Crimson vs White Baseball on Friday

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Crimson and White Meet History

Before we get going with tomorrow's festivities, check out how far the Crimson and White meet has come.

You can look at the history of the meet HERE

Crimson and White Records can be viewed HERE

Alumni Records can be viewed HERE

Excited to see some fast swims and have our current swimmers meet some of our wonderful alums. To those that are unable to make it, we'll miss you and see you next year! Keep checking here through tomorrow to see the results!

Set of the Week

3x                                           Round 1                                                Round 2                                Round 3

8 x 25                                    AO k @ :25                                       o-drill @ :30                   choice @ :25

                                                                                                                e-swim

300                                        pull @ 4:30                                   kick @ 5:30                     pull @ 4:30        

                                             Focus on head position                                                            b/e 3/5/3 by 100

2 x 100                               1-fast @ 1:45                                      drill @ 1:45                       kick @ 2:00

                                                2-make it                                             strong kick

6 x 50                                    @ :40                                                    stroke @ :45                      @ :40

We went through the grid 3 times through with rest built in. I am excited with how far our team has come in just 4 short weeks.

Crimson and White Intersquad meet is this Saturday, should be great to see the improvement from our time trials 2 weeks ago!

Friday Run

80 degrees in September means a great Friday run!

Bulletin Boards Ready for 2013-2014 Season

As anyone that spends time around our pool knows, its fun to look at the updated bulletin boards from year to year. This year's versions are all done and ready for another swim season. Our team broke off into four groups to do this year's version and they turned out great!

To get an insight on this team tradition, check out the link HERE.

Back to Work in the AM

Swim Lessons!

A GREAT Haven Swimming tradition! Our swim lessons are giving our women a chance to work with local kids from the community and they have a fun time while doing it!

In the early part of the season, we take 8 evenings to have swim lessons. Its hard to believe that we have already been through a week of lessons.

The program will run through October 3rd. If you've missed out don't worry, we will have another session in the early spring!

Wednesday Afternoon Work

Practices have begun and the women are working hard! We have been lifting 3 times a week this season instead of just 2, and I think we will see dividends right away from this extra work! 

 

The set below is the one we did at yesterday afternoon’s practice. The set is continuous, rest is built in. What was so great about it was that after a hard day of lifting at 6am and a full practice, the women really got up to race as a team. We have time trials on Saturday morning and I am looking forward to seeing where their times will be at heading into the season!

40 x 100

1-4                   descend 1-4 @ 1:30

5                       drill @ 1:50

6                       kick @ 2:00

7-10                d 1-4 stroke @ 1:40

11                    @ 2:00

12-15               make it @ 1:20

16-17               @ 2:00

18-20               IM @ 1:40

21-25               breakout/finish @ 1:30

26-30               kick @ 1:50

31                     @ 2:30—put on paddles and fins

32-36               @ 1:20 make it

37-39               @ 2:00-Remove paddles and fins

40                     ALL OUT from block

Website Update!

Today LHU's Official Athletics Website received a face lift just in time for the 2013-2014 season!

As you can see, not only does it look GREAT, but it also provides plenty of new features, including video and live stats!

The url remains the same www.GOLHU.com , so please check it out regularly and often!

Old Site


















New Site
(Click to check it out!)

Coaches Community Circle Breakfast Fall 2013

Thank you to our guests and all guests of Haven Athletics. It was a great morning spent among friends. Thank you to senior Ciara Conklin for coming out and representing our team at the event!

Great First Morning Session Too!

First Practice is in the Books!

Final ThrowBack of the Summer!

The final ThrowBack of the summer is a look back at one of the greatest moments for not only Haven Swimming as a program, but also as a University. We are talking about when the Haven hosted the Division II NCAA Meet in Canton Ohio in March of 2010.

The entire month can be viewed HERE. I strongly encourage everyone to check it out!

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Not only was this a shining moment, but it would have not been possible without a whole crew of volunteers from the Sport Administration program on campus. They provided nearly 100 workers to make the week long event possible.

That led to a crazy awesome environment every single time our women raced. There were always dozens of people on the pool deck and around that wanted to see The Haven do well, and the team of Amanda Terray, Britt Rehrig, Jenna Brooks, and Sam Durham didn’t disappoint. Walking away with hardware galore, the women topped it off with LHU’s highest finish as a team in the history of the program at the NCAA meet at 16^th, and finished with a 3^rd place finish in the 200 Medley Relay 1:43.83.

A great week in the history of our program is a great way to cap off the ThrowBacks of the summer! But….there will be a bonus one posted later! Stay tuned and GO HAVEN!

Team Tie Dye and Pasta Night!

Credit to Senior Ciara Conklin for the pictures! Looks like a lot of fun and the Seniors did a great job of organizing it. Very proud of TEAM HAVEN!

Haven Swimming at the Student Athlete Welcome Back BBQ!

Bag Tags Are Here

And they look AWESOME!

And We're Off....

Sunday was our traditional "everything you need to know about swimming at the Haven" meeting, just clocking in at just over an hour and forty minutes. To say I'm a bit of a talker is an understatement, but we also had a huge amount of stuff to cover, as well as introductions for our team.

By the way, we have a roster of 22, and we asked them for something interesting about themselves that is not swimming related. We got some really cool answers. Over the summer our team has been well traveled, with several taking trips overseas and even a skydiver. Going to be a great season with not only some great swimmers but great people.

We've had our individual meetings today and the rest of this week to chat about goals for the season and Jimmy and I are as excited as can be to get it going! Haven Nation!

ThrowBack Thursday: Halloween Practice

With swim season upon us, its time to take a look at yet another Haven Swimming favorite: The annual Halloween Practice. This practice always seems to come at the exact correct time of the year, when the team is exhausted from Phase 2 workouts (some of the hardest of the season.)

The Halloween Practice is also famous for a few things; apple bob, eating candy while your friends have to swim butterfly, and of course belly flops.

This practice is a favorite of former Head Coach Andy Waeger, who before passing it along to me brought it with him from his former coaching digs at Slippery Rock University.


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November 1st 2011



Record breaking again this year.  Each year seems like I 'invest' more and more in what might be one of the more fun 'workouts' of the season.  This year a shade under 100 bones was spent on the treats...(don't worry parents, there were some apples in there too).  Recently we started having our special practice the day after halloween b/c the candy get's marked down to 50% off at wal mart the day after thanksgiving...and when pinching pennies, this is the best deal around! (so yeah, the 100 bucks was at the 50% rate)

 

The concept is simple.  Draw a slip of paper from the bowl, where there could be anything ... the team favorite is 'candy' ... this is where the team his the 'pumpkin'(aka gatorade jug) for their candy.  There are also such mini sets, such as a 200 im or a few 25's AO from a dive.  Some of the more recent favorites include "pick 4 people to do a 100 fly with you, everyone else Candy!" ... or "pick 5 people to do a 100 fly, not including yourself and you can't pick yourself, to do a 100 fly, everyone else Candy!"  .... I picked up on that one by watching Survior.  There is also the Square butterfly ... (fyi: no lane lines for halloween practice) where the team swims length / width / length / width of the pool butterfly ... 

 

Then there is the Apple Bob ... of course we don't put in the same number of apples as women on the team.  We put a few less in ... if you make it back to the shallow end wall with an apple you can enjoy your apple while those who didn't make it back with an apple enjoy some butterfly swimming.

Then the all time favorite ... belly flop contest.  Most of the team usually "opt out" but there are few brave souls.

This is a great reward practice for all the hard work the women have been putting into the season so far...we are back at it tomorrow before 6am!  No time to rest!  Go Haven.

 # 1 swim fan

Improvements All Summer!

It has been a summer of construction and renovation here in the Haven. The beginning of the semester will be the debut of the brand new Lock Haven University Science Center, pictured above with the original proposed sketch of the building from April of 2010.

The gym floor in Thomas Field House is nearing completion as well as pictured below. This week GOLHU.com will have a full report of the floor project, with before and after photos to really show the improvement that has been made.