ELITE NEWS BULLETIN               11-27-06

 

WAVE TEAL/MARLIN BLACK TIME TRIALS, DISTANCE DERBY YIELDS 40 ADDITIONAL WINTERFEST ENTRIES FROM 18 SWIMMERS:

 

            Coach Leighann Marcelliano and Coach Ashley Johnston lobbied for a time trial for the Wave Teals and Marlin Blacks in order to see if additional swimmers had earned their way to Winterfest (held in January 2007). Boy were Leighann and Ashley right! Last Monday night Elite held a time trial and with  including Distance Derby improvement times into the mix, we were able to amend our entries and add 6 new swimmers and 40 additional swims at the big January Meet!!

           

            As a result of these two meets last week, Alexa Burkard (2), Madeleine Faust (4), Emilie Ferguson (1), Andre Guacelli (2), Erica Takahashi (1), Natalie Wetmore (5) have all earned the right to compete at Winterfest. In addition, Payton Hakes, David Lemons, Aaron Levin, Katie McGrath, Brendan Miller-Radest, Dan Muro, Dara O’Gorman, Evan O’Hara, Cristina Pick, Michelle Pick, Kaitlin Stearns & Spencer Turkington have all added swims to their schedule.

 

            Great job swimmers!!! & Congratulations!

 

DIVE IN MOVIE NIGHT THIS FRIDAY, DEC 1st:

 

            Dive In Movie Night is this Friday, December 1st at Morristown-Beard School. The event is sponsored by ESCPO. Swimmers are reminded to 1) sign-up at either MBS or NA 2) bring their floats in order to watch a shark movie on an 8 foot screen.

 

            12 & Unders are to arrive at 6 pm for pizza. Shark Tales (movie) should last until approximately 8:30 pm. 13 & Olders are to arrive at 7:30 pm for pizza. Jaws (movie) should last until 10:30 pm.

 

            Wave Blacks are reminded that there is no practice on Friday night.

 

NINE (9) HIGH SCHOOL SWIM TEAMS TO AFFECT PRACTICE TIMES IN DEC, JAN & FEB; PLEASE CHECK SCHEDULE DAILY!!!!:

 

            During the December, January and February, nine (9) high school swim teams will be using either Newark Academy or Morristown-Beard pools for practices and for meets. These additional teams will affect Elite’s practice schedule virtually every day.

 

            Newark Academy Varsity (Boys & Girls), Newark Academy Middle School and Millburn High School (Boys and Girls) use the Newark Academy prior to and after Elite Swim Practices. On days where these teams have a meet, the Elite schedule will be reduced.

 

            Morristown-Beard Varsity (Boys & Girls), Morristown Middle School and Villa Walsh use the Morristown-Beard School pool prior to Elite Swim Practices.  On days where these teams have a meet, the Elite schedule will be reduced.

 

            Wave Blacks are reminded that practice on Saturday’s will be held from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm at Morristown-Beard School.

           

TWENTY ELITE SWIMMERS HEADED TO PITTSBURGH FOR CHRISTMAS INVITATIONAL; PARENTS: THERE IS ROOM ON THE TEAM BUS FOR YOU!: 

 

            Elite will field a team of 20 swimmers (an increase over the 15 swimmers from last year) for the 45th annual Christmas Invitational Meet to be held Friday, December 15 thru Sunday, December 17 at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

            Swimmers who have qualified are: Danielle Basile, Crissy Condus, Kat Cupka, Chris Dart, Carolyn DeMeo, Priya Duvvuri, Venkatesh Duvvuri, Breana Fitzpatrick, Michelle Franks, Julianne Furdyna, Duncan Hall, Jerel Ho, David Lemons, Ricky Martin, Danielle Martinez, Austin Meszaros, Ali Morreale, Maggie Nelson, Brittany Ross & Michael Strand.

 

            The Christmas Invitational is the oldest “holiday” championship meet in the country. Elite only takes swimmers who are 13 & Older. Elite swimmers who are 12 & Under and have qualified for the Holiday Classic will be entered in that meet, which is held this year on the weekend before at Rutgers.

 

            For the 1st time, Elite has hired a full 50 passenger bus to transport the team to Pittsburgh. Parents who are considering traveling to Pittsburgh are welcome to travel on the bus; in addition, Elite is still holding a few extra rooms at the hotel. Parents whom would like to travel on the bus and/or stay at the same hotel as the team need to get in touch with Bill immediately.

ELITE TO SEND 13 TO HOLIDAY CLASSIC:

            Elite will field a 12 & Under team consisting of 13 swimmers at the prestigious 20th Annual Holiday Classic 2006 Meet held December 8th thru December 10th at Rutgers University.

            Courtney Brosnan, Jeffrey Dong, Juliet Felson, Brent Jones, Zackie Katz, Regan Kology, Aaron Levin, Michael Li, Kara Miller-Radest, Dara O’Gorman, Andrea Shepard, Kaitlin Stearns & Lindsay Stearns have qualified to compete. Holiday Classic traditionally has the most stringent qualifying times in SCY meets held in New Jersey.

REMINDER: SCHOLAR/ATHLETE AWARDS WILL BE HIGHLIGHT OF AWARDS BANQUET:

 

          With the conclusion of the 1st marking periods, swimmers are reminded that the ultimate award an Elite swimmer can earn at the season ending Awards Banquet (Sunday, March 25, 2007) will once again be the Elite Scholar-Athlete Awards. Great grades, in addition to great swim times, are required for a swimmer to earn one of these awards.

 

            These awards will be broken down into three levels:

 

1) All-American Scholar Athlete Award: Swimmer must have a 3.5 grade average and at least 1 Sectional Qualifying time. This award is actually a USA Swimming Award and will be presented by New Jersey Swimming. Elite will also provide a certificate to those swimmers who have qualified for this award.

 

2) The Elite Scholar-Athlete Gold Award: A swimmer must have all A’s and no more than 1 B (or the equivalent of all A’s and 1 B) plus at least 1 individual Junior Olympic QualifyTime

 

3) The Elite Scholar-Athlete Teal Award: Swimmer must have all A’s and B’s (of the equivalent) plus at least 1 individual Silver Qualfying Time

 

In addition to each swimmer receiving an impressive certificate from Elite acknowledging this achievement, from this season forward Elite will post the names of its scholar athletes on its website-forever acknowledging its most special scholar-athletes. 

 

Parents of grammar school students should remember that Bill will review the grading legend (assuming A’s and B’s are not given) to ascertain if the swimmer has fulfilled the academic requirements to receive the award.

 

Parents will be requested to provide the scholastic information in early March, 2007.

 

ESCPO NEWS...

           

Update from ESCPO:

 

Dive In Movie Night - Friday Dec 1 - Head Count and Parent Volunteers Needed.

 

Dust off those floats and come "Dive In''!

 

We will be featuring Shark Tales (recommended age 12 and under) at 7pm and Jaws (recommended age 13 and up) immediately following, around 8'30.  Pizza will be served starting an hour before each movie.

 

Swimmers - look for a sign up sheet at NA and MoBeard.  We need to get an accurate head count to ensure that we order the appropriate amount of food.

 

Parents - if you are interested in helping out, please email Moya at Emmiexilo@aol.com for more info.

 

LOST AND FOUND:

 

            There is a Lost and Found at Newark Academy which is already overflowing with t-shirts, sweatshirts, goggles, fins, etc. If you have lost something, check out the lost and found. AND put your name on everything you own so it can get back to you!!!