Banquet Information
Date: Friday, March 23rd at 6:00PM
Location: Trinity Lutheran Church - 508 Center St, Ashland.
RSVP: Susan Johnson (ericj@zoominternet.net) by March 21
Each family is responsible for an appetizer to share.
This year's Zone Team dinner will be at Menches Brothers. The reservation is for six o'clock and it is the Uniontown location. This is very close to the hotel. The restaurant was very accommodating to our large group. If you are planning on attending, please e-mail Allison Weeks with the number of people in your party! Thanks!
There are many families that still owe fees for swim team, individuals, and parent fund. These need to be paid by March 23rd. Invitational fees are on the website as well as posted in the hallway by the pool. If you have questions, please contact Allison Weeks.
DIVISION TIME
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO COME DIVISION CHAMPS? WE WANT TO SWIM OUR BEST AND HOPEFULLY MAKE IT TO THE LEAUGE CHAMPIONSHIPS. TO DO THIS WE WILL NEED TO FOLLOW CERTAIN ITEMS SET FORTH BY PREVIOUS YEARS AND SWIMS BY OTHER SWIMMERS.
Out team usually swims well at the champs meet. However, you must follow what the coaches say and ask of you.
Starting now, we will focus on perfect workouts and doing what is asked, whether it's no breathing swims, streamlines, turns, starts, tweaking your stroke, upping yardage a bit, or making sets very hard and focusing on finishing it. All this will help come taper time. It's important to have all this in place before we start your taper.
What is a taper?? If you ask 4 different people you might get 4 different answers, but all answers lead to the same goal… swimming fast while totally rested.
For me to have a perfect taper involves what I said above and also resting the body during workouts and at home. At home is a big challenge since coaches are not there with you. This is where your parents and you can help. Once we start the taper process (a little less than 2 weeks prior to the big meet), you must follow what we have in place for you to swim fast. If you do, I know you will swim your best times of the season. If you don't follow it, you might still drop time due to the adrenaline rush you will have.
You must cut out ALL extra curricular activities, meaning any other type of sport, basketball, sledding, skiing, and so on. You want your body completely rested. You want to feel anxious, like you want to do something, but you have to focus on NOT doing anything. This is a big step in accomplishing your goals.
Eating right is another big step. Tapering is an adjustment for your body and your immune system might not be as strong during this time. Big meals will lay in you due to reduced workload in the pool. As workload decreases, so should your calorie intake. Cut out pop, chips, candy, and other things that aren't good for you for this period as well.
Parents, have them eat some lean protein, chicken is always good for you as is fish. A salad with vegetables on it. Fruits are always good. A little pasta is good for carbs and while they work hard in the water they burn carbs. Always stay hydrated as well. Even if your not thirsty, sip some water from time to time.
When you come to workouts, I want you to feel fresh and ready to go. We don't want you to feel sluggish in the water. Although at the start of this period, you may feel sluggish about the 3-4th day in. That is because your body is starting to go through a workout regimen that it hasn't experienced it before. It likes it, but wants to do more. We have to start resting the body at this time.
Another big step towards this, is working very hard in practice right now and beating yourselves up physically and mentally, not taking breaks because your sore or tired, but rather push yourselves and swim through the pain. Get in when the coaches tell you to and think about "big Meet" while you're tired and how well this will make you perform when it counts. You will have more energy during your rest and taper period. Don't be tempted to use it. Save it for race day!
The most important part of this period of taper and rest is the MENTAL PART! This, to me, is the single most important part of the taper period. You have to be focused on what you want to accomplish in and out of the water.
Less time working out means more time to prepare mentally. Vision your race in your minds and swimming perfectly (we will show you how to do this in the next few weeks). Spend some quiet time each day and clear your mind of everything. The next few meets we swim in, I want all to focus on swimming hard and fast. If you're tired, you might not hit the times we want you to hit, but as coaches and swimmers, we know it will come quickly. Try and be in bed at least by 10:00 PM. The sleep you get before midnight is the most crucial to the day's recovery. You will feel rested if you do this 2 weeks before the event.
We will be teaching the newer ones and reviewing with the other swimmers on all of this and what they need to do. Parents please work with your swimmers at home and if they have high goals, help them to attain them. They might not like what you tell them at home, but coaches know this will help them so much in getting where they want to be.
This is a very exciting part of the season for me and I want all to swim fast. Over the years with Ashland and when I was with the Mansfield program, so many kids did so much better than I expected, but deep down you know the swimmer can do it if they listened to what the coaches ask. I will be sending little bits of info during the next month and a few weeks before the March league champs.
Thanks parents. Please post this where the swimmer(s) can see this each day. Refrigerator, mirror in the bathroom, etc…. Give them positive thoughts at times about their swimming.
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2010-2011 Northeast Ohio League Champions - Small Team
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The coaches wish to welcome you to another season of Aces Swimming! I'm very excited about coaching again. We are looking forward to a great year ahead of us.
Winning dual meets is not my first importance, but rather I want the kids to improve their times over the season. This is more important than winning, although winning is nice. You can't help what the swimmer next to you does. As long as you swim your best, that's all I ask.
Winter swim team is a long season and I want to let everyone know that you do not have to swim every practice all season long. I do not want anyone to get burned out. Parents, be very supportive of your swimmers but don't push them to the brink. If they need a day off...give it to them.
Parents, please help wherever you are needed. A lot of volunteers make a meet run very smoothly. Thanks to all those who helped to make last year a great one! I hope to make your swimmers season the best for them yet and I'm hopeful that the swimmers will be pleased at the end of the year with all of their improvements and accomplishments.
Jeff Dropsey
Swim Team Coach
February 19th. Newsletter
Swimmers and parents:
a bunch of info this week, please read and follow directions to links
Banquet will be held Friday March 23rd. please plan on attending. Info coming quickly. There will be RVSP sent out. Please get these back quickly.
Big/little meet at Kenyon College is the day after ours. Warm-ups for 10-unders start at 7:00am and the meet starts at 8:00 11-over will start at approximately 1:30. Keep an eye out for the updated time if there is one. If not be there by 1. I e-mailed the psych sheets the other day. We will need to supply timers. They haven't said how many but my guess is probably 2. So if any parent wants to, please let me know
Our invitational is this Saturday. We will be setting up the WHOLE meet Friday evening starting at 4:30. Please stop down and help. There is a lot to do with getting an invitational started. We hope to be done by 6. I hope sue has gotten everyone to work this meet. We have 10 teams coming including a team from Columbus as well as some of our league teams and Shelby from the northwest district. There will be 180-200 or so swimmers.
A few swimmers have not signed up yet. If you are planning on swimming (which I hope, unless you told me why ya cant), you will have to deck enter the meet. We are charging $3 an event for the meet but our kids will pay $2. Relays will be covered by us. Ashland will warm-up from 7:15-7:50 and the rest of the teams will warm-up after that. Meet will start at 9:00. Please be thee when ur warm-up is scheduled. There will be too many other swimmers for us to use at the same time.
League meet will take place Saturday march 3 at Cleveland State. We are in the large team category this year. We are the smallest large team, but we will do very well. We have to supply 1 official for each session and 3 timers. I have my morning timers. They are robb mangan, Jamie McDaniel and Jennifer Moore. I still need an official for the morning as ell as an official and 3 timers for the afternoon. There will be some very fast swimmers at this meet and our kids are right there and fast as well. This should be a very exciting meet like the division champs were. Cleveland state is a very big facility with ample seating, built the afternoon session can be close to full. I sent out the meet info for the meet but if your not sure go to www.neoyswim.org for warm-up times. 8-un, 13-14 and 15-18 in the morning and the 9-10 and 11-12 in the afternoon.
This past Friday and Saturday, our high school swimmers swam at Cleveland state and bowling green. Amanda Patterson from Mapleton swam her district meet at Cleveland state and qualified for the HS Division 2 state championship this Thursday and Friday at canton (where we swam our divisions). She qualified in the 100 back and is seeded 20th. Also qualifying for state this year is Chad Wright of Ontario. Chad qualified in the 200 freestyle, seeded 10th and 500 freestyle in which he is seed 9th. Our last state qualifier is hutch Blackstone from Mansfield senior. Hutch has qualified 14th in the 50 free. In that event the 24 swimmers are separated by less than a second. He has also qualified in the 100 breast with a number 8 seed. We had bunches of other swimmers from our team that swims for many different high school and all had fantastic sectional and district meets. I'm going to run down their names and schools.
From Mansfield, hutch and Karyn wade
From Loudonville, Vanessa byers, Megan lance, Krista matteson, and baylie vanhorn
from st peters, alana ralph and anthony schlitt
from ontario chad wight and tyler watson
from crestview, danielle vipperman
from mapleton, amanda patterson
from ashland, davis garrison, abrianna hosler, keegan mcdaniel, gabe reynolds, chip sherwood, emma swartzentruber and belle williams and gabe reynolds of ashland HS.
I've started with 90% of this group when I started coaching here 6 yrs ago. its been a emotional treat watching them grow from 9-10 and 11-12 age groups to where they are now. These are all great kids. i love you guys a lot and i hope you all had fun with us along the way like I did. And I still have all of you guys and gals with the exception of Karyn next year.
For our age groupers, this is what you look forward to as you grow through our program in the next few years. Competing for your school on a big stage while still swimming with us and setting positive examples for the younger kids.
I think that's it...have a wonderful week.....Jeff
Invitationals
Flip Flop Invitational Information
Entry FeesSponsors Not Heard From
4th Annual Flip Flop Invitational
Flip Flop Invitational Letter
Flip Flop Sponsorship Form
Parents Info Letter
Flip Flop Invitational T-Shirts
Hi Everyone,
The sign up sheets for the Concession Stand donations are also on the board at the Y. Please sign up this week if possible. If you signed up on the Hospitality Room sign up, I have already added you to these sheets (where applicable.) We have decided this year to stock the Hospitality Room for COACHES ONLY with the donations/items we have from the concession stand. In the past, we have made no money on concessions and part of this is due to having such a wonderful spread for the coaches. We aren't going to short change the Hospitality Room by any means, but we decided to scale back on what is provided in that room.
Thank you.
Rosie Macnamara
44th Annual Big/Little Invitational
Warmup ScheduleParking Map
Meet Packet
Kenyon Entries
Big/Little Psych Sheets
The meet is now closed and will not be acepting any deck entries or changes. if you notice for relays (mainly 13-14 girls and 15-18 girls), things are mixed up a little to quite a bit in a relay or 2. the reason i have some doing strokes they never do is because i need times for a few girls in certain strokes for leagues and hopefully zone. the 13-14 girls B relay is the one that most will wonder what? it is correct the order for the girls B 200 medley relay. i need times for kayli and grace for league placement and possible zone placement. if i had an extra breast stroker then sammi wouldnt be doing it, but its all we have to work with to seed another relay.
2012 YMCA National Short Course Swimming Championship
Greensboro Aquatic Center, Greensboro, North Carolina
Monday April 2 thru Thursday April 5, 2012
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2011 YMCA National Short Course Qualifying Times
We will be having a meeting at coach Jeff's house (1011 Poth rd., Mansfield 44906), Sunday Oct. 16th at 6:30pm Swimmers that are probably going to or have qualified should be there with their parents. we will go over qualifying times, hotel reservations, etc... we will cookout burgers on the grill. there is a USA meet that day in canton that some of you are going to and the time is changed from 5:00pm to 6:30pm please be here so we can make group decisions on items to be disscussed
2012 Zone Championships
CT Branin Natatorium, 1715 Harrison Ave NW Canton, OH 44708
March 16th thru March 18th.
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2012 YMCA Zone Qualifying Times
2012 Zones - Hotel Information
zone qualifiers
9-10 girls 200 medley relay (katie vicary, sage moore, sheri nichols, brystn williams)
50 breast - sage moore
9-10 boys 200 medley relay (kenton cordrey, justice holmes, cayman eichler, ross kuhn)
9-10 boys 200 free relay (same 4)
50 breaast - justice holmes
50 breast - cayman eichler
11-12 boys 200 medley relay (bryke williams, hudson mcdaniel, drew weeks, david haring)
11-12 boys 200 free relay (same 4)
drew weeks 50 free, 100 free, 200 free, 50 fly, 100im, 200im, 50 fly
bryke williams 50 free, 50 back, 100 back
hudson mcdaniel 50 breast, 100 breast
13 14 girls 200 free relay (abby reynolds, kayli ralph, samantha basinger, macki leon)
15-18 & open girls 200 medley relay
200 free relay
400 medley relay
400 free relay
800 free relay
amanda patterson, karyn wade
15-18 & open boys 200 medley relay
200 free relay
400 medley relay
400 free relay
800 free relay
chad wright, davis garrison, gabe reynolds, hutch blackstone
