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The final night of competition from Rockwall, TX from Head Zone Coach Jimmy Smith: In the final night of competition, SCS was able to have 2 swimmers return for finals. Elaine Zhou earned a new best time in the 200 IM (2:29.9) and placed 7th. Elaine followed that up with another best time in the 200 Fly (2:23.8) and raced to a 4th place finish. Elaine was the only swimmer from SCS to final in all 6 of her events! Congratulations Elaine on a job very well done! John Kelly...
Zones Update Day 4: From Head Zone Coach Jimmy Smith So the temperature was a cool 105, with strong winds and clear skies. The night started off with Lillie Anderson making her first podium with an 8th place finish in the 100 backstroke at 1:07.78. Jonathan Boland took 3rd spot in the 100 backstroke with a 1:00.34 and Elaine Zhou rounded out the backstroke events with a 6th place finish in 1:17.6. In the breaststroke events, Nathan Delahunty started things with another podium appearance, finishing 8th in 1:11.5. Izzi Woodard...
Sports Development Director Update I wanted to give everyone an update on what Kile Zeller our Sports Development Director has been working on since he was hired. The first task that he was assigned was to go and learn about the clubs in our LSC. Kile hit the ground running and has to date visited 16 of our clubs. In addition to club visits, you may have seen Kile on the deck at several long course meets this season. He gave out nutritional information to parents who were waiting on...
Here is what coaches have sent me so far: State Write Up for LTP: From Head Coach Jesup Szatkowski This past weekend, LTP swimmers participated in the Long Course State Meet. In addition, swimmers that did not qualify for the state meet had the opportunity to race in the Finale meet. Scores were computed for the state meet swimmers and teams. Highlights are below- congratulations to everyone for a job well done! LTP finished 13th place overall. The Girls’ Team- placed 11th and the Boys Team came in 14th, beating...
Thursday, August 2nd: Zones Day 3. From Head Zone Coach Jimmy Smith: Today's weather was a cool 107 degrees, sunny skies and windy. Wait, that was same as yesterday. Ahh, Texas! They say a cold front is coming in Friday... down to 105... better get the parkas!!! The morning prelims went will with many swimmers again right on their times from states. They are realizing how tough the competition is at this meet. Teams like Georgia are really stepping up breaking all kinds of records in finals. As a coach,...
Zones Results link: If you want reults in a pdf, try this link: http://www.results.teamunify.com/ntrs/2012/zones/
Wednesday, August 1st: Day 2 of Zones, from Rockwall, TX—From Head Zone Coach, Jimmy Smith Today began as yesterday ended... hot! The weather was for sunny skies and temps at 107 degrees! As for competition, the long travel day on Monday and getting settled on Tuesday kinda caught up to the swimmers, particularly with a 6:00am wake-up for warm-up. Many of the swimmers achieved times in prelims which were faster than their prelim times from the SCS state meet. Those swimmers returning for finals included Jonathan Boland, Elaine Zhou, Nathan...
From Head Zone Coach Jimmy Smith: Monday - the day of travel! The 2012 SC zone team departed Columbia for Atlanta. During the trip the athletes and the coaches all had an opportunity to get to know each other. About halfway through the trip, an impromptu edition of South Carolina swimmers have talent (or not!!!) took place. Several 11-12 year olds did a rendition of Justin "what's a " Bieber's "boyfriend." Following the 11-12 year olds, the 13-14 year olds did "call me baby." No one did!!! And finally, the...
