ELITE NEWS BULLETIN 3-14-11
“Cultivating Excellence in Academics, Character and Swimming”
ELDERS TRACK YOUNGSTERS FABULOUS
SILVER BRONZE PERFORMANCES;
MCGRATH WINS SILVER DIVISION 50 FREE;
I.MORREALE, RELOTA WIN BRONZE EVENTS;
GIOSTRA, I. LARAIA (2), MCGRATH (2), C.
NASH, NELSON, G. PICK (3) FINALIZE JO ROSTER WITH 10
NEW CUTS:
Following our younger
swimmers’ magnificent championship performances, the Elite 13 -19 year olds swam
brilliantly this past weekend at New Jersey Swimming’s 2011 13 & Older
Silver Bronze Championships held at Rutgers University. Elite was the lead
co-host of the meet (see next article).
This was the largest
meet of the season, with some events having up to 180 combatants. As with prior
Silver Bronze Championships, this was a 2 for 1; there were both Silver and
Bronze Divisions with awards being presented for top finishers based upon their
seed times in each division.
33 different Elite
swimmers placed within the top 8 of their division and 26 swimmers earned
either 5 or 6 best times (out of 6 swims)!!! The stats tell it all, Elite had another
fabulous meet!!
In Silver Division
action, 14 year old Katie McGrath, who has already endured years of shoulder
pain and rehabilitation despite her young age, showed her resilience and cranked
out a winning swim in the 50 free with her 26.32 second performance.
Ironically, this did not get her invited to Junior Olympics in this event as
her time was just .03 over the cut time. McGrath did however score 2 JO swims
this weekend (pushing her total to 4) with her 5th place 400 IM
finish (5.03.32) and her 8th place 200 IM finish (2.22.29). Katie
also placed 6th in the 100 free (58.08).
14 year old Gabrielle
Pick collected 3 new JO swims (for a total of 5) with her 2nd place
400 IM finish (5.00.93) and her two 3rd place finishes (200
IM-2.20.89 and 200 breast (2.43.12). Gabrielle also
earned a 7th place in the 100 breast (1.15.69).
13 year old Isabel
LaRaia notched her 2nd and 3rd JO swim as she placed 2nd
in the 200 breast (2.43.02) and 4th in the 200 IM (2.20.99).
16 year old Lindsey
Giostra rocked her last 50 in the 200 butterfly to move up 4 places and earn
her 3rd JO time. Lindsey placed 3rd with a 2.16.60.
Lindsey also placed 6th in the 400 IM (4.54.58) and 8th
in the 100 fly (1.02.51).
A pair of Elite captains placed 2nd
in their races. 18 year old Maggie Nelson earned her 2nd JO cut with
her 1.01.99 time in the 100 back while also placing 3rd twice (50
free-25.58 & 100 fly (1.01.43), 4th in the 200 fly (2.18.62) and
5th in the 100 free (55.42). In her only swim of the meet, 17 year
old Ali Morreale touched 2nd with a 25.54 time in the 50 free.
13 year old Caroline
Nash dropped 3.5 seconds in her 100 back to go gold; her 1.05.14 time earned
her a 5th place finish and a JO swim. Caroline’s 2.27.94 time in the
200 fly (just moments after her 100 free swim) placed her 3rd but
just short of a JO cut. Caroline also placed 3rd in the 200 back
(2.20.52).
14 year
old Andrea Shepard earned 2nd place finishes in two Silver events.
Andrea’s 19.23.58 time in the 1650 fell just short of the JO cut but earned her
the silver medal while her 200 back swim of 2.20.38 was also a 2nd
place but just short of JO time.
17 year old Ryan Wyer earned two 3rd place finishes (50 free-23.28 & 100 fly-56.09.
16 year old Matthew
Ahlmeyer inched closer to JO’s in 5 of his events, unfortunately to fall just
short in each. Matthew placed 4th in the 200 fly (2.09.32) and 6th
in the 400 IM (4.38.49).
16 year old Krishna
Duvvuri 4th place, 57.29 finish in the 100
back missed JO’s by less than .5. Krishna followed with a 5th place,
1.06.25 time in the 100 breast.
17 year old Sam Duren
chopped 6th seconds off his 200 breast in touching at 2.30.36 and
placed 8th with his 51.36 time in the 100 free.
17 year old Brent Jones
was 5th in the 400 IM (5.06.77) while 17 year old Emmie Lai dropped 1.1 seconds to place 6th in
the 100 fly (1.01.71).18 year old Anthony placed 6th in the 200 back
(2.10.11). 14 year old Juliet Felsen was 7th in the 200 free
(2.05.73).
In Bronze Division
action, 15 year old Isabella Morreale chopped 6 seconds off her previous best
to win the 100 butterfly in 1.05.29. Isabelle also placed 4th in the
100 free, dipping under the magical 1 minute mark for the 1st time
(59.74).
13 year old Camille Relota sliced 3.3 seconds off her 100 back time to win the event in a 1.10.36.
13 year old Morgan
Conley knocked 3.4 seconds from her 100 breast time (1.19.16) to place 2nd
in the event.
13 year old Elizabeth D’Altrui
eliminated 3.2 seconds from her 200 IM time (2.35.18) to place 3rd
overall. 16 year old Greg Macchia was 3 seconds faster in his 100 back (1.02.43)
to earn a 3rd place finish. 13 year old Jason Steinberg whacked 7
seconds off his 200 free time (2.08.21) to finish 3rd. 13 year old Abir Thakur dropped an incredible 12 seconds from his 200
breast time to place 3rd in the 200 breast (2.50.96).
17 year old Mark Berns
sprinted to a 4th place finish in the 50 free (25.56). 15 year old
Clark LaRaia dipped below 2 minutes in the 200 free (1.59.63) for a 4th
place finish. 16 year old Dan Muro clipped 1.5 seconds off his 100 fly time (1.04.28), good enough for 4th. 14 year old
Eugene Ng was 2.7 seconds faster to place 4th in the 100 fly
(1.08.71).
17 year old Lindsay Ellerthrope grabbed 5th place in the 50 free
(27.84). 15 year old Michael Nitting captured 5th place in the 100
back (1.04.20).
15 year old Darragh O’Gorman knocked nearly 8 seconds off his 200 IM
time (2.17.83) to place 6th while also placing 7th in
both the 100 back (1.04.28) and the 100 fly (1.05.18).
13 year old Cullen Walsh
earned a pair of 6 place finishes with his 18.56.87 time in the 1650 and his
5.24.25 time in the 500 free. 13 year old Danielle Peterson was 2.6 seconds
faster in her 200 free (2.16.11) to earn a 6th place finish.
16 year old Lindsay
Behar took nearly a second off her best to place 7th in the 100
breast (1.19.61).
Full results are posted
on the team website.
Swimmers who
participated (# in parenthesis is number of best Elite SCY best times): Matthew
Ahlmeyer (5), Jenni Allocco (4), Brielle Barba (6),
Lindsay Behar (5), Mark Berns (5), Katie Brosnan (5), Caitlin Brown (5), John
Chiang (4), Morgan Conley (4), Elizabeth D’Altrui (4), Anthony Don (2), Corey
Duren (5), Sam Duren (5), Avinash Duvvuri (6),
Krishna Duvvuri (3), Lindsay Ellerthorpe (4), Rachel Emodi (3), Madeleine Faust
(3), Juliet Felsen (2), Andrea Ferrell (4), Ariel Gelman (4), Lindsay Giostra (4),
Meg Hawkins (3), Brent Jones (2), Jared Kovacs (3), Emmie
Lai (3), Patrick Lai (6), Clark LaRaia (5), Isabel LaRaia (5), Michael Li,
Gregory Macchia (5), Cody Matheson (5), Katie McGrath (6), Karl Melchior (6),
Matthew Migliozzi (2), Ryan Miller (6), Ali Morreale (1), Isabella Morreale (5),
Charlotte Morrissey (2), Dan Muro (1), Caroline Nash (6), Maggie Nelson (5), Eugene
Ng (6), Michael Nitting (6), Darragh O’Gorman (6),
Nick Pachiolo (3), Danielle Peterson (6), Gabrielle
Pick (5), Camile Relota (3),
Andrea Shepard (2), Jonas Singer (2), Jason Steinberg (6), Abir
Thakur (5), Cullen Walsh (5), Caroline Watt (4), Ryan Wyer
(2) & Gloria Xu (3).
AMAZINGLY, ELITE
PARENTS ALONG WITH MCSC’S PARENTS,
PROVIDES
1724 SWIMMERS WITH 8894 SPLASH OPPORTUNITIES AT
13 & O
SILVER BRONZE;
For the 2nd time in 3 weeks, the Elite parents provided New Jersey Swimmers with thousands of splash opportunities within championship season.
The 2011 13 & Older Silver Bronze Championships, which is the largest meet held within New Jersey Swimming during the season, was the latest Elite Parent masterpiece. Our parents’ efforts, along with Morris County Swim Club’s parents, provided 1724 NJ Swimmers with 8894 splash opportunities at Rutgers University within a 36 hour time frame.
Coupled with the 9-10 Silver Bronze Championships South held 2 weeks ago at Newark Academy, Elite provided 2,272 swimmers with 11,906 “end of the season” splash opportunities.
Along the way, many coaches, parents and swimmers commented on how smoothly each meet was run. Spectacular job, parents!!!
JO RELAYS RE-SHUFFLED: COULD BE RESHUFFLED
AGAIN!
With the exciting and unpredictable swims of the past weekend, the Junior Olympic relays for 13 & Olders have been reshuffled to reflect the new best combinations. All swimmers and parents should double check the relays posted on the website. Please note that performances at JO’s could again alter the relays, as swimmers can force their way onto relays with great JO performances prior to the relays!
NEW COACH JOINS ELITE; SAY HELLO TO EMILIE HOTTAT!
Last month, local swim coach Emilie
Hottat joined Elite’s coaching staff in preparation for responsibilities this
coming spring.
On Elite’s pool deck for the past 3
weeks, Emilie is a pseudo local girl (she is actually Australian but has been
residing in Chatham NJ for most of her life). Emilie is currently the Madison High
School Girls Head Coach and was until recently, a coach with Morris County Swim
Club. Emilie has also coached in Great Falls, Montana
(under Olympic gold medalist David Berkoff) where she
went to college and has also coached and taught swimming at the Summit Y and at
Fish & Game.
Emilie’s spring responsibilities
will be stroke technician at the Wave Teal level, stroke Technician at the
Marlin Black level and coach of the Pre-Elite program being started this
spring.
Welcome Emilie!!
COACHING
ASSIGNMENTS ANNOUNCED FOR SPRING 2011:
Head Coach Bill Deatly has announced
the coaching lineup for the upcoming Spring 2011
session:
Seniors, Senior Preps & Senior
Preps-2: Head Coach: Bill Deatly
Stroke Technicians: Cindy Ross and
Michael Turkot
Wavebuster
Golds: Head Coach: Ashley Johnston
Stroke Technician: Patty Martin
Wavebuster
Blacks: Head Coach: Krystal Slepian
Stroke Technician: Patty Martin
Wavebuster
Teals: Head Coach: Michelle DuCharme
Stroke Technician: Emilie Hottat
Marlin Blacks: Head Coach: Patty
Martin
Stroke Technician: Emilie Hottat
Marlin Teals: Head Coach: Michelle
DuCharme
Stroke Technicians: Jess Kurylak, Brandy
Deatly
Pre-Elite: Head Coach: Bill Deatly
Stroke Technician: Patty Martin, Jess
Kurylak, Brandy Deatly & Emilie Hottat
RETURNING SPRING 2011 SWIMMERS LISTED ON WEBSITE:
Swimmers who have indicated they are
returning to Elite for the Spring 2011 Training
Session are now listed on the website under tryouts: http://www.eliteswimclub.org/Tryouts%202/Home%20Page.htm.
If your name is not listed and you
plan to return to Elite this spring, please contact Bill immediately.
AGAIN, ELITE WELL REPRESENTED ON ZONE COACHING
STAFF:
Once again, New Jersey Swimming’s
Eastern Zone Age Group Championship Coaching staff will be populatged
with members of Elite’s coaching staff. This spring, both Patty Martin and Emilie
Hottat will be coaches during “Zones” for NJ Swimming.
This is the 2nd time
Coach Patty Martin will a Zone Coach while this will
be Coach Emilie’s 1st stint. In the past, Elite has populated the
Zone Coaches Staff with current coaches Ashley Johnston & Michelle
DuCharme.
HEY, GREAT
SHOT OF YOU!!
DIGITAL PICTURES OF YOUR FAVORITE SWIMMER NEEDED ASAP;
ESCPO is at it again, providing
swimmers at Elite another special moment. This time, ESCPO (Elite Swim Club
Parents Organization) is planning a “memory book” for each swimmer on Elite. Most
swimmers will obtain their memory book at while attending Elite’s Annual Awards
Dinner on Sunday, April 10. ESCPO will pay for the production of this
production with no charge to the swimmers!!
In order to create this memory book,
we need great pictures of your favorite swimmer(s)!! This year, the memory book
is being coordinated by Pam Coyne pamheather@aol.com.
Parents and swimmers can provide pictures to Pam by email, by thumb drive or by
compact disk. Pam needs your pictures this week in order to turn around this
project by the Awards Dinner. One can leave their digital pictures with a coach
in the NA office or give them to Bill at MBS.
ELITE ADOPTS TEAM TRAVEL POLICY TEMPLATE:
At its annual National Convention last September (which Head Coach Bill attended as a delegate from NJ Swimming), USA Swimming adopted a number of rules regarding Athlete Protection. As part of that legislation, USA Swimming created a Model Travel Policy which now requires USA Swimming Clubs to either follow the USA Travel Policy or adopt a Club Travel Policy.
Elite has elected to adopt its own Model Team Travel Policy, which it will modify for specific team sponsored trips such as Sectionals, Junior Nationals and the Senior Training Trip.
The Team Model Travel Policy is now posted on the team website under Athlete Protection. The link is: http://www.eliteswimclub.org/Athlete%20Protection/homepage.htm. Also posted on the website are USA Swimming’s Model Travel Policy and New Jersey Swimming’s Model Travel Policy (which Head Coach Bill helped create).
Parents
should note that Elite will opt not to have chaperones on trips on a go forward
basis. Parents will be welcome to travel to the meets and training trips;
however, they will need to stay at a different hotel than the team on such
trips.
WITH SEASON END IN
SIGHT, TIME TO PLAN TO PARTY!!!
AWARDS DINNER RESERVATION FORM NOW POSTED UNDER AWARDS DINNER:
Preparations are underway for the biggest party of the season: Elite’s 16th annual Winter Swim Team Banquet!!! This year’s party will be held Sunday, April 10th from 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm.
This
year, Elite will again be at the Hanover Marriott, located at 1401 Route 10
East, Whippany, New Jersey. This facility can accommodate up to 700 people!!!
The last 9 Elite banquets have had an excess of 300 people each!!! The
reservation form is now posted on the website: http://www.eliteswimclub.org/Awards%20Dinner/homepage.html
To reserve your dinner reservations, please print out a reservation form from the website (under Awards Dinner), fill it out and mail the form with the appropriate check amount to Bill Deatly, 32 Prospect Street, Summit, New Jersey 07901. Cost per person is $55. All 12 & Under Swimmers must have at least 1 adult accompanying them.
Parents, Bill will do his best to honor your seating arrangement requests. Swimmers will be seated by Bill by training group.
Reservation forms must be in by Wednesday, March 30, 2011.
REMINDER: SCHOLAR/ATHLETE AWARDS WILL BE
HIGHLIGHT OF AWARDS BANQUET:
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 Qualify Time
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 Qualifying Time
SPRING SESSION STARTS APRIL 4:
PRACTICE
SCHEDULE SAME AS WINTER UNTIL MEMORIAL DAY:
SUMMER SCHEDULE STILL A WORK IN
PROGRESS:
All swimmers will begin the Spring
2011 Training Season on Monday, April 4 (or Tuesday, April 5). The Spring practice schedule will be identical to the Winter
2010-11 practice schedule until Memorial Day.
After Memorial Day, the Seniors,
Senior Preps and Wavebuster Golds
will train at Summit Municipal pool from Tuesday, May 31st thru Friday,
June 17 Monday thru Friday and at Morristown-Beard on Saturdays.
Marlin Blacks and Marlin Teals will train with their
normal practice schedule until Friday, June 10. There is no summer training for
Marlin Blacks or Marlin Teals this summer.
The practice schedule for June 11 thru July 30 is still
being worked on.
COLLEGE BOUND
AND SWIMMING? NJ SWIMMING SCHOLARSHIP MONEY AVAILABLE:
New Jersey Swimmers who are attending college next year and plan to swim can apply to receive a $1,250 one-time scholarship from New Jersey Swimming. The application has posted on the NJ Swimming website.
The application is now posted on the NJ Swimming website: http://www.njswim.org/
ELITE TO ADD 2
NEW TRAINING GROUPS THIS SPRING:
A SMALL TRAINING GROUP BETWEEN SENIOR
PREPS & WAVE GOLDS &
A PRE-COMPETITION TRAINING GROUP;
Elite will expand during the Spring
2011 Session by adding two training groups to the club. Each group are created to enhance the overall performance of the club.
The creation of these groups will have no affect on the training schedule of
the existing 7 training groups. The Spring 2011
Session training schedule will be identical to the Winter 2010-11 training
schedule.
Starting with the Spring 2011
Session, Elite will promote a very select group of older swimmers (mainly if
not totally Seniors-to-be in High School) into a new training group called the
Senior Preps-2. This training group will train from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at
Morristown-Beard School along with the Seniors and
Senior Preps. This group will consist of 3-10 swimmers and will train in one
lane at a MBS from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm.
Also
starting in the Spring 2011 Session, Elite will create
a Pre-Elite Program. This Pre-Elite program will actually be two programs in
one:
1) Program #1: For swimmers at the Wavebuster Teal, Marlin Black or Marlin Teal level whom would be turned away at tryouts due to lack of space
within these Elite training groups. By offering these swimmers training in the Spring 2011 (and in the Fall 2011 from Sept thru Nov 15),
Elite will be developing swimmers to enter Elite when room becomes available.
Each year, Elite experiences attrition during the season; this training group
would “feed” the Wavebuster Teals, Marlin Blacks and
Marlin Teal levels during the season when space becomes available. Swimmers in
this group will also be given priority entrance into Elite at the next tryout
if space does not become available during the season.
2) Program #2: For swimmers who are not yet at
the Marlin Teal level. This program will give these swimmers “water time” to
develop their swimming within the structure of Elite’s training system. These
swimmers will also have priority entrance into Elite upon achieving the Marlin
Teal level (when space opens up or at the next tryout).
At the moment, the plan
is for the Pre-Elite program will train 3 times a week, Monday, Wednesday and
Friday for 1 hour (4:00 pm to 5:00 pm).
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.
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: JUNIOR OLYMPICS; GO ELITE!!!; MEET INFORMATION POSTED; PLEASE RESPOND TO TIMER
COORDINATORS EMAILS:
Elite’s next competition will be New Jersey Swimming’s Junior Olympics Friday, March 18 & Sunday, March 20. Parents of all Elite swimmers 13 & Older are expected to work this meet. Information regarding these meets are 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!!!