Throw Back Thursday! Summer Style!

Our Throw Back Thursday for the day is from a year ago to the week! Last year Allie Muha (Now a Junior) participated in a major open water swim in the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim Out of 441 swimmers who competed the swim, Allie placed 37th overall and 8th in her age group.

Orignal Blog Post Date: June 25th 2012 

The original blog post can be viewed below!

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Hope our loyal readers are enjoying their summer so far ... I am back in the office full time and playing a little catch up after some time on the road.  During that time rising sophomore Allie Muha competed in the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim - 1 mile Bay Challenge.

Out of 441 swimmers who competed the swim, Allie placed 37th overall and 8th in her age group.

click HERE to view the full results.

(pictures borrowed from Allie's Facebook page)

Throw Back Thursday!

This week's Throw Back Thursday entry doesn't really need to be thrown back that far, as it is from this season. We had a very successful training trip to California, and this 3 hour practice gave not only some challenging stations, but also a chance to do something "out of the box" in the middle of the season. The trip was a bit colder than we would have liked, but the women really stepped it up on the training and made the most out of a wonderful trip west!

First Posted on Blog: January 13th 2013
Original Blog Link: http://www.havenswimming.com/2013/01/blog-post_13.html

Another GREAT day for Haven Swimming here in California!

We started things off with our one and only practice of the day, but it was a 3 hour one where we incorporated rotating stations! Here’s the breakdown…

7 Stations, 2 times through…

1-8 minute swim oyo

2- 12 x 50 @ :40, OR 4 x 50 @ 1:30 using the parachute

3-8 x 50 AO kick @ 1:00

4-2 x 250 @ 3:45

5-4 x 125 @ 1:50- 50 build, 75 FAST

6- 8 x 25 @ 1:00 Underwater, working on turns

7- Hot tub

That’s right, the hot tub made an appearance in our set! It was well earned this week, and it was nice to see a station be REALLY looked forward to!

 

Afterwards, we headed to Freebirds (a personal favorite) where our very own Adam Stoner put away the legendary Super Monster with ease. This burrito is MASSIVE, and Adam really put me to shame (I just had the ‘normal’ size, I’m getting too old for that stuff!).

Immediately following our trip for burritos, we headed to explore Huntington Beach and all it has to offer. Jimmy, Adam, and I found a spot to watch the Patriots vs Texas game while the team shopped. After, we went to the beach around 4:15pm for a 5:00pm sunset. After what seemed like a thousand pictures, we had a fire and some s’mores and called it a night!

Tomorrow is our last full day here. We’re ready to go after it with full force! Stay tuned, and as always, keep following us on Facebook and Twitter!

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Throw Back Thursday!

The summer months are a little quiet around The Haven. We have summer classes going on, a lot of activity on the river, and of course a Haven favorite the Ice Shack.

By all accounts, our women are hard at work with their summer workouts, and what better motivation than the past. We have an amazing set of archives on this team blog, and for the remainder of the summer we will have “Throw Back Thursday” every week. It will range from major accomplishments in the pool to some out of pool fun times. There are many moments documented here from both categories, and we’re going to get going with our first one.

Swim Season-2008-2009

First Team Activity

Originally posted on the blog September 6^th 2008

http://www.havenswimming.com/2008/09/team.html

2013 College Graduates would be Seniors in high school

This Year’s Incoming Freshmen Class would be 13 years old

We recently had our first team building activity. As previously mentioned our team is full of super new faces and we (as a team & coaches) are putting an emphasis on some early team building so the women will get to know each other before the “fun” begins. (fun being practice).
The afternoon started with some free time then we proceeded to have a “cook out” complete with Kentucky Fried Chicken. After the meal we did some name game type of activities. Which included the women writing some an interesting fact about themselves on an index card, which was then collected and read allowed and the team had to guess who’s fact it was. Some of the highlights include a standing back flip, freakishly double jointed shoulders, a whitewater rafting trip and almost being arrested.
The evening concluded with an old fashion egg toss…good stuff.

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Please, let us know on our Facebook or Twitter if you have any personal favorite “Blog” moments!

Class of 2013 Graduation

 

It was a GREAT day on Saturday for graduation! We were thankful that the weather held off for a wonderful outside graduation ceremony. Our four graduating seniors said Goodbye (for now) to the Haven in style. After the ceremony, the four seniors and their families came together at the pool for one final set of pictures in a place that they have spent a lot of their college careers at!

We’d like to give a shoutout to our seniors one last time, and welcome them for the first time as Haven Swimming Alumni! Thanks again Ladies and Stoner. Your impact on the program goes way beyond the four years that you spend here, and we are lucky to have you all as a part of our history!

So take a look one more time at the profile of our Haven Graduates. Thanks again ladies!

Brittany Maguire

Official School Profile/Senior Day Profile

Shannon Milstead

Official School Profile/Senior Day Profile

Brittany Rehrig

Official School Profile/Senior Day Profile

Adam Stoner

Official School Profile/Senior Day Profile

Graduation Swim Caps

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Annual Haven Athletics Picnic

Finals are just finishing up, and I would like to recap the annual Haven Athletic Department picnic that took place last week.

Senior Britt Rehrig was presented with two major awards on the night. 

With a GPA of 3.992, she was awarded the Senior Female Scholar Athlete amongst all sports. That is an amazing honor, and she is pictured with the other Scholar Athletes. Haven Athletics is not just about what goes on in the pool/field/track/court, its in the classroom too.

The second award was the Haven Athletics Coaches Award (as voted on by all coaches). This is not an easy award to win, and it was great to see Britt take it! She has made her mark on our program and school. We are incredibly proud to see any athlete get hardware at a banquet, and the fact that it is for performance AND academics. 

Great job to ALL Haven Athletes, and Congratulations again Britt! GO HAVEN

Haven Athletes Serving the Community--Shadow Program

On Saturday, April 27th several 5th graders from local schools had the opportunity to hang out with Haven Athletes as part of the newly started Shadow program.

Athletes were from all sports on campus (except the ones competing that day) and they were able to see all facilities used by Haven teams, find out what a normal day in the life of an athlete is, and of course, find out what everyone's favorite pizza is.

Our representatives for Haven Swimming were Amanda Thomas (she's blog popular this week) and Laura Stephens. They did a great job representing Haven Swimming and as you can see above, they all got to hang out with Talon the Haven mascot. Pretty productive Saturday morning!

Celebration of Scholarship 2013

Wednesday was the 7th Annual Lock Haven University Celebration of Scholarship!

Here we have two athletes that are on the opposite end of their academic studies. Amanda Thomas (above) is a Freshmen taking part in the celebration for the first time, while Senior Britt Maguire (below) is showing off her capstone project and will graduate next month.
















The full itinerary and information for the day can be viewed HERE.

Britt Rehrig Selected for PSAC Winter Top Ten Award for Second Time

Britt Rehrig has been selected for the second time for the PSAC Winter Top Ten Award.

Description of the award from the GoLHU website:

The Top Ten Awards, selected by the PSAC's sports information directors, recognize student-athletes who distinguish themselves in the classroom, as well as in the arena of competition. The conference designates Top Ten Award winners after each of the sports seasons: fall, winter and spring.

To be a candidate for the Top Ten Awards, a student-athlete must have achieved a minimum of a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (as of Fall 2009 awards) and must be a starter or key reserve with legitimate athletic credentials.

The full write up can be viewed HERE.
Check out all 10 of the PSAC Winter Top 10 Winners HERE.

New Shirt for Haven Athletes

The message on the back is as fitting as it gets for swimmers. ITS WORTH THE EFFORT!

Spring Training is Underway!

Great first workout for the women just getting back into it after a few week layoff. We re-started the semi famous "bottom arm" rule where if you pull with your top arm on a breakout you've earned the team 2 pushups....pretty effective if I do say so myself!

Main Set:
200 @ :40 rest (50 drill/100 swim/50 drill)
5 x 50 @ :40
200 @ :30 rest
5 x 50 @ :50 (drill/swim)
200 @ :20 rest
5 x 50 @ 1:00 (worst stroke)
200 @ :10 rest
5 x 50 @ :45 (odd-free, even-stroke)

Updated Stats and Records

Top Times list can be viewed HERE
2012-2013 Season Splits can be viewed HERE
Relay Top Times can be viewed HERE

Updated Team Records can be viewed HERE
Updated All Time Top 5 can be viewed HERE
Pool Records click HERE

Official Splits from NCAAs

100 Free (41st Place)
r:+0.71
12.00
25.28 (13.28) 39.04 (13.76)
52.61 (13.57)

100 Breast Finals (8th Place)-- 11 Points
r:+0.73
13.75
29.94 (16.19) 46.81 (16.87)
1:04.16 (17.35)

100 Breast Prelims
13.66
29.86 (16.20) 46.49 (16.63)
1:04.07 (17.58)

50 Free (Tie for 41st)
r:+0.75
11.64
24.07 (12.43)

Closing Ceremonies

The Swimmers from LHU and IUP are showing off their favorite conference

Britt Rehrig

Britt Rehrig

7 Time NCAA All American
3 Time NCAA Academic All American
4 Time NCAA Qualifier
9 Team Records
7 All Time Top 5 Individual Swims
4 Zimmerli Pool Records

Landed Safely in Harrisburg- 1 Hour, 27 Minutes

Landed in Atlanta- Flight Time: 27 Minutes, 17 Seconds

It's All In The Finish!

Great final swim of Britt's career with a 41st place finish (she was seeded 41st) and a 52.61, second all time only to her PSAC relay lead off of 52.48 three weeks ago.

LHU finished the weekend tied for 30th place (with Shippensburg). We finished 4th amongst PSAC schools at the meet.



Cant go to the south without a trip to eat some BBQ, and Full Moon BBQ was some of the best I've ever had. Britt's parents agreed, and Britt had her first swimming retirement meal that featured a Dr. Pepper and a piece of pie.

We made our way over to the senior celebration (pictures below) and over to watch the finals of Track and Field (in between swimming finals). Brittany Whitmer had some great jumps and finished well above her seed, and Alex Monroe had a school record performance in his 3k, taking 6th overall and finishing All American. Great to see and we were proud to be there! GO HAVEN

Closing Ceremonies were just like everything else at the meet: first class. Division II Festival is an idea that once every 4 years the national meet is bigger and better than ever, and I can truly say that the NCAA did a great job on planning out the details. Britt couldnt have had a better national meet to finish out on, and it was great to see her enjoy herself out of the water and do a great job in it too!

Britt finishes as an athlete that has many accolades in and out of the water for our program, as seen HERE. She's got a lot to be proud of with her time here at LHU, and LHU is certainly proud of her too. Great finish to a great national meet!

Alum Shannon Samanka's Shout Out Posted on NCAA Boards!

Swim Camp Represent! Hook Em!

100 Free 52.61- 41st Place

Britt Rehrig- 100 Breast All American

Great day yesterday!

Prelims: Britt took the swim out in a 29.86 and brought it home in 34.21 for a 1:04.07. The goal for Britt was simple: Get into the top 8 to get on the podium at night. The competition was tight, and she ended up finishing prelims with a season best (and just off her lifetime best). When Britt was a freshmen, the 8th time going into the night swim was a 1:05.06, this year to get into the top 16 you needed a 1:04.47. This meet has gotten FAST, so sliding into the top 8 is an even more impressive accomplishment!

Lunch was another trip to Subway, and another Chicken Bacon Ranch for me!

Finals: Britt went out in a 29.94 and came back in 34.22 for a 1:04.16, adding a tiny bit of time, but still a fast swim and an NCAA Division II All American performance!

At the end of the night we are tied with Ship for 28th. Not too bad!
Dinner was a trip to Chilis, (Ribs, as per Bill's suggestion!) and just like all week we've been lucky enough to beat the crowd. Shortly after we got our table there were no less than 40 people waiting.


Some photos:

Proud parents- Bill and Suzanne

1:04.16- 8th and All American!

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1:04.07 Seeded 8th Going Into Tonight!

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Look for Britt in today's Breaststroke
Heat 2, Lane 6!

Trip to Outback and Track Meet

Delish trip to Outback Steakhouse tonight with one notable happening:

They gave Britt two baked potatoes...



Some bonus pictures of Mark Manno throwing. Continued good luck to Haven Track as they go after it tomorrow and Saturday! I'm glad our teams are here to support one another!

Thursday--Off Day

We are off today, so that gave us a chance to explore Birmingham! Britt started the day with a swim at the Crossplex after the morning prelims were complete. She had a lane all to herself and could really focus on turns and finishes and get ready for tomorrow morning's swim!

After a yummy lunch at the Subway that is directly connected to our hotel we made our way over to the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame and Museum that was directly across the street from where we are staying. Britt, Suzanne, Bill and myself had the pleasure to have a tour of the Museum from the Facility Director Bill Miller,  a Pennsylvania native and former LHU Athletics employee! (Its a small world). We really had a great time and I can honestly say that just like everything has been in Birmingham, the museum was first class. We took a picture with Bill in front of the exhibit of Rowdy Gaines, former Auburn swimmer and Olympian.

It was a great afternoon, and we'd like to thank Bill again for taking his time to take us through the facility!

Tonight we are on our way back to the Crossplex to see Mark Manno throw and support Haven Nation! Then dinner and a relaxing night getting ready for Britt's swim tomorrow! Lets Go HAVEN!

Harlon Hill Trophy--The DII equivalent to the Heisman!

Bo Jackson!