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Practice Schedule
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The senior II group is done with
practice for the season, all other groups will continue until the
15th. Both of the senior groups will start practice back up on
Sept. 8, but all of the other groups will be waiting until the 15th to
start back up.
Novice: 3-4 m-f - Greg, 6-7 m-th - Erin
Junior IA: 4:45-6:00 m-f - Erin
Junior IB: 3:30-4:45 m-f - Erin
Junior II: 5:30-7:00 m-f - Greg
Senior prep: 4-6 m-f - Greg
Senior I: 3:30-5:00 m-f - Rick
Senior II: 3:30-6:00 m-f - Rick
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Country Club Meet
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We will be having
our annual dual with the Country Club on Wednesday, August 13th, at the
Corvallis Country Club with W-ups starting at 11:30 a.m.
Depending on how many swimmers attend, we should be done around 1:00
ish.
There are no entries for this meet just show up and we will arranged
the heats on the deck.
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Olympic
Swimming Coverage
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The swimming events
start on Saturday, Aug. 9th. This year the swimming schedule is
like never before. The athletes will be swimming prelims in the
evening sessions and finals in the morning sessions. It will be
interesting to see how many are actually able to swim faster in the
mornings than they did the previous evening.
USA Swimming has been dominant at the modern Olympics. The only
time the men did not win was in 1960 when they split 4 gold medals each
with the Aussie's. The USA women's team won 5 of 7 golds that
year. In 1976 the East German women's team was the controversial
winners taking home 11 of 13 golds and 6 of 11 silver medals.
There was talk of doping, but nothing was ever proven. This year
we will need to watch out for the Aussie's, they are going to be a
tough team to beat.
NBCOlympics.com
Olympic Competition Schedule
Swimming
Order of Events
Television Listings
Olympic Medalists
Records
Athlete Bios
If you did not see the men's 4x100 relay or want to watch it again click
here. Underwater
view of the relay, not the best quality but interesting to
watch. Look on NBCOlympics.com and you can watch almost every
finals race if you are not able to stay up late to watch.
This is the closest thing that I can find to realtime
results and heat sheets.
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| Western
Zone Championships - Gresham, OR |
CAT will have a
strong representation at the Western Zone Meet Aug. 4-9. Thirteen
teams from Colorado, Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah,
Arizona, New Mexico, California, and Washington will gather at Mt Hood
Community College for the week long meet.
event
page
realtime results
Oregon Selected its 79 member team at the conclusion of our Long Course
Championship this past weekend and CAT had 12 swimmers selected.
Congratulations to Brandon Shreeve,
Erika Twenge, Jessie James, Meredith Wells, Johnny Beamer, Lauren
Allen, Hali Barkdoll, Logan Parker, Ian McPherson, Luke Pebley, Sloan
Storie, and Ben Dawley.
Tuesday:
In the 1500 Jessie and Sloan both won their respective age groups and
Meredith took off another 9 seconds and Luke took off another 24
seconds from 11 & Over champs. Johnny also bettered his time
by 21 seconds. After the 1500's team Oregon was in first
place. That is a first and it was in large part due to the
performances of the CAT swimmers. The meet concluded with the 400
fr relays and Oregon won 4 of the 8 relays expanding their lead in the
team scores.
Wednesday:
What an incredible day for CAT! All of our kids have been racing
incredibly well. The performance of the day would have to go to
Ben in the 200 bk. In the morning he qualified 7th with a 2:24.1
(best time by 1.5) and in the evening he moved up to 4th place with his
first senior sectional time of 2:20.7! Lauren made it into the
200 br final and finished 6th with a best time of 2:51.7.
Thursday:
We had several CAT swimmers make two finals today. Hali finished
7th in the 100 fly with a best time and 6th in the 400 IM, Sloan
was 4th in the 100 fly and 1st in the 400 IM winning by over 12 seconds
with a 5:10.2, Jessie won the 200 fr in a new team record and meet
record with a 2:07.65 and 3rd in the 400 IM with another new team
record of 5:09.40. Johnny took off 5 seconds in his 400 IM and
finished 4th with a 5:00.6, Ben wrapped up the meet for Oregon
with a best time of 5:11.8 and 7th place finish in the 400 IM. I
saw some great racing tonight, two days to go make sure you keep the
energy up.
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Junior Nationals
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This week CAT has three swimmers
traveling to Minneapolis, MN to compete in Junior Nationals.
Mailene Leslie, Jordan Iverson, and Jacob Pebley will all be competing.
realtime results
psych
sheet
Monday:
Mailene had a great
swim in the 800 to start the meet out for CAT. She swam a best
time by 2.5 seconds and moved from 73rd to 49th place.
Tuesday:
The CAT Junior team had a great day of racing. Jordan went into
the 200 brst in 99th and finished 60th with a best time. Jacob
finished 17th in the 200 back, winning the bonus heat in a new CAT
13-14 and Open record as well as breaking the 13-14 OSI record.
Wednesday: Jacob swam the 400 IM in 4:41.60 just missing
the OSI record, but he did better his CAT record of 4:42.4.
Thursday: Mailene moved from 60th to 46th in the 400 free
with a second best time. Jacob was just off getting a second swim
moving from 56th to 29th in the 100 back with a new CAT and OSI 13-14
record. Jordan had the swim of her meet going from 65th 21st in
the 100 brst with a one second time drop off of her Sectional
Swim. That night she moved up one place finishing 20th.
Friday: On
the final day of the meet Jacob dropped 2 tenths off of his best time,
in the 200 IM, with a new CAT record. CAT had an incredible meet
with 87% of the swims being best times.
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Upcoming
Special Events
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Nike Kids Triathlon
There is going to be a Kids Triathlon at Nike Headquarters in
Beaverton. Here is the information and registration
form. It will be held on August 17th and all participants will
receive a medal, shirt and goodie bag. If you are interested fill out
the registration form and mail it in. They can register all the
way up until the race begins-- however, if they want a shirt guaranteed
they must register by August 1st.
Please mail the completed registration forms to:
Kim Maynard
7319 SE Harnish St
Hillsboro, OR 97123
If there is any questions please contact me on this email: kim.maynard@nike.com
Open Water
Championships
The OSI Open
Water Championships are being held Sunday, Aug 24. They will
be holding a 500 and 1500 meter event at Dorena Lake just outside
Cottage Grove. The masters registration form is on the oms website.
The Emerald Aquatics coach, Gina Dohm will also be doing a clinic
(adults and kids) for $10 on sat, aug 23, 1-3pm, dorena lake. For
more information about the open water clinic or registration contact
Gina at ginadhom@earthlink.net,
541-513-5299.
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US
Open Championships
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Logan Storie and
Brittney Iverson are completing in the USA Swimming US Open in
Minneapolis Minnesota. This summer the Olympic Trials was the
National Championship, so this meet was named the US Open. It is
a very popular meet for summer college teams. On day
one Logan finished 6th in the 1500 free. On Day two
Brittney finished 29th in the 400 i.m. and on day three Logan finished
14th in the 400 free.
On Friday of the US Open Logan finished 26th in the 200 free. On the
final day of the meet Brittney finished 44th in the 200 i.m. Logan was
3rd in the 800 free with a team and Oregon Swimming open record.
realtime
results
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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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