Senior Profile: Shannon Milstead

Shannon Milstead

Name (and nickname)- Shannon Milstead.. everyone calls me 'Milstead'

Hometown- Enola, PA

Major- Early Childhood Education

Favorite Event- 200 Fly and 200 Free (wish I started swimming 200 free earlier in my career)

Favorite Practice- ALL DRYLAND PRACTICES! (I still have the land sport girl in me)

Best Team Memory- all of the training trips to Florida & California (even though we started out in cold weather and ended in it)

Where do you see yourself in 10 years- teaching and coaching, being happily married to my best friend Brandon (Nova as the girls call him) with our most lovable companion Pabst, and having our family grow.

Advice to the team- Remember to keep an open mind and heart. This sport is one of the longest, most exhausting, exciting, physical and emotional ride you will take while you are at Lock Haven University. While you are here, you will become not only best friends with those other girls that are standing next to you, but you will become a family. They will be the ones that you rely on and turn too when you feel like you don't have anyone else. You will see those girls more times in one day that you might like sometimes but in the end going through everything that you have you will feel so lucky to have them by your side. 

I just want to say that I couldn't have made it through these past four years without you girls by my side. Especially the two that are standing up here with me (& Stoner). You all have made my college experience one of the best ones I could ask for. You have all become the sisters that I never had. I want to thank you for everything that you've done for me and never give up on your dreams.

So, never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.. or getting in the pool!

Senior Profile: Brittany Maguire

Brittany Maguire

Name(and nickname)- Brittany Maguire ... bmaguire maguire 

Hometown- Drexel Hill Pa

Major- Dual Major in Accounting and Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and Economics

Favorite Event- 1000 Free

Favorite Practice- is any practice where the set I am doing has 25s or 50s.

Best Team Memory- Every team memory is a good one. The best one is when we all thought we were about to have a really hard practice over winter break but then we were told we were going to play pool baseball.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years- I see myself graduated from Lock Haven University hopefully employed with a job that I enjoy going to everyday and possibly married and starting a family, but most likely still be single.

Advice to the Team- Swimming for four years is tough when you are in college and it takes a lot of hard work and dedication. You build a bond with your teammates that you will not build anywhere else. I am so glad that I had the chance to meet you ladies and swim with you all over the years, I really wouldn't have been able to do it without you. Live up the years you have left because it goes by fast and you are going to remember these moments forever.

Taper Group Having Some Fun

PSAC Group on Power Tower

This week has already brought a lot of change with classes starting on Monday. For about 7 weeks our athletes have been able to focus solely on swimming during their semester break, now school is here and they've done a great job adjusting to the life of being a STUDENT athlete again.

With how long the swim season is, sometimes its easy to have weeks where other outside stresses take over a workout and have an athlete "go through the motions." Thats about as counter productive as can be in swimming, and its sometimes fun to do different things.

Today, our women completed their sets, and then finished off with work on breakouts using heavy resistance with the Power Tower. Today was the last lift of the season, so by the end of a full practice, it was easy to say that they were feeling not their best, but the point is that right now is about effort going into the end of the season. I was proud and excited in seeing the work done today and know it'll pay off later!

So here is how it worked:

We filled the buckets with DOUBLE their normal max (and sometimes more....Britt Rehrig was pulling 6 buckets)

and then they worked on explosive breakouts as fast as they could for....

Sprinters:

6 x @ :08 100% AO Break Out...1:00 total interval

Stroke:

3 x @ :08 100% AO Break Out...1:00 total interval

After each one we placed a cone along the wall and they tried to go further than the last time.

Here are videos taken during this set...

Kristin T.

Carley

Kaitlyn

Britt

Haven Invite is this Saturday at noon! Pretty excited to get it going! GO HAVEN

Senior Britt Maguire is Back In The Water!

Fighting an injury, Britt is determined to have a great meet this Saturday!

Haven Invite will be prelims/finals with senior acknowledgment in the middle. Meet gets started at noon! We'll also have a team tailgate in the gymnasium at the conclusion of the meet!

Event order:

500 Free

200 IM

50 Free

100 Back-- BREAK

100 Fly

200 Free

100 Breast

400 IM—BREAK

100 Free

200 Breast

200 Fly—BREAK

1000 Free--Timed Finals only

Sometimes, Warm Ups Just Need a Shark Fin to Make It Fun

Facebook Photo Albums Updated

The Facebook photo albums can be viewed here from this weekend.

If anyone was there and wants to send me any extra photos, please feel free, jnb5025@lhup.edu. 

Vulcan Dual Meet Challenge: Session 2 and 3

Session #2 was our dual meet vs Chatham,  with the same dual meet style as last night. We picked up the win 90-33

The first session of the day began at 10am. To recap:

The 200 Medley Relay of Kayla Schnars, Laura Stephens, Shannon Milstead, and Carley Nitchie got first place points with the time of 1:57.78.

Kristin Taylor took the 400 IM with a time of 5:02.12, registering a time and allowing her to swim it at PSACS.

Rehrig won the 100 back with a time of 1:02.06.

Freshmen Amanda Thomas and Junior Ciara Conklin went 1-2 in the 200 Breaststroke with times of 2:45.10 and 2:49.56 respectively. Very awesome to see as these two have been pushing each other along all year.

Britt Rehrig took 1^st in the 50 fly with a time of 26.75, just off of the meet record of 26.57 set by LHU great Jenna Brooks.

Abby Miller had a big swim in the 100 free with a 56.99.

Lunch was a quick trip to Subway. It was nothing too exciting or out of the ordinary, but hey, if it’s good enough for Michael Phelps its good enough for us!

After lunch we packed up and headed over to the new Cal conference center to check out the first half of the women’s basketball game against LHU. Something I really like about this school is that the athletes really support one another and want the other teams to do well. “Haven Nation” is two words that mean something to our athletic programs, and our women were proud to support the team on their huge game on the road.

When we returned we got a long warmup for the third and final session, a 84-51 loss to Cal

The events for the session were:

15.400 Medley Relay

16. 500 Free

17. 200 Back

18. 50 Breast

19. 100 Fly

20. 50 Free

21. 100 IM

22. 400 Free Relay

The 400 medley relay team of Schnars, Rehrig, Allie Muha, and Kristen Capretti took first with a time of 4:13.28.

Kristin Taylor dropped 6 seconds from her season best in the 500 with a time of 5:33.88. Emily Shultz in front of family from Washington PA (Only 20 mins away from Cal) swam a time of 6:07.99, dropping nearly 17 seconds from her lifetime best!

Kristin Taylor was outside smoke from lane 6 in the combined 100 fly, taking 1^st in the meet against Cal and overall with a time of 1:03.02.

Rehrig took the 100 IM with a time of 1:00.87, falling only to her meet record from last year.

Overall a pretty good weekend away from “The Haven”. This meet is always a good one, because though the women are at very different points in their seasons, there is still something to swim for. This is the start of the taper season for those who have not yet qualified for an individual event at the PSAC meet, (with the Haven Invite yet to go next week) and those that have can swim some events they don’t normally.

Our dinner was take out from Lagerheads, a delish burger for me and some good picks for the swimmers. We made a pit stop at Sheetz on the way home in Altoona, and are almost back to LHU. 

Its hard to believe that the next time we travel as a team, it will be to PSACs, its also hard to believe that the last dual meets of the season are over. Practice and classes begin again on Monday…A lot of big things happening at LHU. Lets finish this season out strong. GO HAVEN!

Session #1 Meet vs Mansfield

Great start to the Vulcan Dual Meet challenge with a 76-41 win over Mansfield. Because Chatham was not present (weather, they should be joining us tomorrow) Cal condensed the heat sheets and we had some Cal swimmers in open lanes. The results are for our first dual meet as scheduled with Mansfield. 

Our 200 yard free relay of Abby Miller, Kristin Taylor, Britt Rehrig, and Shannon Milstead picked up the win with a time of 1:44.87 with the team of Kaitlyn Druby, Kayla Schnars, Carley Nitchie, and Kristen Capretti right behind them with a 1:45.54.

Allie Muha had a pretty good 1000 with a time of 11:17.74. Kristin Taylor followed it up with a 200 IM of 2:22.94 both for 1^st place in the dual meet. Great swims for this point in the season for both of them.

Kayla Schnars had the best 50 backstroke with the time of 29.17. Its fun to go old school once in a while, and its fun to see college athletes swim shorter events every once in a while…it really mixes it up!

Druby picked up the win in the 100 breast with a time of 1:13.18, pretty good at this point in the season for her.

Rehrig took the 200 fly with a time of 2:18.79. This was her 2^nd time swimming the race, and it wasn’t a bad one, but she was pretty tired at the end.

Again, we’ll post all of the dual meet results AND after it was scored as an invite when the meet is over. Fun night with some short sessions. Tomorrow we have Chatham in the AM, and Cal in the PM

After the meet, the drive back to the hotel was far better than the drive to the meet. Our bus driver George has been nothing but business, making sure we arrive safely. We as a team appreciate his hard work and making a bit of a stressful situation look like a piece of cake, and we cant thank him enough.

Dinner tonight was Campys in California. Stoner and I enjoyed a delish meatball sub and I saw quite a few good choices in food (and one or two not so good choices). It’s always appreciated when establishments bake their own bread, so it worked out great.

After a good night stay in the Hampton Inn, we’re going to be back to work tomorrow morning.

Events for tomorrow morning:

8. 200 Medley Relay

9. 400 IM

10. 100 Back

11. 200 Breast

12. 50 Fly

13. 100 Free

14. 800 Free Relay

LETS GO HAVEN!

Vulcan Dual Meet Challenge Setup

The setup of this meet is one of the most unique around and our women. Each of the four teams swim in a dual meet with one another, each with different events. After the third and final dual meet, all of the best times are complied and scored as an invite. There are also some fun events thrown in like 50s of stroke and the ever popular 100 IM. All around we’re set for a good weekend!

We have a group that is tapered for this meet, and we’re hoping to see some fast swims after a great week of practice.

Our order of events and meet opponents are:

Friday 1/25

Mansfield 5:00pm

1. 200 Free Relay

2. 1000 Free

3. 200 IM

4. 50 Back

5. 100 Breast

6. 200 Fly

7. 200 Free

Saturday 1/26

Chatham 10:00am

8. 200 Medley Relay

9. 400 IM

10. 100 Back

11. 200 Breast

12. 50 Fly

13. 100 Free

14. 800 Free Relay

Cal 3:30pm

15.400 Medley Relay

16. 500 Free

17. 200 Back

18. 50 Breast

19. 100 Fly

20. 50 Free

21. 100 IM

22. 400 Free Relay

Stay tuned for updates tonight and tomorrow, and as always check out our Facebook and Twitter.

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