ELITE NEWS BULLETIN               08-07-06

 

DART (CALIFORNIA), “ZONERS” (BUFFALO) OFF TO COMPETE AGAINST NATION’S BEST:

           

            Nine Elite swimmers will finish the Elite Long Course Summer Season this week when they compete at extremely high level competitions.

 

            Chris Dart will head to Irvine, California to compete at USA Swimming’s Junior National Championships. This meet is held for America’s finest swimmers 18 years of age or younger. By reason of his 1.00.10 time in the 100 lcm backstroke (more than 2 seconds faster than the New Jersey state record he set last summer as a 14 year old), Chris has earned the right to compete against 82 other swimmers from all over the country. Chris’s time seats him 28th.  Chris will compete on Thursday, August 10.

 

            While in California, Chris will also time trial two other events: the 200 back and the 200 IM. Results can be found on USA’s Swimming website. For those technically advanced, there is a method to watch Junior Nationals-also see the USA’s Swimming’s website.

 

            Michael Strand, Greg Keiser, Michael Li, Priya Duvvuri, Courtney Brosnan, Katie Gorman, Lindsay Stearns and Regan Kology have all earned the right to represent New Jersey Swimming in the Eastern Zone All-Star Swimming Competition to be held in Buffalo, New York starting Wednesday of this week.

 

            These 8 youngsters will be competing against the best swimmers Maine thru Virginia have to offer to see what LSC (New Jersey Swimming is a LSC) has the best talent!!!. Results of this competition can be found at starswimming.org.

 

            Best of luck to all nine!!! And remember: Have Fun!!!

 

ELITE’S TALENT POOL HAS SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED AS A RESULT OF TRYOUTS; ELITE WELCOMES THE FOLLOWING SWIMMERS: 

 

            As a result of the July 24 tryouts, the quality of swimming at Elite should significantly increase (from its best season ever) this coming season. On paper, the Winter 2006-07 team is by far the strongest squad Elite has ever assembled!!!

 

            Several of the 33 swimmers who tried out this summer and were accepted Elite’s invitation to train next season have actually already been part of the Elite Family. Some swam for Elite last winter but did not participate last spring and some participated last spring but were not on Elite’s Winter 2005-06 roster.

 

            The swimmers and the coaches of Elite welcome the following 33 swimmers into the fold and look forward to working these these swimmers in Sept:

 

            Wave Blacks:   Matt Lemons, Evan O’Hara, Sydney Todd

            Wave Teals:      Jonny Crowther, Jeffrey Dong, Victoria Fetner, Rachel Greene,

                                        Kara Miller-Radest, Caroline Nash, Rachel Torrorella &

                                        Richard Yu

            Marlin Blacks:   Alexandra Burkard, Emilie Ferguson, Payton Hakes, Katie

                                        McGrath, Killian O’Gorman, Nicholas Pachiolo & James

                                        Sullivan

            Marlin Teals:     Megan Balbo, Brielle Barba, Abbie Bigham, John Burkard,

                                        Elizabeth D’Altrui, Anna Elston, Erika Fresen, Joe Gleason,

                                        Alyssa Hartigan, Brandon Li, Sarah Lowe, Matthew Miggliozzi,

                                        Colin Miller-Radest, Spencer Todd & Emily Torre

 

MAKE UP TRYOUTS SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY, SEPT 5 AT NEWARK ACADEMY STARTING AT 4:30 PM:

 

            As a result of the registration process of existing Elite swimmers and the tryouts held last Monday, Elite will have very few openings going into the Winter 2006-07 session.

 

            However, Elite will hold “Make-Up Tryouts” on Tuesday, September 5th at Newark Academy starting at 4:30 pm for all that are interested in training with Elite this winter.

 

            Based upon the current roster, there are very few openings, particularly at the younger swimmer levels.

 

WAVE TEALS, MARLIN BLACKS & MARLIN TEALS:

SUGGESTED SUMMER WORKOUTS ON WEBSITE;

AWARDS TO BE PRESENTED FOR THE “OVER 20” CLUB:

 

            For those Wave Teals, Marlin Blacks and Marlin Teals who are “Stud-like” rather than “Slug-like,” Leighann and Bill have posted suggested workouts on Elite’s website (under Summer Workouts) for swimmers in these training groups to perform throughout the summer season.

 

            To help motivate these swimmers, Elite will provide awards (to be announced) for swimmers who complete 20 or more of these workouts (parents are requested to closely monitor the dates the workouts and type of workouts that were performed).

 

            While most of the Wave Teal, Marlin Blacks and Marlin Teal swimmers will participate at workouts and meets with their local swim clubs, doing an extra workout each day will help keep Elite swimmers practicing their body position drills and building their conditioning. These workouts are designed to remind the swimmers to stay long in the LA (LA= long axis-free & back) strokes and to get their bodies into the SA (SA= short axis-breast & fly) strokes. These workouts should be done routinely to help reminding the swimmers (and their bodies) how to swim properly.

 

            This week, Bill will post a calendar so that swimmers and parents can keep track of the dates and the workout performed. Let’s see how many awards Elite can present next fall!!!

 

SUMMER LONG COURSE MEET SCHEDULE:

 

             1) Eastern Zone Championships will be held in Buffalo, NY from Sunday, August 6 thru Saturday, August 12.

 

            2) Junior Nationals will be held Monday, August 7 thru Friday, August 11 in Irvine California.