ELITE NEWS BULLETIN 3-7-11
“Cultivating Excellence in Academics, Character and Swimming”
8 SWIMMERS ADD 16 JO CUTS TO TEAM TOTALS
AT 11-12 SILVER BRONZE;
24 DROP TIME IN 5 OR 6 SWIMS!!
DUREN, E. GORHAM, E. NG & C. PICK
(2)
WIN 5 SILVER EVENTS!!
B. LI & M. MACCHIA WIN 2 BRONZE EVENTS;
BIGHAM (2), BUCKMAN (2), DAVIDOVICH, A. DUREN, E. GORHAM
(4), B. LI (2), MALINOWSKI (2) & C. PICK (2)
ADD 14 JUNIOR OLYMIC QUALIFYING TIMES:
Week 2 of Championship Season saw more terrific swimming by Elite Swimmers as the team competed in both New Jersey Swimming’s 11-12 Silver Bronze Championships South and the Mini-Championships this past weekend.
Although there was plenty of Elite victories and JO cuts At 11-12’s, , the real story was that 24 Elite swimmers scored either 6 or 5 best times (out of 6 events swum!). This result is a direct reflection of the hard work and the dedication to coming to practice by the following swimmers who earned 5/6 best times: Abbie Bigham, Aislin Black, Schulyer Bunn, Eloise Burn, Meggie Butler, Richard Carchia, Jimmy Coyne, Nathan Davidovich, Amy Duren, Emily Gorham, Paul Guenther, Jasmine Gulati, Abby Hartwig, Alicia Iizuka, Karen Iizuka, Katie Iovel, Audrey Kim, Jessica Kraus, Brandon Li, Michael Macchia, Isabelle Malinowski, Natalie Pruitt, Joseph Romano and Vivian Xia.
At 11-12 Silver Bronze, 12 year old Christina Pick led Elite as she won both 100 IM (1.06.58) and the 200 IM (2.25.75) in the Silver Division, earning two more JO qualifying times. These were the only two events she participated in-Christina had already earned 14 JO cuts this season.
In understanding the divisions and
awards, please remember that there were really two meets being held this
weekend simultaneously: a Silver level meet and a Bronze level meet. In
addition, each age group was broken up into the specific ages 11 and 12. Thus,
the swimmers were divided by sex, specific age and by Silver and Bronze entry
times. Divisions (Silver and Bronze) were determined by their entry time.
Lastly, this meet represented only half of the 11-12 swimmers in New Jersey
Swimming, as this meet was the “South” meet; an
equally competitive meet was held simultaneously this past weekend at St.
Peter’s College in Jersey City.
12 year old Emily Gorham rocked
Raritan Valley Community College’s pool with her victory in the 500 free
(5.53.69) winning the combined Silver Bronze Event. Emily also placed 2nd
in three Silver Division events: the 200 back (2.26.96), the 100 IM (1.08.02)
and the 200 free (2.11.27)-all of which were JO qualifying times. Emily also
placed 5th in the 100 back (1.10.18).
Saving her best for last, 12 year old Amy Duren dashed to a 1st place finish
in her last event: the 50 fly (30.39-), which time earned Amy her 4th
JO cut this season. Earlier, Amy had placed 6th in the 50 back
(.33.47) in the Silver Division.
11 year old Evan Ng, only competing
one day due to a personal conflict, won the Silver 50 free in 28.12, just over
the JO cut. Evan also grabbed 5th place in the Silver 200 IM
(2.38.34).
12 year old Abbie
Bigham added JO cuts #5 & #6 to her resume, as she placed 2nd in
the Silver 200 IM (2.28.70) and 3rd in the 500 free (5.57.35). Abbie also was 5th in the Silver 200 free
(2.15.72) and 6th in the 100 back (1.10.32).
12 year old Emily Buckman
demonstrated her aerobic capacity by earning JO qualifying times in both the
500 free (6.03.60-11.4 second drop) and the 400 IM (5.27.99-17.5 second drop).
Emily’s 500 swim was a 6th place finish.
12 year old Isabelle Malinowski
doubled her JO swims by earning #s 3 & 4. Isabelle placed 3rd in
the 100 butterfly (1.10.31) and 4th in the 200 breast (2.52.42) to
go gold. Isabelle also was also 6the place in the 200 IM (2.32.96).
11 year old Brandon Li lit up the
scoreboard twice, earning his first JO cuts of the season in the 100 breast
(1.21.68-3rd place) and the 200 breast (2.56.04-2nd
place). Brandon also won the Bronze Division 100 IM (1.17.26) and placed 5th
in the Bronze in the 50 back (37.23).
12 year old Nathan Davidovich scored
his first Junior Olympic qualifying time this season in dropping .5 in his 5th
place Silver 50 backstroke swim. Nathan also placed 4th in the
Silver Division in the 100 back (1.11.86), just off the JO mark.
12 year old Matthew Critchley,
swimming in his only event of the weekend (Matt already has 12 JO cuts), dropped 57.6 seconds in the 500 free to place 5th
(and just missed his 13th JO time).
11 year old Gian
Soriano, who just recovered from being sick for more than 2 weeks, placed 5th
in the Silver Division in the 100 butterfly (1.17.66).
In Bronze Division action, Elite
swimmers also racked up impressive performances:
12 year old Michael Macchia won the 100 free
in a personal best 1.06.04.
11 year old Audrey Kim earned two 2nd
place finishes: 1) 200 free (2.28.89) and 2) 200 back (2.43.49).
11 year old Andrew Huang was 2nd
in the 50 free (30.59) and came in 4th in the 100 fly (1.23.27).
11 year old Rachel Keselman stroked
to a 2nd place finish in the 50 breast (40.71).
11 year old Katherine Friday knocked
off 2.4 seconds in the 100 butterfly to place 2nd.
In slicing off 7.8 seconds from her
200 breast time (3.11.39), 12 year old Abigail Shvorin placed 2nd in
the event.
12 year old Joseph Romano placed in
the top 6 four separate times: 3rd place in the 50 back (37.24), 4th
place in both the 100 back (1.19.82) and the 100 free (1.07.41) and 6th
place in the 100 IM (1.19.98).
12 year old Sarah Lowe earned a 3rd
place finish in the 200 IM (2.52.38) and a 4th place finish in the
100 back (1.20.12).
By eliminating 5.5 seconds from her
200 free time of (2.26.72), 12 year old Alicia Iizuka placed 3rd. Alicia followed up with a 5th
place 50 free swim of 31.16.
11 year old Jessica Kraus lopped
nearly 4 seconds off her time to place 3rd in the 200 back
(3.06.69).
11 year old Abby Hartwig
sliced 4 seconds off her 50 back to come in 4th.
11 year old Fred Nagle won a 5th
place medal in the 100 breast (1.29.36) and followed up with a 6th
place finish in the 200 breast (3.17.01).
12 year old Jimmy Coyne placed 5th
in the 200 free, by dropping over 8 seconds.
11 year old Vivian Xia knocked off
1.1 seconds from her 50 fly (34.59) to place 5th.
12 year old Karen Iizuka earned a 6th
place finish in the 50 free with her 31.11 performance.
Full results are posted on the team website.
Swimmers who participated (# in parenthesis is number of best Elite SCY best times): Abbie Bigham (6), Aislin Black (6), Emily Buckman (2), Schuyler Bunn (6), Eloise Burn (6), Meggie Butler (5), Richie Carchia (5), Jimmy Coyne (6), Matthew Critchley (1), Nathan Davidovich (6), Amy Duren (6), Katherine Friday (3), Emily Gorham (6), Paul Guenther (5), Jasmine Gulati (5), Abby Hartwig (4), Andrew Huang (4), Alicia Iizuka (6), Karen Iizuka (6), Katie Iovel (5), Rachel Keselman (3), Audrey Kim (5), Jessica Kraus (6), Brandon Li (6), Sarah Lowe (5), Michael Macchia (6), Isabelle Malinowski (5), Fred Nagle (2), Evan Ng (3), Christina Pick (2), Natalie Pruitt (6), Joseph Romano (5), Brandon Rossi (3), Katy Shepard (4), Abigail Shvorin (4), Gian Soriano (1), Katie Tselepis (4) & Vivian Xia (6).
ELITE HOSTS
2ND CHAMPIONSHIP MEET THIS COMING WEEKEND;
13-19
SILVERS/BRONZE COORIDINATION EMAIL SENT LAST WEEK;
Elite parent volunteer job assignments were sent out via email last Friday. All 13 & Over families should email Carolyn Balbo at cbalbo@comcast.net to confirm receipt of their assignment. Thank you to everyone for their help!
HEY, GREAT
SHOT OF YOU!!
DIGITAL PICTURES OF YOUR FAVORITE SWIMMER NEEDED ASAP; TRAINING GROUP PICTURES THIS WED &
THUR:
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.
In addition, all swimmers will have
their training group picture taken this Wednesday (Marlins, Wavebuster
Blacks, Wavebuster Golds,
Senior Preps and Seniors) or Thurday
(Wavebuster Teal). Please wear your white Elite t-shirt to practice that
night!!!
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
END OF SEASON NOW IN SIGHT:
CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON/MEETS, TRYOUTS & SPRING SESSION EYED:
EVERYONE TRAINS TIL FRIDAY, MARCH 11:
In keeping with its long term developmental goals for its
swimmers, Elite will provide training for all swimmers thru Friday, March 11.
Regardless of when a swimmer’s last championship meet occurs, all swimmers will
be welcome to continue to train thru March 11.
All 8 & Unders, all 9 &
10’s and all 13 thru 19 swimmers will continue training AFTER their Mini
Championship meet or AFTER their Silver/Bronze Meets. 13-19s will train thru
their Silver-Bronze Meet, to be held March 12-13. Junior Olympic, Sectional and Zone swimmers
will continue to train thru the conclusion of their last championship meet.
All
swimmers (with the probable exception of Sectional & Zone swimmers), will
begin their Spring Season together on Monday, April 4.
This schedule allows for non-JO level swimmers (and
parents) 3 weeks off between seasons (much needed mental and physical rest) and
Junior Olympic swimmers at least 2 full weeks off between sessions.
Please note that the training within each training group
will be altered during this time frame, with the post championship swimmers
grouped together in practice to work on conditioning while the pre-championship
swimmers will focus on stroke details, racing and resting for their upcoming
championship meet.
With regards to Championship Season, all Elite 8 &
Under swimmers will attend the Mini-Championships on Saturday, March 6. All
Elite 9-10’s will attend the 9-10 Silver/Bronze South Championships (Elite
hosts this meet at Newark Academy) Saturday February 26 & Sunday, February
27. All 11-12’s will attend the 11-12 Silver/Bronze South Championships to be
held on Saturday, March 5 & Sunday, March 6 at Raritan Valley Community
College. All Elite 13 & Olders will attend the 13-19 Silver/Bronze Championships
(Elite hosts this meet at Rutgers) on Saturday, March 12 & Sunday, March
13.
Tryouts
for Elite’s Spring/Summer 2011 Session will be held Tuesday, March 22 at 4:30
pm at Newark Academy. Information regarding this tryout will be posted on the
team website this week.
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.
Information regarding this scholarship opportunity is attached and the application will be posted on the NJ Swimming website shortly.
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).
SICK? COULD BE YOUR LACK OF “AT HOME” SWIMMING
DETAILS!!!
Are you sick? Got the flu, strep or a bad head cold? Your sickness is
may be caused by your own lack of swimming details!!!
Since we are in our heaviest training, swimmers are
“broken down” or tired based upon the heavy swimming workload. To stay healthy, each swimmer needs
to practice their “at home” swimming details: drinking lots of fluids, eating
properly and often, getting enough sleep and dressing properly for winter.
There are literally dozens of swimmers that ignore these vital “at home”
swimming details, and most of these swimmers end up missing significant training
and/or actually missing their meets because they do not live their “at home”
swimming details. These swimmers literally shorten their training seasons due
to their sickness!!!
Be a winner: do your swimming details at home and at school, in addition
to at the pool!!!
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: 13 & OLDER SILVER/BRONZE CHAMPS; GO ELITE!!!; MEET INFORMATION POSTED; PLEASE RESPOND TO TIMER
COORDINATORS EMAILS:
Elite’s next competition will be the team hosted 13 & Older Silver Bronze Championships for 13 & Olders Saturday, March 12 & Sunday, March 13. 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!!!