Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Hour of Power 2009

This was our second Ted Mullin "Leave it in the Pool" Hour of Power Relay for Cancer Research. We had a lot of fun and this was by far our best day of the year! I am already looking forward to next year.


Clarkson Meet

Our meet with Clarkson on November 7th was cancelled due to uncontrollable circumstances. We had practice instead! And believe it or not the kids were actually happy to be having practice.

Oneonta Meet and Halloween Practice

Since we had a meet on Halloween, we held our annual Halloween practice on Friday. The pumpkin carving contest was a close call and there were plenty of creative creations. I hoped that they did not eat too much candy since we had Oneonta the next day.
Oneonta came into our pool and swam very well, I think we were a little flat, but we managed wins on both sides. It was basically our 3rd meet in about a week. I am glad we do not have any other weeks like that!

RIT meet

Our next meet was on Wednesday October 28th against RIT. We had some good swims but we were definitely hurting a bit from the AM. The women were victorious as the men were defeated.

Leaf Raking

On Sunday October 27th we participated in Leaf Raking (community service helping out the elderly). We had a few groups out there working hard. We also happened to help out at the house of former Women's swim coach Grace (Mowatt) which was a lot of fun. She shared some good stories! Thanks to everyone for helping out it is well appreciated.

LeMoyne Meet

Our first meet of the year was against LeMoyne on October 24th. It turned out to be a great meet on both sides. The Men's meet cam down to the last relay, which we ended up winning by .07 seconds to win the meet by 1 point! The Women also won to get our year started off on a good note.

5K fundraiser walk for the United Way

On Saturday October 17th a large portion of our team participated in a fundraiser, which was a 5K walk for the United Way. It was tough but I managed to finish. It was a beautiful Fall day to take a walk around campus and it was for a good cause. Shame on Brandon for winning a basket full of candy and not sharing any with his coach! He will likely pay for it later.

Alumni

We had our alumni meet on October 10th, it is always good to see the slightly older people fit into their suits and throw down some impressive swims. I certainly enjoyed seeing old teammate Rob Hathaway hold his own against the kids. Most notable swim was what must be a new American Record in the 50 breast at 10.63 (well, there may have been some timing system manipulation there....who knows!) Anyway it was a good time on both ends of the event. It was also a good time to learn that I needed a new starter. Good to see everyone and we look forward to next year!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Have I got nothing left to say?...Now I remember all the words

Long hiatus.
We're back in business.
A week and a half in - we stand at 24 women, 34 men.
We finished off a little stroke camp and moving into the good stuff.
Last weekend girls did a team builder - rock climbing!, the guys did paintball.
Alumni this weekend- 1pm!!!
We are busy, busy, busy, lots of great stuff coming up

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

2009 Hour of Power

Hour of Power flyer
We had a great time taking part in the 2008 Hour of Power and will be participating this year on November 10th!

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Getting back into the swing of things

One week of working Hamilton College swim camp down, two more to go! Being back in the pool coaching has obviously gotten me energized to start our season. It has also reminded me that I should remind you to make sure you are staying in shape. Start setting some goals for yourself, we are going to need everyone to be excited and motivated next season. It's always good to be an underdog, as long as you have a little fight in you. When I think about what you accomplished last season, I get goosebumps thinking about the possibilities ahead of us. Keep in touch!

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

and she says it's natural

Good job with grades!
Women - 3.31 gpa
Men - 2.99 gpa
Women will be an academic All-American team, and the guys missed by .01 (next time...)
Marianne Munson and Paul MacMahon both got 4.0! congrats!

Monday, March 23, 2009

Nationals

We just got back from Nationals in Minneapolis! It was an awesome week for us!
Congratulations to Jenny VanEtten, Shawn Merlin, and Eric Messina - they represented us well with great performances and brought home 6 All-American Awards.
Jenny started things off for us with a school record performance in the 200 IM with a 2:08.77.
Things only got better from there.
In the 100 breast, Jenny came in with a best individual time of 1:07.17, and was seeded somewhere around 32nd. We were hoping for at least a best time, she shocked us all with a 3 second drop, clocking in at 1:04.16 and grabbing a spot in (top 8) Finals and her first All-American award! The swim was also a new conference record by almost 2 seconds.
In the 200 breast, the event that she qualified in for the National meet, she was seeded 10th. Jenny swam to a new school and conference record in the prelims, qualifying 8th to make Finals. In Finals she again lowered the school and conference record with a 2:20.29, finishing in 7th place for her second All-American performance.
For the Men, both Shawn and Eric qualified for the meet in Diving.
The first Diving event was 1 meter. Shawn finished in 7th place to earn his first All-American award of the meet. Eric just missed out on the top 8 and finished in 9th for an Honorable Mention All American award. Not that I know a lot about diving but they both looked great, and I am pretty good at guessing scores now.
The second diving event was 3 meter. Shawn finished this event in 5th place for his second All American honor, while Eric once again narrowly missed out on top 8 (by less than 2 points) and finished in 9th and picked up his second Honorable Mention All American award. On a sidenote after the first dive on both boards Eric was in first place, that will be his claim to fame until next year, when he moves up the ranks.

Friday, March 13, 2009

Highest Achievement - 2 years in a row

For the second year in a row Oswego State Swimming has a team member selected as a Chancellor's Award winner. Congratulations to Paul MacMahon for being recognized this year. The Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence is the highest honor bestowed upon a student by the State University of New York. Last year Joe Turk was a recipient of the award.
The Women's team was once again recognized as an Academic All-American Team for the Fall 2008 semester. The College Swim Coaches Association now recognizes this each semester for team's with over a 3.0 gpa. Last year both the Men and Women were Academic All-American teams for the year.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Congrats!

So like I said earlier, we had a very good championship meet! 13 new school records! A bunch of National B cuts. Congrats to Jenny VanEtten for making it to the National Meet. Jenny attended the last chance meet at NYU where she broke 3 records with one swim - in the 200 breast she broke her own 100 breast record (106.81) and her own 200 breast record (221.28) as well as the conference record. We are still waiting to find out if our divers will make it in.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

SUNYAC's

Oswego State Swimming and Diving had an AWESOME championship meet. I am amazed at how we can pull it together sometimes. I will write some more later on some specifics - but results can be found here
Write up on us here

Monday, February 9, 2009

Team Awesome

Congratulations Team Awesome! You guys did a great job on Saturday! That was a lot to do in two hours and I think you handled the situation...well...awesomely. I am proud of how you banded together to make your day a special one. It meant a lot.

Friday, February 6, 2009

THANK YOU PARENTS!!!!

I want to thank the Oswego State Swimming and Diving Parents for the goody bags that were put together for the swimmers and divers. It was such a nice thing for them and it is all greatly appreciated. I gave them out this morning as part of our xmas time theme. We decorated the pool with a tree and some lights. They were just like kids at xmas, sitting on the floor tearing through their bags! Anyway, they were thankful and I wanted to put our gratitude out there. We tried to videotape, but with the lights out it was hard to see anything. Thank you again and we look forward to seeing everyone soon!

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

well, whats attached to a leash that it made itself...let me know when you figure it out.

I find myself apologizing again for not putting anything up in quite awhile. So we have been to Florida and back. We had a great training trip- perfect weather, great hotel. We have had 3 very good meets against Cortland, Potsdam, and Buffalo State. The Women are undefeated so far. we will finish our dual meet season this weekend against Geneseo (of course). In 2 weeks we leave for SUNYAC's