ELITE
NEWS BULLETIN
8-1-11
“Cultivating Excellence in Academics, Character and
Swimming”
ELITE
PLACES 5TH
AT LCM JUNIOR OLYMPICS WITH 975.5
POINTS!!
11-12
GIRLS BREAK STATE RECORD
IN
200 MEDLEY RELAY!!
SEBASTIAN (2) & SLEPIAN (2) EARN SECTIONAL CUTS!!!
A DUREN (3), FU, GIOSTRA, E. IIZUKA, MALINOWSKI, C. PICK, S. SLEPIAN &
STEINBERG POST ZONE TIMES!!
A
IIZUKA (2), C. PICK (2) & A. RIZZO (3) & S. SLEPIAN WIN 8
EVENTS!!!
A RIZZO WINS 13-14 BOYS HIGH POINT RACE; SEBASTIAN 2ND IN BOYS
15 & O!!
With 975.5 points, the
Elite Swim Club placed 5th in New Jersey Swimming’s 2011
LCM Junior Olympics competition this past weekend at Rutgers
University. Elite team totals for post JO swimming now stand at: 6
swimmers qualified for 31 events at Sectionals and 24 swimmers
qualified for 97 events at Zones (both new highs)!!
Along the way, Elite broke its 2nd NJ Swimming LCM
relay record in 3 weeks! 12 year old Christina Pick (back), 12 year
old Alicia Iizuka (breast), 12 year old Emily Gorham (fly) and 12 year
old Isabelle Malinowski (free) smashed the 9 year old record by over 2
seconds. Ironically, the 2nd place team was Somerset Valley
YMCA, who also went under the old record (a role reversal of the 13-14
Girls Free Relay 3 weeks ago when SVY & ESC both broke that
record, with SVY having the faster time).
14 year old
Anthony Rizzo, who joined Elite this spring, scored 151 points (out of
a possible 180) to win the 13-14 Boys High Point Race. Anthony won the
200 free (2.06.11), the 800 free (9.10.96), the 1500 free
(17.25.98-missing a sectional cut by just 2 seconds) and placed 2nd
in the 400 free (4.22.67), the 200 IM (2.22.85) & the 400 IM
(4.59.34).
15 year old Ryan
Sebastian (who aged up less than 4 weeks ago), added 2 Sectional
qualifying times (800 free-8.55.72-1st Elite swimmer under
9 minutes & 200 fly-2.14.09) to bring his individual total to 10.
Prior to SCY JOs in March, Ryan did not have a Sectional time!!
Ryan’s times in the 200 IM, 400 IM and the 200 breast may also be
Scholastic All-America Times; USA Swimming as not yet posted these
time standards but Ryan’s times in these 3 events are lower than the
2010-11 Standards and Ryan has performed them within the designated
time period. Ryan would be the 4th Elite swimmer to earn
this prestigious award. Ryan also placed 2nd in the high
point race for his new age group with 98 points. Significantly, Ryan
is also tantalizingly close to Junior National qualifying times by
reason of his 400 IM, 2nd place finish of 4.40.73 (just 2
seconds over) and his 200 breast time of 2.29.11 (just 1.5 seconds).
13 (or 14, depending on which day as she was a birthday girl
this weekend) year old Sarah Slepian grabbed her 5th and 6th
Sectional qualifying time with finals performance in the 200 IM
(2.28.04) and her 2nd place finish in the 200 breast in
2.46.04). However, Sarah’s best race this weekend was her 8 second
drop in the 400 IM (5.08.84) to win the event.
12 year old Alicia Iizuka, in addition to participating in the
record breaking relay, won both the 100 breast (1.19.47-less than 1
second from a Sectional qualifying time!!) and the 200 breast
(2.55.61).
12 year old Christina Pick (also a birthday girl this weekend)
touched 1st in both the 200 (2.37.02) and the 400 (5.30.50)
IMs!! Christina was 3rd in the 200 back (2.37.70), 4th
in both the 400 free (4.56.89) and the 100 back (1.13.27), 5th
in the 200 fly (2.41.24) and 6th in the 100 fly (1.12.01).
Information regarding high point scores for this age are not posted
but it is likely Christina was in the mix!! Christina’s 200 IM swim
was so fast that it was a Zone time in her new age group!!
12 year old Amy Duren was on fire this weekend, as she placed 4th
in the 200 fly (2.39.73), 9th in the 100 fly (1.13.04) and
11th in the 50 fly (32.48), all of which were new Zone
cuts!!
14 year old Jason
Steinberg won the consolation heat in the 100 breast (1.17.79) and in
doing so, dipped beneath the Zone qualifying time.
10 year old Sydney Slepian earned her 1st Zone cut
by dropping nearly 1 second to earn a 14th place finish in
the 50 back (39.88).
10 year old Emily Fu snagged her 2nd Zone cut in
placing 12th in the 100 breast (1.37.52).
9 year old Erica Iizuka also earned her 2nd Zone
swim with her 10th place finish in the 100 fly
(1.26.75).
16 year old Lindsey Giostra also posted her 2nd Zone
qualifying time with her 12th place, 2 second drop in the
200 breast (2.55.86).
Leading off the 4 x 50 Free Relay, Isabelle Malinowski snuck
under both the 30 second mark & the Zone cut with her 29.92 swim.
The 10 & Under Boys 4 x 50 Free Relay, consisting of
Sandeepan Mukherjee, Will Stearns, Joe Pick and Michael Rizzo placed 3rd
while the same 4 boys combined for a 4th place finish in
the 4 x 50 Medley Relay.
Other highlights include:
1)
12 year old
Emily Gorham’s 6th place finish in the 50 free (29.68)
and her 7th place finish in the 50 fly (32.25)
2)
14 year old
Gabrielle Pick nabbed 8th place in the 200 fly (2.37.95)
and won the consolation heat in the 100 fly with a 1.08.34 time.
3)
12 year old
Jimmy Coyne’s 9th place finish in the 200 breast
(3.02.29) and his 10th place finish in the 100 breast
(1.24.38)
4)
15 year old
Isabella Morreale won the consolation heat to place 9th in
the 200 breast (2.52.93) and placed 11th in the 100 breast
(1.19.48)
5)
13 year old
Chris Balbo’s 10th place finish & 3 second drop in
the 200 fly (2.31.44) & his 11th place finish in the
1500 free (18.31.82)
6)
12 year old
Abbie Bighman’s 12th place finish in the 1500 free
(20.58.00). Along the way, Abbie swam under her best 800 free time
from earlier in the meet!!
7)
13 year old
Kaitlin Stearns earned a 13th place finish in the 200 free
(2.16.33) and a 14th place finish in the 100 back (1.13.18)
8)
17 year old
Michael Li placed 13th in the 100 breast (1.11.11)
Full results are posted on the team website.
Swimmers who
participated (# in parenthesis is number of best Elite LCM best
times): Matthew Ahlmeyer,
Chris Balbo (6), Abbie Bigham (5), Melody Chen, Morgan Conley, Jimmy
Coyne (2), Amy Duren (6), Avi Duvvuri, Krishna Duvvuri, Emily Fu (5),
Lindsey Giostra (2), Emily Gorham (5), Angharad Healey (1), Alicia
Iizuka (2), Erica Iizuka (4), Karen Iizuka (1), Monica Iizuak (4),
Isabel LaRaia, Brandon Li (1), Michael Li, Isabelle Malinowski (7),
Katie McGrath, Karl Melchior, Isabella Morreale (1), Charlotte
Morrissey, Sandeepan Mukherjee (1), Caroline Nash, Evan Ng (2), Emily
Peter (1), Christina Pick (9), Gabrielle Pick (3), Joe Pick (2),
Anthony Rizzo (6), Michael Rizzo, Brandon Rossi (1), Ryan Sebastian
(11), Sarah Slepian (5), Sydney Slepian (5), Gian Soriano, Kaitlin
Stearns (2), Lindsay Stearns, Will Stearns, Jason Steinberg (2),
Cullen Walsh (2), Caroline Watt, Adam Weinbrom, Ryan Wyer & Claire
Xu (1).
GORHMAM
SAMPLES CANADIAN SWIMMING:
15 year old Jessica Gorham, a Canadian citizen, participated in
the 2011 Canadian Age Group Championships (a meet roughly equivalent
to USA Swimming’s Junior Nationals) held in Montreal, Canada this
past week.
Set up with qualifying times for each age 12 & Older (thru
15, then there is a 16-18 age group), the Canadian Age Group
Championships are Canada’s national meet for age groupers. Jess had
qualified for 4 events and was able to bonus an additional swim.
While in the middle of her taper (Jess’s taper is aimed at
next weeks Sectionals meet), Jess performed just was near her best
times in her 4 events: 50 free (28.40), 100 free (1.01.95), 100 back
(1.08.79) & 200 back (2.29.66). As her bonus event, Jess picked
the 50 back (32.49), an event that many countries compete in (but the
US does not).
The event was held at an outdoor venue with two long course
pools set in a large municipal park. Literally yards away were two
separate stages where the park hosted a 4 day rock concert (Elton
John, Rod Stewart and Eminem all played during finals!!). The music
and sound checks made it challenging for the swimmers to hear the
start (although no one complained).
Interesting Canadian tidbits:
1)
There is a team
in Canada called Natation Elite, which literally means Elite Swimming
2)
The 10 lane
competition pool was numbered 0 thru 9.
3)
Dos= backstroke;
papillon=butterfly
4)
Announcements
were made both in English and French, though the race start was in
English
5)
Disqualifications
were announced over the loud speaker, with the swimmer only being
identified thru their heat and lane
6) Jess made fast friends with Joyce Arends of a Saskatchewan (north of North Dakota) team called: Moose Jaw Kinsman Flying Fins (Jess has the cap to prove it)!
TRYOUTS
YIELDS NEW TALENT!!
15
NEW SWIMMERS WILL JOIN COMPETITIVE PROGRAM: MARLINS
GROUPS FULL;
WAVEBUSTERS & PRE-ELITE STILL HAS SPACE:
July tryouts for the Elite Swim Club’s Winter 2011-12 Training Session has yielded 18 new swimmers to the competitive club and 18 new swimmers to Pre-Elite.
Joining Elite this spring will be:
Wave Blacks: Marie Fagan, Caroline Kelly & Emma Zawacki
Marlin Blacks: Alex Ferandes, Owen Healey, Keerthi Jayaraman & Naomi Lynch
Marlin Teals: Kelly Adamski, Lily Connor, Luc Francis, Abhinav Khandrika, Adithi Jayaraman, Zoe Lynch,
Caitlyn Sleeman, Alisa Stellini
Also joining Elite in the Pre-Elite program will be 16 new swimmers:
Pre-Elite Wavebuster Teals: Gabriella Bellard, Cynthia Cheng, Jennifer Speckhart & Sarah Speckhart
Pre-Elite Marlins: Devanshi Banerjee, Ryan Boyd, Rebecca Brown, Stephen Chang, Evan Fagan, Alex Facq, Jonathan Fu, Anirudh
Khandrika, Ruby Pollack, Gabrielle Romano, Nick Slover, Michael Speckphart, Anusha Veluri
The Supplemental Tryouts will be held Tuesday, September 6 at Newark Academy at 4:30 pm. By reason of our successful July Tryouts, the Marlin training group is now closed. Openings are available in all three Wavebuster training groups and within Pre-Elite.
WINTER 2011-12 SEASON
TO HAVE STAGGERED START:
Elite will stagger the start of its Winter 2011-12 season. The start will occur as follows:
Seniors & Senior Preps-begin Monday, August 29th
Supplemental Tryouts: Tuesday, Sept 6
Wavebuster Golds: Wednesday, Sept 7
Wavebuster Blacks: Wednesday, Sept 7
Wavebuster Teals: Tuesday, Sept 13
Marlin Blacks: Monday, Sept 12
Marlin Teals: Monday, Sept 12
Head Coach Bill Deatly will hold a “New Parents Meeting” on Wednesday, Sept 21 at Newark Academy at 5:00 pm.
OLYMPIANS COMING TO
DREW UNIVERSITY SUNDAY, SEPT 25TH:
Drew University Swimming has announced that the Swim Champions: Fitter & Faster Tour will once again be stopping in Madison, NJ. This year’s clinic will be held on Sunday, September 25th @ 1:00 pm. Local Olympic Silver & Bronze Medalist (2008) Julia Smit and Olympic Gold Medalist (2000, '04 & '08) Ian Crocker.
Please note that in order to afford a world class swimmer like
Jason Lezak to come to Elite, ESCPO will not be hosting an Olympian
Day this year but will be saving its money for 2012-13. Thus, this
clinic at Drew University may be one’s best opportunity to see
Olympians this coming winter!
Space will be limited, so sign up early. Be sure to go directly
to the web page to register: http://www.swimchampions.com/detail/madison-nj/.
SENIORS & SENIOR
PREPS: YOUR VIDEO IS ON YOUTUBE;
Along with the new website that will signal a new technological era in Elite Swimming history, Coach Bill Deatly has begun filming Elite swimmers in their competition. Most recently, Seniors and Senior Preps were filmed digitally at Summer Sizzle and many of those videos have been uploaded to YouTube: EliteswimmingNJ link: http://www.youtube.com/user/EliteSwimmingNJ#p/u.
Going forward, Elite coaches will devise a plan on what and whom to video. Plans are being made to have the Seniors & Senior Preps underwater stroke technique video uploaded so parents and swimmers can visit the coaches stroke technique sessions.
Filming all swimmers at all meets is not feasible (especially
during short course-winter session, when many of our competitions are
held in two pools simultaneously).
“SOFT
SELLING” ELITE IS LIFEBLOOD OF CLUB;
BILL AVAILABLE FOR CLINICS AT SUMMER CLUBS
Summer Swim Teams are the lifeblood of year round swim clubs
like Elite. Swimmers who enjoy the training and competition of their
summer clubs form the vast majority of new swimmers into “winter”
or “club” swimming.
The expected terrific swimming performed by Elite swimmers this
coming summer in their dual meet and championship competition will be
the main selling point of the club. Elite swimmers will be among the
best (if not the best) swimmers in their races. They should be, they
have worked hard and have earned that right!!
Parents of Elite swimmers are requested to “soft-sell”
Elite; meaning they should await an approach by an interested
swimmers/parents, but then earnestly provide information to such
people upon their approach. Elite parents and swimmers are highly
encouraged to point perspective swimmers to the team website and to
instruct interested parties to email Bill regarding questions about
the club.
As in past summers, Head Coach Bill is available to provide a swim
clinic at local summer clubs. If your summer club or summer swim coach
has an interest in a clinic by Bill, please contact Bill to set up a
clinic date!
RISING
SENIORS (IN HIGH SCHOOL), JULY AND AUGUST ARE THE “OFFICIAL COLLEGE
ESSAY MONTHS!!!:
All rising Seniors in high school should take advantage of some
down-time and prepare your college essay this summer. July and August
are “Official College Essay Months!!!
1st semester Seniors have a tremendous workload in
addition to being under a tremendous amount of stress. 1st
semester Seniors have: 1) college visits (swimmers may have college
recruiting visits that last Friday thru Sunday) 2) SAT preparation 3)
preparing college applications 4) keeping up their grades (colleges
will want to see the 1st semester grades) and 4) swimming
workload (college coaches expect swimmers to be training at their
usual full schedule).
Thus, organizing and writing one’s college essay during the
“down” months of July and August is extremely productive and wise.
SAY
CHEESE AND DOWNLOAD PLEASE!
MEMORY
BOOK PICTURES NEEDED!
It is never too early to think about
next years memory book! Thank you Pam Coyne for doing a great
job with the memory book this year! Laura Matheson (Cody's mom!)
has agreed to put together the book and slide show for next years
banquet. Parents and swimmers can provide pictures to Laura
by email kmatheson531@earthlink.net,
by thumb drive or by compact disk. Laura can usually be found in
the bleachers during Wave Gold practices. Send your
pictures to Laura as you take them and she will be sure that some
of your favorite photos are included in this years memory book!
Remember, summer is a great time to get candid shots of your
favorite swimmers at practice or at our many fun filled events.
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
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!!!