QuickSilver May 2013 Newsletter
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QuickSilver May 2013 Newsletter
NEWS THE The newsletter of QuickSilver Swimming This Month: Coach's Corner 1 Reminders 1 Group Updates 3 Far Westerns 5 Makos Long Course 7 10 & Under Champs 8 Give a Cheer! 9 Birthdays 9 Q's Question 10 In the Spotlight 11 May 2013 This month, I've included an excerpt from a speech by Hall of Fame coach Dave Salo about how some of his best long course results have come from short course training (see excerpt below). During the summer of my sophomore year at Stanford, I swam with Coach Salo. At the time he had both Amanda Beard (Olympic silver 200 Breast at age 14) and Aaron Peirsol (future WR 200 Bk) in his agegroup program. His swimmers were known for blowing by world class athletes on the second 100 of their 200 meter races. In fact, when I went to my home town of Santa Clarita for a couple days that summer, I trained with my former team, Canyons Aquatic Club. They had a thriving age-group program there that included one of the top 400 IM swimmers in the world and high school junior Anthony Ervin (future Cal American record holder and 50m gold medalist). Bruce (the Canyons coach) asked me what Salo was doing in training to be so fast on the back half of their meter races. This is a question that I continue to think back on to this day. We had access to two 50 meter pools and a 25 yard pool at that Irvine facility. The training was primarily in yards (as was Canyon's training). We did a lot of breath control. Many sets were designed around isolating either parts of strokes or parts of races, and we did fast sculling, drilling and kicking all the time. Essentially, we broke everything down into the component parts and become great at those parts. This works for both 50m and 25yd training. That is why Salo wrote that you should never sacrifice driving time (or in our case pool space) to train meters during the long course season. -Coach Andre Excerpt from American Swimming Vol 2011 Issue 1. Article on Dave Salo - Coach of World Record holders Aaron Piersol, Amanda Beard, Rebecca Soni, and many more. Coach David Salo has been one of the USA’s most productive coaches for several decades now. . . an acclaimed innovator in the sport, giving us many new ideas about the nature of training for competition, and the approach to world class performances. As the Head Coach at USC, he’s coached both American and International Gold Medalists in international competitions at the World and Olympic Level, served on the ASCA and USA-Swimming Board of Directors and proven himself one of the “best and brightest” in American Swimming History. He was inducted into the ASCA Hall of Fame in 2009. The following is an excerpt from a speech given by coach Salo about using short course training for long course season. I am going to go through some of the questions that were handed up to me and answer some of those questions. The first question, a lot of times people ask, is what is my opinion about long course training/short course training. I always like to tell the story about a friend of mine, one of the best coaches we had in Southern California, who moved away, and was in an area that wasn’t really aggressive with swimming. He didn’t have access to long course pools. Every summer he would drive over the hill to go and swim at this long course pool at another club to get some hours there. At the end of every year he would come to me and say, “I don’t get it. My kids are doing well. They swim well long course and swim well short course, but every year I lose these kids at the end of the summer season to join this other team.” I said, "Well the problem is that you are telling them they have to go long course, because you are going over the hill taking an hour ride down the hill - to go get long course training." You told them you can’t compete unless you do long course training. You have just shown how easy it was to go over the hill and down the road to swim in that pool. No wonder (Cont'd) they are joining that team. So every year they would all join that team, because it was so easy to get over the hill. May May May May 10 - 11 12 18 - 19 23 11 CCS Champs @ Santa Clara High School walk-on Meet @ Santa Clara IM Ready Long Course @ Morgan Hill Birthday celebration (all sites) (Continued from page 1) My opinion is that I don’t care for long course. I love short course training. I love short course training, because it allows me to be kind of innovative with tree branches and physio-balls. I love going 25’s and 50’s and 75’s. I am not a big fan of going repeat 1500’s. I like the ability to create a real innovative workout by going five rounds of 375’s and 325’s or ten rounds of 325’s and 100 and descending the hundreds 1-5 and the 25’s are fast swim - fast kick - fast swim. I like that kind of innovative opportunities that a short course presents. I think if you are convincing your athletes that they have to go long course, they are going to believe you. They are going to do what you tell them is important to their ultimate success. If you don’t have a short course pool, get a bulkhead. Show them they can do it in a bucket and won’t worry about it. When Aaron Peirsol broke his first world record in 2002, he hadn’t been in the long course water from August of the previous season, 2001, all the way until March of 2002. He hadn’t touched long course water. When he got to the meet, he had a great swim in the morning. I met with the team that afternoon, and I said, “Gang, we had a great meet." We did have a great meet. The kids were all swimming great. I met with the team and I said, “Tonight you need to watch the 200 backstroke, because you are going to see something really, really special!” Remember, this was a time when we didn’t see 50 world records broken in a meet. You would see one once in a while. Aaron Peirsol broke his first World Record in 2002, without having been in a long course pool from August of the previous season. I really owe that partly to the fact that we didn’t make a big deal about training long course, even though I had plenty of long course water. This past year in 2008, I had a number of athletes that were very traditional type athletes like Klete Keller, Larsen Jensen, and Oussama Mellouli. I like to switch lanes back and forth from short course to long course to short course, and back to long course. It doesn’t really matter to me! They all were complaining about wanting to go long course. I said, once we change long course, we are not taking them back out. We are not moving into short course, because I am tired of the time it takes to move in and out. I adapted to their needs psychologically to go long course. I just would go 25’s and 50’s and 75’s and stop in the middle of the pool. Then, I would figure out what to do in the middle of the pool. I was able to adapt. I think adaptability is one of the key components to being a successful coach anywhere. I think we can do that in this country. It goes along with my idea that, if I can leave you with one message when you leave here, is it doesn’t matter where you coach. You can get it done and be very successful. I see Chuck batchelor in the room. Chuck, I hope you don’t mind, but I visited Chuck this last year recruiting one of his athletes. He introduced me as, “This guy is so good and he is a great coach.” I said Chuck wait that is fine. I really appreciate that. Do you know where Chuck trains? Chuck trains in a lower middle class neighborhood in a crappy pool, low roof, a not a very pleasant place to be, but he and his swimmers are busting their butts. He bought this van from somewhere. His assistant coach lives out in Boston and uses this van to drive these kids in to the pool. That is a great coach! That is not what I have to do. I have got three 50 meter pools. I got a great opportunity where I coach. A coach like Chuck, to me, is a great coach. I hope you don’t mind me embarrassing you, but that is what I mean. Chuck is not sitting there bellyaching about the fact that he has got a crappy facility. He is getting it done in a 25 yard pool. I watched him do a workout and it reminded me of some of the work that I do where we are getting up and out of the water. We do some fancy stuff that is pretty cool. He is producing really great athletes. That is what we need to leave with when we leave here today is if you can do that in a bucket, you can do it in a 50 meter pool. You can get it done! 22 National Group swam fantastically well at Far Westerns! Lauren Green was the only swimmer fully tapered for the Far Western meet and she had the greatest meet of her life to this point! She captured the 13-14 Girls high point award and achieved several winter national cuts with major time drops! She has set the bar for the group very high and shown us all what is possible for those heading to CCS! The other girls in our group swam fantastically well on a few days rest and threw down multiple best times despite CCS being our target meet for the season! I was especially impressed by Amanda Rios (free), Courtney Markle (race execution), and Gemma Takahashi (confident racing while sick) showing that they will be a force to be reckoned with come CCS (and they aren't the only ones) The girls put together an incredible string of best times on Saturday of the meet getting almost 100% for the day. Our team has had the best training season they have ever had and I am looking forward to CCS and the Senior walk-on meet. All National group swimmers have earned the right to be proud of themselves (I am proud of them too) this season and it has already been successful in my book. Now it's time to enjoy the fruits of our labor and have a blast at CCS! Congratulations National group! -Coach Andre This month Junior National competed at Far Westerns in individual events and relays. The group picked up 16 new best times and had a swimmer final and place top 5 in two events. During this month junior national also competed at the first long course meet of the season and achieved 35 new best times. The group did so well at the first long course meet that it makes me very excited for the summer season! -Coach Carrie High School Season is coming to an end and we are swimming fast! Go QSS Swimmers!!! With high school swimming almost over are you a little bummed? Don’t want to see the fun and camaraderie end? Get your friends from high schools near and far and bring them to QSS. We are going to start this summer off with some fun and excitement! The Black, Jr National and National Groups will spend the first week of Summer 2013 in an intense Stewbo competition. We will have water competitions (Challenge sets, Hero swims, Relays) within each group followed by teams (made of mixed groups) competing in cooking, good deeds and various other competitions. Plans include some purely social events like: drive in movies, mini golf and generally having a great week of building QuickSilver Team Memories. You will not want to miss this! If you have friends on your high school teams that want a summer of hard work and great friends . . . bring them. QuickSilver Swimming is going to be full of hard working fun if you get involved! -Coach Janet 33 April has been an unbelievable month for the team and the Gold group. We had swimmers included in our Far Western relays. The girls finished 5th in both relays, while the boys won the 200 Free and finished 2nd in the 200 Medley relay. We had Far Western finalists, and we helped the team score points in the fastest age group meet in the western United States. Partnering with our other groups/teammates, we took the success onto 10u champs where the 10u girls won both relays, and the 10u boys took 1st and 2nd; we had event winners, many top 8 finishes and numerous new JO times. We also want to wish Brandon Nguyen and Julia Bandoni the best in their new group; Pre-National. We will miss you. Our training focus will be shifting to long course JOs. Kicking and distance per stroke will be heavily included in our training regimen. We look forward to another great month in May. -Coach Lucas We are continuing our stroke improvement through drills and technique focus. We always try to have fun in the silver group. Every day we incorporate relays and games that challenge our swimmers, but allow them to smile and have a great time. We are gearing up for the summer dual meet season and gaining valuable meet experience. It's going to be a hot one! Spring is upon us, and the bronze group is having a blast! The little ones are working on flip turns and breaststroke and are working really hard. These determined swimmers are going to master it in no time. -Coach Sam MAKO’s Long Course Meet - 4/19-20 We had a great start to the long course season. For many, it was the first time ever swimming long course. All of the kids took it in stride; there were many new “A” times achieved. The solo “Bronze” group swimmer Tianshu Yang did a great job, and he said he liked the long pool with no turns. Justin Jang and Erik Seljeseth achieved JO times in the 50 and 100 breast and Courtney Seljeseth added 3 new PRT times in the 100 free, 50 breast and 50 fly. Congratulations to all that swam at the meet. 10/Under Championship Meet - 4/28 QSS was well represented at the 10/Under Champs Meet. We had a total of 37 kids qualify and compete, 15 of which swim at the QSS-ASRC site. The kids has a great time decorating hats and headbands and tattooing “Q”’s with QSS spirit. Even though the meet was very long, the kids stepped up and had a great meet. There were many of best times along with new PRT and JO cuts. New JO’s: Erik Seljeseth - 100 free Caroline Beaulieu - 50 fly New PRT’s: Jenna Flynn - 25 breast, 100 free, 50 free Maxim Polovinkin - 25 free,25 breast, 50 breast Courtney Seljeseth - 25 breast 44 -Coach Joan For 4 days, some of the best swimmers in the western U.S. and Canada convened at the Morgan Hill Aquatics Center for the ultimate short course season match up. Medals were won, records were broken and everyone swam like champions. As for QSS - not only did we run a great meet, but our swimmers swam their hearts out. All told, they collected 40 medals, 4 championship victories, 1 high point award, and they achieved a 7th place team ranking (our highest ever!). Congratulations and fantastic job to everyone! Please note: Swim Connection does not provide us with results for unattached swimmers, so their results below may be incomplete. New PRT Times Christian Lee Kiana Lee Lauren Smith Skyler Smith Tiffany Tran 50 Fly 50 Breast 200 Free/100 Back/200 IM 50 Breast/100 Breast 50 Breast 15 It takes a village to hold a championship level meet...I think that's how the saying goes. The 2013 Far Western Championships was made possible by the tireless work of our "village" of QSS volunteers, not only during those 4 hectic days in April, but also during the months of planning and coordination leading up to it. Thank you to everyone for your dedication in making this year's Far Westerns such an incredible success! Event Finalists (w)=event winner Lauren Akin Michael Amireh Lauren Green 200 Free/1000 Free 50 Free 50 Free/100 Free/200 Free 500 Free(w)/100 Fly(w) 200 Fly/200 IM(w) 50 Free/100 Back 100 Breast/200 Breast/400 IM 50 Free 50 Free/100 Breast/200 Breast 200 IM/400 IM 200 Breast 50 Free/100 Free 50 Free/100 Free/100 Breast 50 Free/100 Free 50 Breast(w)/100 Breast 50 Free 50 Free/100 Free/200 Free 100 Back/50 Fly/100 Fly 200 Back/400 IM 100 Fly Corey Gutierrez Aaron Huang Courtney Markle Ryan McCombs Morganne McKennan Brandon Nguyen Nikita Polovinkin Amanda Rios Nicole Rogy Sarah Shih Kevin Sichak Lauren Smith Gemma Takahashi 26 56 QSS swimmers entered the first long course meet of the season in Morgan Hill. There, they registered 275 new personal best times including 71 new A times, 21 new JO times, 14 new Far Western times and 11 new PRT cuts. Please note: Swim Connection does not provide us with results for unattached swimmers, so they are not included in these results. New A Times Zachary Affinito Julia Bandoni Sophie Beisel Jadelynn Dao Alexander Gitchev James Guise Jenny Guise Malina Hatton Sara Hetrick Scott Hetrick Young Yoon Jang Ainsley Keslin Mackensie Keslin Anton Lengyel Tysen Liu Julia Lloyd Jillian Louvelle Ashley MacDonald Natasha Milutin Ashley Ren Juntao Ren Erik Seljeseth Sabrina Tian Samuel Tian Eleanor Tran Ella Vierra Brian Wong Nolan Zhou Simon Zhou 50 Free/100 Free/50 Back/50 Breast 50 Free/100 Free/50 Back/100 Back/50 Fly 50 Free/100 Free/50 Back/50 Fly 50 Breast 50 Breast 100 Fly 100 Free/200 Free/100 Back/100 Fly 200 Fly/200 IM/400 IM 100 Fly 200 Free/400 IM 50 Free/100 Free 100 Breast/200 Breast 200 Breast 50 Free 100 Free/50 Back/50 Fly 50 Free/100 Free/50 Back/50 Fly 100 Free/50 Back 50 Fly 50 Breast 50 Fly 200 Breast 50 Free/100 Free/50 Back 50 Free/100 Free/50 Back/100 Back/200 IM 50 Back/100 Breast/200 Back 50 Back 100 Back/50 Breast 100 Breast/200 IM/100 Free/50 Back/50 Fly 50 Breast 50 Free/50 Breast/100 Free/50 Back 50 Breast/100 Free New Far Western Times Julia Bandoni Scott Hetrick Juntao Ren Lauren Smith Tiffany Tran Elaine Wong 50 Breast 50 Back/100 Back 50 Breast 400 Free/100 Back 50 Free/100 Free/50 Back 100 Back/50 Fly/100 Fly 50 Back 200 IM NEW PRT Times Courtney Seljeseth Skyler Smith Tiffany Tran Elaine Wong Simon Zhou 100 Free/50 Breast/50 Fly 50 Breast/100 Breast 50 Breast/100 Breast 50 Free/100 Free 50 Back/50 Fly NEW JO Times Julia Bandoni James Guise Won Seok Jang Juntao Ren Erik Seljeseth Lauren Smith Ella Vierra Brian Wong Elaine Wong 100 Breast 100 Free/200 Free/100 Back 200 Back/200 IM/400 IM 50 Breast/100 Breast 100 Back/100 Breast 50 Breast/100 Breast 100 Free 50 Breast 50 Back/200 Back/400 IM 50 Breast/50 Fly/100 Fly Event Winners Julia Bandoni James Guise Lauren Smith Skyler Smith Tiffany Tran Elaine Wong 17 50 Breast 100 Back/200 IM 200 Free/100 Back/200 Back/400 IM 50 Breast 100 Breast 50 Free/100 Free 38 of our best and brightest 10 & under swimmers competed at Sunnyvale High School. There, they registered 70 new personal best times including 1 new A time, 7 new JO times, 4 new Far Western times and 9 new PRT times. Swimmers that achieved personal best times in all their events (4 or more events) include Maxim Polovinkin. New A Times Jadelynn Dao 50 Breast New JO Times Caroline Beaulieu Scott Hetrick Sage Salles-Cunha Erik Seljeseth 50 50 50 50 Fly Free Free/100 Free/100 Breast Free/100 Free New FW Times Tiffany Tran Elaine Wong Zixiao Zhang 50 Free/50 Fly 50 Fly 100 IM New PRT Times Alyssa Chen Jenna Flynn Maxim Polovinkin Simon Zhou 50 50 25 50 Free Free /100 Free/25 Breast Free /25 Breast/50 Breast Back/50 Fly Event Winners Alyssa Chen Nicole Rogy Kevin Sichak Nolan Zhou Elaine Wong, Alyssa Chen, Tiffany Tran, Nicole Rogy Andrew Tsaranou, Leo Zhang, Brandon Nguyen, Kevin Sichak 18 50 Free 50 Breast 50/100/200 Free/50 Fly 50 Breast/25 Fly/50 Fly 200 Free Relay/200 Medley Relay 200 Free Relay Two QSS swimmers recognized for national top-10 rankings for 2012! Morganne McKennan and Lauren Green received National Top-10 certificates for achieving Top-10 rankings in the 20112012 swim year. Morganne placed second in the nation in the 200 breastroke and Lauren reached eighth in the 100 IM. Morganne's 200 breast is ranked 25 All-Time for 13-14 girls! Her 100 breast is also in the top 50 ever, and she achieved both of these rankings as a 13 year old! If she can continue to build on her success she will put herself in the conversation as one of the sports greatest breastrokers ever. Last year she achieved her greatest success at Far Westerns. Morganne's big meet of this season will be the high school CCS championship meet coming up this month. She has a shot to win the 100 breast as a young freshman! Lauren's 100 IM time placed her 55 all time for 11-12 girls in that event! She also made the list in the 50 backstroke. Lauren's stellar short course season ending Far Western meet this year has put her in a strong position to write her name all over the national rankings for 2013. In her 1314 campaign Lauren has moved up to 53 all time for 13-14 year old swimmers in the 200 IM and now has 4 events in the All-Time Top-100 with rankings in the 50 free,100 fly, & 200 free events as well! Lauren took her training to great new level beginning the swim season in August and she is experiencing the just rewards for her dedication now! It's scary to think that she has two more full seasons in the 13-14 age-group to write her name all over the history books! Congratulations Lauren! Congratulations ladies! Both these girls will be 14 this summer and they will be joined by teammates who are on the cusp of breaking into the national spotlight too. If the girls rise up and swim for each other, and for their team, QSS relays can post the top time in the nation this year. We've had relays in the National Top-10 and under Pacific Swimming records a few times over the past 5 years (including this very group of girls), this is our year to shine and surpass even those successes. These ladies may even have a chance to write their names in the record books and show that they are one of the greatest groups of swimmers ever to swim together! Christina Alligood Sadik Aref Colin Barck Megan Beaulieu Caitlin Bergevin Jayesh Chhabra Alan De Asis Benjamin Dietz Alexander Gitchev Loic Gramkowski Nicole Kim 25th 2nd 7th 20th 3rd 30th 8th 6th 7th 3rd 9th Sejal Kini Charles Li Wesley Liu Madeline Mckee Samantha McKee Katie Murchison Shreyes Nallan Andrew Park Nikita Polovinkin Alana Potter Sarayu Rao 19 14th 25th 4th 22nd 22nd 22nd 7th 9th 9th 27th 8th Juntao Ren Nicole Rogy Sascha Scheidegger Erik Seljeseth Elizabeth Shen Kevin Sichak Tiffany Tran Andre Tsaranou Camille Vo Samuel Zhu 30th 1st 25th 7th 19th 30th 15th 16th 3rd 6th Coach O's Seven Habits of Saintly Swim Parents Orlando S. Anaya, Mokihana Aquatics, Hawaii Habit 1. Getting Your Swimmers To Practice Regularly And On Time. With multiple-job families, single-parent families, and just “being a family,” it is sometimes very hard to get your swimmers to practice every day and on time. The first rule of improvement is “show up!” A great swim parent makes excuses for how they will get their swimmers to practice on time. It’s a powerful message and it teaches your swimmer that you care, amongst other positive messages that it sends. Habit 2. Providing Emotional Support In All Circumstances. We appreciate parents who see their primary role as providing emotional support for their swimmers in all circumstances. We’d love to say that kids should always be happy but sometimes they are not. Happiness comes and goes depending on the environment and is also heavily influenced by what children hear their parents saying about a situation. Parents who see temporary difficulties as an opportunity for their children to learn to “work it out” create a great life skill opportunity. Habit 3. Building Up The Coaches And The Program We like to view our club as a family and as such we sometimes have questions about one another or the direction of the program. We appreciate families who keep it in the family and bring concerns to the proper person in the chain of command rather than taking it to the “parking lot.” Habit 4. Comparing Your Swimmer With Themselves Every swimmer is different. Some have more passion than others. Some swim only for the socialness of the sport. Some are stronger and faster. Some become craftsmen of their technique. Thinking about your own children you may remember that they learned to tie their own shoes at different ages. Trying to compare any swimmer, regardless of time in the sport, or age, is a problematic. The emphasis should be on your swimmer's personal improvement and overall enjoyment of the sport. Coaches tend to be “long term patient” with swimmers in terms of technique and speed. Some get it early, some later. In the meantime, we love them all. Habit 5. Making Your Children Victors, Not Victims. This may be the most difficult of all the life skills a parent seeks to instill in their child. In the world today excuses abound and blame shifting is common place. We hear the excuses all the time: "I have too much homework," "I’m not feeling well," “I didn’t get enough to eat today,” “The lane is too crowded,” “The set is too hard,” “The coach yelled at me today.” And on and on. We believe that victors are created by toughing it out in the face of adversity and difficulties. When we (coaches or parent) empower a child to do what they want, when they want, it does not promote athletic development or the ability find a solution. If a swimmer is sick, keep them home. If a swimmer is injured, bring the physical therapist’s exercise routine to the pool so the swimmer can do it there. Love and protect your kids, of course, but don’t allow them to become victims. Habit 6. Respecting the Coaches' Time During Practice We appreciate the parents who come early to talk to the coaches or stay until after practice. If that is not convenient please call. The coach’s focus needs to be on the swimmers in the water during workout time. Habit 7. Getting Your Swimmers To Practice Regularly And On Time. See #1, above. 1 10 Name: Katie Phan Age: 14 Group: Turquoise Favorite Food: Pho Favorite Stroke: Freestyle Favorite Events: 500 Free Future Goal: To please coach Chris Hobbies: Singing, swimming and watching Glee Famous Person I'd like to meet: Ryan Lochte Favorite Book: The Hunger Games Favorite Movie: The Help When I grow up I want to be: A famous singer Name: Sascha Scheidegger Age: 13 Group: Black Favorite Food: Soup Favorite Stroke: Freestyle Favorite Events: 50, 100, 200 and 500 Free Future Goal: To become fluent in French, German and Spanish Hobbies: Dismantling computers and trolling Famous Person I'd like to meet: Steven Hawking Favorite Book: Enders Game Favorite Movie: War Games When I grow up I want to be: A software engineer Name: Arjun Rao Age: 16 Group: Black Favorite Food: Dosa (rice batter and lentil crepe) Favorite Stroke: Breaststroke Favorite Events: 100 Breast Future Goal: Take a gap year in Africa and then attend college Hobbies: Swimming, reading Famous Person I'd like to meet: Jane Goodall Favorie Book: Eragon Favorite Movie: Pirates of the Carribbean: The Black Pearl When I grow up I want to be: A wildlife photographer or documentarian Q News is a publication of QuickSilver Swimming. President: John Green [email protected] Co-Head Coaches: Andre Salles-Cunha [email protected] Janet Gutierrez [email protected] + = $$$ Support QSS by shopping at SwimOutlet.com. Just shop through www.Swimoutlet.com/quicksilverswimming and our team receives 8% on all orders made through this link! While shopping, you'll see a yellow banner at the top of the page that says,"You are shopping through the QuickSilver Swimming (QSS) Affiliate account." 1 11 Editor: Larry Lee [email protected] Have a story idea, pictures, news or feedback? Please contact Larry at [email protected]
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