Swimming World Magazine to Name High School Swimmers of the Year in August Issue

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 9. NEXT month in its August edition, Swimming World Magazine will announce its annual High School Swimmers of the Year. If you subscribe today, you will ensure delivery of August as your first issue.

The duo will join the likes of Natalie Coughlin, Jessica Hardy, Misty Hyman and Kate Ziegler on the girls' side, as well as Nate Dusing, Jayme Cramer and Matt Grevers on the boys' side.

Additionally, who do you think most deserves the award? Feel free to respond via Reaction Time at the end of this article.

Meanwhile, the rest of August looks chock full of top-flight content. In the World Swimming section, senior writer John Lohn profiles both Club Wolverine and Ryan Lochte in a pair of features, while managing editor Jason Marsteller recaps the National Club Swimming Association's All-American meet held in Hawaii. USA Diving's Jennifer Lowery also lets us know how our diving brothers and sisters are doing on the international stage.

In SWIM, our regular contributors continue their amazing work. Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen, in the middle of one of her strongest years in the pool after aging up to 45, writes about enjoying summertime in her latest Pool's Edge. J.R. Rosania concludes a two-part series about cross training, while SWIM editor Mark Moore profiles Mike Freshley in Lane Leaders. Also, Carolyn Lewis and Kathleen Woolf provide some more nutrition information in another edition of Health Waves, while Wayne Goldsmith gives our readers some new freestyle sets. Finally, Frank Marcinkowski, Jim Halstead and Stacy Peterson chip in a Workout Card.

Michael J. Stott returns with another stellar run in Swimming Technique. This month, he spoke with Penn State's Bill Dorenkott as well as looked into a timely women's distance freestyle taper strategies feature focusing on newly-minted world record holder Kate Ziegler and the former holder of the 1500-meter freestyle standard, Janet Evans. Talk about GREAT timing for this piece! Additionally, technical advisor Glenn Mills writes about hip slide in backstroke.

In Junior Swimmer, Wayne Goldsmith explains how you can tell when you have trained too much, while Alan Goldberg asks the age-old question "Are you a winning swim parent?"

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July 11, 2007. I think that Kaylee Jamison of St. Charles Illinois deserves this honor. I swim with Kaylee and you may not know but she won the National Wendy's High School Heismen award, and she also got 2nd at Illinois Girls high school state in the 100 fly. She also won homecoming queen, national honor society, and a ton of other things. And she is the nicest person i have ever met. So choose her!!! Kyle

July 12, 2007. John Criste has my vote. Irishpunk1226

July 12, 2007. Lauren English. She was the National HS Coaches Association Female Swimmer of the Year, Broke her own National HS Record in the 100 back (meters), was the NJ HS Swimmer of the Year for the Second time, Set NJ records in the 50 free and the 100 back (yards), is a eight time H.S. All American, and an academic all American to boot. She was also on the US Pan Pacific team and is on the upcoming World University Games team. WBCPARODY

July 12, 2007. Lauren Solernou from Sacred Heart High School in Waterbury, CT is most deserving of this award. In addition to excelling in her honors classes and being an active member of the high school tennis team, Student Council, and several other activities, Lauren manages to blow everyone out of the water when she swims. Although she is 14, she recently competed at the Grand Prix championship and achieved best times in the events she swam, now only a second away from an Olympic Trial cut for the 100 backstroke, and making a name for herself nationally. She also dominated at the YMCA Nationals this past April, and is a force to be reckoned with in the state of Connecticut on the high school and USS levels.

As far as her young high school career, as a freshman, she placed 2nd in the 100 backstroke at State Opens, losing by less than a second and becoming the first female swimmer from Sacred Heart to compete and place second at the State Opens. Lauren motivates her teammates to work to their potential and train hard in order to achieve their personal goals and instills pride in each supporter of Sacred Heart swimming. Lauren trains extremely hard every day with the Cheshire Sea Dogs with the hopes of becoming a Texas Longhorn swimmer. As her sister, her friend, and her fellow swimmer, I think that she is one of the most promising swimmers in her age group and is well-deserving of this award. Kathleen

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