Friday, January 21, 2011

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

32 min workout

With our 2 hour weather delay today we had a shortened practice ... our taper group and work group did the same intervals but different workouts.


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This Weekend at Kutztown

This weekend at the Kutztown Meet we will be joining forces with the KU women’s team to help raise awareness/funds for Pancreatic Cancer Research.  A voluntary collection will be taken with 100% of the proceeds being donated to the American Cancer Society in the name Amanda Terray’s Father & Zoe Sianis’s (a KU swimmer) Mother.

We will also be wearing a special cap for the occasion!

If you are planning to attend the meet please wear one of our 2 special shirts (purple one from last year & the black and purple one from this year) … if you don’t have one let me know, we have a few shirts (limited sizes) left over from this year’s sale … or just wear something purple!

awaeger@lhup.edu

Monday, January 17, 2011

Swim Till You Die

We did this famous set last night!  Basically the team does a 100 @ 2:00, subtracting a second off of the interval after each one.  (100 @ 2:00, @ 1:59, 1:58, 1:57 etc) swimming until you "die" (i.e. miss the interval).

Here are the intervals for my coaching homeslices (and myself for the next time):

2:00 (00)
1:59 (59)
1:58 (57)
1:57 (54)
1:56 (50)
1:55 (45)
1:54 (40)
1:53 (33)
1:52 (25)
1:51 (16)
1:50 (06)
1:49 (55)
1:48 (43)
1:47 (30)
1:46 (16)
1:45 (01)
1:44 (45)
1:43 (28)
1:42 (10)
1:40 (51)
1:39 (31)
1:38 (10)
1:37 (25)
1:36 (01)
1:35 (36)
1:34 (10)
1:33 (43)
1:32 (15)
1:31 (46)
1:30 (16)
1:29 (45)
1:28 (13)
1:27 (40)
1:26 (06)
1:25 (31)
1:24 (55)
1:23 (18)
1:22 (40)
1:21 (01)
1:20 (21)
1:19 (40)
1:18 (58)
1:17 (15)
1:16 (31)
1:15 (46)
1:14 (00)
1:13 (13)
1:12 (25)
1:11 (36)
1:10 (46)
1:09 (55)
1:08 (03)
1:07 (10)
1:06 (16)
1:05 (21)
1:04 (25)
1:03 (28)
1:02 (30)
1:01 (31)
1:00 (31)
:59 (30)

SR Meet Recap

Took a few days to get the full results online...but click HERE to view full results.

With the Juniata college Roster a little light with numbers we were able to fill in some empty lanes and give 3 swims to everyone!  Special congrats to Britt Rehrig for breaking the 400 IM pool record and to the 800 free relay (campbell, durham, terray, rehrig) for establishing a new pool record.

Great day for our 3 seniors swimming in their last LHU home meet!  Very proud of them!

6,400 Mountain Set

Great way to finish up Phase 4.
(we did change the kick to 4:00)

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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Seniors

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SR Meet

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Friday, January 14, 2011

Back to the Haven

This afternoon the women will be back on campus this afternoon for the 4 day post florida training camp.  1 practice this afternoon, SR meet tomorrow, 2 practices Sunday and Monday.  First day of classes / off day Tuesday. 

Looking forward to getting back to work!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Sam Kaleck Killing Time at the Airport

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waiting to fly home!

We are scattered across the airport waiting to board our flights back to the cold!

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

5 brave souls

Every Tuesday night @ the Ron Jon Resort there is a wild life expo.

Crazy!

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New Last Training Trip Practice Tradition

Senior stopwatch game.

Brittany Williams earned 6 x 50's AO kick.

Amanda Terray earned 6 x 50's AO free swim.

Ashley Gardner by some miracle earned ZERO x 50's AO fly.

Great Trip!

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Cocoa Beach Award Winner 2011

As voted by her teammates for having the best work ethic while supporting her team along the way!

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Monday, January 10, 2011

Stoner the tourist

"Everyone say burrrrrrrito"

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(permission was received to post this picture)

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Da Kine is Delish

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Peacock Crossin' @ the Circle K

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Taking Over Cold Stone

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Team Photo

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Frisbee Again

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Ultimate Frisbee

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Lucky Suit Practice 2011

3 x (11 min easy kick / 16 min easy swim)


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Sunday, January 9, 2011

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36 x 100 !

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Sunset @ Practice

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Saturday

After a tough Saturday morning workout the team was surprised with an afternoon off ... Safe to say the women were happy about some quality time @ the resort.
There were slide races ... with Adam being the overall champ with a 12.31. Kasey had a respectable 13.38.
Below are the best times for the rest of the participants.
Gardner - 13.90
Wilbur - 14.54
Williams - 15.89
Terray - 14.00
Kinard - 14.97
Faulstick - 19.08
Berri - 22.62
Daversa - 16.65
Conklin - 18.24

For dinner I treated Stoner and Wilbur to a Da Kine (delish) burrito while the team had their annual team only dinner/secret santa exchange.

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After a well earned afternoon off ... we are back to work

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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Friday, January 7, 2011

"Florida's Best Mexican Food" ... hardly

To and from the resort we pass a little restaurant that proudly displays a sign saying they have "Florida's Best Mexican Food" well as I consider myself an "expert" in fine mexican cuisine and if that is the best Florida has to offer then I must say I'm disappointed.

(The white dew slurpee for dessert kinda made up for it)


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Leg Workout

We did a lot of leg work this morning...main set (all FAST)

12 x 150 @ 3:15
ODD- 100 kick / 50 free sw
EVEN- 50 choice sw / 100 choice kick


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DRYLAND

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Sun is Shining!

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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Relay Meet

We had a lot of fun swimming with Mt Union tonight. The order of events consisted of a 400 medley relay (8 x 50), 300 fly relay (6 x 50), 300 back relay (6 x 50), 300 breast (6 x 50) 600 indiv I'm, and the monster relay (everyone swims a 50 free) ... With the monster relay coming down to the final stroke.

Event concluded with a group cheer!

We proceeded to the mall for some cold stone ("LOVE IT"). Chik-filet also enjoyed a surge of business.

Tonights a big night for TV.

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SR photo

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New Cheer

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Meet/Scrimmage

With Mount Union

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LUNCH!!

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Back in the Blog Business

Looks like the alternate email account to post did the trick.

Here is a recap of what we did last night at practice.

A great ab/core dryland followed by a main set of 50 X 50. All choice with the following ones being all out.

10
18,20
26,28,30
34,36,38,40
42,44,46,48,50

For dinner we made several runs "out" taco bell seemed to be the popular choice, along with subway and some major Nug action at McDonalds.

Woke up to some rain puttin a damper on our planned morning dryland but we are still planning on swimming this morning ... With a bit of a suprise for them this afternoon!


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Test Post

Turns out none of my last few post sent from my phone have made it to the blog. A bit of a bummer, so I am trying this post with a different email account to see if it will work.


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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

DryLand

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Day 2

We had a really great workout this morning, a good mix of longer yards with some fast swims broken up with a decent kick set.  Finished practice with a few sprint 50's fly from the block ... for no other reason than to finish up the workout strong (not as a punishment contrary to popular belief)

The sun is bright and shiny today with a few clouds in the sky, looks like we may get a little rain tonight into tomorrow, so the team is soaking it all in ... my guess is we will start making a few field trips tomorrow.

Looking forward to another great workout this afternoon!!

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

End of Day 1

I am pretty happy with how the first day of practice went ... we lucked out by having all 8 lanes to train in (this isn't the case for the rest of the week) so we enjoyed 3 or 4 to a lane, and a few special lanes of 1 or 2.

Did some long swimming for some (9 x 400im's) and some sprints with others (10 x 50's / 5 x 100's / 3 x 200 twice).  Really looking forward to some more great swimming tomorrow!!  I will do a better job of posting some pictures!

Kick Set in the SUN

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Monday, January 3, 2011

Travel Day

Today is travel day to florida for our training trip! I, along with shannon, sara and brittany w, have arrived and are waiting for the rest of the team before picking up our vans and heading to the resort.

One flight delay so far...hopefully we don't have too many more.


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Friday, December 17, 2010

National Ranking

Our Lady Eagle Swimmers are ranked 24th in the latest edition of the College Swimming Coaches Association of America's coaches poll!

Click HERE to read the LHU release.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Updated Stats & Records

2011 LHU PSAC Team ~ HERE
Individual Top Times Report ~ HERE
Relay Split Top Times Report ~ HERE
Relay Top Times Report ~ HERE

Team Records ~ HERE
Pool Records ~ HERE
All Time Top 5 ~ HERE

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

it is finals week

pretty quiet week here at the haven ... during finals week we have 2 practice options a day (a morning and afternoon) and ask the team to make it to 1 of them if there schedule allows for it. 

We finish up the week on Friday after everyone is done finals with a pretty detailed team meeting followed by a dryland session and water workout...then 15 days at home before we head to Cocoa Beach Florida.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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a nice 5000 yard set

A nice 5000 yard set!
300 negative split
3 x 100 where the 3rd 25 is a stroke fast
300 building up each 100
4 x 75 fast swimming
300 build down the entire 300 starting strong
5 x 50 finishing hard with a flip
300 fast swim
6 x 25 TO drill (12 1/2 slk fast / 12 1/2 sprint)
300 kick or slk

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Top 25 PSAC & Top 50 NCAAII

Top 25 in the PSAC & Top 50 NCAAII Ranking
50 Free
Britt Rehrig - 13th (t-49th)
Sam Durham - 15th

100 Free
Britt Rehrig - 19th
Sam Durham - 20th

1000 Free
Kasey Campbell - 12th

1650 Free
Kasey Campbell - 19th

100 Backstroke
Amanda Terray - 7th (21st)

200 Backstroke
Amanda Terray - 13th (48th)

100 Breaststroke
Britt Rehrig - 3rd (7th)

200 Breaststroke
Britt Rehrig - 7th (27th)

100 Fly
Britt Rehrig - 10th (36th)
Jenna Brooks - 11th (43rd)

200 IM
Britt Rehrig - 9th (35th)

200 Free Relay - 7th (19th)
400 Free Relay - 8th (23rd)
800 Free Relay - 10th (34th)
200 Medley Relay - 4th (12th)
400 Medley Relay - 5th (15th)

Saturday, December 4, 2010

on the road again...

Headed back home after a long 2 days of swimming! We enjoyed some great performances including a PSAC qualifying time in the 200 fly for Shannon Milstead.

Check out HavenSports.com for the complete write up.

Go Haven!


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Resting

After a great late lunch @ Rachel's roadhouse we are back @ the pool. We have a little down time before tonights last session.

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Friday, December 3, 2010

session 1

Click HERE for the live timing link ... from there select the event you'd like to see results for.

Pretty decent night of swimming for us...very happy with the efforts from top the bottom.  This is a very fast pool and I am hoping to have some more repeat performances, if not even better, tomorrow.  I will have to update y'all via the cell phone, but please click on the above link to see the actual results.

Special note was our 2nd place 200 free relay, with Sam Durham leading off in an all time top 5 performance, just missing a NCAA 'b' cut by .02.  Kasey Campbell and Kristin Taylor placed 4th / 5th in the 500 with some really great swims.  The 200 IM saw some new faces giving it a shot....with Terray, Durham placing 8th and 9th both coming close to the PSAC cut time.  Rehrig placing 2nd in the 50 free with a NCAA'b' cut time of 24.46.

The 400 medley relay placed first breaking their very own invitational record (from last year) with a 3:57.58.

On a side note it is apparently extremely hilarious when an individual (myself) is trying to eat a fruit smiley fruit snack by tossing the horrible yellow flavor into the mouth, missing the mouth, hitting a lip with it falling onto the ground ... ask Nicole Faulstick, she will tell you all about the hilariousness.

Clean Up Crew!

Thanks to Kim, Mrs Conklin and Mrs Campbell (and everyone else) for setting up and coordinating our dinner!

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Applebees for lunch where they proudly serve pepsi products.

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On the road ... Light flurries

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Technical difficulties

The ELF dvd turned out to be quite scratched, so we have gone to plan B "cloudy with a chance of meatballs" ... I think I'll take a nap now.


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"Buddy the ELF, what's your favorite color?"

En Route to Grove City...Any guesses on what movie #1 is?

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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Grove City Meet

Click HERE to find the link to LIVE RESULTS of the Grove City College Winter Invitational.  clicking on each event now and you can find the "psych" sheet version of each event. 

Stay tuned updates!!

GO HAVEN!!

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!!

Stoner

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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