Swimmer’s Voice

BAS Official Newsletter Page 1

OCTOBER 1, 2010 Volume 1, Issue 3

Upcoming Swim BAS Kick Off Short Course Meet Report Meets: Brownsville Aquatics was able to add one more meet to our calendar held this year Saturday November 6-7: Ryan Hirn October 9. The meet will help our swimmers to compete at home without need to travel dur- Memorial Meet hosted by ing the transition period from long course meters to short course yards. Out kids did very McAllen Swim Club well many of them improving their best times. Below is the list of high points trophy win- November 12-14: All Star ners from Brownsville Aquatics: Meet Midland TX. South Texas applica- Women 9 Garza Celeste 1st place 200 IM 3:20.08, 50 back tion deadline October 18 42.43, 50 breast 48.55 2nd place 50 fly 44..96 50 free 38.42

November 20-21 IMX- Women 11 Stephanie Castillo 1st place 200 IM 2:39.69, 100 breast treme San Antonio TX 1:27.46, 100 back 1:18.76, 100 fly 1:14.80, 200 free 2:24.13 Requires 1800 IMX points Women 12 Moreno Andrea 1st place 200 IM 2:44.91, 50 back 34.41 December 10-12: TXLA 100 back 1:13.52, 100 fly 1:19.77, 500 free 20.58 Jingle Bell – UT Austin Women 13 Besteiro Ivana 1st place 200 IM 2:34.42, 2nd place 100 breast 1:20.63, 100 back 1:11.12, 100 fly 1:16.63, 50 free 28.91 Women 15 & O Salinas Victoria 1st place 100 free 55.16, 100 back 1:05.46, 100 fly 1:03.33, 50 free 25.50, 200 free 2:08.62 Men 8 & U Imperial Rexachilles 1st place 50 back 49.79, 50 fly 1:01.31, Inside this issue: 50 breast 1:04.41, 50 free 43.82 Men 10 Song Joo Young D.1st place 50 back 38.25, 50 fly 35.31, BAS Kick Off meet report 1 50 breast 45.62, 50 free 31.96 Longhorns Swim Men 11 Mendez Edgar 1st place 200 free 3:12.99, 2nd place 50 fly 51.09, Camp experience 2 50 back 44.77, 3rd place 50 free 39.35, 100 free 1:22.16 by Celeste Garza Men 12 Ashford Jace 1st place 100 breast 1:12.62, 100 fly 1:16.35, March trip to 200 IM 2:33.10, 100 free 1:03.45, 2nd place 50 free 28.40 NCAA Div. I Finals 3

The Origins and Roots of Swimming 4

Page 2 Longhorn Swim Camp Experience by Celeste Garza

Have you ever thought of going to swim camp and wondered what it is like? I am going to tell you what it was like for me. There are many dif- ferent swim camps. I went to the U.T. swim camp. My dad chose that par- ticular camp because he graduated from U.T. In the morning, me and my roommate Kelsie would wakeup, eat breakfast, and swim for two hours. Then we would come back and eat lunch.

After lunch we would swim for another two hours. Everybody would walk to the swim center. On the way, all the campers and counselors would stop at the big football stadium and play “Simon says.” Next we would exercise Dobie suite common living area with weights. At the end of the day, we would go back to the swim center, and finish by doing relays. I improved a lot after going to U.T. swim camp. I lost 21 seconds on my 200 IM! I learned drills that I had never even done before. For exam- ple, we did a really fast drill on backstroke with our arms. Anybody who was a camper could play volleyball, or basketball when ever they wanted. I got coached by Olympians who trained at U.T. The coaches were the counselors, they helped us with our strokes and made sure we were having fun. When I slept the first night at camp, it was scary, since I was not used to being away from my parents. Then, after the first night, I got used to Different view of common living area ʻʻ ʼʼ sleeping in the Dobie dorms. In my opinion, I think, if you want to go to swim camp you should go to U.T. it's really fun. But what if your scared to stay over night? You can always be a day camper who doesn't stay over night.

Written By: Celeste Garza age 9

Suite room shared by two campers

Happy camper Celeste Garza Dobie Center

View from the window

Lee and Joe Jamail UT Swimming Center. The site Camp info: http://www.longhornswimcamp.com/ of 2011 NCAA Women’s Div. I Championship.

Page 2 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Volume 1, Issue 3 Championships March 17-19 2011 Austin TX

Brownsville Aquatics plans on at- fending champion California was (2:07.73) and Minnesota's Haley tending upcoming NCAA Division I third with 363 points. The 2.5 Spencer (2:07.88). "It's about Swimming & Diving Championship. points separating glory from an off- who wants it more," said Atkinson The 2011 women’s championship, season of what-ifs might seem of her individual win. The Aggies hosted by the University of Texas at razor thin, yet it falls short of the didn't reach the top four. How- Austin, will be held at The Lee and 1.5 points between 2001 titlist ever, their 311 points earned Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center, Georgia and second-place Stanford them sixth position in the final March 17-19, 2011. The participants (389 to 387.5). Keeping with tradi- team standings. Georgia's Wendy at the event are the best swimmers tion, Florida's entire squad engaged Trott swam a 15:48.87 to cap- from all over the world studying and in a celebratory leap into the pool, ture the 1650 freestyle, Indiana training at top US universities. The one that included Gators head senior Kateryna Fesenko outdu- championship is equivalent to unoffi- coach , a man who's eled three-time NCAA champion cial short course yards world cham- never been so happy to be Gemma Spofforth of Florida in pionship. The trip would take place drenched head-to-toe. After all, his the 200 backstroke and Texas during spring break. To encourage squad entered the third and final A&M's Julia Wilkinson won the more club swimmers participate in day of competition in fifth place, 100 free in 47.61 seconds. the trip club will cover partial cost but it gained ground rapidly with- "Texas A&M has never had a of the hotel rooms. Final size of out a single trip to the champion's national champion in any race, so contribution will depend on number platform. With a second- and third- we knew there were a couple “For myself, losing is not of participants and club’s financial place showing in the 200 back- people trying to be that first one condition at the time. stroke and thirds in platform diving for the team," said Wilkinson. coming second. It's and the 400 freestyle relay, Flor- Elaine Breeden of Stanford won Following is the summary of 2010 ida's depth took a toll on the com- the 200 butterfly for the third Finals held at West Lafayette, Indi- petition. The Gators also nabbed a time in four seasons, this time in getting out of the water ana. fourth in the 100 free, both a fifth 1:52.39. The meet's swan song Twenty-eight years might seem like a and sixth in the 200 butterfly and event, the 400 freestyle relay, knowing you could have dry spell of Sahara-like proportions, but a seventh in the 1650 freestyle. went to Stanford's team of Kate to the Florida women's swimming and The top five finishers in the 200 Dwelley, Samantha Woodward, diving program, it seemed like no big breaststroke all lowered the pool Elizabeth Webb and in done better. For myself, deal. After all, the Gators had plenty of record, but it's Texas A&M's Alia pool-record time of 3:12.32. water nearby. Saving its best for Satur- Atkinson who'll be in the record Based on the voting of the I have won every race day night at Purdue's Boilermaker books with a championship effort coaches, Florida's Troy was Aquatic Center, Florida rallied to cap- of 2:07.38. It was a fight to the named Coach of the Year, while ture its first Division I Women's Swim- very finish between Atkinson and Stanford's Smit, a senior, took I've been in.” ming and Diving national title since Stanford's Elizabeth Smith home honors among the compet- 1982 by totaling 382 points compared (2:07.50), Arizona's Ann Chandler ing athletes. to 379.5 for runner-up Stanford. De- (2:07.68), Yi-ting Siow of Arkansas Ian Thorpe

Page 3 The Origins and Roots of Swimming Coaching Staff Swimming as an organized activity goes back as far as 2500 B.C. in ancient Head coach: Egypt and later in ancient Ryan Shea Greece, Rome, and Assyria.

In Rome and Greece, swim- ming was part of the educa- Assistant coaches tion of elementary age boys Danny Euresti and the Romans built the first swimming pools (separate were too frail to engage in Albino Cisneros from bathing pools). The first competitive sports. It was only Javier Saenz heated swimming pool was at the 1912 Games when Erika Sandoval built by Gaius Maecenas of women’s swimming made its Sam Perez Rome in the first century BC. debut at the prompting of the Gaius Maecenas was a rich group that later became known Roman lord and considered as the International Olympic disabilities and has 22 events one of the first patron of arts. Committee. for men and 22 for women. The English are con- The first modern Mark Spitz became an sidered the first modern soci- Olympic Games had only four Olympic immortal with than all ety to develop swimming as a swimming events, three of -time record of seven gold med- sport. By 1837 swimming them freestyle. The second als at one Games. In the month competitions were being held Olympics in Paris in 1900 in which the US Olympic trials in London’s six artificial included three unusual swim- and the Munich Olympic pools, these competitions ming events. One used an ob- Games were staged in the sum- We are on the web @ were organized by the Na- stacle course; another was a mer of 1972, Spitz set 14 world brownsvilleaquatics.com. tional Swimming Society in test of underwater swimming records, an achievement unsur- England. As the sport grew in endurance; the third was a passed until 2008 Olympic popularity many more swim- 4,000-metre event, the longest Games in Beijing. By the end ming pools were built, and competitive swimming event of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when a new governing body, ever. None of the three was had put to rest the Amateur Swimming As- ever used in the Olympics the argument over who is the sociation of Great Britain, again. greatest American Olympian was organized in 1880, it The early glamour of and perhaps the greatest from numbered more than 300 the sport opened up vast op- any country. By winning eight member clubs. portunities to the likes of Duke gold medals in eight swimming In 1896, swimming Paoa Kahanamoku, a Haiwai- events in Beijing, shattering became an Olympic sport for ian who became a Hollywood seven world records in the proc- men with the 100 meters and actor and won the 1912 and ess, Phelps raised his haul of 1500 meters freestyle compe- 1920 100 metres freestyle ti- career Olympic medals to 16. titions held in open water. tles. The man who beat him Fourteen of them are gold. Soon after, as swimming for the title in 1924 would Phelps has dominated his sport gained popularity, more free- become yet more famous on like no other. style events were included, the silver screen; Johnny followed by the backstroke, Weissmuller, the American butterfly, breaststroke, and who became the first to swim lastly, the individual medley. faster than a minute for 100 For a variety of rea- metres freestyle (in 1922), an sons, women were excluded event he won at both the 1924 from swimming in the first and 1928 Games before going several Olympic Games. In on to become the original Tar- 1896 and again in 1906, zan in Hollywood. women could not participate The Olympics have because the developer of the now developed to 32 swim- modern games, Baron Pierre ming races, 16 for men and 16 de Coubertin, held firmly to for women. The Special Olym- the assumption, common in pics includes competitive the Victorian era, that women swimming for people with