Men's Team Gift

I am back at States in the same Hotel for Men's team. Everything was going smoothly until....

I came back from a coach's meeting and Carolyn (assistant coach) greets me in the lobby and says the "boys" left me a "gift". I must admit I was a bit worried about this "gift". But, first I went to their room for a quick meeting.

On my way to my room, I see this....

I wasn't sure what it was until I got closer....

Can you tell what it is??



It's their HAIR that they shaved off their HEAD!!! How sweet of the Men's team is to give me such a thoughtful gift... :-)

Tomorrow is the first day of States - Go Wells!!!

1st Day at States

Well, we finished the first day of States with success!

We started off the morning with the 200 Free A-Relay earning the 8th spot on the Wells Top Ten times. The A-Relay included Ashley, Alli, Idie and Jackie. Jackie also swam her fastest 50 EVER (26.80). The B-Relay consisted of Tiffany (whom took off 2 seconds!), Beverly, Kayleen and Sam.

The next 2 events all the swimmers had life-time best times. Colleen took off 4 seconds (6:26.54) and Tiffany took off 6 seconds (6:50.49) in the 500 Free. Idie was seated first in her heat and stayed in the lead throughout the race. She finished with a PB of 2:35.39. Also, Caitlin took off 5 seconds (3:38.36).

We had 8 swimmers swim the 50 free and EVERYONE had a Personal Best TIME!!! Jackie swam a 27.11 which earned her the 4th spot on the Wells Top Ten!

Finally, we ended with the 400 Medley Relay where Colleen was the anchor and had a personal best by 1 second 1:08.08.

Great first day! I can't wait for tomorrow!!!

Go Wells!!!

3 Days Until States!

Woman's States is just around the corner. Here is the event line-up...

Thursday
200 Free Relay
500 FR
200 IM
50 FR
400 Medley Relay

Friday
200 Medley Relay
400 IM
100 Fly
200 FR
100 BR
100 BA
800 Free Relay

Saturday
200 BA
100 FR
200 BR
200 Fly
400 Free Relay
1650 FR


GO WELLS!!!!

Taper Time is Happy Time

It's that time of the season when practices get shorter and the swimmers start to get their energy back!

Next week the woman's team leaves for UNYSCSA (states) which is held at Nottingham HS, Syracuse, NY. The following week it will be the men's team's turn.

I will try my best to keep this blog up-to-date during the meet so make sure you return!

Until next week...

Captain's Practice

The Wells swim team has a tradition of holding a captain's practice sometime during January training but it is always a surprise. In fact, I usually play along and tell the rest of the team what a hard practice today is going to be! Even though we were one captain short, we still had a great time!

Here are some pictures...
The captain split the swim team into two smaller teams. They had to go around campus and find items that represented each swimmer's personality. As you can see the team on the right is holding a mop - one of our swimmers is very into cleaning - EVERYTHING!

Dodgeball - But where's the other team?

ON GUARD!!!

At the very end, our Captain handed out Paper Plate awards that he designed himself. Even the coach's got one.

Mine said, " Would Swim it for you if she could (and would be better than you)" Award

January Training Begins!

The swimmers are back on campus training twice a day in the pool plus an hour of dryland training 2-3 times a week.

So far, we have had 3 practices (plus dryland) and everyone is getting back in the grove of things. There are still a few swimmers that were not able to make it back to campus yesterday but we will have our whole team by next Monday.

We did loose our female captain, Kelsey because we will be study abroad in Spain for the semester. Her leadership and commitment to the team will be missed.

Secret Santa and a surprise!

I arrive at the Schwartz building, thinking that Court, Kelsey and myself are going to go over some "captain" details for next year. Next thing I know, we arrive at Carolyn's (assist. coach) house and everyone is there saying, "Surprise"! Because not only did we plan the Secret Santa but they also had planned a baby shower for me.

Carolyn and her husband made breakfast food and we all opened presents. It was a great day!
Below is a picture of one of the things that the team bought for me...