Five Questions About Quitting Posted by John G. Miller, Author of QBQ I just finished a novel where a rookie cop was the heroine. Throughout the book, as scary people tried to do her harm, she kept herself going by repeating a phrase she’d learned as a child: No medals for quitters! Quitter. Ouch. Who wants to be called one of … those!? Doesn’t “quitter” just drip with negativity? Lazy! Unreliable! Untrustworthy! Bum! Sloth! Are these people bums and sloths? •The 9-year-old who, with hurt feelings and a bruised ego,...

Three DIY Pre-Competition Meals for the Whole Team By Jill Castle, MS, RDN It’s the night before a big meet, and the team is getting together for a pre-competition meal. Should you go out to a restaurant, or stay in? If you’ve got a willing parent and a venue, I say cook! Not only will there be money saved, and greater control over the food ingredients, your team may even achieve a higher level of camaraderie. The whole idea behind these DIY (Do It Yourself) home-style, pre-competition meals is to...

CVST Sends 3 Swimmers To FLAGS   The Carrollwood Village Swim Team (CVST) is sending three swimmers to the Florida Swimming Age-Group Swimming Championships to be held July 17th to 20th at the O’Connell Center on the University of Florida Campus.  The entries are in with over 1000 athletes, making this one of the largest and fastest age-group meets in the country. The four day meet starts off on Thursday, with Abby Forman swimming in the 12 year-old girls 800 meter Freestyle. Abby is the number two seed and CVST’s...

Have You Taught Your Child to Learn? by David Benzel, Growing Champions For Life Mark Twain once said, "A man who does not read a book is no wiser than the man who can't read one." Could it also be said that an athlete who does not listen to a coach has learned as much as the athlete who does not have a coach? The greatest miscalculation about youth sports today can be found where learning is not the top priority; where competition, winning, and rankings are given more attention...

Dietary Supplements High-Risk List Has Been Updated By USADA Stay informed, and educated! The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's Supplement 411 Dietary Supplement High-Risk List contains a selection of products USADA is currently most concerned about that are considered to be of a higher risk to athletes and consumers. The list includes products that meet one of the following criteria. Have been tested and shown to contain substances prohibited in sport by the World Anti-Doping Agency.  Openly list substances prohibited in sport by the World Anti-Doping Agency.  An arbitration panel has found...

CVST Names Brooke Lively June SOM   The CVST coaching staff has named Brooke Lively as the June Swimmer of the Month.  For the month, the 13 year-old Silver/Gold practice group swimmer led all CVST swimmers with a total time dropped of 2 minutes 12 seconds and 67 hundredths.  Brooke started June off with her first long course meet (50m) of the season at the Tampa Bay Swim Classic, held at St. Petersburg’s North Shore Pool with a perfect 9 best times out of 9 swims with an average improvement...

CVST End of Summer (EOS) Meet Cancelled - Update Updated 7/11/2014 The CVST End of Summer (EOS) Meet which was cancelled earlier this week due to a venue conflict, has been replaced on the CVST Meet Schedule with the Florida Swimming Area 3&5 Championships.  The Area 3&5 Champ's are being held August 1-3rd, at Northshore Pool, in St. Petersburg.  This is a Championship Meet and therefore an Automatic Sign-up Meet.   All eligible CVST Swimmers will be entered in this meet unless otherwise notified through the CVST Web Site by the...

USASwimming.org To Sport New Look Starting Monday   When you log on to usaswimming.org on Monday, July 14, our homepage will have a new look.    After conducting an extensive usability study on our site this past winter, we have decided that while our current home page has a nice enough design, too much premium space is lost to the large, rotating images currently running at the top of the page. We want to create a more practical design that focuses on organizational news and articles, and emphasize the most...

Hydration 101: Sports Drinks vs. Water By Jeff Gaudette, Published June 30, 2014   Learn how each works and when it’s best to use one versus the other.   Most runners have heard over and over again that drinking fluids as the summer months approach is of the utmost importance; neglecting to drink when it’s hot outside is committing one of the cardinal sins of sports nutrition. Well, that’s somewhat true, but it isn’t quite that simple. Instead of telling you to drink more fluids when the mercury rises, over...

Webinar: "To Push or Not to Push- How to Get Results that Last"     Dear Parent, Have you wrestled with the dilemma of how much to push your child?  Check out the "Parents" section of our web site (Growing Champions for Life) where you’ll find the registration link to this month’s Life-Skills Webinar, “To Push or Not to Push – How to Get Results that Last” scheduled for Wednesday, July 16th.    This month’s True Hero Parent article, “Handling Adversity: Prisoner, Settler, or Pioneer” will help the entire family deal...