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Mike's Mailbag: The Swimmer Plateau By Mike Gustafson//Correspondent Dear Mike, I have been swimming for almost 12 years now and I just finished my freshman year of college swimming. I wasn't happy with my results. I haven't dropped time since I was a junior in high school, and I'm frustrated. I always go to practice, do everything I'm told, work hard, and focus. I watch what I eat, and I even go to bed as early as possible every night. It seems like I'm doing...
Ingerick Picks Up CVST February SOM Honors The Carrollwood Village Swim Team has named Logan Ingerick as the February Swimmer of the Month. By swimming to six best times in seven events, the 11 year old St. Lawrence Fifth Grader, dropped a total of 65.72 seconds off of his previous best times. Swimming at the TBAY Gasparilla Invitational held at the Tampa Preparatory High School Colwell Aquatic Center, Logan lowered his 100 yard Freestyle time (59.15) by .70 seconds, and swam to new Florida Age-Group Swimming Championship (FLAGS) time...
2015 Florida Swimming Open Water Championship Qualifiers as of 3/1/2015 10&Under Girls Madison Houck (500) Kaitlyn Labella (500) 11-12 Girls Mabry Bishop (500) 13-14 Girls Abby Forman (1500) Open Girls Maria Zambito (1500) 10&U Boys Sean Kenny (200) Jayden Repak (500) 11-12 Boys Logan Ingerick (1650) 15-16 Boys Zach Bowles (1500) Tyler Bowles (500) Daryl Pickerell (1000) Qualifying/Entry Deadline - April 16, 2015 - 11:00 pm
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
