Green Mountain Swim Team

…kind of, anyways!

Meet results for Intrasquad #2 and Pentathlon are now posted in the right sidebar, and best times are completely updated! The only results page missing is from the Columbine Knolls meet, and we’re working on getting that fixed! Don’t forget, there will be a reward at the banquet for showing off a completed times tracker at the banquet, so make sure you’re keeping up!

Relays and information for this Saturday’s dual with Golden are also posted. This is a team that won state a few short years ago and has some incredible swimmers, so take advantage of this opportunity to race some of the best competition in the state! It might also serve as a nice tune-up for next week, when we dual 2008 state champion Applewood Athletic Club. Sandy and Dave weren’t slacking with the schedule this year!

Finally, I apologize for not getting an update up after the incredible intrasquad last Wednesday! I wanted to give a quick shout-out to the 11-12 boys for:

* Having 3 boys swim EVERY event (Daniel M, Scott W, Kevin M)
* Getting 2 new league qualifiers (Tristan D, Kevin K)
* The meet of the season from Kevin Mercy, who not only swam every event, but earned a best time in EVERY SINGLE ONE! If you don’t believe me, just check the best times sheet. Michael Phelps has nothing on that.

WHAT’S NEXT: TOTALLY updated team records, in case you noticed that most of our recent accomplishments haven’t been logged!

Coach Luke

Hello all –

So it has been about a week since you heard from me, and I apologize!

ODD EVENTS (DISTANCE):

Warm-up @ 4:30 on Thursday, meet starts at 5pm!

Intrasquad meets are finally processed, and I wanted to say CONGRATS to official new LEAGUE QUALIFIERS Tristan Debrunner (50 Fr) and Kevin Kruse (50 Br) and new STATE QUALIFIERS Todd Otto (100 bk), Brandon Jacob (25 brst) and Anna Granquist (50 fr, 100 fr). What a meet!

That brings our totals up to 45 LEAGUE qualifiers and 25 STATE qualifiers. These are incredible numbers, and we have a lot of swimmers who are still on the brink!

Check back for more updates tomorrow (including intrasquad results and new best times)! Good luck to tonight’s odd events swimmers!

Coach Luke

OK so I didn’t really mean to make you think that this post is about intrasquad and dress-like-a-burrito-to-get-free-chipotle day (although I can see why the title made you obviously think about that immediately…)

New info about tonight’s meet and tomorrow’s day of fun are posted in the right sidebar. I’m sorry to be such a slacker on this, but SOMEBODY has to be taking 2 hour naps every day, and I sure don’t see any of you stepping up to the plate!

Finally, we’ll be doing odd events entries tonight. Check the schedule for more information (because that’s my only resource) and if you have any further questions, be sure to asK! And if you want to come and we missed you, please let us know ASAP!

Thanks! Get ready for some fast swimming, and also to see some upper division swimmers heaving on the deck trying out some fun new events tonight!

Coach Luke

I hope everyone enjoyed your morning off today, and I hope that the few of you who had the whole weekend off were able to hold your parents off until AT LEAST noon on Saturday and Sunday.

Results for the Ken Caryl meet are posted in the right sidebar, and the team finished 9th OVERALL, out of 20 very good teams! More importantly, of all of the teams that will compete in our division at state, we finished FIRST! And although a few teams look like they’ll be very good at state, the coaches sincerely believe that a top 3 finish is more than possible for this club!

We now have 43 swimmers qualified for league, and 22 swimmers qualified for state! That puts us ever nearer to the team goals that the coaches set for the team at the beginning of the year (we’ll share those with you in the very near future).

So a few shout outs seem appropriate at this time. For those of you who weren’t there, Coach Richard and I spent all of our downtime (i.e., 200 freestyles…) coming up with nicknames for our swimmers. So first…

…”Big Ben” Hofstra, for putting a new twist on the breaststroke, and coming away with two TOP 5 Ken Caryl finishes as a result

…”Krusin” Molly Kruse, for cutting more than a minute in her combined races this weekend. (the fact that some of her races are longer than my commute to the pool isn’t relevant..)

…Tristan “The Best” Gess, for two top 3 finishes, and flirting with a team record in the process

…Carly “Can Do” Cozzo, for sacrificing her ENTIRE SATURDAY to come swim 2 relays and support her team

…Elise “The Charger” Chevalier, for deciding she simply wouldn’t lose

…Joseph “The Jet” Duffy, for showing his coaches that miracles indeed do happen

…Ethan “The Trick” Schick, for showing, time and time again, that hard work pays off

…Dylan “Thrillin” Jacob, for extending his unbeaten streak in the 100 IM against the fastest swimmers in the state and placing a team-high 3rd at the pentathalon

…Elsa “The Burner” Debrunner, for burning through her 50 free and moving up 15 places in her event. And for having the *best* nickname

…Lauren “Scorin” Sutherland, for positively transfering passive aggression against her tardy brothers into some class A swimming

…Adam “Beastly” Wheatly, for being one of only two 6-year olds at the meet, and for sharing his toys with his coaches

There were MANY more amazing swims, but I can’t hardly think of any more nicknames…congrats to everyone who was involved in this weekend’s incredible meets!

Coach Luke

Hello All!

Don’t forget–NO UPPER DIVISION PRACTICE TOMORROW (FRIDAY)! You have Ken Caryl in the afternoon, so get some morning sleep! 9-12, 8-under practices will remain the same (non-KC swimmers…bring your best beaver goggles!)

In addition, practice is canceled 2 days next week! Monday, following our marathon of meets, we will not be swimming. Then, Friday after Water World (WW on Thursday!) we will take a 3 day weekend! I’ll post this reminder permanently in the side bar on Monday. The next meet following the invites this weekend is our July 1 intrasquad, where I expect American pride speedos to be in full display.

Big weekend this week, so let’s get ready to kick some butt and take names!

Coach Luke

First order of business – Night Practice is ON tonight! Don’t be afraid of a massive electrical storm a little water, you wuss!

Best times are updated, as is meet information for both meets this weekend, entries for Ken Caryl and results from C/D. I would post CK/AK meet info, but they currently have the wrong report–CKST best times–and that’s about as useful to us as Coach Rich at a spelling bee (or Duncan at a weight lifting competition…or coach Josh at a tanning demonstration.)

Anyway, I promised I’d get an update of this weekend’s meets, so after a 3 hour nap that lasted for the entirety of the afternoon, I think I finally have the energy necessary to get something up. That said, this week’s shout-outs are all about energy! These swimmers made huge contributions to the team this weekend not only through their swimming prowess, but through their hard work and hardcore attitudes! These were our weekend warriors in a VERY wearing weekend!

Sophie Aiken
Sophie swam her HEART out, especially at Sunday’s C/D meet. She sought out advice before EVERY race and (gasp!) really crushed some of her old times! And even if she didn’t, I’m sure she would have came up smiling, anyways…

Anna Granquist
Anna is at the top of her age group this year, and she’s showing that she has the ability to compete with the very best. She has now achieved League times in 4 events and swam a gutsy 36 second split to anchor a very good relay at Saturday’s meet!

8-Unders!
Remember when I said we’d talk about how our Ken Caryl count got so high? Look no further than virtually the entire 8-under division! Just some examples from their weekend brilliance… Elsa Debrunner qualified for the 50 free, after looking like a tiny rocket shooting from a cannon. I may film her expertly executed start and show it to the upper division tomorrow… Allison Dagli got off a cast that she had been swimming with, and promptly recorded the second legal fly for the division, giving us an extra (very fast!) relay and showing that hard work really pays off. Seraphima Tsarevski and Brandon Jacob both achieved “B” and “League” qualifier times in thier first meets EVER and Adam Wheatley just about blew his coaches out of thier chairs with an incredible league-qualifying butterfly in his first-ever attempt in the 25 fly! WELL DONE, 8-UNDERS!

Evan Giusto
Evan is quickly becoming a premier swimmer in the 13-14 age group, and with an extremly hard work ethic and great attention to detail, had one of his best meets ever on Saturday. Efforts like that will make our 13-14 boys one of the top groups in the league, if not the state!

Daniel McKelvy
Daniel has redefined the term “workhorse” and seems to favor races porportionally based on how much pain they might potentially provide him. He has swam his staple–the 200 free–at every meet so far and has shown extremly impressive improvement there. Next week, I might tie some lawn furniture to his waist at the meet, just to see if we can possibly push him any harder!

Daria Romero
Daria is still relatively new to swimming, and has rarely ever ventured from the safety of freestyle. But this year she has made it her goal to branch out this year and try to be a successful, all-around swimmer (did I mention this is her first year of 100’s?) Her guts and courage have been an inspiration to her coaches all season!

Ethan Schick
Ethan has developed this year from a “dang, he’s pretty good” kind of a swimmer to a “holy (insert 4-letter word here), that kid has skills!” kind of swimmer. With some newly-acquired buffness, an intense personal drive, several years of very hard work and exquisite attention to detail (I’ll be he’s really good at making model airplanes,) Ethan has become one of the top, all-around swimmers on the team. The scary thing? He’ll be even better next year, and probably even better the year after. He could make a serious splash at this weekend’s Pentathlon!

See y’all in the morning!

Coach Luke