Meet vs Mansfield!

A great meet yesterday with our team taking the win over Mansfield 123-71. The house was pretty packed, which always makes it a fun environment for a meet!

200 Medley relay of Taylor Andress, Kaitlyn Druby, Kristin Taylor, and Carley Nitchie took 1^st with a time of 1:58.46.

Danielle Parowski took first in both the 1000 and the 500 freestyle. Her time of 11:10.63 was enough to land on the All Time Top 5 list in that event! She currently sits at 5^th!

Kristen Capretti continued her great start to her senior season by winning the 200 free, 100 free, and had a 25.5 split in her final relay. Jamie Mason dropped more than 5 seconds in the 200 free and Meghan Kuhn dropped 6 seconds. Great swims!

Carley Nitchie had a great 50 free winning with a time of 25.89.

Allie Muha, Kristin Taylor, and Liz Barney had a very exciting 200 IM, finishing 1-2-3! Allie took 1^st with a time of 2:23.31

After our 10 minute break, Kristin Taylor and Allie Muha were back in the water swimming the 100 fly. Along with Kaitlyn Druby the trio completed another 1-2-3 finish, this time with Taylor taking first (1:03.36), Druby 2^nd (1:04.69) and Muha 3^rd (1:06.37).

Liz Barney had a great showing in her first college 500 freestyle, finishing in 5:57.91. Emily Schultz dropped over 15 seconds from her time a month ago at the Crimson and White meet.

Kaitlyn Druby had a season best 100 breast with a time of 1:12.95. Amanda Thomas and Ciara Conklin also had their best times in the season in the event.

The final event featured Abby Miller, Capretti, Mason, and Parowski taking first in the 200 free relay with a winning time of 1:46.97. The B relay of Andress, Schultz, Kuhn, and Megan Dunn raced their hearts out and almost got 2^nd. Their final time was 1:56.56 and showed just how much of a complete day of racing that we had. 

Very proud of the 100% effort that our team gave throughout the meet and I’m hoping we carry that momentum going into the Chatham Invite next weekend in Pittsburgh!

During our first 10 minute break we had some local swimmers from the Lock Haven Loggerheads (Emily Schultz’s former team) and the Jersey Shore Bullfrogs (Jamie Mason’s former team) swim a 25 before intermission. The kids all had a blast and stuck around to watch the rest of the college meet. It was our pleasure to have them race here at The Haven! 

Thank you again to our Haven Swimming parents and family members for putting together our Team Tailgate. Its one of my favorite team traditions that continues to get better and better!

The official release from GOLHU.com can be viewed HERE.

Meet at ESU

Our women put up a great fight, but fell to ESU on Saturday. There were a lot of great early season swims from our team and this meet has given us a lot of positives to build on for the season.

We are back in action this Saturday back in the Haven against Mansfield. Meet starts at 1pm in Zimmerli!

Full results can be viewed HERE

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Homecoming Pep Rally at The Haven!

Athletes supporting athletes! Very proud to be part of this University.

We are excited to get our meet season started tomorrow at ESU. Should be a great one to kick it off. Keep following the Blog, Twitter, and Facebook all day tomorrow for updates!

Blog: www.havenswimming.com
Twitter: @HavenSwimming
Facebook: www.facebook.com/havenswimming

Recap all of LHU's Homecoming activity on our official Athletics homepage: www.GOLHU.com

Get Out Swim

We have 2 Haven Swimming birthdays this weekend so we had to do something special--Get Out Swim it is!

After about 30 minutes of abs and a long warm up, the first year Haven Swimmers got themselves ready for a race. We did time trials 1 month ago, and their goal was to beat a time they put up there. If 4 out of 7 of them matched or beat their time, the entire team would get to go home. They were 7-7, with some major time drops.

Very impressed after a long week of hard work. We've got a 3 hour dryland/swim practice booked for tomorrow morning to finish this week off the right way. Very proud of this team!

GO HAVEN!

It's Always Better to Drop Keys in the Pool Than a Cellphone!

Color Run--Penn State!

The day after the Crimson and White meet some of our current swimmers took part in The Color Run in State College PA at Penn State University. As you can see from the pictures, they had a great time and represented Haven Swimming well!

Crimson and White Meet

Another fun Crimson and White meet is in the books!

Team Rosters can be viewed HERE.

GOLHU.com Game Recap can be viewed HERE.

Full results can be viewed HERE.

UPDATED Crimson and White Records can be found HERE.

UPDATED Alumni Records can be viewed HERE.

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