Elite News Bulletin -- 03-22-05

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SUPERB FINISH FOR JUNIOR OLYMPIC SWIMMERS: LI TO REPRESENT NEW JERSEY SWIMMING;
FARINELLA, PEPPER & AYRES IN CONSIDERATION

Competing in the premier swimming event of the Winter Season, Elite’s best attacked the 2005 New Jersey Junior Olympics with the same gusto and enthusiasm they have with all season long, capping a spectacular 7 month run with a multitude of memorable swims this past weekend at Rutgers University.

All though all 4 age groups contributed to Elite’s 363 point total (good for 22nd place out of 45 teams), Elite was led by their youngest swimmers: the 9 & 10 age group.

Michael Li, Elite’s own “Michael” phenom (the other being that Phelps kid), placed in the top 8 in each of his 9 swims, including 2nd place in both the 50 breast (36.15) and the 100 breast (1.17.39). These two swims earned Michael a berth on the New Jersey Zone Team, which will compete next week against Zone Teams from Maine thru Virginia (the “Spring” Zone team is picked from the top 2 finishers in each event at JO’s whom apply for the team). Li’s 9 swims contributed 121 points toward Elite’s score.

Also earning a place among the premier swimmers in the state were Elite’s 9 & 10 girls duo of Alyssa Pepper and Kaitlin Farinella. Pepper started the action Friday by dropping 2+ seconds in her 50 back swim, placing 3rd with a fabulous 34.31 time. Equally stunning, Farinella followed up on Saturday by nailing her 50 free swim with a 29.55 time, which also placed her 3rd overall. On Sunday, both girls got into the act as Farinella cruised to a 5th place finish in the 100 free (1.06.03) while Pepper followed with another 3rd place finish in the 100 back with a 1.15.63 time. By reason of their 3rd place finishes, both Farinella and Pepper will be considered for the New Jersey Zone Team, to be picked this week from the applicants.

Joining Farinella and Pepper on their 5th place freestyle relay and the 6th place medley relay were Courtney Brosnan and Jacquelyn Mullens, both whom contributed fast relays splits.

Seventeen year old Jeffrey Ayres, finishing up his spectacular Elite career, qualified for finals in both the 100 breast and the 200 breast stroke events. In both final performances, Jeff improved on his morning efforts by placing 12th in the 100 breast (1.03.09) and 11th in the 200 breast (2.17.89). Ayres also placed 14th in the 1650 (a mile swim) free with a personal best of 17.32.65. Lastly, Jeff surpassed two magical time barriers for the 1st time with his sprint freestyle efforts: 1) swimming under 1.50 for the 1st time in the 200 free (1.49.41) in his opening weekend swim and 2) under 50 seconds in the 100 free with a 49.82-only the 3rd Elite swimmer to go under 50 seconds. Ayres, by reason of his fabulous breaststroke swims plus a newly instituted rule preventing Sectional qualifiers a berth on the Zone team, will also be under consideration for the New Jersey Zone Team.

Maggie Beaudouin, Elite’s 14 year old star, added brilliant 15th place swims in 3 events: the 200 free (2.01.87), the 1000 free (11.12.26- a 12 second drop) and the 1650 free (18.55.78-a 22 second drop).

Rounding out the individual Elite scorers, twelve year old and 1st time JO qualifier Danielle Martinez torpedoed to a 15th place finish with a 2 second drop in her 50 back swim (31.86).

Several boys relays also provided noteworthy swims:

1) Boys Open 800 yard free relay consisting of Austin Meszaros, Nick Trojanowski, Ryan Kiley and Jeff Ayres placed 12th overall

2) Jeff Ruhle joined Meszaros, Trojanowski and Ayres on the 11th place boys 15-19 400 yard free relay

3) Ruhle (back), Jon Denby (breast), Kiley (fly) and Meszaros (free) placed 12th in the boys 15-19 400 medley relay

4) Venkatesh Duvvuri (back), Christian DeFluri (breast), Ned Scott (fly) and Henry Scott (free) placed 13th in the boys 13-14 400 medley relay

5) Peter Davey (back), Michael Li (breast), Chris Plunkett (fly) and Krishna Duvvuri (free) placed 13th in the boys 10 & Under 200 Medley relay

6) Davey, Duvvuri, and Li were joined by Ben Inglese on the 12th place finish of the Boys 10 & Under 200 Free Relay

Swimmers whom qualified and participated for individual JO events were:

Jeffrey Ayres (8) Maggie Beaudouin (7) Courtney Brosnan (1) Victoria D’Altrui (1) Peter Davey Christian DeFluri (3) Carolyn DeMeo Jonathan Denby (1) Claire DiGiacomo Shelby Dixon Priya Duvvuri (3)

Kaitlin Farinella (5) Breana Fitzpatrick (1) Duncan Hall (6) Ryan Kiley Michael Li (6) Rachel Lieberberg (1) Danielle Martinez (2) Colleen Mason Meghan Montagna Maggie Nelson (1) Alyssa Pepper (6)

Matthew Poloniak Brittany Ross (2) Nicki Ross (3) Jeffrey Ruhle Lindsay Scott Ned Scott (1) Veronica Smith Nick Trojanowski (3) Lydia Vollavanh (1)

TRYOUTS TO BE HELD THIS WEEK FOR SPRING SESSION OPENINGS

Elite will hold tryouts Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for swimmers whom would like to join Elite this spring. Each tryout will be held at 4:30 pm at Newark Academy. On Tuesday, the tryouts will be held for swimmers 10 & Under. On Wednesday, the tryouts will be held for swimmers 11 & Older and on Thursday, Elite will hold a make-up tryout for those who missed the 1st two days.

SPRING SESSION ROSTER

Elite will hold a spring session from Monday, April 3 thru Friday, June 10. The practice schedule will be identical to the 2004 Fall practice schedule (4:30 pm start time), allowing each training group to have the entire pool for most of their practices.

There will be organizational meetings held next week for the Seniors, Senior Preps, the Wavebuster Gold & the Wavebuster Black training groups. Information regarding these meeting was 1st announced in the Spring Session packets mailed out last month.

Each swimmer planning on participating this Spring within each of these training groups is expected to attend “their” meeting!!!

The meetings are as follows:

1) Seniors meet on Monday, March 28 at Newark Academy at 6:30 pm

2) Senior Preps meet on Tuesday, March 29 at Newark Academy at 6:30 pm

3) Wavebuster Golds meet on Wednesday, March 30 at Newark Academy at 6:30 pm

4) Wavebuster Black meet on Thursday, March 31 at Newark Academy at 6:30 pm

Swimmers who are registered for Spring Session are:

Marlin Teals: Arlynn Baer, Sam Barback, Kaity Brosnan, Maggie Burd, Will DeMartin, Avinash Duvvuri, Andrea Ferrell, Mark Kellstrom, Sean MacInnes, Cesar Munoz, Kaitlin Stearns, James Sullivan & Amber Teetsel

Marlin Blacks: Alex Aiello, Matthew Aiello, Isabelle Cherry, Frank Farinella, Madeline Faust, Katie Golway, Lydia Gracey, Zachary Katz, Aaron Levin, Michael Pepper, Maddie Stearns, Grace Thompson, Andrea Tyminski & Alex Wolfson

Wave Teals: Carly Abenstein, Arjun Arora, Courtney Brosnan, Meg Brosnan, Ryan Buckham, Nora Burd, Nicky Braunruether, Taylor Campolattaro, Emma Cherry, Brannon Cho, Joshua Choi, Spencer Cielsa, Brittany Clark, Peter Davey, Dillon Denehy, TJ Dougherty, Krishna Duvvuri, Caroline Ellis, Amna Farooqi, Kristen Fedor, Willy Friedlander, Hannah Gleason, Katie Gorman, Katie Haas, Lindsay Kellstrom, Greg Keiser, Lindsay Kellstrom, Brandon King, Regan Kology, Ricky LaSalvia, Jessie Lowe, Claire Mason, Isabella Morreale, Bud Peters, Chris Plunkett, Katie Rouse, Jonathan Scott, Andrea Shepard, Lindsay Stearns, Kara Stevens, Jennifer Torre, Nicole Weissman, Maggie Woodruff & Zach Yanes

Wave Blacks: Kristina Beaudouin, Monica Carty, Marshall Cohen, Cara Del Duca, Isabelle DeMartin, Carolyn DeMeo, Shelby Dixon, Kaitlin Farinella, Kristi Froisland, Audrey Gammel, Victoria Keiser, Sarah McGrath, Melissa Montagna, Ali Morreale, Madison Munoz, Alyssa Pepper, Zinta Putenis, Abigail Rollenhagen & Erica Takahashi

Wave Golds: Lindsay Anderson, Sarah Carragher, Victoria D’Altrui, Tad Deatly, Louise DeMartin, Kate Donatelli, Priya Duvvuri, Venkatesh Duvvuri, Lauren Fedor, Dana Gilbert, Duncan Hall, Kim Jones, Kirsten Kellstrom, Morgan Kiley, Michael Li, Danielle Martinez, Annie McCullough, Katie McCullough, Kendall Murray, Maggie Nelson, Katie Psillakis, Katie Ragan, Nicki Ross, Amanda Scherb, Alex Smith Wang, Elyse Surette-DiMuzio & Lexi Tedesco

Senior Preps: Katie Bohan, Christian DeFluri, Sarah Donatelli, Brianna Drapeau, Alistair Hall, Abbey Hone, Tara Juliano, Claire Mason, Meghan Montagna, Sarah Peay, Brittany Ross, Henry Scott, Kayla Wolonsky & Devan Zambito

Seniors: Danielle Basile, Maggie Beaudouin, Craig Bostwick, Corey Deatly, Jon Denby, Claire DiGiacomo, Mickey Ennis, Julianne Furdyna, Emily Gadsden, Katie Kilcullen, Andrea Luallen, Shayla McDonnell, Austin Meszaros, Will Peters, Lindsay Scott, Veronica Smith, Lily Thompson & Nick Trojanowski.

348 ELITE SWIMMERS AND PARENTS TO CELEBRATE SEASON AT “END OF THE SEASON” BANQUET

At total of 348 swimmers and parents are planning on attending Elite’s annual party ritual to be held at the Hanover Marriott Hotel’s Grand Ballroom in Whippany on Sunday, April 3.

Highlights of this year’s dinner will include: attendence awards, participation awards, a slide show and dancing (music spun by a professional DJ!!!).

In addition, 13 familys who can’t attend have generously given to the coaches gift fund!

TOP 10 TIMES NOW POSTED ON WEBSITE

Thru an excellent parental suggestion, the Top 10 Times list is now posted on Elite’s website. Thru last weekend’s Open Distance Meet, 52 Elite have added 154 new top 10 times (better than 20% of the Elite swim team!!).

The computer allows to Elite to easily keep track of the top 10 fastest times in each event ever achieved by club members within “Elite” competitions. This “Top 10” list has been updated and a copy of the list is located in the back of the mailbox located at Newark Academy.

The following swimmers have already added one or more times this season to Elite’s fastest times ever: Lauren Andriesen, Jeffrey Ayres, Danielle Basile, Courtney Brosnan, Jerry Chiu, Corey Deatly, Christian DeFluri, Carolyn DeMeo, Jonathan Denby, Shelby Dixon, Sarah Donatelli, Brianna Drapeau, Priya Duvvuri, Venkatesh Duvvuri, Mickey Ennis, Kevin Estok, Frank Farinella, Kaitlin Farinella, Breana Fitzpatrick, Julianne Furdyna, Duncan Hall, Ben Inglese, Zackie Katz, Katie Kilcullen, Aaron Levin, Michael Li, Rachel Lieberberg, Andrea Luallen-Egg, Danielle Martinez, Collen Mason, Annie McCullough, Shayla McDonnell, Austin Meszaros, Meghan Montagna, Alix Ober, Alyssa Pepper, Michael Pepper, Brittany Ross, Nicki Ross, Jeffrey Ruhle, Henry Scott, Lindsay Scott, Ned Scott, Veronica Smith, Lindsay Stearns, Kara Stevens, Lily Thompson, Nick Trojanowski, Lydia Vollavanh & Devan Zambito.

SUMMER: THINK SWIM CAMPS

When planning the upcoming summer, please consider sending your Elite swimmer to one of the numerous swim camps available within driving distance.

Each summer, numerous Elite swimmers spend a rewarding week (or two) at a summer swim camp. The benefits of such a camp are: 1) individual attention by reknown swim coaches 2) an increased knowledge of the sport of swimming and 3) personal growth that occurs as a result of “being on one’s own.”

The formula that seems to work best is finding an Elite friend to spend the week with at the swim camp.

If you are considering sending your swimmer to a swim camp, now is the time to do the research and make decisions (many of these camps are sold out by mid-Spring). In the back of the mailbox, there are a list of swim camps which Elite swimmers have attended in the past and where to find more information about each camp. In addition, Bill can email this list to you at your request. This summer: think Swim Camps!!

NJ TIME STANDARDS POSTED ON ELITE’S WEBSITE

Time Standards for the End of the Season Championship Meets have been adopted by New Jersey Swimming, are posted on Elite’s website (under time standards) and are posted on the wall at Newark Academy. These standards are final for the 2004-05 season.

PRACTICE SCHEDULE THIS WEEK

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MONDAY
3-28-2005

SPRING SENIOR
ORGANIZATIONAL
MEETING
D: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

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TUESDAY
3-29-05

SPRING SENIOR PREP
ORGANIZATIONAL
MEETING
D: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

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WEDNESDAY
3-30-05

SPRING WAVE GOLD
ORGANIZATIONAL
MEETING
D: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

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THURSDAY
3-31-05

SPRING WAVE BLACK
ORGANIZATIONAL
MEETING
D: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM