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USA Swimming at
WAAC (Coach Janet
becky@wfly.com)
Short Course Practice
starts August 30!!
Team Try-Outs August 25 & 26 4:30-6 pm
USA Swim Team Fall Registration
2011 USA Registration Form
Note From Coach Janet:
How can one begin to say thank you a thousand times over. Those of you
who volunteered at the meet or donated items, I can't begin to say enough
thank yous: so
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK
YOU!
The season has come to an
end and I couldn't be more proud of my staff, my swimmers, parents, and
everyone else who helped out this season. Each and every one achieved a
best time along the way and trained extremely hard.
Thanks for your hard work
and support.
I'll see everyone August 30th.
I will be in the office
Wed., Aug. 25 and Thurs., Aug. 26 if you have any questions, 263-4282.
Hans Dersch
Clinics in August, you can sign-up by week and strokes
High
School Clinics (14 & older)
Three weeks Monday-Thursday
10:15-12:15 am Clinic, 10:15-11:15 am Workout
August 2-5 Freestyle & Starts
August 9-12 Backstroke & Butterfly
August 16-19 Breaststroke, IM, & Turns
$30/week or all 3 weeks for $75
Middle
School Clinics (11-13 year olds) & Elementary School Clinics (7-10 years
old)
Two weeks Monday-Thursday
10:15-11:15 am Middle School Clinic
11:15-12:15 Elementary School Clinic
August 9-12 Freestyle & Backstroke
August 16-19 Breaststroke & Butterfly
$30/week or both weeks for $50
Fall
practices start August 30
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Please check bulletin board for upcoming events and practice times
** Bring
H2O bottle to drink each day
If you have questions or concerns please call Coach Janet at 748-6185.
All Registrations and Payments Can Now Be Done
Online:
Signing up for WAAC programs is now easier than ever.
You can fill out and send all registration forms online and then
either mail a check or pay with a credit card online also. Go to
www.wfly.com and click register/pay online at the top of the
page.
USA Team Fee:
please note
that the second team fee is assessed in the January bill. The fee is
assessed three times a year, fall, winter, and summer.
Note from Coach Janet:
Parents help! Whatever happens in
the pool needs to stay in the pool. It is our job as coaches to fix
the good/the bad/or the ugly. It is your job as parents to comfort,
support and listen to your child. If at any time you have an issue
with my staff, myself, another child or anything else, please,
please, please call me and discuss the issue—there is always more to
the story than one hears or sees. I am always available no matter
what the circumstance is.
JR
266-3400 home
748-6185 cell
Meet results are posted at
www.stswim.org
New swimmers
welcome please call 263-4282 to learn more
about the WFLY team.
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Aug.
9- Elite MS & Ele Stroke
Clinics Start
10-14 Junior Nations in Irvine
25 & 26 Meet Coaches/Try-outs 4:30-6
30 Short Course begins
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
May
June
July
Please mark
your calendars with the above dates but note that there will be many
more to added.
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 WFLY Received Bronze Medal Honors from USA Swimming
for the second year in a row!
USA
Swimming honors the top 200 swim teams in the country each year by naming them a
medal team. WFLY is one of only 4 teams in South Texas to receive this
honor. Congrats!!
Recap of 2009 Long Course
1 Senior National swimmer - Chris Griffin
3 Junior National swimmers - Chris Griffin, Timothy Wylie, Alex Etz
3 Senior Zones - Ben Shepard, Jessica Shepard, Chris Johnson (raced to a
Jr Nat'l time)
9 Sectional swimmers Chris Griffin, Timothy Wylie, Alex Etz, Chris
Johnson, Ben Shpeard, Jessica Shepard, Ryan Holody, Paul Corbae, Zach
Hoffman
6 TAGS swimmers Paul Corbae, Grant Thompson, Megan Grose, Emily Shepard
Relay- Sedera Zbranak, Annie Holcomb, Emily Shepard, Megan Grose
18 STAGS swimmers
12 Senior Champ swimmers
30 Junior Olympic swimmers
What a GREAT summer !!
USA Recap of
Short Course 2009—What a Great Year!:
Junior Olympics: 40 swimmers 4th Place
STAGS (12&un): 5 swimmers
SR Champs (13&up): 9 swimmers
TAGS: 2 swimmers
Sectionals: 5 swimmers
JR Nationals: 2 swimmers
Grand Prix: 9 swimmers
High School:
Districts: 13 swimmers
Regionals: 13 swimmers
State: 6 swimmers
West
Austin Aquatics is now a Level 4 Swim Club. This is the highest
recognition level ! Below is an explanation of this program from USA
Swimming. Thanks to Cherie Collister (Trinity's mom) for helping
navigate through the paperwork to make this happen. Only 22 teams in
the country have achieved this level, with only two in south Texas, AAAA
in San Antonio and WFLY in Austin.
The Club
Recognition Program offers our club members a working blueprint for
developing strong, stable, financially sound and athletically productive
organizations.
Designed over a
two year period by USA Swimming's Club Development Committee, this
voluntary program presents four levels of achievement across four
component areas deemed critical to long-term club success. The
program encourages clubs to establish organizational goals and to
benchmark their progress toward those goals. The ultimate objective of the
program is to strengthen the club system in USA Swimming by guiding clubs
through a development process that ultimately positions the program and
its coaches to better serve athletes.
The Club
Development Committee looked at many different factors that helped create
"great" clubs. The committee grouped all of the factors into four
major component areas:
- Business &
Organizational Success
- Parent &
Volunteer Development
- Coach
Development & Education
- Athlete
Development & Performance
These component
areas, along with the markers in each area, were further subdivided into
four different levels of achievement from Level 1 to Level 4 (Level 4
being the highest):
Congrats to Paul & Jessica on great swims at TAGS!!
Jessica Shepard & Paul Corbae both made
finals and had great times at the Texas Age Championships.
Jessica:
100 Breast 1:08.57 3rd Place
100 Fly: 101.41 11th Place
100 Back: 1:01.21 9th Place
200 Back: 2:13.40 12th Place
200 IM: 2:10.45 2nd Place
Paul:
100 Breast: 1:05.31 13th Place
100 Breast time trial: 1:04.30
200 Breast: 2:14.20 3rd Place
WFLY Swimmers did a
great job at Sectionals and Senior Champs
Sectionals
Alex Etz 13th 200 back, 9th 100 back
Chris Johnson 16th 100 back
Chris Griffin 6th 200 fly, 24th 200 IM
Ben Shepard, Jessica Shepard
Grand Prix
Chris Griffin 13th 400 free, 15th 200 fly, 31st 100 fly
Timothy Wylie 20th 200 back, 27th 100 back
Bethany Corbae, Paul Corbae, Jessica Shepard, Ben Shepard
Great Job STAGS/SR
CHAMPS Swimmers!!
Annie Holcomb, Rachel Pedley, Mitchell Beckage (9th 50 back), Sedera
Zbranak (1st 500 free, 3rd 200 free, 7th 100 free, 8th 50 free, 8th 50
back, 15th 50 fly), Ali Cisewski, Jason Easter, Luke Brennan, Ben Shepard
(8th 200 breast), Paul Corbae (1st 200 breast), Reese Bishop (8th 500
free, 12th 200 free, 12th 100 fly, 15th 200 IM, 15th 100 free, 16th 50
free), Bethany Corbae (6th 200 breast), Jaquelyn Zbranak (6th 1650 free,
9th 1000 free), Jessica Shepard (1st 500 free, 1st 100 breast, 1st 100
fly, 3rd 100 free, 5th 400 IM)
UIL State Meet
Results of WFLY Swimmers
5A
Alex Etz (Austin High), 3rd 100 back
4A
Chris Griffin
(Lake Travis) 4th 200 free,
5th 500 free, 6th 200 free relay
Zach Hoffman
(Lake Travis) 5th 400 Free Relay, 12th 200 IM, 13th 100 fly
Ben Shepard
(Dripping Springs) 11th 100 Breast, 14th 200 Medley Relay
Jessica Shepard
(Dripping Springs) 4th 200 IM, 10th 100 back, 12th 200 Medley Relay
Timothy Wylie
(Dripping Springs) 5th 100 back, 13th 100 free, 14th 200 Medley Relay
Great Job to All High School Swimmers At Regionals/SPC!!
WFLY
swimmers looked great at their High School meets this weekend! Congrats on
some fast swims.
In 5A
schools, from Westlake High School we had Paul Corbae, Bethany Corbae, and
Luke Brennan. Bethany helped in prelims for the 200 medley relay that got
2nd and Paul was part of the 200 medley relay that got 3rd
place. Alex Etz represented Austin high school and placed 2nd
in the 200 Medley Relay, 3rd in the 100 Fly, 1st in
the 100 Back, and 4th in the 400 Free Relay. Chris Johnson
competed for Bowie and placed 4th in the 400 Free Relay, 3rd
in the 100 Back, 6th in the 200 IM, and 5th in the
200 Medley Relay.
In the 4A
schools, Jessica Shepard, Timothy Wylie, and Ben Shepard competed for
Dripping Springs. Jessica placed 3rd in the 200 Medley Relay, 3rd
in the 200 IM, 1st in the 100 Back, and 3rd in the
400 Free Relay. Timothy placed 2nd in the 200 Medley Relay, 2nd
in the 100 Free, 2nd in the 100 Back, 5th in the 400
Free Relay. Ben placed 2nd in the 200 Medley Relay and 1st
in the 100 Breast. Reese Bishop, Jason Easter, Chris Griffin, and Zach
Hoffman competed for Lake Travis. Reese placed 5th in the 200
Medley Relay and 7th in the 500 Free. Jason placed 5th
in the 200 Medley Relay. Chris placed 1st in the 200 Free, 1st
in the 500 Free, 2nd in the 200 Free Relay, and 3rd
in the 400 Free Relay. Zach placed 3rd in the 200 IM, 4th
in the 100 Fly, 2nd in the 200 Free Relay, and 3rd
in the 400 Free Relay.
Great Job
to Louis Leon who competed for St. Stephens at SPC!!
Congrats to
Timothy Wylie on his Top 10 Swims in 2008!
Timothy Wylie earned Top 10 honors from USA Swimming for his 5th
Place finish in the 100 Back and 9th Place finish in the
200 Back out of all swims in his age group during the 2008 year!
WFLY Team has upgraded to
a Level 3 Team!! Thanks to Cherie Collister for filling out the
paperwork to make this happen!!
WFLY swimmers, coaches,
and parents helped wrap gifts at Fashion floors for Majic of
Christmas. The team wrapped hundreds of gifts!!
Chris Griffin had a great
JR Natl Meet at UT last weekend. He swam best times and achi eved
a 4th place in the 200 fly swimming to a US Open qualifying time!!
Thanks to all the swimmers
who helped with baskets Friday night at Jr Nationals,
Zach, Ali, German, Ben, Jessica, Jacquelyn, Reece, Matthew, Sedera,
Hunter, Taylor, Rachel, Emily, Annie, Paige, and Riley.
Congrats to Jessica for
being named to the South Texas All Star team!!
Congrats to Coach Janet
for being recognized as both Age Group and Senior Coach of the Year
based on her swimmers' performance at 2007-2008 SC and LC championship
meets. It is an amazing coach to have success in both
categories!!
WFLY has been awarded
hosting the long course JO meet this summer. The meet will be in
late July and include short course and long course events.
Janet’s Meet Hints (Especially for parents and
swimmers going to UT): Our first short course meet at Round Rock was a
huge success. Everyone swam great and looked to have lots of fun. Here
are a couple of meet hints for the future: Pack all items the night
before—suit, goggles, cap, and lots of towels. Pack your cooler
early—Water, Gatorades, fruits, sandwiches (have swimmers help).
Remind them of what they are swimming (posted at pool or on the meets
psych sheet). Always, always be on time to warm-ups. This is the time
the coach checks in with the swimmer, makes sure they know what they
are swimming and gives the swimmer a chance to swim in the new pool.
(If you are running late, lost, or something different CALL the
coach.) If and when relays are swum (coach will decide) it is done at
the beginning of warm-ups. If your swimmer isn’t present they will NOT
swim in a relay. Remind your swimmer to talk to the coach before and
after their swims (get feedback). At many meets parents will not be
able to sit with their child. The swimmers will sit in the team area.
The coaches will help them and you as parents need to sit back and
cheer and get excited for them. I am so excited to be working with
your child and look forward to this year and all that it has to offer.
If at any time you have questions or problems or concerns, you can
reach me at home 266-3400 or on my cell 748-6185. Thanks, JR.
Video taping will be
avialable this fall. Coach John and Ginny will record the
swimmers and provide Janet with the DVD. She will then go over
stoke improvements with swimmers. Swimmers may purchase a CD of
each session for $5.
Check the board for
up-coming meets.
If you haven't picked up a
t-shirt please do. Free to swimmers, $10 for parents.
WFLY team captains are seniors Bethanny Corbae and Alex Etz!!
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