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September 2, 2010
If It Was Easy, Everyone Would Do It 2012 US Olympic Team Trial Time Standards  For US swimmers, the toughest swim meet to qualify for is the US Olympic team. The maximum team size is only 28 females and 28 males, including the Open Water 10K. The next toughest meet to qualify for is the US Olympic Team Trials. The 2012 US Olympic Trial cuts were released yesterday and are posted above. Since 2000, Three Village Swim Club has had TVSC swimmers and alumni qualify for and compete in the US Olympic Trials. In 2000 it was TVSC alumnus Chris Helin; in 2004 it was Julia Smit and Mark Hill; in 2008 Tom Luchsinger and alumni Mike and Julia Smit. In 2008 Julia Smit was the first TVSC alumnae, who made the US Olympic team in the 4 x 100 and 4 x 200 free relays. She was also 3rd in 400 IM, but only top 2 swimmers qualify. TVSC alumni Tom Luchsinger, Mike and Julia Smit qualified this summer for the 2012 Olympic Trials. Congratulations! Are any current TVSC swimmers up for the challenge of qualifying for the 2012 OT? At the start of this new swim season set goals for yourself! But be realistic. If you are a JO qualifier, you most likely are not ready to get OT cuts by 2012, but possible by 2016. Instead of setting an unrealistic goal of winning nine gold medals in 2012 Olympic Games in London, start with many shorter term goals, “stepping stones” to reach that final goal. If you are a JO qualifier, a short term goal would be to be Top-16, Top-8 or even Top-3 finisher in your best events at JOs in March of 2011. Qualify for Sr Mets in the summer of 2011; qualify for Sectionals in the 2011-2012 season; etc. Do not be content by being a Silver or JO qualifier, go for that next level! Setting short term and long term goals is the easy part. The hard part is how you are going to achieve these goals. Just remember, there are no “short cuts” in competitive swimming, and “life is not fair, get used to it”. Only honest hard work in the pool and during dryland will count. And . . . . if you think you can be a Sectional qualifier in two years by training four times a week, and / or taking summers off, you are dreaming. To become the best swimmer you can be, you must increase your training each year. For 13 & Overs, TVSC offers 9 practices a week. A good progression in training would be 5 to 6 practices a week for 7th graders, 6 to 7 for 8th, 7 to 8 for 9th, 8 to 9 practices a week for 10th, 11th and 12th graders. We know this is hard, but this is the only way to reach the higher levels of competition. Tom and Julia would not have qualified for the Olympic Trials while still training with TVSC, by doing four or five practices a week! "You're Not Going To Get Ahead Of The People That Are Ahead Of You By Doing Less Than They Do." -Eddie Reese Write down short and long term goals and what are going to do to achieve them, and show or email it to your coach. 
TVSC Alumnus, Philip Scholz, Is Competed For Team USA in
2010 IPC Swimming World Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands Even landing page by Swimming World Philip Scholz and his guide dog, Taxi, are in the Netherlands for the 2010 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming World Championships. Competing in the S11 class, Phil finished 5th in 200 IM in life time best of 2:38 on the first day of competition.
Enjoy the Rest of the Summer, and . . . . Stay in Shape!
Competitive swimming is a year-round sport with only one break in August. This is a well deserved break for the "athletes-in-training" and coaching staff. However, stay in shape! Remember, Life is not fair, and get used to it! Only a few athletes-in-training can take off four weeks in training and be back in shape two weeks after start of season. For most it will take much longer, and for some - you may already if you are in this group - taking a four weeks off is like starting over. Stay in shape! You don't have to swim these four weeks, but stay active, do aerobic cross-training. Don't be a coach potato! For example, go run 2 miles or more every other day in your neighborhood or on the beach along the water edge. Go for bike rides. Shoot hoops, play soccer. Get yourself ready for the 2010-2011 swim season to reach that next level in competition: achieve Trident cuts, Silver cuts, JO cuts, Sr Mets cuts, Sectional cuts, Jr Nats cuts, Sr Nats cuts Olympic Trail cuts. Body core exercises In addition, work on you body core muscle groups. For great body position in the water, competitive swimmers need to have a "strong core". While the senior and juniors teams do dryland most of the season, for many athletes-in-training this is not enough. Can you still do 80 or more sit-ups in 2 minutes? All of you can really benefit by doing 20 minutes of core body exercises every day! Push-ups, pull-ups, chin-ups, and rope climbing are some of the most beneficial exercises (get a pull-up bar in your room, basement or garage, and / or get a climbing rope in your backyard). Many athletes are not strong enough yet - and you know who you are - to do correct push-ups. It is not very useful to do 4 sets of 10 incorrect push-ups. Start by doing one, two, three, etc. correct push-ups in a row. Than each day you try to increase this by one or more. Other core body exercises: crunches, sit-ups, leg-lifts, tuck-ups, obliques, statics, squads, push-ups on side, dips, and many more. Select a bunch of these exercises and do 3 sets of 10, 20, of 30 of each, with 10 to 15 seconds rest in between. Build it up to 500, 600 or more a day. Start now and continue this during the swim season, as doing dryland two or three times a week with TVSC for most is not enough. Check also out Mike Mejia's web site to see videos of other exercises benefitting competitive swimmers.
August 8, 2010
The 2009-2010 Swim Season Is Winding Down The 2009-2010 swim season started in early September, and now 49 weeks later is coming to a end. Swimmers and parents, enjoy the rest of the summer, enjoy sleeping in the morning. The senior and junior team coaching staff doesn't mind either not having to get up before five in the morning! If you waited to go on a family vacation until now, thank you for doing this for your swimmer. The championship part of the short and long course season is always a hectic time of the season, with swimmers being rested for different championship meets in practice and by having one championships meet after another, or even two at the same time; a busy time for coaching staff. Incomplete highlights of the Long Course Championship season Senior Nationals in Irvine California: This was the first major long course meet without the "aid" of the $500 full body suits. Yes, parents you are lucky these suits were outlawed last September, as even a $500 suit lasted only a few meets. However, the times at Nationals were much slower than a year ago, really highlighting the effect of the "plastic" and "rubber" full body suits had on performance. It will be a while before World or American Records are broken without these suits! TVSC alumnus and University of North Carolina sophomore, Tom Luchsinger, trained with TVSC this summer, and Coach Barry took him to Irvine last week. He finished 10th in 200 fly, in 1:59.8, just off his personal best time from last year when he wore one of these hi-tech suits, while most other swimmers at the meet, including Michael Phelps, were several seconds slower than last year. Tom will find out after the International Pan-Pacs meet in Irvine later this month, if his time in 200 fly was fast enough for a spot on the US Team for the 2011 World University Games. Tom's times in 200 fly and 400 IM will most likely be 2012 Olympic Trial cuts. TVSC alumni Mike and Julia Smit also competed in Irvine. Mike, competing for AGUA, New York City, was 25th in 400 free in a lifetime best of 3:57. He also bettered his Sr Mets time from two weeks ago in 200 free. His times will most likely be 2012 Trial cuts. Julia, competing for Stanford Swimming, did not have a good Nationals. She still finaled in her best events, but missed re-qualifying for US National team. Super Sectionals in Buffalo, New York: As Coach Barry was in Irvine, Coach Paul took the TVSC Sectional qualifiers, Kelsey Buonaiuto, Matt Dutton, Shannon Lampe, Jon Yin (his first Sectionals), and TVSC Alumnae, Kate Conard to Buffalo. They swam well, and Kate and Matt finaled (Top-24). Matt was 18th in 100 fly with PB of 58.6 and, Kate finaled in 200 IM, 200 free, and 100 back.
Zones in Rockville, Maryland: The last long course meet of the season for TVSC swimmers is the Eastern Zone Age Group Championships. Rachel Bertini, Evan Nilsson, Ryan Burke, Kristen Pozmanter, Li Yan Yao, Chase McHugh, and Matt Darcy will compete for the Metro team (Metropolitan LSC) in Maryland. They will leave this Tuesday. Others, who qualified, but did not go, were: Alec Huner, Dylan Champagne, Cassandra Willie, and Michael Carlin.
August 8, 2010
Long Course JOs - Felix Festa Middle School pool - West Nyack Meet results Individual results Pics by Sian's dad (pw tvsc) The estimated 6 to 7 hour meet sessions scared off some families, but still 44 TVSC athletes traveled to Rockland County for the 2010 long course JOs. Luckily, there were no thunderstorms this year, which made this meet last even longer last year, as the Clarksville SD won't allow swimming during thunders storms. With the long sessions, still 60% of all swims were best times. Some Meet High Lights New Zone Cuts: Matt Darcy 400 IM, Chase McHugh 50 & 100 & 200 free & 200 IM, Evan Nillson 200 back, Ryan Burke 100 & 200 back. All Best Times: Charlotte Broadbent, Chase McHugh, Dominique Betterbed, Evan Nilsson, Jared Stoller, Ryan Burke, and Sarah Chan. Almost All Best Times: Brittany Coughlin, Cameron Kubik, Casey Gavigan, Charles Shemet, Daniel Infranco, Kristen Pozmanter, Matthew Darcy, Michael Giordano, Natalia Giunta, Phoebe McAuliffe, Rita Chen, Ryan Gao, and Ryan Kaplan. |
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