Monday Practice & Short Quiz

As shown in your handbook, we will practice Monday morning:

Dry-land 8:00 – 8:45 a.m., Swim 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

Please arrive EARLY and be ready to START at 8:00!

We'll discuss your answers to the following questions during the dry-land session Monday:

1. Name the two (2) "long axis" strokes.

2. Name the two (2) "short axis" strokes.

3. How long should a set of 12 x 50's @ 1:05 take?

4. Which of the four (4) competitive strokes was most recently "invented"?

5. Who holds the world record for the women's 1500 LCM freestyle?

Guess Who

Freestyle Turns

Go with option 3!



1) Push off wall on side
2) Streamline & kick underwater
3) Pull first with bottom arm and break out
4) Breathe on second or third stroke

Larsen Jensen

Former American Record-holder (400 & 1500 meter freestyles) Larsen Jensen talks about high elbow catch in freestyle:


Kara Lynn Joyce video is here.

Larsen is now serving our country as a US Navy SEAL.

Video

Thanks to Bobby for helping us with the underwater video this morning.

Take advantage of the opportunity by:

• choosing two (2) things you saw today that need changing,
• working on improving both each day,
• thinking about them from the start of warm-up to the end of warm-down,
• asking for feedback from coaches & teammates,
• giving feedback to teammates, and
• doing this for at least two (2) weeks.

No Breath-Holding Contests!

We talked about the dangers this morning.  While it's very important that we do some breath-control work in our sport, we're not going to have underwater breath-holding contests.  Read about the most recent tragedy here.

Tate's Dartmouth swimming bio is here.

Quote of the Week

A true champion knows how to overcome

doubts and manage those doubts and

turn them into motivation.

via JACKfm

Misty Dawn Marie Hyman

Did I ever tell y'all about...

...the Christmas snow of 2004?

Off Week

If you can, hop in the water a few times during our UIL-mandated off week.  The pool should be open for evening lap swim hours.  Also, get in some dry-land training!

Maybe you can go for a little run with some teammates:

Splash-n-Dash

Hanna S. wins yesterday's Splash-n-Dash:

Quote of the Week

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

via mental floss

George Washington

Tribune Article

Jayden D. anchors medley relay in El Campo:

Link to Bay City Tribune article is here

Quote of the Week

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt

until they are too strong to be broken.

Dr. Samuel Johnson

Junior Nationals

USA Swimming Junior Nationals (18 & under) are underway in Atlanta (East) and Austin (West).

The following link has live video feeds and links to results:

2015 USA Swimming Winter Junior Nationals

Dana Vollmer - Butterfly

Dana Vollmer swam for Granbury HS and Fort Worth Aquatics Swim Team (FAST) before leaving Texas to swim for both Florida and California in college.  She has set multiple world records and won several Olympic gold medals.

Wheels

Check out the UT men using their wheels on the stadium ramps:

Winter Nationals Race Videos

Swimming World has race videos from last week's USA Swimming Winter Nationals here.

Here's former First Colony Swim Team standout Simone Manuel (now at Stanford) in the women's 100 meter freestyle: