Freeze or Fry Pics

For All who attended Freeze or Fry, pictures from the meet taken by a photographer at the meet can be viewed at www.terriellephotography.ca.

Fastest meet ever?

The US Olympic swimming trials are fast approaching and will be on TV nightly starting Sunday June 29-July 6th. Be sure to set your TV's to record as dreams will be made and broken over the week long meet. It will serve as great motivation as we head into our provincials and National level meets.

meet entries

Hello all,

Meet entries for Summber Games Trials and Age Group/Senior Champs have been posted on the entries blog site.

Be sure to check them out.

Cascade

There were tons of great swims at the Cascade meet in Calgary June 6-8. Every swimmer in attendance made second swims which is exactly what we want to see at this time of the year. It was a great warm-up as we head into our Chamionship season.

We had Brendan and Connor inching closer and closer to their Age Group National qualifying standards, they each have 2 more opportunities to qualify. Swimmers swam upto 18 individual events plus relays, the days were very long but it was very important for swimmers to learn to deal with these types of situations as we head into provincials which will be a 4 day meet and with Senior and Age Group Nationals being just as long or longer.

Age Group Trials

Congratulations to Matt Whiteside for qualifying for Age Group Champs this past weekend in Medicine Hat by winning the 200 Breast. And to all of the other Silver Tide swimmers great meet. Lots of 2nd swims and best times you should all be very proud of your achievements.

Keep posted for full meet recaps from Ryan and Kellie.

Silver Cup recap

What a great competition and team bonding experience for the entire team at Silver Cup. It was great to see all of the swimmers hanging out together and supporting each other throughout the meet. We do not get many opportunities to come together as a full team and it was great to see so many come and take part in this meet. Along with this great event came fantastic results.

We walked away with 5 of the 12 aggregate awards with Ryan Schamber winning the 9-10 year old boys, Connor Rawson winning the 11-12 year old boys, Jolene Janzen taking the 15-16 year old girls, Nathan Weatherby taking the 15-16 year old boys and Mike Clark walking away with the Senior boys award. Along with these awards Rebecca broke 2 more club records in the 50 free and 400 IM and Ryan broke the 400 IM club record.

For many of the younger swimmers this was their first meet in quite some time and for the more seasoned swimmers this was a great chance to swim some different events along with some of their better events. With the limited meet list this year it was great to have our swimmers swim their off events as we would really like to see swimmers swim as many different events as possible.

With almost 50 Silver Tide swimmers in the meet there were a ton of great results going on throughout the weekend. Some of the highlights were the following 100% PB results from:

• Olivia
• Omar
• Brooklyn
• Greg
• Langley
• Lauren
• Matt Whiteside along the way he also qualified for Age Group Trials
• Megan Wirachowsky
• Annalea
• Kiersten

Honorable mention goes to Brayden who missed 100%PB's by adding 2 one hundreths of a second in his 100 freestyle. Other swimmers who missed only 1 PB were: Alyssa, Halle, Sarah N, Josie, Sierra, Melissa and Haley.

Great Job to these and all Silver Tide swimmers who came and competed this weekend. It was a huge success for all the swimmers and a team as a whole. Be sure to check out your results on your results blog site.

For some this was your last competition of the season and to you I say CONGRATULATIONS on a fantastic year and here's to more success in the future. For the rest of us, lets keep up the great work as we head in to our provincial and National level competitions to finish off the swim season.

Swimming opportunities

There is another city of Edmonton workout opportunity for all swimmers in Northern Alberta being put on by Jan Bidrman Tuesday June 17.

This workout will be made available to the same swimmers that had the opportunity to do it last time. Same schedule 4:00-6:30 in the water from 4:30-6:30. Please let me know if you will be unable to attend. It was a great experience last time and our swimmers really impressed so lets go and do it again. You must be prepared to attend and complete the entire workout so please organize rides so that you can be there on time.

On a more disappointing note, it looks as though we will not be attending Far Westerns this year due to the lack of interest from the Senior group. After seeing how many swimmers supported Mel Zajac last season I was surprised to see such limited response at what would be a better meet (for the level of swimmers) at a better time in the season and a new location. I know that it is later in the year than what everyone is used to swimming but swimming is becoming much more year round and since we cannot get fully started until October you will all still receive a long well deserved break when finishing in early August. Next year we will not be able to offer this opportunity as Age group nationals are in Montreal but we will be offering a travel training camp for the senior group. We will be doing this whether it is for 3 swimmers or 23 swimmers. The next time Age group nationals are in the west we will try to make the trip to Far Westerns once again.

I know that swimming (especially high level swimming) is an expensive sport. I will do my best to get you all of the events with approximate costs as early as possible but it will be up to all the swimmers and families to do their best to find a way to take advantage of these wonderful opportunities. As it is these types of great experiences that swimmers will remember for the rest of their lives.