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Welcome Back! Septemeber notes from Paton * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Welcome back next Tuesday! Remember, that first week all swimmers are invited to swim each day (Tue – Fri) from 4-5pm. We will also have our La Jolla Rough Water group at the Cove on Wednesday and Friday at 4pm. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Upcoming events, kudos and whatnot... The La Jolla Rough Water Swim is coming! September 12th. Entry forms are available online. The cost for entries depends on when you sign up. The later you sign up the more it costs. Here are the costs and dates for the Junior entries. (see other prices online when you click on the entry form) $40.00 July 29–August 10 Get everything in! Our Team code for USAS is WSST. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * We will take a break from the pool after the Junior Olympic Championships(August 19-22) and offer some open water swimming at the La Jolla Cove (see details below). Cove swims are still being finalized but we will need parents to help. By help, I mean swim with the kids! We will go over the courses for 12 and unders (250 yards) as well as 13 and olders (1 mile). Swim out the ¼ mile buoy, ½ mile buoy, and maybe even the Scripps Pier (1.5 miles one way)! Pool practices will resume Tuesday, September 7th. That first week will be for our younger swimmers and those not entered in the La Jolla Rough Water. That week at the pool, everyone will start at 4pm as we start off the short course season and reintroduce swimmers to the pool, coaches, and practices! Swimmers entered in the LJRWS will be in the ocean preparing for Sunday, September 12. Normal practice schedules will resume on Monday, September 13. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Wind N Sea Swim Team was also awarded our bid to host the 2010 ABC All Ages meet! Mark your calendars! We expect all families to help host this great meet! October 23 and 24. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Click here for COVE SWIMMING INFO. It goes over expectations for our upcoming ocean swims. This is for our swimmers that have entered this year’s La Jolla Rough Water Swim on September 12. If you’re not sure if your swimmer should participate, ask a coach. Generally, all Red, Blue, and Black group swimmers can attend. Again, check with your coach. Cove swims will start on the Wednesday (25) after Junior Olympic Championships. We will be taking a break from the pool from Monday, August 23 until Tuesday, September 7. We will start swimming at 4pm on all days except Monday, September 6. As that’s a holiday, we’ll push off sometime that morning. 9ish at this point and time. Pink WSST caps MUST be worn by all swimmers. Adults as well. This is a great identifier as we get out in the ocean and allows us to be safe. I will have caps at the pool over the next two weeks as well as at the Cove. As always, we will need confident adult swimmers to help us. Please volunteer for whichever days you are available.
Take a look at all meet final results on our Team Stats website.
Junior Olympic Championships, August 19–22 Great job in Coronado this weekend! Wind N Sea had the largest team ever! Just 5 years ago we took one swimmer. This weekend we had 22 swimmers competing! 11 swimmers in individual events and an additional 11 swimmers helping on 11 relays! We finished in 10th place (26 teams) with 394 points. Last summer we had 13 athletes and finished in 15th place with 196 points. It was a long three days (especially Saturday where I was on deck from 6:45am to 8:30pm), but it was great to watch our swimmers race! Now if they would just stop breathing so much!
Great way to finish the summer season! Now to start the Fall... Oceanside Pier swim (Sept 6), La Jolla Rough Water (Sept 12), Freestyle Fest (sept 26), Brain Waves fun meet (Oct 2).
By way of comparison:
Team records – 15 relay (11-12 200 free – K Collins, B Bugelli, S Eliopulos, A Bertics; 11-12 200 medley – A Bertics, B Bugelli, K Collins, S Eliopulos (B team also under previous record – Franke, Ortega, Conde-Porto, Waldburger); Open 200 free relay – 11-12 girls A relay from above; Open 200 medley relay – 11-12 from above; 9-10 200 free relay – Dietze, Lynn, Dowd, Ivanov; 13-14 400, 800 free and 400 medley relays – Wallace, Ortega, Waldburger, Guerard; 15-18 400, 800 free and 400 meldey relays – Ortega, Evans, Bookheimer, Cohn; Open 400 free relay – Cohn, Bookheimer, Evans, Ortega; Open 800 free relay – Wallace, Ortega, Waldburger, Guerard; Open 400 Medley relay – Evans, Bookheimer, Cohn, Ortega
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Summer Wrap-Up Meet Great job swimming this weekend! We had 15 swimmers compete in 52 events over the weekend. As always, the results can be found on our team stats website. 38 Best times! Hytek Power Point Champions Meet High Point
Check out Michael Cohn in the 2010 Summer You can follow Michael’s swims online! There’s even video footage of every heat every day! Michael swam the 800 free Wed around 6:45.Thursday, he swam in the A flight of the 200 back around 10:30am. Then he swam the 100 free in the B flight around 2:45pm. Friday – B flight 200 freestyle around 12:45pm. Saturday – B flight 400 freestyle around 4pm. Sunday – A flight 100 back around 10:00am. The top 24 from each event swim in finals which look like they will start at 5:30pm on Thursday and Friday. 6pm on Saturday and Sunday. There were around 1200 swimmers entered in the meet!
LA Grand Prix, July 8–11 ....click here for pictures!!
SBA AB Long Course Meet, National City, June 25–27 8 athletes competed in 43 events Hytek Power Point Champion
Congratulations to Michael Cohn! This weekend, he participated in the TYR’s Meet of Champions in Mission Viejo, CA. Michael competed in 4 events (100 free, 200 free, 400 free, and 100 back). While he didn’t record any best times, he’s on track for his best long course season yet. He has two more meets (SBA AB, LA Grand Prix) before traveling to Santa Clarita for Sectional Championships in late July. Michael is currently swimming 6 days a week for 4 hours with about an hour each day of dryland. Working hard and still swimming fast! The results for both meets can be found on our team stats website! Take a look! CNSA meet, June 6–7 11 swimmers competed in 65 events Hytek Power Point Champions
NCA AB Long Course Meet, May 28–30 9 swimmers competed in 48 events. 25 Best times! Power Point Champions
Speedo Grand Challenge, May 28–30 Michael Cohn competed in 6 events with 3 best times despite Michael’s coach making him workout a total of 6 hours on Thursday prior to the meet Hytek Power Points for Michael – 3628 in 6 events Last year at this meet, Michael had only qualified for 2 events and swam 3 (1 bonus). This year, Michael was eligible for all 6 events and not eligible for any bonus events. His next elite level meet will be the Mission Viejo Meet of Champions held in two weeks.
Wind N Sea C Meet, May 15-16 Great meet this weekend! Thanks for everyone’s help! We couldn’t support swimming in our community without the extra effort. Thanks again! Results can be found on our team stats website. Here’s the break down: Hytek Power Point Champions
Far Western Championships–the results are in!! Just getting going after last week’s Championship in Northern California. Congratulations to our 5 athletes! Abby Bertics, Bennett Bugelli, Michael Cohn, Reef Guerard, and Zachary Wallace! This is the largest group we’ve taken to the meet. The meet featured over 1400 swimmers from around the country. Our group did a great job of handling the crowds, weather, etc. Just imagine, 1400 swimmers, 24 lanes to warmup in. Swimming World TV was there filming finals each day! 6 of Michaels swims are there. I’ve included links to two of them. Notice the difference in the weather between the 1st swim of the meet and the last…. Some highlights… Our team of 5 swimmers finished in 42nd place with 27 points (only top 8 finishers score points). Michael Cohn finished 5th in the High Point competition with 27 points. Click here for videos of:
From left to right: Reef Guerard, Michael Cohn, Abby Bertics, Bennett Bugelli, Zachary Wallace (gray shirt)
Great job in Fallbrook! Look online for the official results, records, splits, etc. from our meet in Fallbrook this weekend! Great job to our 5 swimmers! Especially 6 year old Billy Otterson! 5 athletes, 23 events, 17 Best times! Hytek Power Point Champions
Great meet this weekend in Poway! Our first long course meet of the season! 9 of our athletes competed in 43 races. 37 of the swims were Best times!
JOs, Feb 19–21 Below is the blurb from the San Diego Imperial Swimming website about the meet this weekend. Overall results can be found on that site. Team results can be found on our Team Stats website. Here’s the break down from a very successful meet – 8 swimmers competed in 45 individual races, 25 Best times for 52% improvement! Hytek Power Point Champion All 8 swimmers scored points at the meet (only top 16 places score points)! Reef Guerard with 51 points led the way Well done everyone! Paton SI website blurb The 2010 Short Course Junior Olympics concluded yesterday at the Coronado BBMAC pool with enthusiastic crowds cheering on their swimmers, undeterred by the passing rain showers throughout the day. SI age group swimmers combined to set 13 new Junior Olympic records (7 individual and 6 relay), of which 7 (1 individual and all 6 relays) were also fast enough to shatter the existing San Diego-Imperial Swimming LSC record. New records set on Sunday included: Austin Nguyen of Pacific Swim in the 10&Under Boys 50Y Back click the blue bar to read more below…. In the team competition, North Coast Aquatics was crowned the overall meet champion with 3512.5 points, followed by Pacific Swim with 2393.5 and Heartland Swim Association with 1922.5 points (there were quite a few ties in finals this year). Individual High Point winners were: 10&Under Girls: Katelyn Thomas of Rancho San Dieguito
Senior Classic Championships! Feb 12–15 The Senior Classic Championships concluded last night. Three full days of trials and finals in Poway. Luckily we had amazing weather! · 5 Best times, 7 Team records (Bertics – 1, Cohn – 4, Weston – 2), 1 new AAA time (Cohn).
12&O NTS, HSA at El Cajon Meet -- Jan 29–31 Great job this weekend to our 6 athletes that competed in El Cajon! Mireia Arlandez (first meet!), Danielle Collins, Kelly Collins, Reef Guerard, Pablo Ortega, and Dana Zimmer. 29 events, 21 Bests! 72% improvement! Hytek Power Point Champions
Meets Jan 15–18!!! WSST had a great showing this weekend! Not only at the Grand Prix meet in Long Beach, but also at the Novice meet at the Mission Valley YMCA! Swimmers competing at all levels! Outstanding! Here’s the email I received from Kayla about the Novice meet: The meet went really well! Some confusion and kinks at the beginning but it worked out really well! The kids received a ribbon right after they swam with their time on it. Everyone swam well, no upsets! Biggest surprise was Cary! He really impressed me with his speed and stroke technique. Great swim! Many of the swimmers it was their first meet, hopefully they are encouraged to go to more! Kayla Ben Weston and Michael Cohn competed at the Grand Prix in Long Beach. Amazing meet! Michael swam 4 events recording 3 best times, 5 team records, a new AAA time in the 100 back, etc. but several Olympians were also competing! I video taped some of the swims and will get those on my computer as soon as I can. Swim Network was also doing a live webcast! Check out their website for race videos, interviews, recaps, etc. swimnetwork.com.
Meet results for Michael and Ben are posted on our Team Stats website.
SI All Star Qualifying Meet, Jan 8–10 This weekend 7 of our swimmers competed in the All Star Qualifying meet! Abby Bertics, Jensine Bugelli, Bennett Bugelli, Michael Cohn, Dominick Wallace, Zachary Wallace, and Dana Zimmer. They were able to overcome the frigid San Diego weather (70s) and swim well. The results and stats are available on our Team Stats website (see link above). 7 athletes, 42 events, 20 best times Hytek Power Point Champions were: |
sunset from the pool in Long Beach
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Fri, Sept 10 for CNSA Freestyle Festival, Sept 26; CSNA / BBMAC Coronado HS Mon, Sept 27 for Senior Meet, Oct 9–10; HSA / El Cajon HS Paton has a paper copy with him for these and most of the meets throughout the upcoming season. |
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Meet entries are due by the yellow date at the end of the meet description. Meet results can be found by either, clicking on the meet in blue or by going to our Team Stats Online site. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Jan 8-10; SI LSC Q meet; ICAC / Palomar College / Dec 28 Jan 15-18; USA Swimming's Grand Prix, Long Beach, CA / Jan 4 (travel meet for qualifiers) Jan 15; Novice Meet; SI/Mission Valley YMCA Jan 29-31; 12&Over NTS; HSA / El Cajon Valley HS / Jan 19 Feb 5-7; 12&Under A/B/C - South; SBA / Loma Verde Pool / Jan 25 Feb 12–15; SI Senior Classic; SI / Poway Swim Center / Feb 1 Feb 19-21; Short Course JOs; SI / BBMAC Coronado HS / Feb Mar 5-7; JO Max - South; HSA / El Cajon Valley HS / Feb 22 Mar 13-14; AB All Ages LC; PS / Poway Swim Center / Mar 1 Mar 20; Novice Fun Event; PS / Poway Community Pool / Mar 8 Mar 27-28; 14&U ABC Sprint / Distance; FAST / Fallbrook HS / Mar 15 Apr 7-11; Far Westerns; Morgan Hills Apr 30–May 2; ABC All Ages South LC; CNSA / BBMAC Coronado HS / Apr 19 May 15–16; C All Ages SC; WSST / CFAC / May 3 May 22–23; CIF Championships May 28–30; AB All Ages; NCA / La Jolla JCC / May 17 June 5–6; BC All Ages South; CNSA / BBMAC Coronado HS / May 24 June 25-27; AB All Ages; SBA / National City / June 14 July 3-4; Coronado Rough Water July 17-18; C All Ages SC; MVY / Mission Valley YMCA / July 5 July 21-26; Sectionals July 23-25; AB All Ages; NCA / LJ JCC / July 12 Aug 6-8; JO Max SC South; SBA / Loma Verde / July 26 Sept 12; The La Jolla Rough Water Swim; The La Jolla Cove / entries due right up until the Sat before the race... Sept 26; Freestyle Festival - S; CNSA / BBMAC Coronado HS / Sept. 10 Oct 2; Brainwaves Swim Meet Fundraiser; JCC in La Jolla / entries due on deck Oct 9–10; Senior Meet; HSA / El Cajon HS / Sept. 27 Oct 23–24; ABC All Ages - S; WSST / La Jolla HS / Oct 11 Nov 6–7; C All Ages; SDAC / Rancho Bernardo HS / Oct 25 Nov 12–14; AB All Ages; PS / Poway Community Center / Nov 1 Nov 19–21; SW Region IM Xtreme Games; Phoenix, AZ / Nov 8 Dec 3–4; 12&U Pentathlon; CAST / Joan Croc Center / Nov 22 Dec 11–12; BC All Ages; SBA / Loma Verde / Dec 29 Jan 7–9; SI All Star Qualifying Meet; ICAC / Palomar College / Dec 13 Jan 15–16; BC All Ages; FAST / Fallbrook HS / Jan 3 Jan 22–23; SI-CC-SN All-Star Tri-Meet; CC Swimming / TBA / Jan 10 Jan 28–29; 12&O NTS; HSA / El Cajon HS / Jan 17 Feb 12–13; ABC Meet - S; SBA / Loma Verde / Jan 31 Feb 18–19; SI Senior Classic; SI / TBA / Feb 7 Feb 25–27; SI Junior Olympics; SI / TBA / Feb 14 Mar 11–13; JO Max - S; HSA / El Cajon Valley HS / Mar 1 For more info on meets, directions to pools, etc. visit the SI-Swimming website -- click here. |
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Meet Pictures Far Westerns, April 7–11
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POOL CLOSINGS & PRACTICE CHANGES
August 23–Sept 11 -- train at the Cove for the La Jolla Rough Water
August 23–Sept 7 -- SUMMER BREAK no pool practice!!!
Sept 7 –Sept 11 -- intro week at the pool for everyone except LJRW swimmers -- PRACTICE STARTS AT 4 pm for EVERYONE
September 13 -- normal practice schedule begins for everyone
PRACTICE TIMES
NOVICE
GRP 1— M & W 4–4:30; F 4–5
GRP 2— M & W 4:30–5; F 4–5
WHITE–Tu & Th 4–4:45; F4–5
RED–Mon–Th 5–6; Fri 4–5
BLUE–M–Th 3:30–5:30; F 3:30–5:30
BLACK–M–Th 3:30–6; F 3:30–5:30
WSST Achieves Level 1!!!
Through Paton's efforts with USA Swimming, WSST has achieved Level 1 in their Club Recognition program (basically a program to help establish a strong foundation in 4 areas).
BUSINESS / ORGANIZATION SUCCESS PLANNING
SWIM PARENT / VOLUNTEER DEVELOPMENT
COACH DEVELOPMENT / EDUCATION
ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT / PERFORMANCE
Congratulations team!!!
Click here to go to the Parent Education Page!
Articles to date are
(click on article to read):
- Nutrition Between Prelims and Finals
- When the Coach Goes to Nationals
- When Swimmers Return
from Camp - When Sally Swims Poorly…
- Why Should a Club Support Its Elite Athletes Financially?
- The Taper Chase
- The Stroke Guru
- "I Went to the Results Board to See How I Did"
- When a Child Starts on a Swim Team as a Teen Ager
- Lifetime Fitness
- Good Starts
- What We Do in Age Group and Stroke School Practice
- Kids and Two Career Parents
- Key to Goal Setting: Parent Support
- Stunned, Shamed, Thankful and Finally... Helpful!
- Weight Training for the Age Group Swimmer
- One Day in the Life of an
Age Group Parent - The Marginally Motivated Swimmer
- Training Aids: Legitimate Tools or Frivolous Fads
- After Your Childs Swims the Event
- My Man Dan
- Teaching Technique – What We Know, What We Think We Know, and What We Do
- Developing Swimmers Progressively
- Training Versus Learning
- Glycogen Depletion
- Watching Your Child at Swim Lessons or Swim Practice
- Learning to Prepare for the Best
- Gain Weight to Gain Strength
- What Motivates the Coach
- Fast Food: How to Lift the Guise on Healthier Choices
- Fast Food: Breakfast Choices
- Turning Obstacles into Opportunities: Coping with Adversity is the key
- Eating on the Road
- Competition and Children
- Thoughts on Age Group Development
- Participation in Activites Offers Benefits
- Coffee and Caffeine
- The Purpose of Travel Meets for Swim Teams
- The Positive Attitude
- Burnout or Choice
- The Parent and the Coach
- Breakfast on the Run
- The Nature of a Judgement Call
- The Importance of Fluid Replacement During Training for Age Group Swimmers
- Snacks
- Balancing Breakfast Needs with Morning Workouts
- The Fallacy of Age Group Rankings
- Are Ideal Weight Charts Meaningful?
- Join Swim Team to Lose Weight?
- Race Day Fuel
- The Coach Seems Harsh
- Are All Efforts Good Efforts?
- The Career Club Coach
- That's Not It
- All-Weekend Meets
- Swimming Tired
- Aging Up
- Age Group Swimmers and Taper
- Swimming is an Investment
- Swim Parents And Masters Swimming: Interview with a Masters Swimmer and Swim Parent
- Adjusting to Different Strokes
- Swim Meets: Basic Info for New Parents!
- Stay with Developing Clubs
- A Family That Plays Together
- Supporting Your Child in Swimming
- What's up with the Suits?
- Letter from an Umpire
- How Big Will You Dare to Be?
- Good Coach Case Study: The Specialist
- Parenting My Champion: Developing Talent
- Improvement's Tortuous Path
TOP 10 TIMES
Our LSC has started compiling the top ten times again. Click here to go to the SI website and look under "TIMES" "Top 10 Times". It is also on our "swimming links" page...
SI Junior Olympic Time Standards
Click here for the latest edition of the SI Junior Olympic Time Standards – a copy is also available on the SI website.
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Thanks! Adrienne
Your Faithful Web Mistress
Stretching it out...
or not...
Click here for a link to the stretching information Paton talked with the swimmers about recently with pictures of how to and how not to stretch. If you can, come a bit early and go through the recommended stretches before practice.
Meet Pictures
LA Grand Prix,
July 8-11
WSST C All Ages, May 15-16
