The Week That Was: Making The Most Of The Holiday Season

With the Holiday season in full swing and the new year just days away, this is a time when people across the country get to sit back and relax. That is, unless you’re a swimmer. Club, high school, and college swimmers alike all know that these upcoming weeks are a critical period in their training, and the seemingly endless doubles and main sets sent from the Grinch himself make it feel like it may never end. This week Swimming World brings you some stories to help you cope through the coming weeks as we head into the New Year!

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The Week That Was #4: 6 Ways To Thrive During Winter Training

Photo Courtesy: Kelsey Lynch

Dreading those daily doubles like they were 10 x 400 IMs? Not looking forward to spending the next few weeks with perpetually wet hair? Or, for college athletes, are you dreading the inevitable and abrupt return to long course (even though it will likely be somewhere warm and tropical)? The this article from Emma Foster is for you! Use these 6 tips to survive winter training to start 2016 off on the right foot.

The Week That Was #3: 5 Tips To Being A Good College Ambassador At Home

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Remember in high school or club when you’d get to see all your former teammates come back to the pool for winter training? They all looked a little older, usually wore different caps, and maybe had some new piercings or tattoos. But I bet you most of all remember who skipped out of the 100 x 100’s or whatever other holiday struggle your coach had conjured up for you. Use the above article from Sarah Lloyd to get tips on how to continue to make a good impression with your old teammates when you return for the holidays.

The Week That Was #2: An Ode To My Home Club Team During Christmas Training

Photo Courtesy: Brenton Tse

Any college swimmer knows the strange emotions accompanying winter break. Not only are you spending considerably less time at home than many of your classmates, you also have to maintain yardage and intensity as you prepare for training trip (and don’t even get me started on coming off a mid-season taper). On top of this, you also have to make time for family, friends, and perhaps a minute or two to relax away from school. Read this above story from Tori Caudill to gain some perspective on this experience and understand why coming home to your old team is so important.

The Week That Was #1: 7 News Year’s Swimming Resolutions You Should Think About Making

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2016 is right around the corner, and with that comes an endless array of possibilities for your swimming in the New Year. A blank slate is a beautiful thing, and with it comes the reminder that our seasons will be over in a few short months. Use the above article from Sophia Chiang to set goals for yourself and your swimming in the New Year to make yourself the best you have ever been. And while most people run into the problem of actually carrying out resolutions they make each year, as a swimmer you have the wonderful opportunity of winter training to immediately put these declarations into action!

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Bill Belf y

8 years ago

To celebrate the end of a very good year 17-year- old Maxime Rooney of the Pleasanton ( CA.) Seahawks, a multi gold-medalist at last Summer’s World Junior Championships in Singapire, won six races — all in career- best times — during the Speedo Cal- Nevada/ Southern California Swimming winter championships at East Los Angeles a College the weekend before Christmad.

Showing great versatility, Rooney won the 100-200 frees (42.76-1:33.82), 100-20 backs (47.54-1:42.02)and the 100-200 flys (46.63-1:44.23)

His 200 back win came not long after his win in the 100 free and was by a fingernail as the runner- up swimmer ( Brandon James) clocked a pr 1:42.03)

Watch out for this guy in a couple or

Bill Bell

8 years ago

To celebrate the end of a very good year 17-year- old Maxime Rooney of the Pleasanton ( CA.) Seahawks, a multi gold-medalist at last Summer’s World Junior Championships in Singapire, won six races — all in career- best times — during the Speedo Cal-Nevada/ Southern California Swimming winter championships at East Los Angeles College the weekend before Christmas.

Showing great versatility, Rooney won the 100-200 frees (42.76-1:33.82), 100-20 backs (47.54-1:42.02)and the 100-200 flys (46.63-1:44.23)

His 200 back win came not long after his win in the 100 free and was by a fingernail as the runner- up swimmer (Brandon James) clocked a pr 1:42.03.
Watch out for this guy in a couple of years in our World Championship Trials — if not at Omaha next July.

That same weekend three thousand miles to the east Caitlin Harty of the North Shore Y, who a week earlier in Atlanta set a Junior Nationals record en route to gold in the 200 back (1:51-plus) dropped that by a full second while setting a New England Swimming senior record w/her 1:50-low clocking.

She’s younger sister ofTexas freshman Ryan and she’ll be wearing burnt orange and white come next fall as she has committed to the Longhorns.

No brother- sister combo has ever won golds at NCAAs but the
Hartys could end that drought before their careers are completed.
Too bad Whitney and Michael never swam collegiately. Just imagine what they could have done for say…Ohio St.?