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What an exceptional end to the Winter Season. Each athlete has worked tirelessly to reach their goals and it really has shown. This year we had two Winter Champs Meets, one in Oceanside hosted by San Diego Imperial Swimming and one in Sacramento hosted by DART Swimming. There were a little over 50 Vacaville Swim Club athletes who competed and each athlete did phenomenal! Every athlete learned something new, had success and had fun with their teammates. At the DART Winter invitational it was a Trials and Finals meet for...
Orlando, Florida.......worked on my tan a little bit today with Tim. It was part of our victory celebration!!! This 5-day championship began yesterday with some distance events and some relays. Tim, did not compete, but we readied ourselves for the next four days as weighty/very hungry opponents in the following events: Wed. 200 fly Thurs. 200 free/50 fly Fri. 100 free/100 fly Sat. 50 free Prelims are contested in yards and Finals are long course. Top-40 make it into Finals (A-B-C-D-E, 5 heats)!! 1600+ athletes competing. Must be 18 &...
Day one 400 IM featured Austin Peterson (4:55.2) and Alan Flower (4:43.48). They both made it into the finals with amazing “prelim” times. TOP 10 MAKE FINALS PRELIM SWIM Austin 4:46 (dropped 9 seconds) and Alan 4:39 (dropped 4 seconds) FINALS SWIM Austin 4:47 and Alan 4:40 *** having big drops in the prelims poses a tough task in the finals to drop more time. Unfortunately, our greatest swims were ONLY in the morning. Next time we will get that finals swim that is better than the morning swim. GREAT...
Waves..... This past weekend, two of our GOLD TEAM members participated in the Sierra Nevada Swimming Leadership Camp held in Roseville. Our athletes spent Friday afternoon and all day Saturday attending classroom sessions and pool time. I asked them to share their experience with the rest of the WAVE FAMILY and this is what they had to say: Jalen Lloyd "Ok, so the recent leadership camp I attended taught me about being a great leader, but it also taught me how to be a better person in and out of...
Our recent travel meet to Cal Berkeley with selected Gold Team athletes proved to be well worth our participation. Some of our athletes were too sick to attend (ok, I’m ready to be done with this sick thing this time of year) and some went despite being sick and others attended this prelim/final meet having avoided the “bug.” You guessed it…….those that went in healthy really set the place on fire. Coming off some very tough and challenging December/early-Jan training, I elected to give the Gold Team a three-day-drop-taper (backing...
2016, Leap year and OLYMPIC year……I look forward to this every four years. Fast swimming, higher expectations, setting the BAR higher than normal, increased work ethic and commitment all share equal importance. There is energy out there just waiting to be harnessed and then unleashed at the perfect moment…..go out and get some. The GOLD TEAM had an incredible couple days of training during our 24-hour swim. This mini training camp provided our athletes an opportunity to swim farther, faster and more intensely in a very demanding and challenging setting....
If you didn't know, one of our very own is an Athlete Representative for Sierra Nevada Swimming. Tim Lee recently had the opportunity to attend the United States Aquatic Sports Convention in Missouri. Read his report about what he experienced at the convention. :) Great having Tim represent Sierra Nevada and the Vacaville Swim Club! United States Aquatic Sports Convention Report The USAS (United States Aquatic Sports) convention, held this year in Kansas City Missouri, was a great experience. The convention consisted of 4 full days of meetings, workshops, and...
From Coach Brad: What a wild weekend for our first swim meet of the season! We had a thunder-and-lightning-delayed Friday night, which shifted the mile swims to Saturday and Sunday, a beautifully sunny Saturday, and then a cloudy and windy Sunday. That pretty much put our swimmers to every kind of test they could handle! And I must say, the swimmers really rose to the occasion and swam great! They were backed up by an amazing showing from our parents and volunteers to put on a fantastic swim meet! Many...
Several Vaca swimmers participated in the 19th annual Alcatraz Invitational on Sunday. This event is a 1.25 mile swim in the open waters of the San Francisco Bay. Braving waters with temperatures in the low 60s, the rough, choppy waves, and a field of over 1000 participants, three Vaca swimmers turned in amazing performances in the non-wet suit division (swimmers are divided up into divisions based on their decision to wear or not wear a wet suit for this event). Sixteen year old Ari Sweany, a swimmer in the Senior...
