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GameOn4Kids.com Features B-Champ's CVST Swimmers Earn Team Spirit Award Team excels at B Championships in St. Petersburg By Maria Zambito GameOn4Kids.com Correspondent CARROLLWOOD — A Snowmen theme helped the Carrollwood Village Swim Team earn the Florida Spirit Award at the Harry Meisel B Championships West in St. Petersburg earlier this month. That marked the fourth straight year CVST has won the award... Full Story with Pictures
Watch 2014 Golden Goggles Replay For those of you interested in checking out last month’s Golden Goggle Awards from New York, a playlist of the entire evening is now available on theUSA Swimming YouTube channel. The videos are segmented by award presentation, and a great performance from STOMP is also posted.
Meet Mobile to Begin Charging Subscription Fees for Meet Results Update: Updated with cost information. Active’s ubiquitous Meet Mobile mobile swimming results application is about to undergo a major face-lift, that the company says will vastly improve the user experience, but those changes will come with a price. In an email this week, the app’s developers announced that the service would move to a subscription model, requiring users to pay a monthly or yearly fee, through an in-app purchase, to continue accessing live meet results. Full Story
Bubbles Picks Up CVST December SOM Honors The Carrollwood Village Swim Team coaching staff has named Sophia Hasara (12) of the Silve/Gold practice gold as the December Swimmer of the Month. At the Harry Meisel B-Championships West, Sophie, A.K.A Bubbles, not only cheered for every race in which she was not competing, but also swam to best times in seven of her ten events. Sophie swam to personal best times in her 200yd Freestyle, 500yd Freestyle 50yd Backstroke, 100yd Backstroke, 50yd Breaststroke, and 200yd Individual Medley. Sophie dropped a...
One Bad Tweet Can Be Costly to a Student Athlete By Jeff DiVeronica, Staff writer, Democrat & Chronicle, September 2014 Three years ago, Scott Fitch couldn't believe what he was hearing. A college coach recruiting two of his Fairport High School boys basketball players called to say how much he liked what he saw after watching them play an AAU game, and that he thought both were good enough to see court time on his team as freshmen. "But we're going to stop recruiting one of them," the college coach...
A Plea to Parents of Young Athletes: Simmer Down By Ted Spiker, Time Magazine, Nov. 25, 2014 Ted Spiker (@ProfSpiker), the interim chair of the department of journalism at the University of Florida, is the author of DOWN SIZE: 12 Truths for Turning Pants-Splitting Frustration into Pants-Fitting Success. Eight things we can do to improve the youth-sports environment Like most parents who watch their kids play sports, I keep an in-brain highlight reel of my favorite moments involving my two boys. Some of them involve skill, but many of them...
Top Nutrient-Rich Food Choices By Chris Rosenbloom, PhD, RDN, CSSD Recently a coach asked me what foods were the best sources of carbohydrate, protein and fat for swimmers. Nutritionists like to talk to athletes about nutrients, but swimmers eat foods, not nutrients. So, with that in mind, here are some nutrient-rich foods for each of the energy-producing nutrients of carbs, protein, and fat. Read more:
16 Breakfast Ideas for the Young Swimmer By Jill Castle, MS, RDN To eat, or not to eat, breakfast? This is the question young swimmers may struggle with as they scurry out the door to make morning practice or catch the bus and get to school on time. For growing kids and teens, starting the day with breakfast has its benefits. Breakfast consumption has been linked to better nutrient intake, mental function and academic performance. Skipping breakfast has it drawbacks. A 2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey...
The Most Important Part of Holiday Training By Mike Gustafson//Correspondent About ten years ago, I embarked on my final, last training trip of my collegiate career. My college swim team stayed home in Evanston -- a cold, very un-holiday place to stay and train while other college swim teams trek off to Hawaii or Florida. But even though Chicago was particularly cold, we all embraced and (somewhat) enjoyed it. The campus was deserted, and with snow and cold, it made for a very “Rocky” esque training atmosphere. We had...
