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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
The Art of Swim Parenting By Gary Hall, Sr. The Race Club Blog, June 2015 Being a swim parent is not easy. If it were, we would likely have 2 million registered USA Swimming members, rather than half a million. Swim parents have to be unselfish, dedicated, loving, committed and invested to help their children succeed in the sport. In this day and age, how many parents will sit on a hot bleacher or in a chlorine filled natatorium or behind a starting block, timing all weekend, for the pleasure...
Team USA Opens World University Games on Saturday Forty-seven Team USA swimmers, including three 2012 Olympians and 29 members of the USA Swimming National Team, are slated to open competition Saturday in Gwangju, South Korea, at the 2015 World University Games. The Nambu University International Aquatics Center will host the pool competition Saturday through July 10, while the 10-kilometer open water races will take place in the Jangseong Lake Regatta on July 11. Prelim sessions in the pool begin at 8:30 a.m. locally (7:30 p.m. EDT the previous day),...
How To Set Up for Success at a Big Meet By Russell Mark, USA Swimming National Team High Performance Consultant With championship season for the US National Team right around the corner, it’s hard not to think about what has made the best US athletes so successful over all these years. Having the fortunate vantage point of being integrated with the US team at competitions, here’s three observations from the last three Olympic Games and four World Championships that you can use as you get ready for your own end-of-summer...
