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CAT Open Long
Course - May 16-18, 2008
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Entries accepted
beginning at noon on April 16, 2008. Early entries will not be
accepted. Entry deadline is May 5th at 5:00 pm.
The 13&Over warm-up time has been moved up to 12:00pm on both
Saturday and Sunday. Timed Finals will begin at 1:15pm.
Meet
Information
Hy-tek event
file for TM
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Trophy League
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If you would like to participate in
the trophy league this summer we need you sign-up sheet back by May
14th so I can get the t-shirts ordered and back by the first meet.
For those new this year our Trophy league consists of four meets.
They are all swum short course and limited to B and C level
swimmers. The meets should last about two hours and are held
during practice times for the most part. Instead of getting
awards for each event each swimmer earns points based on their
place. First place gets 12, second 11...every legal swim gets at
least 7 points. The points are carried over each year, so if you
participated last year and ended with 40 points that is where you will
start this year.
At 50 and 100 points you will receive a trophy, at 150 points you
receive a plaque. Each 50 points after that you will get a star
to put into your plaque. If you swim in 3 meets and still do not
earn 50 points you will receive a participation trophy.
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Sun Country Meet
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We have received some initial information on the meet and it will be
run a little different than in the past. Friday will start about
3pm and will be timed finals. That evening there will be a BBQ
for all the swimmers and families hosted at the pool by the Bend swim
club. Saturday will be prelims/finals, and Sunday will be timed
finals that should end approximatly around noon.
This year the Qual time will be the 13 y.o. A time.
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Albany Meets
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The results from the
May meet have been posted on the Long Course schedule page.
The entries for the June meet are due by Wednesday the 7th. Last
year we were shut out of this meet because I waited until after the CAT
open to get our entries in. Please get them in and we might be
able to change events after the CAT open if we need to. After
this meet we only have two more LC meets until champs. The summer
goes by so fast!
The information for the Mike Morris meet will be put in your mailbox
this week. I need them back by Monday May, 19.
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Newsweek Articles
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Rick came across
these two articles out of Newsweek and
wanted me to put them up for everyone to read.
The first one Stronger, Faster, Smarter
discusses the effects exercise has on cognitive abilities.
The Other article, Exercise
State of the Mind gets
into the physiological effects exercise has on the brain and neural
development.
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| Follow
the Black Line |
In practice it is
important to circle swim so nobody gets injured, but in meets it is
just
as important to swim in the middle of the lane. I have caught
many
of you circle swimming at meets and we have talked about it after your
race.
We came across this short article by Jan Prins in Swimming World. Jan is a
professor of kinesiology at the University of Hawaii.
It isn't often when we can sound both
frivolous and deadly serious at the same time. This is one of
those occasions because, distilled to its purest form, the winner in
our sport is the swimmer who stays as close to a straight-line path as
possible and covers this path in the shortest possible time.
How this is accomplished is complicated, but
in the realm of biomechanics, this is where we usually start - by
examining the most fundamental concepts associated with motion:
distance and linear displacement.
By definition, a distinction is made between
"distance" and "displacement." While "distance" is a change in
position, "displacement" is the difference between where we start and
finish.
We can agree that in competitive swimming,
"displacement" doesn't have much practical significance because most
races start and end at the same wall. what is of importance is
"distance," which for each race is a fixed measurement.
Consider the dimensions of a typical lane in
short course meters. The swimmer moves in a rectangle, 25 meters
long and usually 2-1/2 meters wide. The diagonal distance between
the two opposite ends is 25.12 meters.
If the swimmer swims at a pace of 2
meters/second - which is a pace equal to a 50-second 100 meter swim -
and moves diagonally instead of at right angles to the walls, it will
take an additional 6-hundreths of a second to cover each length.
Multiply this by the number of lengths, and it is easy to see that
watching that black line on the bottom of the pool and not racing in
circles is critical. Also, remember: if the athlete
swims at a pace that is slower than the example, more time will be
added
to the final result.
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| The
Difference is YOU |
It has been wonderful being able to focus on coaching
full time. I have been reading some articles by Doc Counsilman,
Richard Quick, and I happened across this article by Wayne Goldsmith
that I would like everyone to read. Read
the article.
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| The Atkins diet |
The Bend Swim Club had this article on their web
site. Some of you have told me that you have already
read it but I feel
it is important enough for everyone to read. Check it
out.
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Team --
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