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Mike Gustafson: Conquering Morning Practice Cold By Mike Gustafson//Correspondent There’s no cold quite like Morning Practice Cold. It’s a cold that permeates your clothes, your skin, and your bones. It’s a cold that shakes your core, leaving you so discombobulated you regret ever becoming a swimmer. When you trudge through frozen water to jump into freezing water -- and the sky is still night and sand is in your eyes and your non-swimming friends are all tucked in bed and warm and sleeping and meanwhile you’re staring down 25...
Alphabet Of Parenting By Ann Landers Dear Ann Landers: My husband and I have three children, ages 23,17 and 15, who are decent and successful. Many relatives and friends have commented on what great kids we have. With so many young parents without extended families, perhaps our alphabet of child-raising ideas can help. Please share it with your readers if you feel it is worth printing.-Jo Frisbie von Tiehl in Pasadena, CA Dear Jo: With pleasure. Thanks for a unique contribution. A is for accountability. Hold your children accountable for...
Shop AmazonSmile & Support CVST All Year Long First Published July 7, 2014 Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to Carrollwood Village Swim Association Inc (CVST) whenever you shop on AmazonSmile. AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know. Same products, same prices, same service. Support your charitable organization by starting your shopping at smile.amazon.com . Questions? Learn more about AmazonSmile Questions About AmazonSmile What is AmazonSmile? AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support your favorite charitable organization every time you...
Three Essential Mindsets for Athletic Success By Dr. Jim Taylor, Sport Psychologists, Author Prime Sports Alert, November 2014 In this article, I’m going to talk about “mindset,” which I consider to be an essential contributor to athletic success and a mental area that has only come to light in my work with elite athletes during the past three years. This topic is also where professional and Olympic athletes offer wonderful examples in which they use different mindsets to perform at their highest level consistently. Let me preface this discussion by...
Edwards Picks Up November SOM Honors The Carrollwood Village Swim Team has named Ava Edwards (8) of the Silver-Gold Practice Group as the November Swimmer of the Month. For the month, Ava dropped a total of 18.48 seconds. At the CVST “B” Invitational held at the Carrollwood Country Club Tennis & Aquatic Center (TAC), Ava swam to best times in two events and followed that up later in the month at the St. Petersburg Aquatics/Palm Harbor YMCA Saturday and Sunday Morning at the Races held at the St. Pertersburg’s...
Labella Picks Up First FLAGS Cut At the SPA/PYP Saturday-Sunday Morning Races, held at Northshore Pool in St. Pete, CVST swam until their limbs felt like fire and their lungs would burst. This paid off in particular for Silver-Gold group’s Kaitlyn Labella (9), who decided she didn’t want to come home without a Florida Age Group Championships cut. Labella has been in the chase for quite some time and picked one up in an impressive 100 free. She dropped 4.44 seconds breaking the 1:10 barrier to go a 1:09.08...
Staying Calm Under Pressure: Stay In Your Body And Let Your Story Go! By Dr. Alan Goldberg, Sport Psychologist, Author, Competitive Advantage As a group, athletes tend to get too caught up in their thoughts before and during their performances. Beforehand, they worry about messing up, not coming through in the clutch, what others might say if they lose, getting beaten by a specific opponent, making sure they execute correctly, and the list goes on and on. During the performance, they think about mistakes made, who may be watching and...
