THE
DOLPHIN
This newsletter is dedicated to
those that have come to realize that swimming is a way of
life.
The Silver
Dolphins will be back in the water the week of April 4th with a sigh of relief
from their parents. We do hope that
everyone has enjoyed the break, participating in activities you not always get
the chance to do: eating as families, relaxing and enjoying
yourselves.
All swimmers will begin their season the week of April 4th. The message service # is
216-561-3423. This number gives the
practice schedule for the following day and should be called each evening after
8:00 p.m.
The regular practice schedule is as follows:
White
Tuesday, Thursday & Friday
4:45-6:00 Hawken
Lower
Saturday
12:30-1:45
Hawken Lower
Red
Monday, Wednesday & Friday
4:45-6:00 Hawken
Lower
Saturday
12:30-1:45
Hawken Lower
Blue
Monday-Thursday
6:00-7:30 Hawken
Lower
Saturday
8:30-10:00
Hawken Lower
Bronze
Monday-Thursday
5:00-6:45 Hawken
Upper
Saturday
7:30-9:30 Hawken
Upper
Silver
Monday-Friday
5:00-7:00
CSU
Saturday
7:30-9:30
CSU
The silver group will be doing 30 minutes of dryland and 1:30 hours of
swimming
High
School/Gold
Monday-Friday
3:30-5:00 Hawken
Upper
Gold swimmers unable to drive to Jerry's practice at CSU should come to
the High School practice.
Senior
Team/Gold
Monday-Friday
5:00-7:00
CSU
Saturday
7:30-9:30
CSU
CVAC
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday
4:00-5:30
CVAC
It is
imperative that swimmers and parents understand the importance of getting
started right away. The summer swim
season is short! All the swimmers
must be in good shape by the first part of June. If you do not start on time, full
potential may not be realized this summer.
Meets
Coming up
In April we will attend the following meets:
World Championships April
LESD
Awards Presentation
The Annual LESD Awards Presentation will be on Sunday, May 8th, 12:00p.m.
– 2:00p.m. at the Hawken Lower Schools' dinning
room. The Booster Club will be
providing deserts and drinks. The
program will start immediately at 12:00pm.
We will be recognizing swimmers breaking team records, Zone, Sectional
and National qualifiers, and of course, Ideal, Most Improved, and Outstanding
swimmers in age groups, and members of the 100 second club. All swimmers will receive a gift from
Jerry. We hope everyone can attend
so that all swimmers can be recognized.
Message
Service
Please remember to call the message service daily to get the practice
schedule for the following day and any other pertinent information. The number is: 2
Student
Achievement
The following swimmers submitted their report cards with outstanding
grades: Carmella Boggess and Jalyn
Joseph. Congratulations in excelling in the
classroom!
Ideal
Swimmer
The Ideal Swimmers for the month of March include:
White:
Janavi Goldblum and Jeffrey Holland
Blue:
Elinor vanHeeckeren
Bronze:
Emily Gudbranson and Erika Jobson
Silver:
Alana Arnold and Brian Csumitta
High School:
Nicole Dumont and Ryan Neff
These swimmers
have been regular in attendance, listened well, followed directions, and lead by
example.
Outstanding Swimmer of the
Meet
The following
swimmers have been selected as the outstanding swimmers for the following
meets:
Barbara K Mini
Meet: Gabriella Cerer,
Abby Forsythe, Jubilee Winar, Joey Cerer, Luke George, Ryan Gleske, Jeff Jones,
Henry Senkfor
and Nathan Zinda.
District
Champs:
Alana Arnold, Brittany Strumbel, Micah Simpson and Kevin Stang.
Junior
Championships: Erika Jobson, Katie
Willert, John Borden, Timmy Teresczuk and Melvin Vazquez.
Sectionals:
Alyssa Kiel, Fiona O'Donnell-McCarthy and Pieter Pelser
A Message from
Jerry
We congratulate
the LESD swimmers for their fine swims throughout the indoor season. Not only did you improve your times, but
also your technique, starts and turns reflected your hard work in practice. We are proud of each of your
accomplishments and how you conducted yourself at meets and practice. You
understand that your behavior as well as excellence in the pool reflects on
yourself, your team, and of course your family.
Thanks you, also, swimmers for wearing the team suit and cap at meets and
for talking with your coach immediately after your swim to receive your splits
and critique of the race.
We are looking forward to a fine summer season for each of
you.
Thank
You
The coaches want
to thank Amanda Kiel, the meet director of the Speedo Championship Series
Sectional meet for her leadership, time and assistance in the success of the
meet. We also would like to thank
all the chairpersons, the parents, swimmers and friends who contributed to make
the Sectional meet a great success.
Thank You!
Silver Dolphins
Traveling to the Olympic Training Center
Coaches Rick
Stacy and Ian Murray are taking a contingent of 19 Silver Dolphins to the
Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs from March 30 through April 3.
Swimmers traveling to Colorado are:
Bill Anderson, Jennifer Aronoff, Rachel Borden, Ilya Byzov, Laura Clark,
Katlin Dagg, Erica Dorfman, Nicole Dumont, Erica Gliga, Louise Gliga, Annie
Holy, Ryan Holy, Brittany Legal, Tim Montague, Jeff Montague, Ryan Neff, Meghan
Stang, Brittany Strumbel and Courtney Tumbush. Swimmers enjoy this fantastic training
experience!
Parking at the
Upper School
There are still a few parents not
cooperating with this request. Parking at the Hawken Upper
School continues to be a problem. Do not park in the circle in front of the
building, even for a few minutes. This is a fire and emergency lane and by law
must be left open at all times. We are renting pool time from Hawken and must
abide by their safety rules. Local police have begun ticketing at University
School for the same problem at a ticket cost of $75.00 each. Do not be surprised if your vehicle is
towed at your own expense. You were given ample warning for more than a year
now. List of vehicles continuing to
park in the circle will be provided to the coaching staff.
Upcoming Travel
Meets – Feedback Past Due!
LESD is
considering several travel meets this spring and summer. We do not wish to contact the host teams
about a possible entry, however, unless we are certain of a positive response
from our swimmers. If you have a
SERIOUS interest in attending any or all of these meets please make a copy of
this part of the newsletter, indicate the meets you will attend and submit
information to Rick Stacy by March 8th.
Remember that swimmers must have at least one A
time in order to attend a travel meet.
If you have any questions, please call Rick Stacy at
440-951-8241
Las
Vegas (sandpipers) May 28-29 ______________
Memphis
(Tigers) June
Buffalo
(Star) July 14-17
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Meet Results Wrap -Ups
Barbara K Mini
Meet
The
write up of this meet will be included in the May
newsletter.
Short Course
Championships
Younger
Dolphin swimmers offered many impressive swims in the recently contested A
Championships and drastically outscored their competitors on other local
teams. Not the least of their
accomplishments was the ability of many LESD swimmers to come back following a
brief break and swim even faster times in finals than in prelims, a mark of well
conditioned and mentally tough swimmers.
On the female side the ten and under girls produced an impressive total
of twelve Dolphins scoring in individual events: Carrie Bencic, Emily
Gudbranson, Sara Koucheki, Emily Gaudiani, Kelsey Pinkerton, Meggie Pernsteiner,
Lizzie Aronoff, Emma Smith, Caroline Vexler, Taylor Forsythe, Elinor
vanHeeckeren, and Haley Schubert.
Two of these won individual events, Aronoff in the 50 breast (37.78) and
Gaudiani in the 200 (2:15.37) and 500 (5:56.55), while Pinkerton, Aronoff,
Gaudiani and Bencic won the 200 MR (2:17.29). In addition Gaudiani, one of a handful
of swimmers in the meet to score in every stroke, was runner-up for the high
point award. The 11-12 girls were
even more impressive, placing thirteen girls in finals: Alana Arnold, Megan Splain, Amanda
Thurman, Erica Gliga, Maryn Bieganski, Taylor Pearl, Annie Holy, Lauren Choban,
Jackie Gleske, Alex Giordano, Laura Tramer, Lindsey Quinn, and Logan
Arnold. Three produced individual
victories: Megan Splain in the 100 breast (1:13.02), Maryn Bieganski in the 100
fly (1:03.41) and Alana Arnold in the 50 free (25.93), 200 breast (2:33.58), 50 fly (27.95), 100 IM (1:04.33) and 200 IM
(2:18.62). In addition, Bieganski,
Thurman, Splain and Arnold won the 200 (1:45.86) and 400 (3:54.07) free relays
and Giordano, Splain,
On the male side the 11-12 boys were led by finalists Zach Melvin, Mike
Gaudiani, Jasen Pinkerton, Brian Csumitta, David Aronoff, Andrew Malone, and
Junior Samonte. Two Dolphins won
individual events, Melvin in the 100 IM (1:04.33) and Gaudiani in the 200 fly
(2:19.96), while Gaudiani, Alec Janda, Malone, and Melvin won the 200 free relay
(1:49.63), Gaudiani, Malone, Aronoff, and Melvin won the 400 free relay
(4:06.35), Melvin, Aronoff, Gaudiani and Malone won the 200 medley relay
(2:04.95), and Melvin, Aronoff, Gaudiani, and Janda won the 400 medley relay
(4:39.54). The ten and under boys
produced six finalists: Micah Simpson, James Martin, Austin Quinn, KJ Stang,
Marcus Contipelli, and Nikolai Levinsohn.
Stang, Contipelli, Quinn and Simpson won the 200 free relay (2:03.95) and
200 medley relay (2:21.88), while Simpson won the 50 free (28.13), 50 breast
(36.63) and 100 breast (1:23.83) and Stang won all of his events: 100 free
(1:03.52), 200 free (2:11.19), 500 (5:33.82/meet record), 50 back (31.61), 100
back (1:05.06/meet, swimmer and event record [and identical to Dolphin Shelley
Klaus's 10 and under 100 back record]), 100 fly (1:08.43), 100 IM (1:09.55) and
200 IM (2:23.74). Not surprisingly,
KJ also won the
The 13-14 girls
dominated competition throughout the meet.
Brittany Strumbel and Louise Gliga were the
The senior girls also dominated competition the entire weekend. Fiona O’Donnell McCarthy won the women’s
Junior
Championships
LESD
swimmers performed remarkably well at the Junior Championships held at the
The
Other swimmers placing in the top ten were: John Borden, Will Clements,
Beau Lajeunesse, and Kelsey Verderber.
Congratulations swimmers on a job well done!
Sectional
Meet
The 2005 Silver Dolphin Sectional Team had many outstanding performers at
the Speedo Championship Series Meet held at the
Alyssa Kiel won the
Those swimmers placing and scoring points are as follows: Bill Anderson, Jennifer Aronoff, Rachel
Borden, Ilya Byzov, Laura Clark, Sarah Dorenkott, Louise Gliga, Ryan Holy,
Brittany Legal, Emily Mekesa, Jennifer Nemeth, Pieter Pelser, Brittany Strumbel
and Luke Wilkens.