Our Mission Statement

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2007/8 SEASON, ISSUE 5
March 15, 2008
Our Mission Statement:
Lifetime champions in and out of the pool
Some of Our Recent Relay Team Medal
Winners: top left - Westerns 4x100 free
relay team; top right - Provincials record
breaking 15-17 year old 4 x 50 relay team
– left to right – Talia Benson, Amanda
Payne, Sadie Mattson, Taryne Landry;
top right - Provincials record breaking 1517 year old 4 x 200 free relay team - left to
right - Julianne Brown, Talia Benson,
Sadie Mattson, Taryne Landry
ATTITUDE-ACTION-ACHIEVEMENT
Photo Credits: Chad Webb, Ernie Payne, Tim
Philpotts, Steve Holme, Juan Gomez, Peter
Chapman
CONTENTS
2008 Short Course Champs……..…………1
Chena Long Course Meet Schedule………4
Head Coach Report…………………...…….4
Youth National Group………..…...………..5
Provincial Group……………………….…...5
Provincial Development/Junior (WG)…....7
Junior Group (RA)……………………....….8
Provincial Development (RA)………….…9
News from the BOD………………………...9
Swimmer(s) of the Month……...…………..9
Memories – Chena’s Swim Meet………..10
Aquatics for Arthritis……………………..11
Editor’s Corner…………..…………………11
Sponsors…………………………………….12
2008 SHORT COURSE
CHAMPIONSHIP WRAP-UP
The 2008 Team Aquatics Supplies AAA
Provincial Short Course Championships
were held February 28 – March 2 at Saanich
Commonwealth Place in Victoria. Chena
fielded a team of 28 swimmers, who were
accompanied by Head Coach Chad Webb
and Provincial Group coach Kelly Kaye.
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Once again, Chena was a presence on deck
showing amazing TEAM SPIRIT, and in the
pool with spectacular results.
Adam Holme for winning (in addition to 6
gold and 2 silver medals) the Speedo High
Point Award for the highest single FINA
point swim for 12 & Under Boys. Adam also
finished 2nd overall in mens points with 360.
In the team points competition, Chena
finished in 5th place overall. The girls team
finished 3rd, while the boys team finished a
Chena best 9th (with only 6 boys!).
In individual events, Chena swimmers
made finals 108 times. They won 19 gold
medals, 9 silver medals, and 15 bronze
medals. Our relay teams appeared on the
podium six times and literally hundreds of
best times were achieved over the course of
the weekend.
Justin Chan – who came to Chena last
month – had to swim as Unattached due to
SwimBC regulations won 7 medals (2 gold,
3 silver, 2 bronze for 230 points).
Between Adam and Justin there was at least
one Chena boy on the podium for every
single 12 year-old boys event.
Special mentions go to:
Tim Zeng for finishing in 5th place in the 10
& Under Swim Stars competition.
Charlotte Philpotts for winning (in
addition to 4 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze
medals) the TAS Regional Athlete
Development Award for the VancouverSquamish Region. Charlotte also finished
2nd overall in womens points with 320.
Talia Benson for winning the Speedo High
Point Award for the highest single FINA
point swim for 15 & Under Girls, and for
achieving her Senior National qualifying
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time. As a result, she will be joining Sadie
Matson, Julianne Brown, Amanda Payne,
Taryne Landry and Laura Jensen at the 2008
Beijing Swimming Trials in Montreal from
April 1 – 6.
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Adam, 12 and under boys – 100, 200,
400, 800, 1500 free, 100, 200 back, 200
IM, 400 IM.
Michael Piasecki, 14 and under boys
– 100, 400 free, 200 fly.
Sadie Mattson, Senior Girls – 50, 100
free.
Taryne Landry, Senior Girls – 100
back, 200 IM
But the best part of the meet was the
selection of a special event by each
swimmer, when the rest of the team came
out in force to cheer them from the starting
gun to the final touch. What a great way to
support each other and bring out the best in
every Chena athlete!
Also, congratulations to Santiago Morales
for achieving his first Age Group National
time, swimming 17.27.23 in the 1500 free.
The Senior Girls 4 x 200 Relay team (Talia,
Sadie, Taryne and Julianne) won the gold
medal in a new Provincial Record time of
8:21.28.
The Senior Girls 4 x 50 Relay team (Sadie,
Talia, Taryne and Amanda) also won gold,
setting another Provincial Record of 1:46.24,
breaking the previous record set by Hyack
in 1981!
Well done to everyone for finishing off the
2007/08 Short Course season in grand style.
GO CHENA!
Russ Benson and Steve Holm
As a result Chena now holds 8 Provincial
Relay Records!
New Chena Club records were also set (or
re-set) by:
• Charlotte, 12 and under girls – 50,
200 free, 200 back, 100, 200 breast,
200 IM, 400 IM.
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HEAD COACH REPORT
CHENA LONG COURSE MEET
SCHEDULE 2008
Date
Meet
Location
Olympic
Trials
CDSC
Meet
Montreal
April 12
CDSC
UBC
April 27
PASS
Meet
May 3-4
West
Coast
Open
May 10 -11
LMR
Meet
May 17-18
Hyack
May 30 –
June 1
June 7-8
Mel
Zajac
Dynamo
Invit
AAs
LCM
Champs
AAAs
RA
North
Shore
Richmond All
Groups –
LMR
times
TBA
LMR to
AA
qualifiers
New
AAA
Westqualifiers
minster
UBC
Western
Qualifiers
Burnaby
AA and
lower
Langley
AA
qualifiers
April 1-6
April 12-13
June 20-22
July 3-7
July 11-13
Aug 9-17
SWAD
Meet
Senior
Nationals
Age
Group
Nationals
Olympics
Aug 29-Sept
6
Paralympics
July 17-20
July 24-28
UBC
What an exciting end to the Short Course
season! I have never been so busy at a
Provincial Championships with so many of
our swimmers making second swims – IT
WAS AMAZING !!! I have to say there were
so many great swims that it is tough to put
any one or two that stood up in a write-up.
Who is
Going?
6 from
Chena
All
groups –
LMR
times
Juniors,
all
younger
swimmers
PD and
Juniors
With the National Group fresh out of a
tough and tiring Western Championships,
they had to mentally ready themselves for a
hard meet at Provincials. They did just that.
Perhaps the highlight of the weekend,
which will be around for as long as the last
record stood, was the girls’ 15 – 17 4 x 50
free relay which broke a 27 year old
Provincial record that was impressive even
by today’s standards. Amanda Payne, Sadie
Mattson, Talia Benson and Taryne Landry
set a new record that will be around for a
while.
Richmond AAA
qualifiers
Victoria
SWAD
only
Winnipeg Sr Nats
Standards
Calgary
AG Nat
Standards
Beijing,
China
Beijing,
China
Julianne Brown joined Taryne, Amanda and
Sadie on the 4x 200 free relay which also
broke the Provincial record giving us
EVERY short course Provincial relay record
in freestyle.
We will now set our eyes on breaking the
Canadian Record in 4 x100 free at Trials –
This is a real possibility with the hype of
the meet and how close the girls are to it
already. The girls will have to go 3:52.85
Long Course to do it, and they are not far
off…..
TBAafter
Trials
TBA after
Trials
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I have to mention a few swimmers and
swims as Santiago Morales had the meet of
a lifetime taking off over 95 seconds in total
from only 6 swims. He was the National
Group’s Swimmer of the Meet.
Two National Group swimmers were
selected for the Team BC dual meet in
April; congrats Michael Piasecki and
Jacqueline Siu, who will join Adam Holme
and Jeong Wan. These swimmers will be
traveling to Lethbridge, Alberta in April to
compete against an All Star Alberta
provincial team.
Alysha Harris had an amazing 200 back
taking off over 7 seconds and put herself
only 2 seconds away from a Senior National
Standard.
Chad Webb, [email protected]
PROVINCIAL GROUP
Congratulations to all the swimmers who
were at AAAs, AAs, LMR champs and all
the other meets. We have some very
talented swimmers throughout our club,
and that is a testament to the coaching staff.
We have been working together with the
swimmers and parents (thanks for your
great support!) to make Chena the greatest
club in Canada. We keep having swimmers
from other clubs wishing to join us because
of the strong presence we have at every
level.
20 Club records broken at AAA provincials
from swimmers in our group alone!
ALL 12 AND UNDER BOYS RECORDS
WERE BROKEN!!
• Adam Holme
100/200/400/800/1500FR 100/200
BK 200/400 IM
• Justin Chan 100/200 fl 100/200 br 50
fr
• Charlotte Phillpotts
50fr/200fr/200bk/200br/200 im/
400 im
Chad Webb [email protected]
YOUTH NATIONAL GROUP
Talia Benson now joins Laura Jensen,
Julianne Brown, Amanda Payne, Sadie
Mattson and Taryne Landry as they get
ready for Olympic trials the first week of
April in Montreal. Congrats to Talia for a
superb 100 free and a very exciting 400 free
at AAAs (Provincials).
First off, congratulations to both Charlotte
and Adam for receiving Swim BC awards
for their performances at AAA provincials.
Six swimmers at Olympic trials is amazing
considering the size of our club of only 100
swimmers!
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At AAs our group showed strong
performances in the morning swims, which
resulted in 85% of swims getting through to
finals. Swimmers of the Meet were Chris
Paproski, and Monika Mahmutovic. Chris
also attained his 10 and under AAA
qualification time!!!
Charlotte received the Regional Overall
High Point Award (just edging out Adam
by one point!!), and Adam received the 12
and Under Swim of the Meet Award for his
1500 fr performance. Both of these
swimmers had exceptional meets with each
swimmer swimming 8/9 best times!! Great
job guys, each of you has worked very hard
to accomplish this; it is nice to see your
dedication to swimming show in your
performance!
The following weekend 3 swimmers from
our group took part in the BC Winter
Games. All three swimmers have come back
from the meet saying it was an experience
like no other, and that it was a lot of fun. If
you
see
Kei
Yamamoto,
Monika
Mahmutovic or Alex Gomez around, take
the time to ask them to tell you some stories
about their experience, I think you will find
it very inspiring. On top of having a lot of
fun, Alex also came home with more than a
handful of medals and personal best times,
WAY TO GO ALEX!!
At AAA Provincials our group swam 92%
best times, and had over 40 final swims. I
would like to say congrats to Janine Koo for
stepping up at her first AAA championship,
swimming 100% best times, and making 6
finals - what an accomplishment Janine!
Congrats!
It has been a very exciting past 4 weeks of
swimming for our group. Starting with
LMR Champs all the way through to AAA
Provincials, no matter what level our
swimmers swam at they sure kicked some
butt!! Clarrissa Fong and Tyler Benson
where chosen Swimmers of the Meet for
LMR Champs; both swam a very high
percentage of best times at the meet, and
qualified for AA champs!!
Our group sent 9 swimmers to AAA
Provincials, and had 7 of the 9 come home
with medals. Medalists were: Janine,
Charlotte, Adam, Justin, Melissa, Jeong
wan and Stefanie PLUS, our relay-only
swimmers, Brianna and Clarrissa. After
their strong performances at Provincials,
each of the named swimmers above now
ranks top 10 in the country for their strong
events, some are even ranked first!! Again,
results like this cannot happen without hard
work and dedication. I am very proud of
each of you for your accomplishments so far
this year, and look forward to an even
stronger Long Course Season.
Also, congratulations to Teo Penkov for
qualifying for AAs!
Finally, I would like to mention the three
Provincial Group swimmers selected for the
Team BC dual meet in April: Congrats
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Provincials, and an invitation to Langley for
PD and Junior groups in 10 and Under.
Adam (200 bk), Jeong wan (200 br) and
Melissa (alternate sprint free). These
swimmers will be traveling to Lethbridge
(Alberta) in April to compete against an All
Star Alberta Provincial Team. The trip will
also provide the swimmers with some outof-water seminars, and in-water video
analysis, and should be a very good
learning and racing experience for each of
them!!
GREAT SWIMMING EVERYBODY!!
Our hosting competition, which was an
LMR trial, went really well and everyone
made best times. A few names to mention
would be: Joshua and Sandra - 50 free, 200
IM; Marianna, Georgina, and Sandra - 200
breast; Georgina - 200 IM; and Tim - 200 IM
(AAA).
In AA Provincials, Laura and Brandon
made best times in 100 and 200 breast, and
Brandon was in the finals for 200 breast and
won the bronze medal.
AAA Provincials, Tim got second place in
50 free, 100 fly, 100 back, and broke the
team record in 50 free which was held by
Sam Horton. Tim’s time was 31:02.
Kelly Kaye [email protected]
PS: Even with a lot of good swimming so
far this year, I still think we need to work
harder at under-water kick!!!! ☺
The Junior Group didn’t have as many
activities, but in the invitation from Langley
they showed their enthusiasm and their
drive to compete. In reality they didn't look
like a Junior Group but more like mature
and strong swimmers: Marianna (PD),
Martina, Alice, Hanah, Emma, Niki, Nick,
Steve, Juan Carlos, and Nathan nine years
old (PD) who, with a very, very brave
PROVINCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
JUNIOR GROUPS (WG POOL)
February was an extremely busy month. We
had
LMR,
AA
Provincials,
AAA
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attitude swam 12 events because of a
computer mistake which automatically
placed him 4 times in each of his events - his
decision was to swim in all the extra events.
Thanks to Victoria Philpotts who helped in
organizing my swimmers and getting them
ready for their heats. I was so busy that day
that I would never have managed to make it
alone. We try our hardest to cheer each and
every swimmer on, but we need the rest of
you to help support your team mates. Let’s
get out there and cheer each other on,
congratulate each other for great swims,
and support each other through any
disappointments. We are a team, so let’s
work together to make every meet
successful for everyone!
Congratulations to everyone!
I want to make a small note, that our little
Ryan had surgery and is in recovery and is
doing very well. We would like to wish him
all the best and hope that he will be back in
practice in a few weeks.
Ignacio Alvarez [email protected]
Junior swimmers, please remember for all
future meets to talk to your coach before
and after every race. Remember, you need
to take responsibility for your success and
seeing your coach is part of that. One of the
most important parts of swimming is
listening and learning from what we tell
you.
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JUNIOR GROUP (RA POOL)
I was really impressed by you all at the
Langley Swim Meet - great job team!
Congratulations to Anika Fernandez,
Melina Laird, Natalie Kennedy, Alex Lee,
Martina Villa and Dylan Paterson. Special
congratulations to Jade Dekker for having a
great first swim meet!
Alex Minaev [email protected]
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PROVINCIAL DEVELOPMENT
GROUP (RA POOL)
NEWS FROM THE BOD
(BOARD OF DIRECTORS)
Congrats to Vicki and Alex who attended
the Short Course Provincial Championships
last weekend in Victoria. At this stage to be
able to swim at such a meet is our goal and I
would like to see more of you racing at the
next Provincials. Many of you work hard to
get best times, and I am sure it will pay off
soon. I am very happy to see the great
progress made by Rebecca, Rojin, Rachel,
Sarah and Gabriel.
There really is not much to add to the
reports from the coaches – clearly they are
doing a great job as are the swimmers, who
really are listening, trying and thus
improving – sometimes at an amazing rate.
Thanks to all and for parent volunteers for
helping out as much as you do – we could
not do it without you!
We would also like to invite parents to join
the BOD at this point in time, before next
year when most of those parents presently
on the BOD will be retiring. A lot easier to
pass the baton after shadowing and seeing
what is involved than ‘cold turkey’.
Here’s to a great Long Course Season!
Alice Benson, Steve Holme, Tim Philpotts,
Julian Porritt, Simon Russell
At the end of February we broke down each
stroke, working on drills, turns, and speed
for each stroke. We are now focusing on
distance swimming, raising our volume to
4.5 to 5.0 kilometers per practice.
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SWIMMER(S) OF THE MONTH
It was impossible to choose one single
Swimmer of the Month. Rather, each of the
coaches’ reports, above, highlight a number
of swimmers including Swimmers of the
Meet. This is appropriate as, although
swimming on the surface may appear to be
an individual sport it is not – it is a team
sport. As far as your coaches and,
particularly your parents are concerned,
you are all Swimmers of the Month!
We had a team mini meet on March 08
instead of practice at Ron Andrews pool.
Congrats to all swimmers – especially those
who had not previously competed in the
400 m distance event. And thanks to all
parents who helped out.
Coach Alex [email protected]
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MEMORIES – CHENA’S MEET AT
HARRY JEROME
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AQUATICS FOR ARTHRITIS
The swimmers had a lot of fun following
the lead of National Team swimmers such
as Brent Hayden and Anna Mae Pierce, and
tried many new and previously unheard of
strokes such as backward swimming and
barrel rolls while completing their lengths.
These
Chena
swimmers
raised
approximately $2,000 for arthritis research.
We are still waiting for final results from
Swim BC and the Arthritis association with
respect
to
individual
swimmer
sponsorships raised.
On January 19, several Chena Swimmers
participated in the Aquatics for Arthritis
Relay at the Vancouver Aquatics Centre.
The event is geared to raise funds and
awareness of the beneficial effects of aquatic
sports for Arthritis. Swimmers teamed up in
groups of four to see how many lengths
they could do in a 15-minute period.
CHENA participating swimmers: Anna
Gomez, Julianne Brown, Mayeli
Alvares, Kaitlyn Ho, Adam Holme,
Amanda Payne, Stefanie Chapman,
Taryne Landry, Talia Benson.
Thanks to the participants, their parents and
their sponsors for assisting in making
Chena’s first participation in this annual
event a success. We’re hoping to grow our
participation in the future.
Ernie Payne
EDITOR’S CORNER
It was very hard, this issue, choosing which
photographs to include – so sorry I could
not include them all but I got over 500 to
choose from! Many thanks to those who
contributed photographs from the many
events
our
swimmers
competed
successfully in over the last few weeks. And
many thanks to our swimmers and coaches
whose many successes (not just medals, best
times, effort) we celebrate in this issue.
Receiving the award for the 2nd most
number of lengths by th e”B” team are
three of our CHENA team swimmers:
Mayeli Alvarez, Anna Gomez, and
Amanda Payne shown with National
Team Swimmers Brent Hayden and
Annamay Pierse and the new Executive
Director of Swim BC, Mark Schuett.
It is hard to believe that it is now March and
we are into Long Course season. But the
longer days and warmer temperatures are
most welcome. And as it gets hotter our
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SPONSORS
swimmers and coaches are also turning up
the heat - the 2007/2008 season is already a
great success for Chena, and the best is yet
to come!
We gratefully
support from:
Peter Chapman; 604-904-4005;
[email protected]
acknowledge
continuing
North
Vancouver
Recreation
Commission, for supporting CHENA.
Special thanks to the staff at William
Griffin, Harry Jerome, and Ron Andrews
Pools.
Province of British Columbia
Direct Access Program, for financial
support.
Attitude
Action
Achievement
Attitude
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Achievement
WEBSITE:
www.chenaswimclub.ca
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