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CVST Goes the Distance At Berkeley Prep, last Friday, a handful of CVST swimmers rose to the challenge of a distance swim meet on Friday the 13th no less. Logan Ingerick (11) led the group off with a Florida Age Group Championship cut in the 1000 freestyle to go 12:01.45. More impressive, he did it in his 1650 freestyle toughing the wall in 20:28.68. Kayla Rodriguez (11), Madison Houck (10), Jackson Houck (10), Reagan Cassels (10), Jayden Repak (8), and Ava Edwards (8) all earned their Boys and...
3 Sleep Habits to Boost Your Performance Bridge Athletic | February 17th, 2015 Swimmers are constantly on the verge of sleep deprivation. It takes focus and no small amount of discipline to get to bed at an appropriate time before every morning practice, of which there are many. Swimmers see 3 to 4 sunrises per week, often warming up in the dark before dawn. It is difficult to get up early and work your tail off in the pool at 5 a.m., but it is even harder if you...
CVST Mystery Week & Swim-A-Thon T-Shirts Here! The T-Shirts for the 2014 CVST Mystery Week Survivors are in along with the 2015 CVST Swim-A-Thon "Laps for Lights" T-Shirts for those who raised $300.00 or more. Just see your coach at the pool. Below is the Mystery Week Carol to the music of Jungle Bells: Dashing to the Pool – Mystery Week 2014 Dashing to the pool, Every dog gone day This break ain’t so cool Training twice a day. Seems like two whole weeks My...
Sportsmanship and Swimming Courtesy of Ashleigh Shanley, SwimSwam Intern. Sportsmanship: 1. Character, practice or skill of a sportsman 2. Sportsmanlike conduct as fairness, courtesy, being a cheerful loser, etc. (courtesy of dictionary.com) Some people argue that sportsmanship has gradually been disappearing from athletics. With the excessive celebrations of athletes in football, basketball and soccer, or the fights that take place during games, it seems that playing clean and having respectful attitudes has disappeared. Full Story
National Retailers, Including GNC, Told To Halt Bogus Supplement Sales By Anahad O’Connor, The New York Times, February 3, 2015 The New York state attorney general’s office accused four major retailers Monday of selling fraudulent and potentially dangerous herbal supplements and demanded that they remove the products from their shelves. The authorities said they had conducted tests on top-selling store brands of herbal supplements at four national retailers — Pittsburgh-based GNC, Target, Walgreens and Wal-Mart — and found that four out of five of the products did not contain any...
Free SafeSport Training for Parents & Swimmers The USA Swimming Safe Sport Program is proud to offer free athlete protection training to the parents of our member athletes. Parents are a critical component to our overall goal to protecting children from sexual abuse. The comprehensive online programming includes information about how offenders operate; how to recognize and respond to boundary violations, myths and facts about child sexual abuse and USA Swimming’s Athlete Protection Policies and Procedures. SafeSport
Growing Champions for Life! Live Webinar- "Three Steps to Get Your Athletic Family on the Same Page" Dear Parent, If you’d like to restore sanity and a sense of balance to your athletic family, go to the Parents page of our web site and register for the FREE webinar entitled “Three Steps to Get Your Athletic Family on the Same Page”, online Thursday, February 19th. You’ll learn some practical steps for keeping things in perspective in spite of your hectic sport schedule. You’ll also enjoy this month’s article, Are You...
FS Open Water All-Star & Zone Team Selection Info Florida OW All-Star Team Selection: As many of you are aware, the Florida Swimming Open Water Championships, and LSC Challenge (All-Star Team Event) will be on Sunday, April 26th in Ft. Myers at Miromar Lakes. This will also be the site for the 2015 USA Swimming National 10K and World Trials Selection Event, the National Age Group Invite, and the USA Swimming National 5K. Selection criteria for Florida OW All-Star Team is as follows: Senior Champs: Top 5 times from 15-18...
CVST "On Fire" at Gasparilla Races At the 8th Annual Gasparilla Races, at Tampa Prep, Carrollwood Village Swim Team managed a stellar performance only two weeks after performing well at the Mac Crutchfield Invitational in Tallahassee. Even with such a quick turnaround, there were some huge time drops and a couple of Florida Age Group Championships (FLAGS) cuts picked up. Friday Night CVST had only two athletes participate in the distance events. Abby Forman (13) dropped 3.83 seconds in the 400 Individual Medley (IM), from a best time set...
