July BETWEEN THE LINES 2008 Fishers Greenfield SOUTHEASTERN SWIM CLUB OF Pendleton Mission "Our program encourages swimmers to reach their full potential and Statement develop essential life skills while having fun!" Important Dates President’s Perspective by: Dan Johnson July How fast does the summer go--we are already in July, our meet is right around the corner, and the 11-13 SSC Summer Sizzler Championship Meets are at the end of this month. In August, all of the country will be watching the 21 SSC Night at Victory Olympic Games where swimming is always one of the areas in which the USA dominates. With this Field in mind I started thinking about how great our sport is and why. I found an article on the “Top 10 Reasons Why Our Children Should Swim”: 25 Final Splash of Sea- son—Tri-Dual @ Craw- fordsville HS 1. Swimming is an outstanding activity for young people. 2. Swimming promotes fitness and teaches a child to strive for physical achievement. Many August super-stars in other sports started out as swimmers and gained strength and coordination that helped them excel. 1-3 2008 Long Course 3. Swimming is an exciting individual and team sport. Age Group State 4. Swimming is a technical and specialized activity involving extensive skill development. 6-10 Central Zone Champi- 5. Swimming is a healthy “lifetime” activity. Participants may be 4 or 101 years old. onships—Indianapolis 6. Swimming is relatively injury free in comparison to other youth sports. (Mega-Zone—all 15 LSC’s competing here) 7. Swimming teaches the life lessons of sport and sportsmanship which include learning to deal with winning and losing, as well as working with officials, teammates and coaches. 9-16 Olympic Games in 8. Swimming motivates participants to strive for self improvement and teaches goal orientation. Beijing 9. Swimming cultivates a positive mental attitude, time management skills and high self-esteem. 17 SSC Summer Awards 10. Swimming can prevent drowning. Banquet/Pool Party @ I look at these ten reasons and I am proud to say that I’ve had a lifetime of involvement in this great HSE, 5-8pm sport. I look forward to many more seasons of meeting great athletes and parents, because without the parents support no athlete will succeed in our sport. Thank you to everyone for making SSC a great club and also never resting on our past, Dan Johnson Hello SSC! Coach’s Corner What a great time for our program! This June had our club competing at meets locally and nation- ally, conducting a training trip for our senior athletes, and sending an athlete to a seeded heat at the Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska. By Andy Pedersen It has been an outstanding month of competition for our team with great meets at HSE High School, Carmel High School, and the Tracy Caulkins Aquatic Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Our athletes have not only been competitive, but they have also been enjoying each other and becoming a more unified team. It gets better as the end of the month had us competing in the second oldest meet in the nation. Congratulations to all of you that swam at the 70 th Annual Clayton Shaw Park Summer Invitational in St. Louis. I know that you had a great time at Six Flags on the Mon- day after the meet as well! I have just returned from the Senior Trip where over 45 athletes visited the following schools: University of Louisville, University of Tennessee, Warren Wilson College, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, College of Charleston, University of Georgia, and Emory University. I can only tell you that as I watched our athletes interact with the coaches and admissions personnel Continued on page 3 Page 2 Southeastern Swim Club 2008 Olympic Swim Team News USA Swimming Names 2008 U.S. Olympic Swim Team and Coaching Staff (7/6/2008) Following the conclusion of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming in Omaha, Neb., USA Swimming today named the complete roster for the 2008 U.S. Olympic swim team. In addition to the 43 athletes named to the team, the swim team’s coaching staff was finalized. The men’s Olympic team coaching staff will consist of head coach Eddie Reese, and assistant coaches Bob Bow- man, Gregg Troy, Frank Busch and men’s open water head coach John Dussliere. The women’s coaching staff includes women’s head coach Jack Bauerle, and assistant coaches Paul Yetter, Teri McKeever, Sean Hutchison and women’s open water coach Bill Rose. The men’s Olympic swim team consists of Michael Phelps, Larsen Jensen, Brendan Hansen, Peter Vanderkaay, Ricky Berens, Klete Keller, Aaron Peirsol, Scott Spann, Garrett Weber-Gale, Jason Lezak, Cullen Jones, Nathan Adrian, Ryan Lochte, Mark Gangloff, Matt Grevers, Gil Stovall, Eric Shanteau, Ian Crocker, Ben Wildman- Tobriner , Erik Vendt, David Walters and Mark Warkentin. The women’s swim team features Natalie Coughlin, Katie Hoff, Christine Magnuson, Jessica Hardy, Allison Schmitt, Julia Smit, Caroline Burckle, Elaine Breeden, Kathleen Hersey, Elizabeth Beisel, Margaret Hoelzer, Megan Jendrick, Kate Ziegler, Rebecca Soni, Amanda Beard, Dara Torres, Lacey Nymeyer, Kim Vandenberg, Christine Marshall, Emily Silver and Chloe Sutton. On Monday, July 7, the entire U.S. Olympic swim team will head to Palo Alto, Calif., for the team’s domestic training camp prior to its departure to the Olympics in Beijing. On July 12, the team will hold an open practice from 7-9 a.m. PT and members of the team will have media availability from 9 -10 a.m. PT. Media wishing to attend can visit www.usaswimming.org/media to apply for a credential. The Olympic pool competition will take place Aug. 9 through Aug. 17 at the Beijing National Aquatic Center. The women’s and men’s 10K Olympic marathon swim will take place on Aug. 20 and 21 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing, China. All members of the U.S. Olympic swim team are subject to final approval by the United States Olympic Committee. Page 3 Southeastern Swim Club SSC Goes to Victory Field July 21, 2008 It’s time for more summer fun with the swim club. We have a scheduled a club outing to Victory field to watch the Indianapolis Indians play the Charlotte Knights on July 21, 2008. We have a group rate of $11.00 per seat for box seats. We will be sitting along the first base line. The game starts at 7:00 pm and its $1.00 menu night at the concession stands. That means Hotdogs, popcorn, peanuts etc… all a dollar. Sign up on-line by July 9 th and meet us at Victory Field. Summer fun with SSC. from these schools, I was hoping that my daughters will have a similar opportunity someday. I was so im- Coach’s Corner —cont’d pressed with how seriously our athletes took the college visits. As adults, we all know how soon that critical college decision will come for them, but often they are less understanding of that. Not with this group – they were By serious and inquisitive. All of SSC would have been proud of them! Andy Pedersen Every four years, our sport gets the opportunity to select a team to represent the USA at the Olympic Games. And, this year our own Lindsay Rogers represented us at the Olympic Trials. She had a phenomenal swim in the 100 Breast and moved from a seed of 22 nd to 17 th place. At a stress-filled meet that historically sees fewer than 30% lifetime bests, it is even more impressive that Lindsay went a best time and moved her World Ranking in the 50 Breast to 27 th and in the 100 Breast to 81 st !!! I hope that all of you will be join me in congratulating her efforts. She has done a phenomenal job and we all wish her well as she pre- pares with her teammates to close out her season at the US Open and Speedo Junior Nationals in Minneapolis, MN. I have a feeling that July and August will be even better – keep up the good work and enjoy your summer! See you poolside, Coach P. July Birthdays Kevin Broad 2nd Megan Lo 2nd Megan Schwartzkopf 3rd James Davisson 5th Lauren Kirkwood 6th Kyli DeMers 7th Leigh Weston 9th Evan Rhinesmith 10th Breanna Oaldon 10th Jessica King 11th Zachary Curran 11th Nicholas Dresser 14th Ryan Cockman 14th Olivia Cox 15th Elijah Heindricks 16th Abbigail Carr 21st Aubrey Hertzler 26th Morgan Goodwin 28th Samantha Lodde 30th Hannah Pugh 30th Andrew Creemer 31st Samantha Gulden 31st Alison Stinger 31st Page 4 Southeastern Swim Club Pre-Race Meals—Tip of the Month From USA Swimming This week’s Tip of the Month comes from Jessica Knowles, a sports nutritionist from Evergreen, Colo., and a member of USA Swimming’s Sports Medicine Database. Knowles offers advice on pre-race meals. Knowles’ Tip: Pre-race meals should always be low-fat and high in carbohydrates. Fat slows down the absorption rate in your GI tract, which is not ideal. What you want is easily digestible carbohydrates so your body can use them for energy during the race. Depending on how much time you have between when you eat and the start of your first race, there are some general guidelines for the type and amount of carbohy- drate to consume. If you eat 3-4 hours before the start of your first race, you need 1.5 to 2 grams of carbohydrate per pound of bodyweight. For a 130-pound athlete, that is 195-260 grams of carbohydrate.