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Going Into February Newsletter January 29, 2007 (Ashura!!)
Here is what is going on at the end of January and start of February. The next section of the season gets very busy with final meets and high school swimming coming to a close. Cut time opportunities get short and it still being winter, only the penguins are happy about it.
A new team record was set at the Bangor senior meet by the 13-14 girl 800 free relay team of Petra Janney, Rachel Clegg, Abbey Ridge and Emily Buczkowski. They crushed the old time of 903 with a new time of 8:36.31! The 200 Medley Relay team of Petra, Abbey, Emily and Mallory Plummer turned in the 2nd fastest 13-14 girl 200MR ever missing the team record of 158.93 with a time of 159.76!
James Wells broke the 13-14 boy team record in the 100 IM with a time of 57.65! Old time 59.03 by Matt Hallowell. The girls 200 Medley Relay team of Anne Metcalf, Abby Fuller, Hadley Wingate, and Emily Buczkowski made a Y nationals cut time with a swim of 155.42.
At this past weekend's meet at Freeport we had so many great swims! Many kids made cut off times or better yet, just bettered their times! That is the real key to overall success is self improvement.
This Saturday is the last “Y” traditional meet. LRSC will be 1 of 3 teams at Waterville. Joining us will be Piscataquis Region Y of Dover-Foxcroft. They have a few quality swimmers but not much in the way of numbers. Again, a two session meet with session 1 having a 10am warm up and a 1030 start. Session 2 will have a 1230warm up and a 115start. I will need a couple of days to figure out the bus strategy. If we take 2 busses at 2 different times I will again need to rely on parents to “chaperone” the bus 1 ride home and the bus 2 ride up. If this doesn’t look feasible, we will take 1-2 buses up to the meet together and return together which will make for a longer day for all of the bus swimmers. I will keep you posted.
February 10 is the Y league all star meet at Bates College. The Y all star committee selected and lrsc will be represented by the following swimmers: Catie Luedee, Emma Soucek, Heidi Zeigra, Sammy Leeman, Spencer Lindsley, Oliver Kruze, Reuel Wilgus, Jessica Russell, Celia Ouellette, Cassandra Bonnett, Theron Wilgus, Jake Olsen, Emily Buczkowski, Abbey Ridge, James Wells, Cameron Lindsley, Jeremy King, Peter Burtt. Also selected and either not going or pending are Petra Janney, Rachel Clegg, Amy Mileikis, Hadley Wingate, Anne Metcalf, Rebecca Bonnett, Sylas Hatch, Niall Janney, Phil Jacques, Jeff Soreide, Jack Burnham, T-Bone Owen, Ian Nichols. Congratulations.
February 11th is the LRSC U.S. meet Tuffin Up. This meet is for U.S. registered swimmers (if you aren’t sure, ask me). It isn’t designed for 8&unders unless they are attempting to make a 9-10 cut time. LRSC swimmers planning to swim this meet should register with me for it by February 8th at 7pm! The competition is usually quite good and not for the meek. The LRSC Nationals team will be selling swim suits/shirts/apparel/goggles and bungies, anything swim related Friday during the Boys KVAC meet February 9th and 10th during the girls KVAC meet and during the Tuffin up Meet on the 11th! Support the Nationals team by buying much and buying often.
The Nationals swimmers will also be hosting a 2 hour swimming clinic Sunday February 18th from 10am-12noon. The cost will be $25 per swimmer. A great opportunity to get some one on one attention and tips from the teams best. Register with Jay or Sponge and NOT the front desk. Pre registration is encouraged for planning purposes but not required. Bring your questions!
TEAM PICTURES WILL BE February 13TH AT 430PM IN THE GYM! Order info soon. Team shirt!
The lrsc team fundraiser THE AQUATHON will be coming up in February. Swimmers are given a pledge card and asked to solicit pledges based on a number of lengths of the pool they can swim in a short period of time. Each swimmer is asked to raise at least $50 and for 8&under swimmers $25. Any swimmer raising more than $100 will win a gift certificate to the business of their choosing within a 15 mile radius of the Y (Freeport yes). Swimmers can get more than 1 card. Money raised goes directly into the LRSC account and not the Y general fund. Busses, meet fee’s, awards, etc are just a few of the costs the team incurs in a season. It costs roughly $5000 for the team to operate comfortably each year.
jay
