Mallams, Navarro, Brooks & Maguire.

The order of events is as follows:
200 medley relay
500 free
50 free*
~ break
100 fly*
100 back*
100 breast*
100 free*
~ break
200 im
200 free relay

* = 2 heats

Last year's meet ended in a TIE, so we will see just how well Adam Stoner divided up the teams.

go TEAM haven!

Partner Run

Dry-Land

 This morning's workout was our first Dry-Land session.  Most of the pictures ended up a little blurry b/c the women didn't stop moving for the entire 60 minute session!

   Coach Adam overlooking some ab work.

Coach Kim directing the cool down session.

We have begun!!

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Day 1 of the 2011 - 2012 Season

Tomorrow (wednesday) we will be kicking off our season with our new first practice tradition ... time trials.  Each of the women will be swimming their 3 strongest events (some of the distance women will swim an 'off/shorter' 3rd event).

The expectation is that each of the women will be 5% of their lifetime best swim.

Due to some ridiculous class schedules this fall we are going to have to start the trials bright and early!

Stay tuned for some updates...

Aiden's First Swim Lesson (pictured with Shannon Milstead)

Day 1

The 2011-2012 season is upon us ... day 1 of classes today with our annual way too long of a team meeting tonight where everyone will have all their paperwork. 

Some big changes for our team this year...an all time high roster of 25 (6 more than last year) will allow us to do something great things in training.  We are going to have at least 3 different training groups that will put more of a focus on specific events training...(we have always done this to a certain degree, but with the entire team practicing at the same time ... now we different training times for these groups).

Lots to look forward to ... stay tuned for frequent updates!!

GO HAVEN!

Visitors

Kevin Carver and Becca (Rhoades) Carver class of '07 celebrate their 3rd wedding anniversary today in Lock Haven!!

(also pictured #1 fan Aiden)

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Baby Aiden with a few of the women at the Kasey Campbell - Joel Blesh wedding

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Haven Swimming's Newest Fan

Aiden Robert Waeger - 5lbs 5ounces
6-5-11 @ 10:01am

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Summer Update

It has been pretty slow here in Lock Haven so far this summer.  I have been working on some finer details for our training trip along with a few fundraising projects that we have in store for next year.  Our roster is looking spectacular and I just hope the team is working hard to stay (or get) in shape!