ELITE NEWS BULLETIN 12-20-10
“Cultivating Excellence in Academics, Character and Swimming”
FUTURE STARS SHINE;
P. CARCHIA, A. LEVY EACH PLACE 2ND AT CANDY CANE;
BOTH EARN SILVER TIMES;
Elite’s future stars shone brightly yesterday, as all Elite 8 & Unders participated in the annual Candy Cane Classic swim meet hosted by Somerset Hills YMCA at SHY’s Basking Ridge facility.
Both Alyssa Levy and Peter Carchia earned Silver times for 10 & Unders, quite an accomplishment for 8 year olds.
With her 43.66 Silver Time performance in the 50 back, 8 year old Alyssa Levy placed 2nd overall. Levy followed up with a 3rd place finish in the 100 free (1.28.07-6.6 second drop!). Alyssa also placed 6th in the 100 IM (1.41.41).
8 year old Peter Carchia placed 2nd in the 50 fly, with his Silver time of 42.66. Peter was also 4th in the 50 free (37.06).
8 year old Ben Campbell placed in the top 8 in all three of his events: placing 4th in the 100 IM (1.40.58), placing 5th in the 50 free (37.61) and placing 7th in the 50 fly (50.15).
8 year old Grace Levy touched 4th in the 50 fly with her 48.59 performance after placing 8th in the 50 free (40.54).
8 year old Will Nash matched Levy’s 4th & 8th place performance, finishing 4th in the 50 back (44.74) and 8th in the 50 breast (52.35).
8 year old Jonathan Kao placed 7th in the 50 breast (just ahead of Nash) with his 51.26 swim.
8 year old Doris Xia placed 8th twice: 1st with her 50 breast swim of 51.90 and then with her 100 IM time of 1.43.18.
8 year old Isabella Beltran grabbed an 8th place finish in the 100 free (1.35.89).
Full results are posted on the team website.
Swimmers who participated (# in parathesis is number of best Elite SCY best times): Tara Balan (2), Milind Bangalore (1), Sheetal Bangalore (2), Isabella Beltran (2), Cordelia Burn (2), Ben Campbell (3), Jessica Carchia (1), Peter Carchia (3), Aaron Damesek (3), Katharina Dowlin (3), Jeffrey Ho, Jonathan Kao (1), Hardie Kressler (2), Sophie Lawrence (2), Grace Levey (3), Alyssa Levy (3), Paige McBoyle (1), Will Nash (2), Joe Siracusa (3), Dante Soriano (1), Doris Xia (2) & Grace Zinn (2).
KRYSTAL SPLEPIAN JOINS ELITE COACHING
STAFF:
Krystal Slepian, a long time friend of Elite thru her coaching at rival
Sea Dragon Swim Club, has joined the Elite Coaching Staff. Krystal’s two
daughters, Sarah and Sydney, have also joined Elite as swimmers.
Krystal will be coaching
within Elite’s Age Group program, helping out with stroke technique in the Wavebuster Teals, Wavebuster
Black and Wavebuster Golds
training groups.
In her swimming days,
Krystal was an Olympic Trials qualifier in the distance freestyle events.
Both Sarah and Sydney
are accomplished swimmers. At Junior Olympics last spring, Sarah won the high
point award for 11-12 Girls. Sarah also already has 3 Sectional qualifying
times and is close to qualifying several other events. Sydney, as a 9 year old,
already has 5 JO cuts.
WINTERFEST ENTRIES UPDATED; PRINCETON
ENTRIES TO BE POSTED SHORTLY:
Based upon yesterday’s performances, Elite was able to modify its entries for Winterfest 2010, adding those swimmers and swims achieved at Gator Grid Iron.
Meet information for Princeton Invitational (Elite co-hosts this meet at Princeton University) should be sanctioned shortly. As a result, Elite will post those entries this week. An attempt will be made to provide as many different events per swimmer between the two meets (Winterfest-qualifying meet & Princeton-Open Meet) held in January.
TOP 10 ALL TIME SWIMS UPDATED AGAIN ON
TEAM WEBSITE:
Elite proudly displays its Top 10 All Time Best Times on its team website. The list for Short Course Yards (SCY) has been updated on the website thru Holiday Classic. Check it out!!
….JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE NOT TO
LOOK AT OUR PRACTICE SCHEDULE: HIGH SCHOOL MEETS TO DISRUPT PRACTICES:
In December, January and thru the middle of February, high school & middle school swim teams conduct practice and meets at the two pools Elite uses. Incredibly, a total of 7 high school and middle school teams use either Newark Academy or Morristown-Beard School during this time in addition to Elite. What these means to us is that Elite’s practices will be disrupted as meets will encroach upon Elite’s practice times.
On
days when there are no meets, Elite’s practices will be held at the usual time.
However, on those days when a high school or middle school is using one of our
pools for a meet, our practices might be shortened at the front end or on the
back end. And meets get canceled and rescheduled. So, please continue to
check the practice schedule for practice time changes on a daily basis!!
PARENTS: PLEASE BE PROMPT IN PICKING UP SWIMMERS:
Parents are requested to be prompt in picking up their swimmers at the end of practice. Recently, especially after the Wave Golds on weekdays and the Wave Teals on Saturday, swimmers have had to wait 30-45 minutes after practice for their ride.
Bill has asked the coaches to remain at practice until the last child has been picked up (for the obvious safety reasons). Coaches are more than willing to do so occasionally. But Elite coaches have other full time jobs and several are attending school in addition to their primary jobs and coaching. It is unfair to ask the coaches to spend an additional 30-40 minutes waiting for parents to pick up their children.
Elite is prompt about ending practice on time. Please help out the coaches by being prompt to pick up your child.
JOURNALISM INTERNSHIPS
AVAILABLE WITH SWIMMING WORLD AT CERA VE INVITATIONAL IN JANUARY:
Recreating the opportunity provided to New Jersey Swimmers last winter, Swimming World and Berkeley Aquatic Club will provide journal internships during the CeraVe Invitational Meet to be held January 14 thru January 16, 2011.
With the overwhelming success of the Summer 2008 Beijing Olympics and what swimming as a sport provided to that success, swimming is becoming more main-stream each year. NBC Sports has increased its coverage of high level swimming, including telecasting the Pan Pacific Games this past summer.
Swimming World, the most widely read swimming magazine, will be providing internships for those people in New Jersey to 1) to interview Olympians and top swimmers at the meet 2) to be involved in producing content for Swimming World’s magazine and website-both audio and visual and 3) to interact with the Swimming World Staff.
For the past two years, Elite swimmer Sam Duren (now a Senior Prep) took advantage of this opportunity.
Forms for applying for the
internship are attached to this memo.
TIMING
COORDINATORS ASK FOR YOUR HELP IN RESPONDING TO EMAILS:
Parents of
Elite swimmers are asked to add the following four email addresses to your
e-mail address book to ensure you receive important information regarding Elite
Hosted Meets, Timing Information for all other meets and Parent Association
Information. Adding the e-mail addresses will insure that these important
e-mails do not go to your junk/spam folder.
Carolyn Balbo
-
cbalbo@comcast.net
Sanjeeta
Mukherjee - sanjumukhe@gmail.com
Sue Duren -
sueduren@aol.com
Antone Balbo -
abalbo@comcast.net
NEXT UP: WINTERFEST; GO ELITE!!!; MEET INFORMATION POSTED; PLEASE RESPOND TO TIMER COORDINATORS
EMAILS:
Elite’s next competition will be Winterfest (qualifiers only) in early January. Information regarding these meets is posted on the team website at: http://www.eliteswimclub.org/Meet%20Schedule/homepage.htm. Please have your swimmer get in the habit of checking this page on a regular basis (and report back to you about details such as warm-up times, entries, meet locations!
WHEN IN DOUBT, CHECK THE WEBSITE:
If you have questions about Elite, your first source of information is Elite’s website located at eliteswimclub.org. When in doubt, first check the website!!!