Author: greenmountainswimteam

The very busy weeks ahead…

The season is going by faster than a teenage driver in a work zone…

Let’s talk end of the season schedule – lots of important info here!

WEEK OF JULY 9

1. No practice changes, morning and night practices will remain as usual

2. Wednesday – Intrasquad swim meet! Warm-up will be 5:30 p.m., the meet will start at 6:00 p.m. This is the first of our last 3 meets before League, so if you need to qualify in something you had better make sure you’re there! If you DON’T need to qualify or better a seed time, I expect you to swim some odd events and try to round out your meet resume on the year. Regardless, it’ll be a lot of fun, so be there!

3. Saturday – WR/LAKEWOOD @ GREEN MOUNTAIN! Our warm-up will run from 6:00 a.m. – 6:20 a.m., everyone will be together. This is meet 2/3, and same drill – qualify, improve seeds and swim something new.

4. Sunday – LAST CHANCE @ 6TH AVE WEST. This is the final meet of the season to qualify for league or state!! It will be Sunday morning, I don’t yet have warm-up info. This meet is important for a few reasons.

First, it obviously provides everyone a chance to swim fast competition (you MUST have a B qualifying time in the events you swim here) and make the times you need to attend league/state.

Second, it’s our only meet at 6th Ave West, like, ever. If you’re swimming at league, it’s probably wise to attend this meet simply to test out the pool and discover any little quirks. I’ve personally never even been to the pool, so I’d imagine most of you aren’t familiar with it either. Not mandatory, just recommended.

WEEK OF JULY 16

1. Practice will remain as usual, with the exception of no Tuesday night practice. Swimmers who will not be swimming at league need not attend (unless you really want to!) Get some darn sleep (then transfer your energy to my exhausted body…) Monday and Thursday night practices will be open to all swimmers attending league, they will concentrate largely on starts
and turns.

2. Wednesday we will have a Pizza and Tye Dye party! We always make league shirts, this year we’ll be doing tye dye! Start time will likely be 6:00 p.m. And someone needs to start planning my beautiful shirt now…

3. Friday – Sunday – LEAGUE @ 6TH AVE WEST! Without a doubt, the most wonderful time of the year… More details will be out soon, but just know that all I want for Christmas is a sweet freakin trophy for everyone to get some new best times…

WEEK OF JULY 23

1. Significant practice changes! Currently the times remain the same, but we might condense and allow everyone to sleep in a bit… Also, NO MONDAY MORNING practice this week! We’ll all be very tired from league and everyone needs to sleep until at least 10 a.m. (that’s an order, moms) and Monday night practice (8 p.m.) will be open to all state attendees.

2. Wednesday night will be our banquet at the pool! Prepare for a dazzling display of wit and charm from your coaches that may last well into the night (we love the sounds of our own voices, in case you never noticed…)

3. Friday – Sunday – STATE @ COLUMBINE COUNTRY CLUB! I petitioned to have state somewhere horrible and remote again this year but they wouldn’t listen (I was hoping for Pueblo, Trinidad or Kearney, Nebraska..)

The schedule will go like so –

Friday – 8-unders
Saturday – 9-12’s, 400’s
Sunday – Upper Division

Make sure you’re in town if you’ve qualified! And again, more info as the date approaches.

Sorry for the novella, I’ll link to this bad boy somewhere so you can find it again.

YourHub article coming soon…

Weekend prep!

Hey everyone!

Here’s your daily bedtime story…And I don’t check under the bed for monsters.

LINKS –

Several have been updated on the right sidebar, including new best times (in meters) and meet photos for the year. Thank upper division swimmers Josh Fleming and Brian Pak for getting those online when I couldn’t make it all work.. Anyways, check it out!

MEET –

Sign-up ended today for Saturday’s meet and relays are done. If you still wish to attend the meet SAT at Applewood Athletic Club, please tell me at practice or e-mail me if necessary so I can check your events. The events will be limited, but it will still be a VERY long meet. Please plan on being at the pool late!

Also, I haven’t gotten ANY warm-up info, so count on getting IN at 6:15. We’ll only be getting 15 mins for the WHOLE TEAM, I’m quite sure, so don’t be late. And we’ll be the 3rd biggest team there… Yikes.

Relays will be posted tomorrow, I still need to type them…

PRACTICE –

Practice will resume its normal schedule FRIDAY. Hope everyone had a safe and happy 4th, and I know everyone had a great time at water world today…

Have a great night, check out our cover appearance on yourhub today (Thurs)!

See y’all soon.

YourHub, things to come..

Here’s this week’s article.

I think I stressed out our local yourhub.com lady when I called her last Monday night and told her she actually couldn’t expect a story from me… Anyways we’ll be back in this Thursday, hopefully once again in amazing technicolor…

I’ll post more details on Water World soon, but all of the info is at the pool! Here’s a brief reminder of this week’s schedule!

Monday and Tuesday
Regular Practice (Meet sign-up will be TUESDAY! E-mail entries if you can’t come!)

Wednesday (4th)
NO PRACTICE! COME CELEBRATE THE 4TH WITH US AT 11 A.M.!

Thursday
NO PRACTICE! TEAM PHOTOS AND WATER WORLD! SEE POST BELOW!

Friday
Regular practice

Saturday
Big quad meet with Golden, AAC and Wheat Ridge! GET THE DAY OFF WORK! This’ll be a long one..

Stay tuned, more announcements coming regarding a team pizza party! Also, Mr. Lander was kind enough to take photos at the meet again this week. I’ll post photos as soon as he has a chance to get them online.

See you all at practice!

Team Photos!

Grace Long will be in charge of organizing photos this year!

She will have envelopes with all of the necessary info in your folder at the pool Friday, it may not be until after practice.

Remember, swimmers should be at the pool ready for the photo(s) by 7:30 a.m. July 5th, please bring your suits and smiles, frowns will be methodically photoshopped from the main team photo and replaced with someone cuter and happier. Also, please try not to look nicer than me as I enjoy being the center of attention at all times. I’ll have a bucket of mud for you to smear on your face if this becomes a problem at any time.

We’ll leave for Water World straight from the pool, so make sure you get there on time, whether you’re doing individual photos or not! If you bought tickets, you’ll need to pick them up from Grace at the club after the photo has been taken. If you need to work out another arrangement (or if you’re generally bored/unhappy and need someone to harass,) contact her at gblong@hotmail.com.

Promise, I’ll post all of the technique week stuff when I can, as well as updated best times (in yards!) but y’all keep me too busy… Sandy, could we fit a personal assistant into the budget next year?

Playin catch-up!

Alright! Finally have some time…

Ken Caryl/Pentathlon

The meets this weekend were awesome! Despite having a rather tough week of practice, we had best swims for 9/10 races at KC, which I’m obviously very pleased with. Alex Sutherland, Ethan Schick, Kevin/Molly Kruse, Kelsey Bollig, Cassidy Stein and ALL the 8-unders had really excellent meets.

It was really fun to see the swimmers out pace their seeding in nearly every instance. In fact, it got to the point that by the end of the day Friday (uhh 10:30 p.m.) I could tell a swimmer to go and cut 10 seconds and it would happen. That’s the kind of confidence and attacking attitude that will make this a dangerous team come championship season.

For the final, we finished 9th out of 19 – beating out teams like Bear Creek, Governor’s Ranch and Greeley Country Club. Most of the 8 teams that did finish ahead of us (5 or 6) are traditionally division 1 teams at state – we should be very proud of our finish. Most impressive? The fact that we moved UP from 10th to 9th on day 2 (lower division), something that virtually never happens with us. It’s just another sign that we’re starting to garner the depth with our lower division to make us a solid, well-rounded team.

Congrats!

Practice

This week is Technique Week! Today we did butterfly and spent about 45 minutes talking on deck before we got in. Expect the same the rest of the week, but please make sure you’re ON TIME so you don’t miss any key points!! Wednesday is backstroke day! I’ll also be posting the videos I show as well as my stroke outline that we discuss so the swimmers can reference them again in the future, or catch up if they missed out! Watch for those this week!

Water Polo

Is now going to happen on Tuesday nights, rather than Wednesday mornings. This is in an effort to draw more people to night practice as well as provide swimmers who DON’T like polo a chance to have a cohesive practice every day.

Photos

I’ll get em up as soon as I can, still working for it..

Water World

Info at the pool! The date is July 5! It’s a good deal and a great time, make sure you’re there!

Weekend Meets

Sat – Gators @ Mt Vernon Country Club. Warm-up is 6:30 for lower division, 6:45 for upper division. Please be there 15 minutes before your warm-up, and allow time for travel! It’s off the Genesee Park exit on I-70, map available in the calendar! This is a meet against league and division rivals, a very good team. Come if you can, sign-up will be on Wednesday!
*NOTE – this is a yards pool! Note that when making cards! We’ll get a yards best times print-out at the pool ASAP!

Sun – C/D @ Wheat Ridge Rec Center! This is for swimmers who have not qualified for A/B times, and is really a helpful meet! Entries are DUE from us Thursday, so we can’t take anything late. Warm-up at 6:00 a.m.!

That’s it for now! Sorry to miss so many days, I hope this quenched your thirst…