AUGUST 2007
Fundraising never ends
08/29/07

“The reality of where we are today is that we need to find a way to supplement budgets,” said Barry Collier, Butler’s athletic director. “This is part of it.” read more...


Interim Practice schedule until September 5th *revised*.
08/27/07

The 2007-2008 Short Course Season begins on Wednesday, September 5th and our winter schedule that has been sent out will go into affect.  Until then, we will be swimming an interim practice schedule which can be found here.


Great article sent to us - PLEASE READ!
08/18/07

Olympic swimmers are supposed to sprout up, tanned and sinewy, in the Southern California sun, not in ugly cinder-block buildings behind the Mount Washington Post Office.  read more!

 

The workout room at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club overlooks one of the facility's pools. The cluttered, chaotic club, which has produced Olympian Michael Phelps, is run by Murray Stephens, who garners criticism the way his swimmers collect medals. "People are jealous," the 61-year-old Stephens said.

 

 


2007 Awards BBQ info. posted
08/16/07

Details of the Awards Banquet have been posted under UPCOMING EVENTS or you can access them here.  Enjoy your time off swimmers!


Megan Quann (Jendrick) shares her thoughts..
08/12/07 Nationals Recap courtesy of swimroom.com
 

Nationals is over and my break begins! I have to admit it... I like junk food. I am normally pretty good about keeping it down during the season, and I eat 100% healthy during the lead-in to and during my taper, but for the two weeks we're off... I eat whatever I want. read more..


 


Performance Team weight training still on.
08/12/07

There will be weight training this week for the Performance Team on:

Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10:00am to 11:15am at the Ace of Clubs.

Please remember, this is OPTIONAL!      GO WALL!


Weights at Ace of Clubs.
08/08/07

The weight lifting for the rest of this week is as follows:

Wednesday - OFF
Thursday - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Friday - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Saturday - 11:00am to 12:15pm
If you have questions, email Coach Perry


What it takes to be GREAT!
08/06/07

Research now shows that the lack of natural talent is irrelevant to great success. The secret?
Painful and demanding practice and hard work
!  read more..

               


Yard Sale HUGE SUCCESS!
08/05/07

This past weekends yard sale went off without a hitch and netted the team over $1,100.00 to help keep our monthly dues down.  Thank you everyone for your donations and participation and please take a moment to personally thank Andi & Jerry Giedeman for the their tireless (up at 4AM) efforts and organization skills.  Without them, this would not have been so easy!


WALL places 5th at LC Champs.
08/01/07

This past weekend the Walla Walla Swim Club swam to an impressive 5th place finish at the 2007 IES LC Championships in Spokane.  We had a total of 95 Top 8 swims, 41 Top 3 swims, 16 FIRST PLACE swims, 2 High Point winners, 2 Meet records and dropped a total of 176.43 seconds.

1st Place - Tri City Channel Cats
2nd Place - Spokane Area Swimming
3rd Place -
Coeur D`alene Area ST
4th Place - Gold Medal Swim Club

As you can see, we are in good company!

                Great Job WALL!


 
 
 
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