Parents Of World-Class Athletes Reveal Secrets To Raising A Superstar By Jeff Eisenberg, The Turnstile, Yahoo Sports, June 22, 2015 At the height of his pursuit of a spot on the 2000 U.S. Olympic team, the boy who would one day become the world's most decorated swimmer approached his mom with an impractical idea. Michael Phelps wanted to take a sabbatical from swimming to try out for his high school's football team. Chasing swimming glory sometimes became a lonely quest for Phelps in those days because it required sacrifices other...

CVST FLAGS Team Video Here's a video completely created by the CVST swimmers at lunch on Saturday (7/18/2015) at FLAGS.  Click the link below to watch the video and please be patient it takes about 15-20 seconds to load. /flscvst/UserFiles/Image/Event%20Pictures/FLAGSLC15-LunchVideo(1).mov

Kids of Helicopter Parents Are Sputtering Out By Julie Lythcott-Haims, Slate.com Recent studies suggests that kids with overinvolved parents and rigidly structured childhoods suffer psychological blowback in college. Excerpted from How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success by Julie Lythcott-Haims, out now from Henry Holt and Co. Academically overbearing parents are doing great harm. So says Bill Deresiewicz in his groundbreaking 2014 manifesto Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life. “[For students]...

Swimming Presidents: Kennedy, Ford, Reagan By Phillip Whitten, Guest Blogger Nearly a century passed after the first swimming president, John Quincy Adams, took his final stroke in the Potomac as president and the next fitness swimmer, Teddy Roosevelt, moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But in the last 80 years, there has been a deluge of swimming presidents. In fact, at least seven of the 13 American presidents since 1935 could swim and most of these did swim to relieve stress, and, more generally, for fitness and health. In chronological order,...

Bubbles Hasara Picks Up June SOM Honor   The Carrollwood Village Swim Team has named Sophia (Bubbles) Hasara (12) as the June Swimmer of the Month.  Sophia started off the month at CVST’s own Tampa Bay Swim Classic by swimming in just one event, the Long Course 400 meter Freestyle,  and swam to 63.42 time drop.  The following week, Sophia swam in the Private Club League Championships and swam to a best time in her 50 yard backstroke.  Sophia’s third June meet, the WFLA Summer Invite, saw Sophia swim to...

10 Signs You Might Be a Swimmer Girl   We love being women and we love our sport! Swimmer Girls are fierce, beautiful and, well, have some interesting habits.  See which of these 10 Swimmer Girl-isms apply to you!   #1 – You eat more than your male friends. This applies to breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks…any time!  Unless your best male friend is also a swimmer or perhaps a lineman on the football team, chances are you’re hoping he picks up the check for what you’re about to stack up...

7 Harsh Realities of Being great in the Pool   This post originally appeared at YourSwimBook.com. Join Olivier’s weekly motivational newsletter strictly for swimmers who are serious about getting fired up and kicking butt in the pool.   Here is what you need to know: You gotta be a little delusional to want to excel at the highest levels of the sport. You gotta love it. If you aren’t passionate about what you are doing, no bueno. (And on top of that, it needs to be the right kind of...

Three Lies that Create Misery for Your Young Athlete By David Benzel, Author, Speaker, Growing Champions For Life, July 2015 We hate to see our children suffer emotionally. It goes straight to our heart. When we're objective about it, we admit that emotional struggles actually make our children stronger, and that we should not attempt to guard them from every emotional challenge. However, our young athletes need not endure some misery. The only reason they are tormented is because they believe three lies. Here they are, and the corresponding truths...

Happy #TBT to CVST!   Do any of you CVST swimmers or parents remember the design and how it relates to CVST?  Hint: Thanks to Sandy Dykema - we still use them at our Meets!  Any Ideas?  

Benefits of Extracurricular Sports Extend into the Classroom Medical News Today Extracurricular sports have long been promoted as a way of keeping children healthy, but new research suggests they could also provide benefits in the classroom, helping children remain engaged and disciplined. The study, published in the American Journal of Health Promotion, found that children who regularly participated in structured sports were better at following instructions and remaining focused in the classroom than their peers by the time they reached fourth grade.   Full Story