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"This one step -
choosing a goal and staying to it - changes everything."
- Scott Reed
We have had the first
couple of meets of the New Year and they have been great signs of
what is coming this year. Like I stated in the previous e-mail
we are in the championship phase of the season and you must be
present at practice to win. What you accomplish is all based
on the choices that you make today. There are no “have
to’s” or “should’s”, there are always
choices. For example, you don’t “have to” go
to school but you choose to because you want to be successful later
on in life. When the phrases “I have to” or
“I should” pop up next time turn it around and say
“I choose to”.
The first meet of the
New Year was the annual January
Distance meet where the swimmers competed in
either the 1000 or the 1650 freestyles. We had a small squad
of swimmers in attendance at the meet. I think I will let your
teammate Chloe Meister sum up the meet with a wonderful poem she
was inspired to write:
The 1000 Freestyle
by Chloe Meister
Recently, I swam the
1000 freestyle.
It wasn’t too bad,
but it sure took a while…
At the beep, we all dove
into the pool.
People were cheering,
and the water was cool.
At the end of the
lane,
My counter didn’t
complain,
As I swam back and
forth
Again and
again.
Around lap thirty, I got
pretty tired.
But when I thought of it
this way, I was pretty inspired:
Only ten laps to
go,
Which isn’t too
far.
So if I stopped going
slow,
I’d be quite the
star!
Then I picked up the
pace,
And finished the
race.
After all forty
laps,
I thought I’d
collapse.
But I finished the
event,
And that was my
intent.
So when I was
done,
I still felt like I
won,
And it actually turned
out
To be sort of
fun!
There were 14 swimmers
in attendance where some of them were swimming either the 1000 or
1650 for the first time and some that have done it before. As
Chloe stated in her poem, it was “sort of
fun”. Challenging yourself to try new things and to do
the thing that you think you cannot do. Everyone did a great
job…
We broke 1 team record
at the distance meet:
- Tori
Webb broke the team’s record in the girls 11-12 1000
free with a time of 13:14.56.
 Now speaking of trying new
things and challenging yourself, we have had some new members join
CLUB TSUNAMI. They have
achieved this honor by first challenging themselves in practice
working on each stroke and then taking on the challenge of
competing in those strokes at the meets. The score is based
off of USA Swimming’s IMX Challenge scores. For more
information please click here (I think you need Firefox to view
this page for some reason).
- Amber
Kerico became the first member of GOLD Level by earning over
3000 points!
- Eric
Yang, Madison Gupton, and Javi
Mery have earned BRONZE
Level by achieving 1000+ points!
Each swimmer gets an
AWESOME CLUB TSUNAMI shirt stating their level and is added to the
members section of the website which can be found here or under the CLUB TSUNAMI
link. Great job to our new members…
Many of you are very
close to becoming a part of CLUB TSUNAMI so keep up the hard
work!
I have left the links
and other information off of the Weekly Waves as I am trying a new
distribution method because I don’t want that information to
get buried. I will be sending out a separate e-mail titled
“The SPLASH” which will contain ONTO
THE NEWS, PARENT’S CORNER, COACHE’S CORNER, UPCOMING
MEETS, & UPCOMING EVENTS. The various parts of the website are
always being updated with new items and it helps us communicate and
educate everyone. Please take the time to look through the
previous postings if you have not had the time to read them
before. Here is a short description of what each section will
contain.
- NUTRITION CORNER contains
relevant nutrition information that we think will help you fuel
your swimmers.
- UPCOMING
EVENTS will contain team events that will be going one
etc…this can also be found on the front page of the
webpage.
You can subscribe to the
RSS feed for the Parent’s Corner, Nutrition Corner, and
Coach’s Corner if you would like to know when new things are
put up a bit earlier. Those are written through Google’s
blogger.com
The first SPLASH will be
sent out soon…
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