Dolphin Swim Club Newsletter  

June, 2006                                                                                                 


Welcome New Dolphin Swimmers!!

 

Important Dates:

 

May 31 – June 6 Distance Camp

June 2 Wave meet entries due

June 3 Montrose dual in the Pool

June 5 Summer Swim Schedule starts

June 5 Sopris Meet Entries due

June 7 Team Day Potluck

June 10 Wave meet OMMS

June 16 -18  Sopris Meet Glenwood

June 22 - 25 GJD Invite  BE THERE!!

July 1&2 No meet – Have a happy 4th

 

 

 

June Birthdays

 

June 1   Jas Smith  14

June 10   Carrie Johnson  15

June 11   Tayloe McMacken   13

June 14   Dylin Cruz   12

June 25   Aaron Neal   13

June 26   Ellie Gossage   11

 

 

 

June 2006

From our Head Coach – Dale Leonhart

Summer Plan:

 

The summer practice schedule is posted on our website and is in the May newsletter.  If you have questions, talk with your group coach.

 

We start outside AM workouts on Monday, 5 June at Lincoln Park at 5:45AM.  There will be practice suits, goggles, etc. for sale after practice this morning.

 

 

Team Day and Potluck:

Our first Team Day is Wednesday, 7 June.  We will have a potluck in the park after this practice.  We invite ALL parents and swimmers to this breakfast potluck.  Please attend, even if you do not swim that morning: it will be at 7:45AM.  (Hopefully, in the pavilion right behind the pump house of the pool (by the playground).  We will also have practice suits, goggles, etc. for sale at this time. 

 

Meets and Activities:  (Team Efforts are bold.)

Distance Camp is for 13 up swimmers in Flagstaff, AZ.  from Wednesday, 31 May through Tuesday, 5 June.  Talk to Dale.

Developmental Duel in the Pool at Montrose on Saturday, 3 June.  The meet is for developing 13Under swimmers.  See your coach.  Info is one our website.  Let’s whip up

One day Wave Meet at OMMS Pool on Saturday, 10 June.  Get info from coach at practice.  Tanya and Ed are Coaches.

Sopris Meet on 16-18 June in Carbondale.  Good meet for 12Unders.  Tanya is Coach.

Grand Junction Invite at Lincoln Park pool on Thursday, 22 June through Sunday, 25 June.  This is a major fund raiser and a great meet for all abilities.  Plan to help and participate!!!  Whole coaching staff present.

There is a meet in Delta over the Fourth of July weekend: 1 & 2 July.  Normally, we do not attend as a team…we take this weekend off.  No coach present.

1500 Team Relay at Lincoln Park on Wednesday, 5 July.  Our team forms as many 10 swimmer teams as possible: 2X 8Un, 10Un, 12Un, 13Up, and Seniors on each team.  This is a great team activity.  Plan to attend and participate!

Durango Team Trip: 7-9 July.  Dale is Coach.

Montrose Last Chance: 14-16 July.  Dale is Coach.

West Slope Champs in Aspen 21-23 July.  Dale and Ed are coaches.

Far Westerns in Concord-Pleasant Hills, Ca. 26-30 July.  For qualified 13Up swimmers.

Dale is Coach.

Division I State Champs in Ft. Collins/EPIC: 27-30 July for all qualified swimmers.

Ed is Coach.

Colorado All-Star Western Zone Champs for top 3 swimmers in each age group/event.  Selection process on-line at CSI.org.  CSI selects coaching staff.

 

School resumes on Monday, 18 August.

 

Our season ending potluck banquet TBA after school resumes.

 

Our Fall Program will start on Monday, 11 September.

 

Entries:  the summer season is hectic.  It is imperative that we follow meet entry procedures on time and correctly.  Our entry chairperson’s sanity depends on this!!!  Not to mention, we want to get you into the meets that you want to swim.  SO:

            Fill in your entry form COMPLETELY, place it and a check for fees in an envelope with your name and the meet entered noted on the outside.  Give this envelope to a coach or place in the meet entry box in the coach’s possession at the pool.  PLEASE HONOR THE DEADLINE.  *** If you are unable to make the entry deadline and still wish to enter a meet, it is your responsibility to contact the host team’s entry chair and take care of your entry.

 

Fruita Satellite Team:  we have a developmental team in Fruita primarily for 12Under Novice swimmers who want to try the competitive experience at the local level.  This team meets at the outdoor Orr Park Pool on Tu & Th @ 5-6PM.  Cost is $100 for 7 weeks and includes USS registration, insurance, pool fee, coaching fee, a cap, and entries into 2 local meets.  The goal of this team is to find swimmers who demonstrate interest, desire and ability to compete in our Western Slope Team Championship Meet in Aspen, 21-23 July.  Call Tanya @ 210-0182 for info.

 

Swim School at Mesa:  we have a pre-team swim school for children ages 5-12 at Mesa State Pool on Mo, Tu, Th from 9-10AM.  This school runs for 6 weeks beginning Monday, 12 June.  Children should be adjusted to the water, but, need not be able to swim.  Each day, there will be a “beginner” and an “advanced” class.  “Beginners” are from 9-9:30AM and the “advanced” class is from 9:30-10AM.

 

Graduating Seniors:  this year, we have four seniors who graduated from their respective high schools. 

Kristin Scandary, GJHS, will attend ASU, swim, and pursue a degree in sports medicine/kinesiology.

Angel Forsling, GJHS, will attend Colorado School of Mines and major in Chemical Engineering.

Ben Hogue, FMHS, will attend Lutheran University in California, swim, and major in Sociology.

Will Leonhart, FMHS, will attend University of Utah, SLC, swim, and major in Business Management.

 

Masters Swimming: 

As some of you know (and others who may not) we have a masters’ swim program for folks over 22 years old.  Currently, we have about 3 dozen masters swimmers;  Haynes Bigum is our elder statesman and Coach Tanya Krabacher is the youngest.  They train regularly at Mesa State pool M-F @ 5:30-7AM.  They will begin training at Lincoln Park on Monday, 5 June, 5:45-8AM M-F.

 

This past spring, Nate Keever, Dave McCarty, and Ed Stehlin competed in the State Masters’ Championship Meet at DU/Ritchie Center.

Nate won the 50, 100, 200 Br, was 6th in 50, 100 Fr in his age group.

Dave placed 3rd/50F, 4th/100IM, 5th/100F, 6th/50&100Br&50Fl, and 7th/50Bk.

Dave’s times qualified him for Masters’ World Champs in Palo Alto, Ca (Stanford) this August.  Cheryl Olson is training for Worlds, too: 100/200Fly, 400F and 400IM.

Ed swam 400IM and 500F and the 50/100Free, and 200/100IM.

 

Many masters swimmers train for distance races;  Tamera Minnic is training for the Horsetooth Reservoir 10K this August.  Merlin and Scott Schreiner, John Wolcott, John Jones are training for “Escape from Alcatraz” swim in September.

We have many triathletes:  recently, 9 competed in the qualifying event in Phoenix:  Kevin Koch qualified for the Ironman in Kona, Hawaii this October.  Rich Kiser (10:32 at Phoenix) is training for the Half Ironman in Hawaii in July and the Ironman Canada in August.  Bill Martin and Ray Jensen (both under 12 hours at Phoenix), and Daryl Hann (12:13 in Phoenix), Sarah Schrader are participating in the Highline Hustle in June.  Sarah is also going out to San Francisco to race the “Escape From Alcatraz Triathlon” in June.

Many of our Masters swim for the health of it; they enjoy the exercise and camaraderie of the group.

The point is this:  lots of folks swim with our Masters Team for lots of reasons.  If you want to train/get in shape, have fun doing it, try our master’s team.  This group is composed of lots of neat people who do some very cool activities.

 

Coach’s Corner:

The other day at an afternoon practice with the gold and Platinum swimmers, we were talking about “pain”.  I asked some leading questions regarding ‘pain’.  I want to summarize some of the points that were made by members of this group.

 

There are different types of pain: mental, emotional, and physical.  Physical pain can be broken down into biological injurious pain such as hitting your thumb with a hammer and physiological pain which is associated with exercise and the build up of lactic acid in the muscles, especially during a bout of strenuous exercise.  Most of our discussion was centered on this last type of pain.

 

The pain of exercise is a ‘messenger’; it tells us how we are performing.  Pain is an individualized experience; we all have a sense of it, however, we have our own different tolerance levels.  We can ‘own and control’ our pain; we can focus on it, move it around into different areas of our body, ignore it, welcome it, and use it to our betterment as we strive to achieve our stated goals.  Without pain, we will not gain nor progress.  Our ability to handle our pain enables us to continue to train more (or less) strenuously: this is our choice.  The pain of exercise stimulates the body’s production of chemical hormones called endorphins.  Endorphins are a natural euphoric…these chemicals give us a sense of well-being and comfort: they are the source of an “athlete’s high”.  Owning and enduring physiological pain is your key to progressing toward your goal; it is one of your keys to success.

 

Our next topic is “responsibility” which I will define as “the ability to respond”.  Stay tuned.

 

From GJD Board President

Brett Walton

 

June and July are the busiest months of the year for swimmers!!  Please try to attend as many meets as you can.  Have fun with the team! 

June 22-25 is the GJD Invitational at Lincoln Park Pool.  Over 600 swimmers will be attending.  Even if your swimmers don't swim the meet, please participate by volunteering.  There will be sign up sheets at the pool.

And don't forget team days at Lincoln Park (Wednesdays 6:45 a.m.).  This is a great time for team building between the 13&Over and 12&Under swimmers.  The kids really enjoy this time!  Have a great summer!