Author: greenmountainswimteam

Hello all –

Ms. Alzamora very kindly spent her time during the intrasquad meet a few weeks back taking photos of our swimmers on her camera! Coach Josh just had an opportunity to get the album online, and you can find it at http://picasaweb.google.com/greenmountaingators! There are some old photos up as well, the one marked “intrasquad” is this year’s album. Please make sure you take a second to thank Ms. Alzamora when you get a chance, she does a lot for the club in addition to this! And if you have other photos you’d like to add, either talk to Coach Josh about access (the do-it-yourself method) or give him a CD with your clearly labeled photos so he can put those up for you (the what-else-does-Josh-have-to-do,-anyway-? method)

Finally, please note that we need to have entries done for Saturday’s meet, so please sign up at practice ASAP! Most of the lower division has done that, but only a few upper division swimmers are currently signed up. Please, make sure you’re signed up by tomorrow! If you miss practice or forget to sign up for some other reason, please e-mail me at lukemorin@gmail.com. I’ll be inputting those electronically, so if I don’t know, I can’t help and the only swimming you’ll be doing this Saturday will involve whatever giant puddles are left over from the now inevitable afternoon downpour!

Coach Luke

Hello all!

I wanted to make a quick note to say that the results from this weekend’s meet were VERY impressive. Even though I was busy dancing with bridesmaids wishing my newlywed cousin well, Rich and Josh indicated that everyone showed a lot of heart and spirit at the meet. 10 out of 16 gator relays posted season best times, and GM found themselves with 6 new league qualifiers and countless other season best times! Congrats to everyone who swam!

Full results are posted in the “Important Links” tab on the right.

Best times have also been updated, and I’ve fixed the bug that was requiring me to perform complex, Hollywood Hacker-esque techniques to bring you these reports, so expect them to get posted sooner in the future!

Finally, (incomplete) meet information is up for this Saturday’s meet against COLUMBINE KNOLLS and APPLEWOOD KNOLLS! These are 2 EXTREMELY talented teams with some very, very good swimmers. For those of you who were around last year, AK was a Division I team at state and CKST won state by a large margin at the Division II level. Even though we’ll face some tough competition later this season (see Golden, AAC…we weren’t messing around with the schedule!) these could very well be some of the quickest swimmers we’ll see all year. So bring your game face, and let’s see some extra focus this week in practice! This is a great opportunity to show the league what you’ve got!

Coach Luke

Hello All –

I hope you’re all enjoying this beautiful SUMMER SUNSHINE as much as I am. I had become convinced that while I was away someone had tied down a permanent, wet cloud with the sole purpose of making me miserable and freezing 8-unders…but I’m glad the little guy escaped. Hopefully he settles down somewhere already nasty, like Nebraska or West Texas.

Please remember that you need to be at the pool 10 minutes before your warm-up begins tomorrow! This will give you time to stretch with the coaches, get your goggles on, ect… Warm-up, as usual, is quite short, so don’t waste it!

Finally, please note that there are only 2 meets left to qualify for both Ken Caryl AND the Pentathalon! Those meets are both at the end of June. Ken Caryl, a cool little mid-season invitational meet, has listed it’s qual times HERE. We’ll run a report after this Saturday’s meet listing swimmers who are eligible.

Pentathalon is another meet, hosted by Applewood Athletic Club, that swimmers must qualify for. To get into this meet, you must have a “B” time or better in 4 of the 5 main events – Fly, Back, Breast, Free (25 for 8-unders, 50 for 9-12’s, 100 for upper division), and IM. You swim all 5 events at the meet and your cumulative time is calculated at the end. It’s a lot of fun. That said (cough, cough UPPER DIVISION) if you haven’t swam all of these events yet, you need to make sure you get them under your belt so that you can qualify! It’s a really fun meet. Remember, tomorrow you can exhibition AS MANY EVENTS AS YOU WANT, so get that extra race in where you can. It’s never too late to add something.

Thanks, and best of luck tomorrow! I won’t be at the meet but coaches Rich and Josh will be ready to pep talk you until your cap-tucked ears fall right off.

And remember, if you’re not a gator, YOU’RE GATOR BAIT!

Coach Luke

Hey All –

Just a few quick reminders —

First, if you’re not yet signed up for the meet, you MUST send us an e-mail ASAP! We already have relays mostly made, but we do need to know by Wednesday (today!) if you’re swimming. Contact me for 12-unders at lukemorin@gmail.com, or coach Rich (upper division) at richard.leeds@colorado.edu. Relays will be posted on the blog tomorrow.

Next, goals sheets are due tomorrow! Thanks to the MANY swimmers who got them in today! I loved reading the ones that we got and the coaches were extremely impressed with what you came up with!

Finally, polo is tonight for upper division swimmers from 7:50-9pm. Only show up if you’re ready to rumble, as your coaches will be getting in the water to regulate…

Coach Luke

Hello team!

First, awesome job at practice today, the coaches were really pleased with the effort we saw at all age levels. We’re getting ready for times to start dropping like hot potatoes…

We also wanted to remind everyone to please bring back COMPLETED goal sheets by Thursday’s practice! If you missed today, we’ll have copies at the pool for you to pick up tomorrow. Some of our younger swimmers might want to employ the help of an older friend, sibling, parent, ect… to get the sheet done! Your coaches are looking forward to hearing what you have to say!

Another note–I just got the team manager software installed on my computer today, so things like best times and at least partial meet results will be up soon. Check back by day’s end!

Finally, an updated night practice schedule (I’ll make a link to this in the links page) for our upper division swimmers.

Monday-7:30-9:00 p.m.
Tuesday-7:30-9:00 p.m.
Wednesday-7:50-9:00 p.m. (includes dryland AND water polo)

Thanks for checking in! And please share some of your team goals in the comments section of this blog post!

Coach Luke