We Are Swimmers by Claire Doerr
Swimmers don’t swim because it’s fun. Ask any of
us--- most of us hate it. But we couldn’t imagine
our lives without it. It’s part of us. It's
something we live for. We live for the 2-hour
practices, the team parties, the cheers, the long
bus rides, the invitational's, the countless swim
caps, the chlorine, the jokes, the friendships, the
laughs, the coaches you love and hate, but
appreciate later.
(read the rest of this writing here)
Interested in a Swim camp this summer?
Check out what is available at our own SPIRE
Institute here.
Check out what is available at Hawken here.
SPIRE LESD Baseball Outing
Friday, July 13th
more info on how to get tickets here.
Congrats
to our USA Swimming Sectional Team competing at
Miami University of Ohio from March 22-25. Results
here.
Carrie Bencic,
Jordan Bitterman, Kaitlyn Cerne, Morgan Cohara,
Marissa Cominelli, Nicholas Crane,
Claire
Doerr,
Sarah Koucheki, Amber Kovach,
Michelle LaVan, Brittany Menzer, Jeremy Preston,
Austin Quinn, Skyler Shinn, Micah
Simpson, Kevin Stang, and Jubilee Winar
GOLD CHAMPS
Despite the absence of a number of outstanding
Dolphin senior swimmers competing in the Columbus
Grand Prix, SPIRE-LESD dominated the 2012 LSC
Championship Meet at CSU. Easily winning both the
female and male sides of the meet, the Dolphins
totaled 2404 points (a total exceeding the scores of
the next four ranking teams in the meet) and
continued their streak of LSC championships
extending to 1968. Dolphin swimmers demonstrated
both quality and quantity in dominating the meet and
produced many outstanding individual performances,
with the ten and under girls and the 11-12 boys
easily winning their age groups and earning the
famed “pizza” party award.
SPIRE LESD’s
8 & Unders had a fantastic season finish, winning the
2012 Barbara K. Minimeet in Worthington, Ohio. We
came in first with about 1100 points
Ingrid Tekieli, Ava Shaker,
and Sarah Pophal at Barbara Kay.
Left to right: Nick West, Connor Brown, Ben
Stuk (back), Alex P0drez, Isaac Shaker,
Jared Eyler, Vince Elmore and Will Dietz at
Barbara Kay.
Congrats to the
following 16 Dolphins qualifying to participate in
the Mid States Quad Championships:
Austin Bruck, Maggie Cha, Will Chan, Claire Doerr,
Anne Evans, Sophie Feldman, Nathan Herman, Jonah
Katz, Amber Kovach, Leah Marks, Brittany Menzer, Emma Meyer,
Sylvia Stewart –Bates, Charlie Stewart-Bates, Summer
Svitavsky, Heather Svitavsky, Dominic Zanella
Special thanks
to Ronald McDonald Intrasquad Meet Director, Jim
Elmore for organizing a wonderful competition at Hawken Upper Pool.
The Dolphins continue to whole heartedly support the
Ronald McDonald House in Cleveland. Great job
parents and swimmers!
The December Meet raised more than $1200.00.
BRAINS and BRAWN---USA Swimming's Scholastic
All-America Team
Each year, USA
Swimming recognizes its members who excel both in
the classroom and in the pool.
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To be eligible for this recognition, swimmers must
have completed 10th, 11th or 12th grade and must be
a USA Swimming member athlete.
Qualifications include a minimum of a 3.50GPA and
specific qualifying times. Complete application info
can be found on the website (click logo)
This year, over 1,700 student-athletes made the
grade including fourteen Silver Dolphins.
Those swimmers named to
the Scholastic All – American team include
Elizabeth Aronoff 11th grade, Kathryn Babbin
10th grade, Carrie Bencic 10th grade, Morgan Cohara
11th grade, Marissa Cominelli 10th grade, Emily
Gudbranson 11th grade, Stephanie Nemeth 11th grade,
Claire Savage 10th grade, Jodi Turk 11th grade,
Lauren Vavruska 10th grade, Caroline Vexler 10th
grade, Mike Gaudiani 12th grade, Austin Quinn 10th
grade, Davis Staley 11th grade
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Open
Water Nationals recently completed in Ft Meyers
Florida. 
