What a great start to the 2008-2009 short course season….TAC sent 61 swimmers to the blocks and came away with some outstanding first meet results….Age group highlights included:

Katelyn Admire (6 best times and AAA’s)  Grant Campion (B time) Heather Connellly (AA in 500 free and 8 best times) Katerine Degner (all best times and mostly AAA’s with 1,2 finishes) Alyssa Deleon (2 best times, A in 200 free)  Nick Deleon (3 best times, dropped 11 seconds 500 free) John Denning (all best times and AAA’s) Lori Denning (all best times and 10 second drop 200 free) Niall Doherty (BB’s and 2 best times) Andrew Douglas (all best times and double digit drops in many swims) Tori Grissom (3 best times BB in 50 back) Aislinn Harnett (B in 50 free) Madison Harris (all best times, AA in 100 free) Kevin Hynes (all best times and BB in 50 free) Susan Hynes (all best times dropped 22 seconds 500 free) Todd Liebig (BB’s across the board) Kristy Kelley (1 best time) Katie Lobo (4 best times and finished her 500 free well) Patrick Lobo (3 best times) Courtney Long (4 best times ) Meg Motter(7 FIRST PLACE FINISHES, AAA’s) Hayley Pennington (4 best times BB in 50 free) Morgan Reitnouer (2 best times BB in 100 back) Elise Riggle (all BB’s and 7 best times) Kristen Seals (all best times and B’s) George Shaffer (all best times) Camden Smith (BB’s and all best times) Mya Snow (first meet with a B in 50 free and good swims) Madeline Solano (4 best times and AA’s) Jessica Sterling (6 best times and 18 second drop in 200 free) Bailey Stewart (AA in 200 free 6 best times) Erin Testone (all best times 21 second drop 200 IM) Lexie V (3 best times BB in 50 free) Hannah White (all best times 17 second drop in 500 free)

As you can see…lots of good results…..we now move onto our November meets….Age group swimmers should enter the odd age meet in early November to be held at Ft. Eustis..this meet allows your swimmer to compete with his same age swimmers….You can also enter the Coast Guard meet at Mid-Town in mid November….that meet will have a distance session on Friday…..Enter one or both and we are looking forward to some faster swims in November……As always, see me with questions and or concerns on deck and don’t forget the age group swimmers can attend our 4:00 practice at Greenbrier on Tuesdays and Thursdays for 200 and 500 training……Coach Cassell

          A hearty welcome to all our returning and new age group swimmers from your head age group Coach……Nice to see so many new swimmers on the TAC deck and we are looking forward to working with each and every one of you to improve your techniques and times in all four strokes……Some changes for this short course season are in play….You will see I am on the deck at 4:00 on Tuesday and Thursday at Greenbrier in distance practices for all A’s…..we are training for 200’s and 500’s at those practices…..all other workouts with Coach Glenn and I are sprint based workouts……AA practices are for our 13/14 year old swimmers and those are pre-senior workouts…..

If your swimmer is not 13/14 you are best served to attend a practice where you see an A on our schedule…..Our first meet is the SEVA meet at Midtown in early Oct…you will need to sign up on line for that meet ASAP…..In addition the Bobblehead meet for 8 and unders follows in late Oct…..Our team travel meet for the Fall is West Virginia and if you decide to swim that meet please sign up soon so we can get a count on numbers traveling to the meet…..

DARTFISH meetings from Long Course season will be held for age group swimmers this Saturday at Greenbrier….I will review all your data and ways to improve for the new season…..DARTFISH in the water video analysis will begin soon….

Again….WELCOME TO TAC…..see me with questions and or concerns and GO TAC……Coach Cassell

TAC sent 18 swimmers to the blocks in our State Championships and came away with 6 new TAC RECORDS, 6 STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS, 4 second place finishes, High Point Boys Award (Nick Deleon), 8th place girls high point (Meg Motter),Nick Deleon breaking the MEET RECORD in the 200 fly… 5th place overall in mid-size teams, 12th place overall out of 45 teams for the entire meet…..needless to say we as coaches were thrilled with these results and the hard work that our swimmers have put forth all summer to get ready for this championship meet….

In addition we are sending FOUR TAC swimmers to ZONES to represent Virginia in the East Coast Zone meet…Congrads to Phillip Sperri, Katelyn Admire, Katherine Degner, Meg Motter…High Fives to them when you see them on deck…..

Individual results and highlights included: Katelyn Admire (7 best times, numerous top five finishes), Heather Connelly(19 second drop in the 400, two best times, great relay swims), Katherine Degner (top five finishes, 6 best times, off to Zones), Alyssa Deleon (5 best times, AA’s in four events), Nick Deleon (Meet Record Swim in the 200 fly, numerous State Championships, 10 best times, High Point for Boys),John Denning (first senior champs cut, all best times, 2 top ten finishes), Claire Doherty (one best time and great relay swims), Meg Motter (all best times, State Champion in the 200 IM, off to Zones), Camden Smith (13th in the state in the 100 breast, great relay split), Madeline Solano (all best times and our relay go to girl, finals in the 50 free), Phillip Sperri (numerous top five finishes, AAA’s, off to Zones), Bailey Stewart (AA in the 100 free, good relay swims), Hannah White (just missed her senior champs cut, best times)…

Special high fives to our relay swimmers and families for getting them to the meet…..Those points were a huge help to our TEAM EFFORT…..Niall Doherty, AJ Douglas, (Boys 10 and under free took 6th in the STATE), Camden Smith, Phillip Sperri……Madison Harris, Jessica Sterling (girls 13/14 relays scored in both events) Claire Doherty, Hannah White…..Our 11/12 girls relay took 5th in the State in the 400 free relay….Katelyn Admire, Madelyn Solano, Heather Connelly, Bailey Stewart…..Our girls 11/12 medley relay took 7th in the State..Katleyn Admire, Heather Connelly, Alyssa Deleon, Madeline Solano…

Special Thanks to Coach Nate and Coach Sunny for their assistance on deck at this meet when I was down and out with illness…..

Needless to say we are looking forward to Short Course and our FALL PRACTICE SCHEDULE is posted on line…

FAST SWIMS TO OUR ZONE SWIMMERS NEXT WEEK

Coach Cassell

Long course Sr. Champs went fantastic…as usual!

The Team (2 girls, 4 boys, plus one unattached Zack Motter) scored 194.5 points…good enough for 9th place team in the State.

We will continue to move up the ranks as time goes on and we continue to achieve the goals we have set year in and year out.

Congrats to everyone who swam…you all did a great job stepping up this summer and training your butts off to achieve what you have.

A few highlights…

Bobby Walsh earned his US Open cut in the 200 IM and WON the event.  He also finished with best times in every event he swam and top 8 finishes in the 400 IM and 200 fly.

Haley Schweitzer went best times in 8 different events this summer and made it back in two events (100 fly and 200 fly).

Kasey Morris was on the podium three times…2nd place finishes in the 800 and 1500 Freestyles as well as a 3rd place finish in the 100 Back.  She also finished 7th in overall points.

Zack Motter dropped time in all of his events and we can’t wait to be able to use him on relays.  He missed his Speedo Jr Cut by a tenth of a second and made his first Finals ever.

Nate Destree missed his Speedo Jr cut by .08 hundredths of a second…also reaching his first Finals.  Also had great swims in the 100 and 200 freestyes.

Corey Sica added some collegiate knowledge to the younger swimmers and got up and raced for the first time since February.  Was a great help on deck.

Bryan Uncur, in his final summer before heading to Virginia Tech, posted several Top 16 finishes and some outstanding relay splits.

The Senior Group is looking forward to the short course season, as we take what we have done from this long course season and put it into action.

-Coach Nate

What a great start to our Long Course Championship season….TAC sent 24 swimmers to the blocks and we came away with numerous age group cuts, 3 new TAC RECORDS (Kristy Kelley for all 3, two of which went back to 1995), and lots of new best times…..All our hard work this long course season showed in our first Championship meet….

Highlights included….Heather Connelly (AA in 100 free and 4 best times)..Alyssa Deleon (2 new age group cuts and 2 AA’s)…John Denning (2 first place finishes and AA in the 1500 free..ranked in the top ten for 13/14 boys)…Lori the Peanut Denning (6 best times and dropped 32 seconds in the 400 free)…AJ Douglas (3 BB’s and great swims in freestyle )…Chris Douglas (age 5 finished his 100 free and 100 back legally)…Tori Grissom (4 B’s and a great race with Katie Lobo)…Kristy Kelley (2 double digit drops and at age 8 just missed 3 age group cuts, 3 new records)…Katie Lobo (3 B times and 4 best times)..Patrick Lobo (2 best times and good efforts all around)…Kaitlin Mayberry(An A in the 50 free and 6 best times)…Meredith Rogers (3 BB’s and 200 IM looked great)…Haley Schweitzer (new senior champs cuts and AA in the 200 free…won two events)…Alissa Siler (HER FIRST MEET…one B time and great swims all around)…Ellie Smith (BB’s for 9/10 girls at age 8…just missed two TAC records)..Madeline Solano (won one event and an A in the 50 fly)…Jacob Stevens (4 BB’s…two best times)…Maggie Stevens (placed 11th in the 50 back…Jessica Sterling (placed 9th in the 100 breast)….Bailey Stewart (an A in the 100 back and 3 best times….Hallie Stewart (dropped 2 seconds in the 50 breast)..Hannah White (2 cuts in the 13/14 girls 50 free, 100 free…won 3 events)…Cason Wilburn 4 B’s for 9/10 boys at age 7….

All in All you have a lot to be proud of in these results….We move onto AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS at Midtown with Distance events going in on Thursday night…Good luck to our Divisional swimmers at Virginia Beach Summer League as well….

As always see me with questions and or concerns on deck and GO TAC…

Coach Cassell

The first listing of top times for this long course season has been posted on Virginiaswimming.org….click onto the zone lists and you will find the up to date top ten swimmers in the state…..High fives to the following age group swimmers who are ranked in the top ten in the state….Katherine Degner, Meg Motter (10 and under girls)….Phillip Sperri and Camden Smith (10 and under boys)….Katelyn Admire, Bailey Stewart ,Susan Hynes (12 and under girls)….Nick Deleon (13/14 boys..Nick will age out before zones but will swim 11/12 boys at age group champs)….If you see the LCZ on the listing that swimmer has made a zone cut….you need four to represent Virginia at the Eastern Zone meet in Maryland in August….Keep up the hard work and its onto Firecracker, Summer Awards and Age Group Championships……

Coach Cassell

What a great weekend of TAC swims at the Cap. City Invitational in Clary, North Carolina….The new pool facility in Clary is everything they said it would be and more….Senior swimmers will love having their Senior Long Course Championships at that site this July….

As a team we were able to swim to a 9th place finish out of 30+ teams in attendance…..For age group swimmers we were able to score an incredible 15 zone cuts as well as 39 new age group cuts…..considering that this is an in season meet, the TAC family has a lot to be proud of in these results……In addition, Nick Deleon and Kasey Morris broke pool records at ths meet….High fives to both of them when you see them on deck….

Katelyn Admire, Phillip Sperri, Katerine Degner, Megan Motter were all able to swim to zone times….Keep in mind those would be AAA or better….Nick ages out to 13 just before zones but certainly swam to 11/12 zones in all his swims and also broke TAC records along the way….

We gathered as a team on Saturday night to celebrate Ellie Smith and Kaitlin Mayberrys birthdays and it was a great time had by all….

In addition there were numerous best times, new time standards and excellent efforts in this meet…..High Fives to Kevin Hynes for making his first final as well as Jessics Sterling…..

Please don’t forget to sign up for Summer Awards and Age Group Championships asap…….even if your swimmer is in summer league you can still swim these championships around the summer league schedule…These are LOCAL MEETS….

I will update individual swims when the results come in but great job this weekend and its onto Firecracker the end of the month….

As always see me with questions and or concerns…

Coach Cassell

Hello TAC parents and swimmers…..We continue our spring training in long course season with the Raleigh and Firecracker meets as our next round of long course meets….Our two championship meets in July are LOCAL so we would hope to see as many TAC swimmers as possible in those meets…..Please keep in mind we always try and field a full slate of relays at the championship meets so we will be getting out in late June the projected line ups for those meets and especially if your swimmer is a Relay only swimmer……

Our cross training with Core BOXING begins this week and you will see that station work going on at Coach Cassell’s practices…..

High fives to JB Walsh and Bobby Walsh as they represent TAC at the Charlotte Ultra Swim the weekend of June 5th…..JB is using this meet as his tune up for the OLYMPICS in late July and early August……Coach Doug and Casey Moore have qualified for the Omaha Grand Prix in Omaha, Nebraska and will be on deck with some of the best swimmers in the world….This Grand Prix is held at the Olympic trial pool and Casey and Doug continue to train at the Race Club as they try and achieve the trial cuts……You can follow all four of these swimmers and their results at the USS swimming web site….

Coach Sean Anderson will be traveling to the RACE CLUB to learn as much as possible about their sprint program and cross training routines……He will be observing the best sprinters in the world as they train for the Trials and Olympics and Coach Mike Bottoms program….TAC sprinters can look forward to some excellent coaching as Coach Sean and Coach Doug return to the deck….

As always see me with questions and or concerns and GO TAC

LAST DAY TO SIGN UP FOR THE FIRECRACKER INVITE!
If you are not going to Raleigh, it is in your best interest to sign up for this meet.  If you are going to Raleigh, you do not necessarily need to sign up for this meet, but if you want more swims, then by all means sign up.  They are only two weeks apart, though!

-Coach Nate

Our second long course meet of the 2008 season brought home some awesome results for the TAC Age group swimmers…..As a team we were able to swim to 37 new age group cuts along with 3 zone cuts…..For zone cuts we had Katelyn Admire record 2 and Phillip Sperri 1……John D and Nick D recorded numerous 11/12 zone cuts BUT John turns 13 in June and Nick will be 13 right after long course age group champs….Our 11/12 girls relay of Hannah W, Katelyn A, Susan H and Alyssa D scored a first place finish in the 200 med. relay with a great time….. When the top ten in the state list is out we should have swimmers well placed in the state rankings for age group swimmers……

Individual Highlights included….Bailey S (got her mojo working on day two with age group cuts), Alyssa D (numerous top ten finishes and age group cuts ), Katelyn Admire (all top five finishes) John(the toe) Denning (all top five finishes and 13/14 age group cuts), Nick D (the dominator with fast early season swims), Heather White (top five finishes and 13/14 age group cuts), Phillip S (just missed two more zone cuts and top five finishes), Camden Smith ( good swims all around), Niall D (best times and just missed his A in the 50 free), Lexie V (good swim in backstroke), Heather C (excellent effort on day 2 and 200 breast), Susan H (200 breaststroke winner and numerous age group cuts), Katherine D (all best times and top five finishes), Jessica S (50 free was awesome)…..all in all great swims by all for it being so early in this long course season….

Our next meet is the TRAVEL meet in Raleigh….Many of our age group swimmers will also be attending the UNC Camp right after that meet…..

DARTFISH will be up and running next week at the Saturday morning practice at Greenbrier….We will go over our data on each swimmers and begin in action filming…

We are also working our freestyle power zone recovery and you should see some dramatic improvement in freestyle times with this work…..Our morning practices at Greenbrier will begin the day after the Raleigh meet and we are looking forward to a great summer for TAC…..as always see me with questions and or concerns on the deck and  GO TAC…