“WIN”. What’s Important Now

  I am sure that most of you who have been making practices over the holidays did not mind missing todays workout with all the gloomy weather.  Now I on the other hand was there ready for our last workout of the year.  There was one advantage which was I had the pool at the gym to myself for over an hour and although I attempted your plan workout, I could not finish it in the hour and 45 minutes. I did however win 3 out of the 4 sets so that was positive.  Thank you to all you swimmers who made the effort to attend workouts over the last 2 weeks.  It will go a long way in how you swim in February thru April. As we look back over the year and everything that has occurred.  Some good.  Some not so good. Let's not spend time on the not so good or the what if's or what wasn't in 2021.  Instead let's build off what we were able to accomplish and do during the year.  Things such as a IMX meet in February, a fantastic championship season during March, some outstanding long cou

Senior Prep, Junior Gold/Blue groups, I wanted to take this time to thank each and every one of you for your amazing efforts throughout this past year.  We worked through a lot over the past year and had an outstanding  effort and showing at our JO’s back in March with an abundance of personal best swims throughout the meet. Throughout the summer as you all found your way back to your summer teams you continued your excellence in the water scoring points week after week culminating with Divisionals and All Stars ⭐️. This fall as we arrived back to the pool to start a new season, your hard work continued and you reaped the awards during the Swim and Rock meet culminating at the Winter Classic to wrap up our fall season. I couldn’t feel any more proud when I look back at what everyone of you achieved throughout the year and consider it to be the best part of the day to come in and work with all of you.  To be able to work with such a great group of talented kids with so many different pe

  "Practice does not make perfect.  Only perfect practice makes perfect." Vince Lombardi I know in the past I've posted how perfection is hard if not impossible to attain, but it does have a place in personal growth as long as you don't take it literally. As we strive to be perfect, we as athletes must remember that true perfection is not the end all.  The bigger picture that you as a swimmer should be looking at is that as your practice should be done at a level of respect for how you see yourself performing/racing in reality at all times. Instead of striving for perfect, strive for excellence during practice.  After all excellence is perfection at it's core. Perfection says I want to never mess up.  Excellence says I'm going to work on this in the best possible way to the best of my ability and become very good at it. Let's take Tom Brady for example.  There is no dispute that he was born with some level of natural athleticism and that he has been blesse

  Okay so we are done with our meets in December and I have had many questions about meets in January.  No, you don’t have to be a psychic to figure this out although it does seem hectic for sure.. Let's take a look at the meets coming up in January.  First up in the first week of the year is the January Distance meet on the 8th and 9th.  Saturday we will be swimming the 1000 and Sunday the 1650.  This meet will take place at St.James.  I would like to see all of the Senior prep and Junior Gold swimmers to swim in one of these events.  Please read the announcement carefully to make sure you qualify for this meet. If you have not done the 1000 then that will be the event you sign up for.  -. If you have already done the 1000 it's time to try the mile. You may ask yourself, "Why should I swim these two events?"  I could give you my standard because you can but I think I look at it from this view.  It's a rite of passage.  Okay it's a very long rite of passage

  Hey kiddos, we had a good weekend in the pool.  It was nice to get back to a meet format like last weekend.  You all found the strength to power through a grueling weekend of races.  A lot of you swam over 10 (some had 13 or more) races throughout the four days of competition.  We were awfully proud of each of you with your ability to stay focus on what was in front of you, your ability to move from one race to the next.  Apparently our talks on keeping everything in front of you is starting to sink in.     I usually don't put names out there for fear of missing someone, but we do have to shout out to Sadie Buckley for her new team record int he 400 IM, 100 IM and the 100 back.  Our 11-12 girls relay won the 400 free, 200, free, 200 medley and the 11-12 boys placed 2nd in the same 3 relays. Due to the short turn around on Sunday we scratched the 400 medley relay to give our kids time to recover for finals. It was great to watch all of you supporting each other throughout the week

  You guys nailed it tonight both with your warmups and those of you who had a distance event.  Let’s make sure we bring that same energy tomorrow for your events. Thanks to all of you who showed up to get a swim in to loosen up and also to all the parents who made the effort to get the kids to the pool.  It’s much appreciated.  Thanks to all the kids who took care of their teammates and pitched in to count the swimmers laps. Our 12 and understand did a great job swimming their 500’s wit many best times.  What is really incredible is that a lot of these kids just dropped a ton of time two weeks ago at the swim and rock and did it again tonight. Something that I did notice is that some of us let outside noise get to us. Remember as you work through this weekend control what you can control and put your earmuffs on to shut out those other noises. Bring it tomorrow.

  Hello Senior Prep and Junior Gold swimmers who will be swimming in the Sports Fair Championship meet starting tomorrow evening at GMU. Let’s go over a few specifics that we talked about this week so that we are all on the same page.   First off please be on time for warmups as all the teams have been assigned to lanes. We will have two warmup periods during the 13 and over sessions with one lane in the big pool and one lane in the back pool so arrive focus and ready to rock your warmup so that you are in a position to be successful.  The 11- and 12 warmups will have more room but the back pool will not be open for that session or during finals.   While we are on the subject of warmups please remember to get in for your warmups for your events and remember it’s just to get your heart rate elevated.  Remember to warm down immediately after your event.  The longer you wait the longer it will take to get warmed up for that next event.  At the end of the day give your body the present tha