JP Fiset.

It is going to be a long FAST weekend. There are 890 swimmers entered into the JP Fiset meet so make sure that you are prepared for a long but fast weekend. Top swimmers from Alberta and beyone are going to be up for a fantastic meet. Make sure your water bottle is always on you and that you have plenty of good snacks: fruit, veggies, sandwiches, yogurt but save the bigger items like sandwiches for when you have at least 1 hour before you swim next.

With so many swimmers at the meet and the length of the sessions we will not be enforcing that swimmers return each night for finals if they have not qualified however your support will be very much appreciated.

Some swimmers had to be removed from the 200IM and or 400 free and were not given the opportunity to add other events which is too bad. Those swimmers have been notified. There will be other changes to the meet layout to ensure that swimmers are given the best chance at success but I am not sure what they will be doing. Please stay posted for further details.

5km pool championships

November is half over and we almost let this one slip by but not quite. Saturday November 29th the Senior and Senior Development groups will be taking part in the 5km pool championships. This is a great opportunity to compete in a national championship without leaving the comfort of your own pool. Parents we will need you assistance in counting we hope to have at least one counter for every 2 swimmers. Swimmers, please e-mail me if you know that you will not be around that day or if any parent are available to count laps please let me know.

Should be a great event.

Poppy

Poppy was another success this year! Great job to everyone. Lots of best times and for many it was their first meet or first full weekend meet with the club and it was great to see you all racing so well. Keep posted to your group blogs for further updates. Provincial Elite there should be a blog up and running for you shortly. I will send out the link when it is available.

Once again I would like to honor the senior swimmers with their meet awards:

I would like to honor Amanda who swam her first full weekend meet with the club and did a great job getting best times in her best events narrowly missing getting under the 29 second barrier in 50 free while swimming a number of new events as well all with very good performances. Congratulations and here's to plenty more success to come.

For swimmers in the senior group this was an opportunity to swim some off or different events then they would normally compete in at the regular heats and finals meets that are a higher level so I would like to award Zac King with the swim of the meet for his 100 breast stroke. After a bit of a rough competition he stepped up and had some fun in his 100 breast surprising himself taking off 5 seconds and showing a lot of speed.

I think this was a great meet and swimmers had very good attitudes and energy level throughout the competition so at first thought I had a hard time picking an OOPS award for the meet and then I quickly remembered a couple of things that need to be brought up so I will actually award 2 oops awards:

OOPS number 1 goes out to your own coach Matt who forgot about the group swim down that everyone in the Senior group was supposed to do together while the 400's finished up. We were supposed to do this in lieu of Monday morning practice.

OOPS number 2 however goes out to everyone!!! for the horrible state we left our team area in both days. We were the dirtiest club there and we are the ones that should be setting the example. I talked to everyone about this after Saturday and then Sunday it was even worse! Thank goodness some of the swimmers stayed to help clean up the area, those who didn't owe them and the parents involved a big thank you for cleaning up your pigsty.

Silver Tide in the news

If you didn't see the article in the newspaper check out this link http://www.sherwoodparknews.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1280618 or go to the sports section of www.sherwoodparknews.com

video, dream to WIN!!!!

Check out the Ryan Cochran video on the Swimming Canada home page, www.swimming.ca under headline news. If it is not there you can find it under the title more news. He did not look up to National team members when he was growing up, nor did he look up to the likes of the world record holder in his event Grant Hackett, he just thought, What do I have to do to beat them at the trials in the future to make an international team and then what do I have to do to beat the best once I am there.

Some may call this cocky, I call it confident and necessary if you truly want to be the best.