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News Digest: February 2008
The final meet of the season is now underway in Columbia, Missouri. As it is in every Olympic year the Sectional meet is run in the long course format. Representing Saluki at the meet are Elizabeth Bell, Caitlin Boren, Braci Dutton and Maria Kolmakova. In finals action on Friday, Elizabeth Bell finished in 10th place in the 100m fly with a 1:05.3 setting a new club record.
Winter Session Ends on Friday, 7
March The Winter training session will end on Friday, 7 March after practice. For those who registered and for new athletes, the Spring training session begins on Monday, 17 March.
Reservation Deadline for
Saluki Awards is 1 March All reservations for the Saluki Awards dinner must be received by Saturday, 1 March. The 2008 Awards dinner will be held at Ace's Catering in Herrin on Sunday, 16 March.
Saluki athletes finished the 2008 Ozark Short Course Championship in 10th place overall this past weekend amid a flurry of best performances and 21 new National Age Group standards. Leading the way for Saluki was Elizabeth Bell who won 3 individual events and placed well enough in her other 4 that she won the 15 & over girls high point award for the meet. Bell also cracked her club own record in the 100 fly and turned in a 'AAAA' time in the 50 freestyle. The biggest time drops in the meet came from Alex Mehrtens who took over 10 seconds from his previous best time in the 1650; Darren Hale and Kelsie Walker who took 8 and 7 seconds respectively from their 500 free times and Halli Lincoln who took over 6 seconds from her 200 free. 11 Saluki achieved 21 new National Age Group times including 6 first-time 'A' swims. Austin Stogsdill turned in 'A' swims in the 100 and 200 breaststroke and 50 free. Jacob Stone got 2 'A' times in his 200 free and 100 IM and Ashlee Kuan got her 'A' in the 100 IM.
Meet Registration for Spring and
Summer Meets is Open The partial competition schedule for the Spring and Summer is now posted on the calendar page. This years long course season will start about three weeks earlier than previous years because the Gators have moved their long course Kick Off into April. This will give us a good idea of our long course capabilities about a month before our own Saluki International meet and gives us better spacing between competitions. If you are not participating in the Spring or Summer session please do not sign up for these meets.
OZARK CHAMPIONSHIP As the short course swim season continues barrelling to a close, the next competition for the Saluki Racing Team is the Ozark Championship in St. Peter's, Missouri this weekend. All athletes are reminded to bring their Saluki team caps and a water bottle. Since warm ups will be crowded and limited in duration all athletes need to be ready to go as soon as warm ups begin.
SPRING REGISTRATION Athletes currently enrolled in the Winter training session have until 25 February to register for the Spring training session. After that date slots will be released to newly evaluated athletes wishing to join the Racing Team.
New Athlete Evaluations to be
Held on 25 February Athletes wishing to join the Saluki Racing Team for the Spring training session can come to Pulliam pool on 25 February for evaluation beginning at 5:30p. Click here for full information on how to join.
Missouri Valley Championship
Means Practice Changes for the Racing Team The Missouri Valley Conference Swimming & Diving Championship is coming to town this week resulting in some changes to our practice schedule. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday the Jedi will practice from 5:00-6:00p and Group 4 will train at Pulliam from 6:00-7:30p. Other groups are not affected. There will be no practices for any group on Saturday.
TRI-STATE
CHAMPIONSHIP The Racing Team pulled off their 4th-in-a-row Tri-State Championship win yesterday outpacing their closest rival, the Gator Swim team from Cape Girardeau, 408 to 312. In the process Saluki turned in 7 new Ozark qualifying standards and 26 improved National Age Group times. Recording the largest time drops were Carrie Thompson who dropped over 27 seconds in the 100 IM and Jared King who dropped 26 seconds in the 100 fly. Michael Stone dropped 18 seconds in the 100 IM and Jace Brossart dropped 18 seconds in the 50 breast. 21 Saluki turned in 26 new National Age Group Times. Leading the way with first time 'A' swims were: Caitlin Boren and Darlene Sao in the 200 IM and Kelsie Walker in the 100 IM, 50 fly and 50 free.
Volunteers Sought to Help Run Missouri
Valley Championship Any Saluki parents who can help in running the MVC championship meet next week are asked to email Gustavo Leal. The meet gets underway on Thursday, 14 February and runs through Saturday. Prelims are held in the morning and finals in the evening. CORRECTION Judging from the calls and emails pouring into HQ over the past 48 hours we made one whopper of an error in Update #153. We reported that Ashlee Kuan dropped 26 seconds in the 200 IM in Cape Girardeau. She didn't, her brother Cameron did. Website
Issues Fixed (Maybe) If you can read this then we have solved the various problems visitors have been experiencing here for the past day or so.
CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON Athletes who wish to be entered in the 2008 Ozark Short Course Championship have until Sunday, 10 February to register for the meet. Our final qualifiers list will be published on Saturday afternoon following the Tri-State Championship.
Order Your Championship
T-Shirt We will be taking orders for Ozark and USA Sectional championship team t-shirts on Saturday at the Tri-State meet. The shirts are $5.00. To order your shirt see Eileen Walker at the meet.
Tri-State is This Weekend Over 70 Saluki are primed for the Tri-State Championship this Saturday at Shea Natatorium. This is our annual nickname meet and any swimmer who wants a nickname but doesn't have one must email them to HQ now. Check the meet sign up page to see if you have a nickname.
About 30 local athletes closed out the regular season of competition at the Gator Great Times meet in Cape Girardeau over the weekend. The squad turned in 15 new Ozark Championship cuts and 32 improved National Age Group times. Leading the way with the biggest single-event improvement in the meet was Simone Corpora who cut over 71 seconds from her 200 IM time. Cameron Kuan had the second largest drop of over 26 seconds in the 100 IM and Halli Lincoln turned in a 17 second drop in the 100 breaststroke. 14 Saluki turned in 32 improved National Age Group times including 10 first-time 'A' swims. Calvin Kolar collected 'A' times in the 200 free and 200 breast, Ashlee Kuan in the 100 back, Halli Lincoln in the 50 free, Emily Stroud in the 50 back and 50 free, Kyle Walker in the 200 free and Kelsie Walker in the 100 & 200 free and the 100 fly. More details will be available in Update #153. Click here for the Saluki result. |
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Sectional Underway in Columbia
OZARK CHAMPIONSHIP
GATOR GREAT TIMES