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Whales World
July 2010
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Swimmers of the Month:
Bronze: Samantha and Earl Schweizer have moved up to swim in the lanes group of bronze and they are doing fantastic! Their dives have improved dramatically and each of their strokes are getting better as well. Also, all the dual meets they have swum in they have gotten best times! Congratulations Earl and Samantha!
Silver: Anna Gruvberger - Anna has stepped up her efforts in practice, she is enjoying leading her lane and racing her team mates. Anna has had some very fast swims and we look forward to seeing her race at SBSL's.Congratulations Anna! Continue the hard work and focus at practice.
Gold: Brain Huang. Brian has shown great motivation this summer and made a commitment to not only be at all practices but to train harder and it is showing in his results.
Nat. Development: Carole Gao is my pick for SOM for June. She consistently arrives early for practice ready to listen, swim right, and work hard. I have always been impressed on how she makes sure she clearly understands what the set is, what is expected, and making sure she is doing whatever it is she needs to be doing, RIGHT! She's a team player, ALWAYS polite, and well loved and respected by her teammates.
Pre-National:Michael and Nicholas Hoefling have shown great improvement in their strokes and they have been working hard in practices to build up their endurance. They both have gotten new Junior Olympic cuts in the last month and I am now sure that they are on their way to making Far Western cuts very soon! Congratulations Michael and Nicholas!
Gemma Takahashi has really stepped up her performance in practice where she is now able to lead a lane consistently. She got a few new Junior Olympic cuts in the past couple months and she is very close to some Far Western cuts as well now. In July (championship month) Gemma should have some real exciting races! Congratulations Gemma!
Sr. Development:
National: Samantha Ettinger has been at almost every practice despite having to go directly to work each day. She has worked hard at practice every day and should be fast when she rests!
Masters: Dottie McLean. Dottie has taken advantage of the new 12:15 master's time and has been coming every day and improving.
Jeanette Soe is in the best swimming shape since she has joined ALMA masters. Her attendance has been consistent and she has often arrived early for a longer warm up. More recently, she switched over to the 5:30am practices......something she would only do once every other year. Her biggest accomplishment recently was swimming 5 x 100s on the 1:18 interval when swimming them on the 1:30 was her previous norm. I'm sure Denmark will here about this ;)
Thyra Tegner is my other pick of the month. She recently competed in the Senior Games down in AZ and achieved FIVE GOLD medals for her age group!!!! Thyra continues to be an amazing inspiration to all and we are very lucky to have someone like her on our masters swim team.
Swim Meet Review: We had an outstanding set of meets this month. We attended the Long Course meets at SJA, Summer Sanders, and Valley Splash. Our swimmers have been training hard and they did a great job of getting best times at these midseason meets. Our Dual meet performances have been extremely satisfying as well. We dominated undermanned MSJA and WEST teams en route big victories! The dual meets are sanctioned and our swimmers have gotten many level ups and new cuts at the meets so far. Only the MSJA results will be included in the short course reports below.
All Best Long Course Times: Max Bi, Alex Biz, Patrick Fang, Christine Ebrahimi, Samantha Stebbins, Ben Dietz, Brandon Liu, Chris Rue, David Webb, Kara Neiders, Josh Applebaum, Thomas Lindsley, Avalon Gook, Preston Gook, John Giacinto, Katie Lindsley, Matt Sandoval, Jeana Lindsley, Gemma Takahashi, Cooper Burrill, Kevin Lance, Allisyn Kolesar, Brian Cicoletti, Matt Flickner, Eddie Nazaradeh, Gavin McGee.
All Best Short Course Times: Meghan Devaughn, Alyssa Chen, Anna Gruvberger, Allison Li, Samantha Schweizer, Halle Thompson, Celine Wang, Benjamin Fuchs, Bradley Liu, Cole McKim, Matt McKim, Taylor Flemming, Lauren Jufiar, Zoe King, Madeline McKee, Samantha McKee, Georgia Stebbins, Alisha Vasanji, Kaylyn Wolf, Joshua Bergles, Max Bi, Patrick Fang, Sepi Farazi, Toby Fuchs, Ethan Yu, Katie Lindsley, Grace Phan, Kaitlyn Weinstock, Shun Endo, Joshua Mao, Alex Sokol, Ken Tanaka, William Wang, David Webb, Devin Phan,
Congratulations to all our swimmers who achieved best times this month!
Our level report consists of PRT, FW, JO Pac A, and Pac B time standards. These times are not tied to national times like the USS standards and they are less competitive. I encourage our swimmers to make sure they use the 2010 Pacific Swim Guide (we still have many in the office for those families who have not picked one up yet, 1 per familiy while supplies last) to keep track of their progress with the USS standards. Congratulations for all our swimmers who achieved new B, BB, A, AA, AAA, AAAA this month!
New Pac Levels (LC): Bradley Liu (2B), Cole McKim (2A,B), Matt McKim (3A,B), Max Bi (2A), Alex Biz (2PRT,4FW,JO), Gavin McGee (4FW), Carole Gao (2A,B), Jenny Guise (3A,B), Isabelle Huynh (A,B), Lauren Smith (2JO), Ben Dietz (A,B), Chris Rue (2B), William Wang (PRT,JO), David Webb (A), Mohini Narasimhan (A,B), Kara Nieders (JO,A,B), Josh Applebaum (A), Lenny Giacinto (A), Calvin Kane (A), Meghan Hall (A), Reese Burrill (2B), Thomas Lindsley (2A,B), Joseph Sandoval (B), Riley Burrill (A,B), Avalon Gook (JO,A), Preston Gook (JO,2A), Carole Gao (3A), Katie Lindsley (2A), John Giacinto (JO), Trey Guise (B), Matt Sandoval (2JO,A), Kate Cezar (A), Jeana Lindsley (4A), Gemma Takahashi (A), Cooper Burrill (JO), Michael Flickner (2B), Kevin Lance (B), Matt Nachtigal (FW), Michael Sandoval (A), Allisyn Kolesar (2A,B), Brian Cicoletti (A), Matt Flickner (2JO,2A), Ryan McCombs (A), Eddie Nazaradeh (2B)
New Pac Levels (SC): Brynn McGee (B), Caroline Beaulieu (B), Alyssa Chen (A,B), Cynthia Gao (B), Anna Gruvberger (2A), Grace Han (2B), Halle Thompson (B), Celine Wang (3B), Benjamin Fuchs (3B), Steve Han (B), Bradley Liu (A,B), Cole McKim (2A), Sean Wolf (B), Lauren Jufiar (A), Katie Muraco (B), Kaylyn Wolf (B), Max Bi (2B), Alex Biz (PRT,2JO), Sepi Farazi (2B), Bradfod Lee (2B), Gavin McGee (FW), JP Raimondi (2FW,JO), Kaitlyn Weinstock (B), Colin Devine (2B), Shun Endo (2A,B), Christopher Green (JO), Henderson Hsu (2B), William Wang (2FW,JO), David Webb (2B), Chris Devine (A), Devin Phan (2B), Nick Soe (JO).
Congratulations to all of our swimmers who achieved best times and leveled up!
The Semi-Permanent Team records section (7 months in a row!)
Arrington McGee (7-8), 400 Free (7:28.94) *new event not swam by anyone else before
Gavin McGee (9-10): 400 Free (5:35.16)
800 Free (11:19.13)
200 Back (3:03.40) *new event not swam by anyone else before
200 Fly (3:21.21) *new event not swam by anyone else before
Morganne Mckennan (11-12): 50 Breast (37.80)
100 Breast (1:21.09)
Sandra Soe (11-12): 400 IM (5:41.06)
Practice Schedule Change:
Please make sure to check out the practice schedule tab at goalma.org for the upcoming practice schedule in July. There are no more Saturday practices until fall trimester.
July Meets:
6th SBSL SC ALMA & SUNN @ VS (Fly & Breast)
11th Invit’l SC ALMA RELAYS @ ALMA
15th - 18th LC JUNIOR OLYMPICS @ Concord, CA
23rd - 25th SBSL SC SBSL CHAMPIONSHIP @ Valley Christian H.S.
28th - 1st LC FAR WESTERNS @ Independence H.S.
Make sure to go to our website www.goalma.org to check out the upcoming meets on the meets tab! July is a HUGE month for us. We'll have a blast and try for team victories in the ALMA Relays meet and the SBSL Champs meet. Our qualifiers will represent our team at the Championship JO and Far Western Meets. Let's go race!
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ALMA Accomplishments:
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