THE HERITAGE AQUATIC TEAM - H.A.T.
.jpg)
"The Body Achieves What the Mind Believes" - WE BELIEVE!
|
THE HERITAGE AQUATIC TEAM - H.A.T.
"The Body Achieves What the Mind Believes" - WE BELIEVE!
|
|
The Heritage Aquatic Team is a member of USA Swimming / Florida Gold Coast Swimming. Click on the logo below to get latest news from USA swimming.
We are proud to be part of the SPEEDO team | 
Note From Coach Tan
Congratulations to our swimmers for a great spring season. Division II Champs, Junior Olympics, Speedo Sectional Champs and NISC Junior Nationals. We had many great swims with best times and new qualifying times for more advanced events.
BLUE vs. YELLOW Meet
Our first Blue vs. Yellow meets was very successful. We had great swims from all the age groups and it was close. Girls Team Score was 819 / 704 won by Blue Team, Boys Team Score was 893 / 881 won by Yellow Team and Combine Team Score was 1996 / 1893 won by Blue Team. Congratulations to all of the participants for job well done. Looking forward for another meet in the future.
UP COMING TRAVEL MEET
We are looking for another travel meet in June. There is a Swim meet at Fort Meyers weekend of June 14-15th. This meet will offer all the age groups. We will give more information as we get closer.
PARENT MEETING
On Friday April 11th at 7:00pm all the HAT Parents are require to be at our Team Parent meeting. This meeting will offer lots of information that you can use as a parent of swimmers. We will have a special guest speaker, Christi Woolger who will discuss parenting of a swimmer. Also we will talk about upcoming events and meet and entry rules. Any questions that you may have can be answer during this meeting. Please make sure to be there.
AQUA II News Coach Tan
Great job to our AQUA II swimmers. Our swimmers swam well during the season. This upcoming summer season, I have few new practice plans for our swimmers and looking forward for upcoming summer season. We are now going into long course season and we need to be well prepared to swim this season. The practice will include more endurance base swims and challenge sets. Also, we will be using heart rate to train. Based on each swimmer’s heart rate we can push train level even further to achieve better conditioning. Our swimmers can use their fingers to take their heart rate or purchase heart rate monitor, please see coach Tan for what type of heart rate monitor you need.
AQUA I News Coach Grady
AQUA I Beg. News Coach Carole I was happy to see our swimmers very excited about the blue vs. yellow meet…. It was fun and also a great practice/experience for my swimmers. We will practice more diving as soon as the weather warms up. Strokes are much better! NEXT 8 AND UNDER MEET: Friday, April 18. In Pembroke Pines (will receive information on the week of the meet). So far I have 5 children not going to this meet. (Lu family and Dawson family) Please make sure you let me know, with a written note, if unable to attend. Thank you. Still looking for volunteers for our own 8 and Under meet on May 9. I have Mrs. Fajardo, Elliott Riches and listed as volunteers so far. We will need at least a dozen or more. Thank you for your help. We are swimming all year round. Summer practices are at 4:00p.m. until 5:30p.m.
AQUA I News Coach Khris
Hello swimmers and parents! Spring is here! And hopefully warmer weather comes with it too! This spring we will be working a lot more on our stroke technique, starts, and turns. As well as are stamina with some longer distance sets. I am glad with the swims we had on the Blue vs. Yellow meet, that we had last month and also congratulations to the Blue team for the win as well!!! A lot of our swimmers had best times in that dual meet. Good job! Remember to try to get your own set of fins and goggles for practice. As well as a swim cap if you have longer hair. You can also buy an equipment bag and leave your fins in there hanging on the fence by the pool, that way you always know where they are and chances are that no one will use them. I hope everyone has a good spring break and that you all are safe! Enjoy, relax and have fun! See you all soon!
Note From Coach Tan CORRECTION!! I have missed a very important swimmer for the SWIM-A-THON list last month. Sean Laufer who swam 200 laps and raised $275.00 is also going to night out with coaches’ event (TBA). Thank you Sean for your dedication and great job. New USS Official Congratulation to Mr. Richard Cooper for finishing his required sessions to become our 3rd USS officials. We are still looking for more (3 more to be exact) officials. If you are interested in helping us please contact Coach Tan for more details or ask a current official.
NEW FGC Records! At the Division II Time trials, Daniel Spas made last attempt to break Florida Gold Coast 11-12 records before turn 13. He went 23.10 in 50yard free (old record was 23.17) and 50.44 in 100 yards free (old record was 50.94) both records was set back in 1978! He now has three 11-12 records including 100 breaststroke set last winter. Great Job Daniel!
Jacob Drannan Former H.A.T. swimmer and graduate from American Heritage who attends and swims for Loyola College swam great on his freshman season. He has set several school records as well as many of his personal best times. He also won several individual events at the Championships meets. Congratulations Jacob ! Jacob keeps in touch by calling me on a regular basis.
Former swimmer Another swimmer I met while we are visiting Isabelle Bouthillier in Ohio was Matthew Houllier who swam for me back in 1995-1999 at Fort Lauderdale Swim Team. Matthew is from Trinidad. He still continues to swim and is trying to qualify for Beijing Olympics this summer. He is a great Butterflyer and I worked with him at the aquatic center of Miami University in Oxford during our visit. He was an “All American Swimmer” during his high school season. Good Luck Matthew! Looking forward to hear from you and see your progress.
Parent Educational Meeting (MANDATORY) There will be a mandatory Meeting on April 11th (Friday) at American Heritage School from 7:00pm – 9:00pm.in the GYM. This session will includes guest speaker Christi Wathen who will be talking about psychology of swimming parents. It is very important for ALL the parents regardless of years being with the team….. We will be discussing meet schedule for 2008 and our team annual events (SWIM A THON and Holiday Party). Also local and travel swim meets, practice schedule and more.
AQUA II Coach Tan Congratulations to Charlie Bess, Sarah Erickson, Lillian Gonzalez, Kendall Tonyan, Kristen Walker and Kamal Zebib for their great effort at D2 at Lake Lytal. Kendall had 5 out of 6 events best time just missing her 200 back JO cuts. Kristen had 3 out of 5 events best time and Kamal made 100 fly cut for JO. Good Luck to swimmers who will be attending Junior Olympic. March is still busy meet month including Speedo Sectional and Junior Nationals at Orlando YMCA Aquatic Center. AQUA I Advanced Coach Grady Congratulations swimmers on an outstanding Division II Meet! The age group program achieved eight new Junior Olympic qualifying times. Elizabeth Windisch qualified for Junior Olympics in the 100 yard Butterfly and 100 yard Freestyle. Ali Pacitti qualified for Junior Olympics in the 100 yard Butterfly, 100 Freestyle, and the 100 yard I.M.. Jonathon Farah qualified in the 500 yard Freestyle and the 100 yard Backstroke. Francisco Gallo achieved his first Junior Olympic time in the 50 yard Backstroke. Michael Goncalves, Elliot Riches, and Camila Manrique made a big splash in the Division II Meet by qualifying in lifetime best times in the finals. Swimmers it is your responsibility to the team to wear team swimsuits and t-shirts at all competitions. Furthermore, swimmers you need to wear a Heritage Aquatic Team swim cap during your races. Team Uniform shows team pride and we are all proud to be a part of HAT. Please take care of this matter as soon as possible!! HAT HAS BEEN INVITED TO THE VILLAGE SEVEN SWIM CLUB PENTATHLON JUNE 20-21, 2008 IN COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO. THIS MAY BE THE LAST TIME THIS MEET IS HELD. I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A GROUP OF AT LEAST TEN SWIMMERS. PLEASE DROP ME A NOTE IF YOU ARE INTERESTED. AQUA I Beginner Coach Carole Our next 8 and Under meet will be on April 18th - Friday in Pembroke Pines. I will give you the meet information sheet the week of the meet. If unable to attend this meet, please give us a written note or e-mail Coach Tan at coachnobu@aol.com. 25 yards of each stroke (butterfly, back, breast and fly) at the end of the meet we have team relays either freestyle or medley. Make sure you find out if your child swims in the relays before you leave the meet. We will participate in our home meet Yellow vs blue … let us know if your child will be there. On May, we will be hosting an 8 and Under meet at Heritage! We will need as many volunteers as we can.... ü To work at entrance gate and sell heat sheet- charge entrance fee -sell snacks and drinks (2 persons) ü To work in bull pen - sitting the children and keeping them in order and as quiet as possible (3-4 persons) ü To help coach time - position of every heat ( 1 person) ü Timing and pressing the bottom when children touch the wall (12 persons) ü Giving heat winner price when touching the wall first
We
appreciate all you help, please sign in for this meet with me anytime.
Thank you. AQUA I Intermediate Coach Khris Congratulations to Stephen Angel, Sean Laufer, Nicholas Pacitti, Tommy Windisch and Laura Thibeault on their Great swims at the Plantation Invitational! Great Job!! And also a big congrats to Chloe Grabow, Sean Laufer, Daniel and Kyle Lu and Tommy Windisch at the Div. 2 Champs as well! I am very happy to see our swimmers step up and have great swims! Like Tommy dropping 6.74 sec on his 100 free at div 2, Kyle dropping 4.25 sec on 100 free, Sean with a whopping 12.36 sec in the 100 free as well!. So far we have been doing very well all the meets we have gone to, with most swimmers dropping their times dramatically. LET’S KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!! I would also like to ask the parent and swimmer to make their best efforts to go to the swim meets with the team swim suit and team cap. And if you have the team shirt bring it to. That way we can make our team colors shine in every meet! And remember PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT! The more times you come to practice the better you will get!
Note From Coach Tan Please see the upcoming swim meets schedule. All the swimmers will be entered in the qualified meets unless coaches get informed that swimmers will not be able to attend by either written note or e-mail. If your children are UNABLE to attend the upcoming meets, please contact coaches at least 2 weeks before the event. All the entries are due 10 days before the event. Travel meet to Clearwater Thank you to all the swimmers and parents who participated in our Clearwater trip. It was great opportunity to swim with different swimmers from other areas as well as competing in indoor 50 meter pool (There are only few indoor pool in Florida). Most of swimmers had fun at Bush Garden after the meet and looking forward for another travel meet in the future. SWIM A THON
Thank you for all the swimmers and parents for supporting our annual SWIM A THON, we have raised $ 5,890.04. We are currently working to get our team record board to put up by the pool. Congratulations to following swimmers for “Top 12 fundraisers”. These swimmers will have a night out with Coaches for movie and more. Date & Time will be announced later
Aly Pacitti $880.00 Chantal Bouthillier $600.00 Graham D’Oyley $590.00 Moriah Bocus $524.00 Molly Weidner $500.00
Melissa Cooper $300.00 Kordell Organ $250.00 Jonathan Farah $240.00 Matthew Cooper $200.00 AJ Kolondra $179.00 Tommy Windisch $175.00 Elizabeth Windisch $175.00
AQUA II News Coach Tan
Our first meet of the 2008 was at Clearwater. Our swimmers had some good swims and many struggled from the winter break. It is normal for the first meet. Still, Melissa Cooper won the 100 Breaststroke and Chantal Bouthillier dropped over 30 sec. in 1650 Free. After the Clearwater meet we had a meet at Saint Andrews where our swimmers start to drop some times but since I was working on our swimmer’s endurance, our swimmers had lack of speed at the meet. Our swimmers trained about 6500 – 8000 yards per day with dryland exercise. I know the hard work will pay off during the upcoming swim meets. We are getting ready for not only one meet but several meets for different swimmers. In February, Division II Championships at Lake Lytal and Junior Olympic Championships at Coral Springs, Speedo Sectional and Junior National at Orlando in March. It is a long spring season for different swimmers. Our first big meet will be Division II meet at Lake Lytal. I am looking for many of our swimmers will advance to Junior Olympic following weekend. Our swimmers have been training very well. We missed some training due to the cold weather during new year week but our swimmers has trained well during the month of January. Good luck to all the swimmers for upcoming swim meets, I am looking forward for exciting meets.
Please check our web page for more information on upcoming meets and more at www.heritageaquaticteam.com AQUA I Advanced Coach Grady
February is an important month of competition for our team. Please sign up for the Plantation Swim Meet on February 9-10. Division II Meet will be held at Lake Lytal on February 23-24. In order to compete at Junior Olympics, you need to achieve a qualifying time. I will determine Junior Olympic Relays based off the Plantation and Lake Lytal meets. Parents, please help assist me in getting our swimmers running shoes, shorts, T-shirts and water bottle on dryland days (Tuesday-Thursday). Thanks for all of your support of HAT!
AQUA I Intermediate Coach Khris Hello parents and swimmers! How are you all! We have started the new year with a few meets right of the bat, and with very little time to get back in swimming shape. So it is understanding that our times are not as fast as they were before the holydays, being that we have swam so little. But it is time to get back to it! That is why the more practices we go to the faster we will get in shape and back to dropping times left and right! Remember practice makes perfect! So let’s put some sweat and hard work into it and swim as much as we can so in the next coming meets we bust out some good swims! And show who is the big fish in the water! WHAT YOU LACK IN TALENT CAN BE MADE UP WITH DESIRE, HUSTLE, AND GIVING 110 PERCENT ALL THE TIME.”
Team Sweat
Shirts will be available
AQUA I Beginner Coach Carole
Practice does make it perfect. Try to send your child to practice at least twice a week, as your child gets older he will eventually need to increase to three times a week. Swimmers are doing great! We have been fortunate for the warm weather this winter, the pool is at 84F. We’ve had few sessions on diving, which we do on the warmest days. We are getting better every practice. Little things that you may not see, such as streamline under water when children leaves the wall or dive, pull out for breaststroke, finishing touch at the wall for the different strokes. Their speed will come with time and experience. This is a beautiful stage in their swimming career, enjoy it. We have many amazing little swimmers! They are doing 1000 yards and more per practice (40 laps and more). They are working on lots of stroke technique and endurance. We are also working on counting strokes per lap, trying to make longer strokes. By keeping a regular practice schedule the easiest it will become for your child to practice, the faster he/she will adapt to the team and teammates and really feel part of it. Our next 8 and Under Meet will be on April 18 at Pembroke Pines.
HERITAGE AQUATIC TEAM Up Coming Meet Schedule (February and March)
2008 FEB 1 8 & Under Sizzler Fort Lauderdale 8 & Under FEB 8-10 FGC Wide Open Invitational PST ALL FEB 22-24 FGC Division II Championships Lake Lytal Non JO FEB 28-2 FGC Junior Olympic Championships Coral Springs JO
MAR 8-9 FGC Wide Open Invitational Pembroke Pines ALL MAR 13-16 Speedo Sectional Championships Orlando YMCA Q-Time MAR 25-29 Junior Nationals Orlando YMCA Q-Time MAR 29-30 Sub-JO Meet Sunrise Non JO MAR 29 FGC vs. FL All Star Dual Meet IRCC Qualification
MEET ENTRY POLICY – IMPORTANT !! Swimmers are entered in all meets qualified for the discretion of his / her coach. All meet entries are done at least two weeks prior to the meet.
If you swimmer CAN NOT attend a certain meet on the schedule that he/she has qualified to swim in YOU MUST notify your Coach with written note. This MUST BE DONE BEFORE the entry is completed. If one of the above IS NOT done, your swimmer will be entered in the meet and you will be responsible for all fees.
NOTE FROM COACH TAN Happy New Year! I am looking forward for great year in 2008. Thank you for your kind gift that I received during the holidays. Thank you to all the swimmers and parents for participated in our Annual Fund raising event SWIM A THON and Holiday Party. We sure had great time at the party. If you would like to have see some of the pictures from the party, Please stop by and look at the team bulletin board by the pool. Thank you and congratulation to Mrs. Morris for completing official course. She is our 2nd Heritage Aquatic Team official.
AQUA II News Coach Tan We had first double practice for my swimmers to improve their endurance work for upcoming season. Also, our swimmers are working on their goal set for 2008 by the season. It is very important that each and every swimmer to have goals for their performance. My goals for our group is to have best attitude towards each and every practice. Practice is not easy but having a goals will help focus doing practice with better results at meets.
following swimmers have turned in their SWIM A THON form with their money raised for this annual event. Thank you for your support! Our swimmer’s time for 200 laps (5,000yards) will be reported to USA Swimming. If you have not yet to return your fund, please return to Coach Carole or Coach Tan as soon as possible. We are waiting to submit our final financial report. As of now, we would like to thank and congratulate those swimmers for helping raising funds to purchase team record board. Chantal Bouthillier Adiana Correa Camila Manrique Melissa Cooper Matthew Cooper Santiago Azpurua Alejandro Azpurua Kordell Organ Sebastian Oberndorfer AJ Kolondra Nicolas Oberndorfer Molly Weidner Tommy Windisch Elizabeth Windisch Cisco Gallo James Burnette Kristine Obenour Alexis Morris Andre Bronca Alex Bronca Anthony Bronca Kamal Zebib Daniel Spas Jose Serra Kendall Tonyan
AQUA I Advanced Coach Grady
Happy New Year everyone! Welcome back swimmers and parents!! I hope everyone had a gratifying and fulfilling holiday season!!! 2008 is here and it is time to begin preparing for the Division II and Junior Olympic Swimming Championships. The yellow team shall be training until 5:30p.m. and the Blue team shall be training until 6:00p.m. On Tuesday and Thursday we shall begin practice with 30-40 minutes of dry land exercises. Swimmers need to wear proper athletic shoes, shorts, and t-shirts during these exercise sessions. Improper foot attire can injure the feet! Florida winter is upon us and it is crucial that our swimmers dress warmly after practice. A serious cold or pneumonia can really hurt a swimmers health and season. This is a short season. We have three meets, therefore; it is important to compete whenever a swim meet is scheduled. Parents, I want you to know that I am giving your child my best effort daily. I know all of you want your children to succeed and so do I! However, all children improve at different rates. I tend to take a long range view. It is my job to teach your child how to swim properly with good stroke mechanics and to learn how to swim different types of races. The philosophy of this program is to teach good mechanics and have fun at this level. It is very normal for swimmers to reach plateaus where their times stay the same. After some training and stroke refinements they all seem to have a great meet where they improve in most if not all of their races. The best role as a parent can play during a plateau is to be positive and encourage their child to have fun. Heritage Aquatic Team has produced some highly competitive swimmers the past few years. I believe there are some incredibly talented swimmers in the age group program presently. The swimmers will improve and have great success in 2008 if they are consistent in practice and they are praised and hugged daily by their parents! Thanks for all of your support!!
AQUA I Beginner Coach Carole Thank you for your generous gifts for the Holidays! Hope you are enjoying your holiday break. Our next meet will be for the 8 and Under on February 1st – I am thinking to change the location to Sunrise Aquatic Complex since it will be much convenient and easier for everyone on a Friday night. If unable to attend please send us a note /e-mail otherwise your child will be entered in the meet automatically 14 days prior to that meet.
AQUA I Intermediate Coach Khris Hello H. A. T. swimmers!! I Hope that all of you had a great holyday break and lots of fun! It is a start of a new year, and with this new year we have some small changes to our practice times! Practice will still start at 03:30 pm everyday and end at 05:00 pm. except on Wednesdays and Fridays that it will end at 05:30 pm. That way we can get some extra time to get even faster for our upcoming meets! I am very glad to see the amount of progress I see and all my swimmer in the short time I have been with the team and I am very sure that we will have a great winter season! Swimmers remember to bring your own goggles and fins, it is important for you to have all your swimming gear ready for each practice. Especially your goggles! Because when the time to race comes you want to be comfortable with them. (the goggles you practice with should be the ones you race with) Also if you have long hair wear a swim cap. Your hair holds lots of water and will slow you down if you don’t have a cap on. And remember!!! IF YOU TRAIN HARD, YOU’LL NOT ONLY BE HARD, YOU’LL BE HARD TO BEAT TOO!!!
Coach Khris. Arantxa Mascarenas 1/2 Lilian Gonzalez 1/5 Zara Joykutty 1/5 Remi Keane 1/15 Victoria Barker 1/17 Cody Warner 1/20 Andre Bronca 1/22 Jeffrey Grockowski 1/25 Chantal Bouthillier 1/27 Dhimani Charles-Harris 1/28 Harrison Diamond 1/31
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! Good Luck in 2008!!
AUGUST 2007 Note from Coach Tan Congratulations to all the swimmers who participated in Division II Championships and FGC Junior Olympic Championships. We had many great swims and best time from our swimmers. Nicolas Oberndorfer was an individual champion at Division II. Daniel Spas and Melissa Cooper were individual champions at JO. Congratulations!! There were 55 Teams that participated at Junior Olympics and our team placed as follow; Girls - 24th / Boys - 11th / Combined - 18th CONGRATULATIONS SWIMMERS!! Brandon Goldman is representing Florida Gold Coast team at Zone Championships in Texas. GOOD LUCK Brandon !! Practice schedule in August. Monday to Friday 4:00 - 6:00pm Team Summer Vacation 8/13 - 8/19 Regular practice start Monday 8/20 No Saturday Practice until end of September Starting 8/20 Monday to Friday Coach Carole 3:30 - 5:00pm Coach Grady 3:30 - 5:30pm (Yellow) / 4:00 - 6:00pm (Blue) Coach Tan 3:30 - 4:30pm (DRY) / 4:30 - 6:30pm (Pool) REMINDER For the parents who took the official class, you need to start scheduling the online testing as well as observing the meet to be an official. August 25-26 (Open Invitational @ Sunrise) would be a great opportunity to start the 6 sessions required. AQUA II News Coach Tan Congratulations to all the swimmers for job well done this summer season. All the swimmers had best times and have improved in many areas. I am very excited and looking forward working with this coming fall season. There will be a new practice schedule for our team starting August 20th. Monday to Friday - 3:30 - 4:30pm Dryland Training / 4:30 - 6:30pm Swimming Saturday - 8:00 - 9:00am Dryland Training / 9:00 - 11:00am Swimming Morning Practice will be announced at later time We are going into High School season and as American Heritage School, we have dual meets scheduled on Wednesdays. All the High School swim meets will be posted on our monthly calendar. AQUA I Advanced Coach Grady Congratulations swimmers on an outstanding summer season. The effort and improvement in all four competitive strokes is amazing! Fall season is just around the corner and I want all of you to include the following pieces of training equipment in your practice bags: a)fins ;b)hand paddles ;c)athletic shoes, shorts, and team shirts for dryland sessions ;and d)a good water bottle. High praise and congrats to Elizabeth Windisch, Aly Pacitti, Alexis Morris, Jade Grabow, Nick Oberndorfer, Elliot Riches, Jonathan Farah, Matthew Cooper, Anthony Bronca, Sebastian Oberndorfer, and Katie Johnson on a great group of performances at the Junior Olympic Swimming Championships! Thanks to all of the parents who continue to support our swimmers and coaches-we could not have the success we have without your assistance. August will be a month comprised of stroke work and lots of fun! Have fun on vacation and we will see you at the pool real soon! Coach Grady AQUA I Beginner Coach Carole August’s 6th - August 10th I will be absent.Stu Marvin will be helping Coach Marty Grady. August 13 - 19th NO PRACTICE DUE TO TEAM VACATION August 20th Regular practices (3:30-5:00pm) Friday September 7th - 8 and Under Meet at FLA (Hall of Fame pool by the Fort Lauderdale beach) September 28 - 8 and Under Sizzler at American Heritage. We will need volunteers, please let coaches know if you can help.
SWIM MEET ENTRY Please remember that every swimmer will be entered automatically unless coaches get a note. We would like to thank you for all the support and help.
April, 2007 Note from Coach Tan Congratulations to all the swimmers for their great performance during spring season. We had many best times. Congratulations to Chantal Bouthillier, Brandon Goldman, Jose Serra and Kamal Zebib for making All Star team and Melissa Cooper and Jacob Drannan for their performance at Junior Nationals. Swim Team Member Address Book in working progress. If you have not yet to give form or lost the form and would like to be on the list. Please contact Coach Tan for forms. Equipment Each and every swimmer requires having their own equipment. Make sure to have all the equipment with name and put them in the bag. You can leave your equipment bag at pool near diving well. Following is the list of equipment that need for each practice. Swimming Cap (We have team cap for sale), Goggle (each swimmer must have their own with name), Swimming Fins, and Paddles. If you have any questions please contact Coach Tan or Coach Carole. If you need to purchase equipment, please contact our team dealer “Total Team Wears” at 1-800-888-8843. Team Uniforms For all the swim meets we require to wear our team uniforms such as T-Shirt, Long Sleeve, Caps, Parka, Sweat top and bottom, and Swim suits. If you need listed uniforms please contact Coach Tan or Coach Carole for an assistant. AQUA II News Coach Tan We had very exciting spring season. Everyone had best times and swam very well. Division II Champs at Jupiter, Kendall Tonyan made final in 50 free and 100 Back and also Lilian Gonzalez swam well. At the Junior Olympics, we had Melissa Cooper won the 100 Breast with her 1st National Top 16 time and US Open cut time of 1:05.12. Chantal Bouthillier made All Star team with both 100 & 200 Fly along with 3 career best out of 6 events. Jacob Drannan had his best time in 100 Fly. Also, Ben Potter had great meet with best time in 200 free and 100 Fly as well as his first under 50 sec. swim in 100 free at time trial with time of 49.56. Melissa Cooper and Jacob Drannan moved on to Junior Nationals in Orlando and Chantal Bouthillier moved on to All Star meet at IRCC in Ft. Pierce. Congratulations swimmers for your outstanding effort this season. Your hard work has paid off. Keep working and let’s look for even better season this summer. I would like to welcome swimmers from Coach Grady’s Blue Group. Charlie Bess, Katie Brennan, Buzzy Drew, Sarah Erickson, Emily Stephens, Katie Stephens, Jose Serra, Brandon Goldman, Daniel Spas, and Kamal Zabib. Looking forward working with you all. AQUA I News Coach Grady Congratulations swimmers on a nice finish to a great season! The 11-12 Boys 200 Medley relay team of Brandon kraut, Kamal Zabib, Brandon Goldman, and Daniel Spas won a Junior Olympic title. Jose Serra proved what an outstanding 200-400 I.M. swimmer he truly is...Brandon Kraut dropped 4 seconds in his 100 Backstroke and made finals! Kamal Zabib qualified for the All Star meet with his great Breaststroke swims. Buzzy Drew dropped time in every event and scored in two Breaststroke finals! Kristina Brennan dropped three seconds in her 100 Backstroke to qualify for Junior Olympics in two different strokes (as an 11year old). Katie Brennan was the comeback swimmer of the meet, She improved her 400I.M. after breaking her arm and missing three weeks over the holidays. Nick Oberndorfer made finals in the 100 Backstroke in his first J.O. Brandon Goldman won the 50 butterfly and swam an incredible 1:01 100 Fly at All Stars. Daniel Spas qualified for 6 events at Division IIs and final in the 50 Free and 50 Breaststroke at the Junior Olympics. Ali Pacitti, Alexis Morris, Elizabeth Windisch, and Jade Grabow improved tremendously throughout the season and give HAT great future Junior Olympics at a tough 9-10 age group. Elliot Riches made his first final at Division IIs. Jonathon Farrah and Bobby Stephens just missed Junior Olympic cuts and show incredible potential for summer season. Katie Johnson swam four finals at Division IIs and just missed her 100 fly cut! Emily Stephens made final in 200 Breast at DII. Charlie Bess continues to improve in every stroke. Next season nine swimmers will be leaving the age group program to create a new senior program with Coach Tan. My role with each of you will change as I will assist Coach Tan from 5:30-6;30. However, I have the most confidence that you are ready for a new challenge and will have great success. I am blessed to work with some of you for 4 years and I want to thank each of you for the honor of challenging you to be the best swimmer - human being possible - all of you surpassed my expectations. AQUA I News Coach Carole We had a good 8 and Under Meet at Pembroke Pines. Girls relay came in 2nd and Boys 1st ? Congratulations! Outstanding swims for James Burnette, Graham D’Oyley, Chloe Grabow, Lauren Tait, and Jorge Fajardo. Working hard during practices always pays off at the end. Improvement depends on several factors: focus, outside temperature, training attitude and stroke corrections. By changing the strokes and improving the strokes(which we do during practice by doing lots of drills), it will take a little while before the swimmer gets use to the new strokes and starts going faster. Be patient they have lots of time. Our next 8 and Under Meet will be on April 13th ? Friday at Pine Island Pool. Few things that I want to work in this coming weeks, dives from the blocks and backstroke finishes.
Note From Coach Tan First of all, I would like to mention January’s Birthdays that I missed on last month’s calendar. Happy Birthday everyone hope you had great birthday. Zara Joykutty 1/5 Lilian Gonzalez 1/5 Kristina Brennan 1/8 Remi Keane 1/15 Andre Bronca 1/22 Buzzy Drew 1/24 Chantal Bouthillier 1/27 I would like to remind you that there are many swim meets coming up through March. Please contact your Coach if you are UNABLE to swim in the meet. ALL swimmers will be AUTOMATICALLY entered in the meet unless you tell us otherwise.
FINAL SWIM- A-THON RESULTS
Here are the Final Results from the
SWIM-A-THON top fundraisers. These swimmers will be having Dinner / Movie
with the Coaches. Congratulations! 2. Aly Pacitti $1,205.00 3. Chantal Bouthillier $500.00 4. Zachary Meles $353.00 5. Katie Johnson $350.00 6. Melissa Cooper $300.00 7. Payton Guthrie $259.20 8. Jonathan Farah $250.00 Thank you to ALL the participants for your support for this team. Date for the “Top 8 swimmers” and coaches for the Movie and Dinner will be, Saturday February 3rd at 2:00pm. We will be leaving from the pool.
TEAM MEETING On Wednesday, February 13, 2007 there will be a parents’s meeting at 5:30 p.m. at pool to discuss the Summer Trip to Colorado Meet (June 20 - 26, 2007). If you are interested please come by 5:20pm. meeting will start at 5:30pm with Coach Grady. We will also discuss upcoming meet information for the rest of spring season and answer any questions you may have.
AQUA II NEWS Coach Tan We have been training well and most of our swimmers are focused with their goals for this spring season and beyond. My focus for this spring is for all the swimmers to be able to compete at their best performance by focusing better for each race. I have been challenging our swimmers to do their best effort plus and they are responding well. I am excited about new challenges that our swimmers are taking and working hard for it. Congratulations to our swimmers for their swims at Coral Springs ABC Meet. It was great start for this spring season. Next two month will be very busy with meets and every opportunity to race will be great experience for future meets. Here are the list of meets that I am planning on taking my swimmers to and if you have any questions please let me know. February 17-18 Sub-JO @Sunrise 23-24 “A” Invitational @Plantation March 2-4 Division II @Jupiter 8-11 Sectional @FLA 15-18 Junior Olympics @CSSC 20-24 Junior National @Orlando
AQUA I NEWS Coach Grady Coral Springs ABC Meet – Great Job swimmers! I am very proud of the way you raced at Coral Springs. February is a very important month of training for our team. If we are to have a great Division II and Junior Olympic meets it is crucial we get to practice and do a great job. The Sub-JO Meet in Sunrise and the Plantation Age Group Meet are important competitions. Let’s make it a goal to get at least 50% best times at those meets. I know we can accomplish this goal if we put our best efforts forwards.
AQUA I NEWS |
![[Under Construction]](images/undercon.gif)
