ELITE NEWS BULLETIN               05-22-06

 

ELITE AGE GROUPERS REMEMBER WHY THEIR TRAINING;

UNLEASE FAST TIMES AT LEAGUE CHAMPS!!!:

 

After 2 months of technique work, the Elite Age Group swimmers were back to racing yesterday at the League Championship Meet held at the Boys and Girls Club of Union. And the results were extremely impressive.

 

Although many Elite swimmers were competing in their “off” events (Elite used this meet to get times on swimmers in events they did not swim at championships in March), many Elite swimmers performed magnificently.

 

             Leading the way for Elite were:

 

            1) 9 year old Zackie Katz won the Boys 9-10 50 breast with a 2006-07 Junior Olympic qualifying time of 43.89

 

            2) Gregory Keiser placed 1st in the Boys 11-12 50 Backstroke with a 35.62 time

 

            3) Kendall Murray won the Girls 15 & Older 100 Back with a 1.20.13 time

           

            4) Krishna Duvvuri won the Boys 11-12 50 Butterfly with a 35.62       

 

            5) David Lemons finished 1st with a 54.87 in the Boys 15 & Older 100 free

 

            6) Kirsten Kellstrom placed 1st in the Girls 15 & Older 100 Breast with a 1.26.62 time

 

            In addition to these winners, the following swimmers placed 2nd:

 

            Peter Davey (Boys 11-12 200 IM-2.47.39), Shelby Dixon (Girls 13-14 100 Fly-1.14.14), Spencer Fisch (11-12 50 Back-36.21), Brent Jones (11-12 50 Fly-38.34), Zackie Katz (Boys 10 & U 100 IM-1.27.21), Greg Keiser –twice (Boys 11-12 50 Free-30.71 & 50 Breast-36.09), Kirsten Kellstrom (Girls 15 & O 200 IM 2.45.29), David Lemons (Boys 15 & Older-200 IM-2.21.02), Aaron Levin (Boys 8 & U 50 Fly-49.41), Robert Maloney (Boys 13-14 100 Fly-1.18.07), Kendall Murray (Girls 15 & O 100 Free-1.11.65).

 

            At press time, the official meet results had not yet been sent to Elite. This section will be updated as soon as the information is made available. In addition, the final results will be posted on the Elite website.

 

Swimmers who participated were (# in parathesis is # of Elite best times): Lindsay Anderson (), Arlynn Baer (), Chrs Balbo (), Megan Balbo (3), Eric Binder (), Alexa Burkard (3), John Burns (), Jimmy Campbell (3), Taylor Campolattaro (), Monica Carty (), Brannon Cho (), Josh Choi (), Marshall Cohen (), Jonny Crowther (3), Peter Davey (), Daniel DeMeo (), Parker Dixon (), Shelby Dixon (), Jeffery Dong (), Amy Duren (), Corey Duren (), Sam Duren (), Avinash Duvvuri, Krishna Duvvuri (), Noah Eagle (), Caroline Ellis (), Helena Elston (), Brandon Faris (), Madeleine Faust (), Kristen Fedor (), Andrea Ferrell (), Spencer Fisch (), Audrey Gammel (), Emily Goad (), Katie Golway (), Alexandra Gordon (), Dominique Gordon (), Katie Gorman (), Lydia Gracey (), Andrea Guacelli (), Julia Guacelli (), Brent Jones (), Zackie Katz (), Greg Keiser (), Victoria Keiser (), Kirsten Kellstrom (), Mark Kellstrom (), Micheal Kellstrom (), Caroline Kelly (), Lauren Kelly (), Brandon King (), Sarah Kleppe (), Regan Kology (), Emmie Lai (), Patrick Lai (), David Lemons (), Aaron Levin (), Jessie Lowe (), Sarah Lowe (), Robert Maloney (), Katie McGrath (), Sarah McGrath (), Brendon Miller-Radest (), Kara Miller-Radest (), Isabella Morreale (), Cezar Munoz (), Daniel Muro (), Julia Muro (), Kendall Murray (), Rebecca Niccolai (), Nicholas Pachiolo (3), Christina Pick (), Gabrielle Pick (), Michelle Pick (), Chris Plunkett (), Katie Ragan (), Collin Reilly (), Taylor Savarese (), Amanda Scherb (), Jonathon Scott (), Andrea Shepard () Bethany Stachenfeld (), Kaitlin Stearns (), Lindsay Stearns (), Erica Takahashi (), Lexi Tedesco (), Emily Torre (), Jennifer Torre (), Spencer Turkington (), Andrea Tyminski (), Michael Wang (), Caroline Watt (), Sarah Weinbrom (), Natalie Wetmore (), Paige Willian () &  Maggie Woodruff ()

 

COLLEGE NITE IS THIS WEDNESDAY, MAY 24 AT NA:

 

            In an effort to provide parents AND swimmers with insight into the “college hunting” process, Elite will hold a “College Nite” for parents and high school students on Wednesday, May 24 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm at Newark Academy.

 

All high school athletes are invited (and strongly encouraged) to attend. High School athletes are defined as 8th thru 11th graders. Since Bill feels this meeting is so important, he has cancelled Senior and Senior Prep practice that night to further encourage Elite swimmers to attend!!!

 

Margery Slonaker of Best Foot Forward will once again join Elite during the discussion. Thru Best Foot Forward, Margery has been instrumental in helping local student/athletes get into prestigious universities for more than a decade. Her clients have been accepted into some of the country’s best colleges including Princeton, Harvard, Brown, Amherst, Middlebury, Lehigh, Georgetown, Colgate and the University of Maryland. Parents are welcome to visit Best Foot Forward’s website at www.bestftforward.com.

 

This year’s program will be a round table discussion with Elite Seniors in High School and their parents asked to participate. Since getting into small liberal arts college has become increasingly difficult, the College Nite is an effort by Elite to share the collective wisdom it has regarding the college hunting process with all its high school age members.

 

DAVID DART ELECTED PRESIDENT OF PARENTS ORGANIZATION, LAI (VP) AND WEISSMAN (TREASURER) ALSO TAKE IMPORTANT POSTS:

 

The Elite Parents Organization made huge strides last week as it elected officers of the organization for the 1st time. David Dart was elected the initial President while Moya Chew-Lai was elected Vice President and Steve Weissman was elected Treasurer.

 

The Elite Parents Organization main focus will be fundraising and distributing these funds to the Elite swimmers in the form of equipment purchases, training trip scholarships, award dinner gifts, etc. This organization will be a completely separate organization for the Club and will completely control its own funds.

 

The officers have tentatively set Wednesday, June 7 as its 1st board meeting.

 

30 SWIMMERS RAISE OVER $3,000 FOR THEIR CHARITY:

 

In truly demonstrating their “Eliteness,” 30 swimmers unselfishly swam (frolicked?) for two hours to raise money for their favorite charities last Saturday afternoon at Morristown-Beard School.

 

Corey Deatly, who coordinated this year’s fundraiser, reports that preliminary information indicates that Elite has raised over $3,000!!! Corey asks that all participants email her with the amount they collected and the charity they chose to honor.

 

 Like the previous four Elite-a-thons, this year’s event was structured so each indvidual participating raised money for the “charity of their choice.” Swimmers got their family and friends to “sponsor” their swims, which money is then donated to the charity of their choice. The 1st four Elite-a-thon’s raised a combinted total of approximately $30,000. Elite also raised in excess of $9,000 this past fall for Hurricane Katrina victims.

 

For the 3rd year in a row, Bill swam and he completed 40 laps. Bill’s swim will raise money for Friends In Adoption, an agency that coordinates and helps the transition period of adoptions. A great thanks to those swimmers and parents who pledged $410 towards Bill’s charity. Checks are to be made out to: Friends in Adoption and can be left in Bill’s mailbox at Newark Academy or mailed to Bill at 32 Prospect Street Summit New Jersey 07901. 

 

Elite swimmers who participated were: Chris Balbo, Megan Balbo, Jimmy Campbell, Brannon Cho, Jonny Crowther, Chris Dart, Corey Deatly, Tad Deatly, Shebly Dixon, Andrea Ferrell, Spencer Fisch, Michelle Franks, Duncan Hall, Emmie Lai, Jessie Lowe, Sarah Lowe, Michael Kellstrom, Katie McGrath, Maggie Nelson, Alana Pasquale, Dante Pasquale, Christina Pick, Gabrielle Pick, Michelle Pick, Brittany Ross, Kaitlin Stearns, Lindsay Stearns, Michael Strand, Erica Takahashi, Andrea Tyminski.  

 

LONG COURSE PRACTICE A SUCCESS; OPPORTUNITIES FOR WAVE GOLDS TO TRAIN LONG COURSE OFFERED:

 

            In what Bill believes is a real coup, Elite Seniors and Senior Preps began their long course training 5 weeks early this year by training at the “”heated” Summit Municipal Pool last Monday (May 15). Elite will train in Summit thru Saturday, June 17.

 

            Long Course training (swimming in a pool that is 50 meters long as opposed to 25 yards-Newark Academy or 25 meters-Morristown-Beard) is superior training for 2 reasons: 1) swimming twice as far while reducing the number of turns by half significantly builds endurance and 2) as the body tires, it fights to become more efficient-thus, stroke technique actually improves due to a necessity!!!

 

             This spring, on those days when Elite is unable to train at NA and MBS (such as Saturday, May 27 & Tuesday, May 30), the Wave Golds will be invited to train long course at the Summit Municipal Pool.   

 

            In addition, this Summer, all Wave Golds are offered the option each day to train at the venue of their choice: either long course at Springfield Municipal Pool from 6:00 am to 8:15 am or at Morristown-Beard School from 4 pm to 6 pm. The Wave Golds can choose which pool to practice at on a day-by-day basis. The Wave Golds are not offered to swim doubles (they can not swim at both practices on the same day). 

 

NEW JERSEY SWIMMING WEBSITE REVISED; MUCH IMPROVED: CHECK OUT THE TOP 50!!!

 

            Roger Ridenour, head coach of the Bergen Barracudas, has singlehandedly revised New Jersey Swimming’s website taking it from a stale bulletin board to a vibrant and living website full of New Jersey and USA Swimming information.

 

            The site, located at njswim.org., has top 50 lists, results from swim meets, time standards, state records, policies, history of New Jersey Olympians and much, much more.

 

            Swimmers ought to check out if they have times in the top 50 –now posted on the website under Top 25 times.

 

            Check out New Jersey Swimming’s new website for your swim information fix!!!

 

BILL AVAILABLE FOR SUMMER SWIM CLINICS:

 

            Over the past 10 summers, Bill has provided dozens of free instructional clinics at local summer swim clubs in the area. Designed to promote both swimming as a sport and Elite to seasonal swimmers, these clinics are provided for swimmers of all ages and abilities.

 

            Usually held during a summer club’s pool during swim practice time, the clinics touch upon the body position and balance drills that are the foundation of Elite’s teaching system. The clinics generally last about 1 hour.

 

            In the recent past, Bill has held clinics at the Racquets Club, East Hanover Community Pool, Millburn Community Pool, Chatham Fish & Game Club, Stardust Swim Club, Beacon Hill & Glacier Hills.

 

            Elite parents whom are involved with their local swim clubs are welcome to contact Bill to set up a date this summer for a clinic!!! 

 

SUMMER LONG COURSE MEET SCHEDULE REVISED:

 

            For those planning ahead, Elite swimmers in the Wave Blacks, Wave Golds, Senior Preps and Seniors are expected to participate in the following long course meets:

 

            1) Heat Madness: held at Rutgers on Saturday, June 3. Meet Information now posted

 

            2) Summer Solstice: held at Rutgers) on Saturday, June 17 & Sunday, June 18. Meet Information now posted

 

            3) Seniors Only: Summer Sizzle on Friday, June 23 thru Sunday, June 25 at Rutgers.  Meet Information now posted

 

4)  Either 12 & Under Silvers will be held Saturday, July 15 and Sunday, July 16 at Rutgers (same weekend as in the past) or 13 & Older Silvers will be held Saturday, July 22 and Sunday, July 23 at Rutgers (same weekend as in the past).

 

5) Bronze Championships will be held on Saturday, July 29 and Sunday, July 30 in Bayonne (at an outside venue!).

 

            6) Due to a entry deadline situation pertaining to the Summer Zones Competition, Junior Olympics WILL LIKELY BE MOVED TO Friday, July 28, Saturday July 29 & Sunday July 30 at Rutgers University. NJ Swimming is awaiting final approval from Rutgers University for the date change.