CAMEL Welcomes Another Two New Members

CAMEL is pleased to welcome Nathan Brown, pictured left, to the team. Nathan is the first registrant of CAMEL’s Pre-team Lesson Program. Registration for CAMEL Pre-team lessons is ongoing.

Amy Yang, pictured right, also new to CAMEL, will join the 9/10 girls squad as a part of the Dromedary practice group. Nathan and Amy bring CAMEL’s Long Course 07 Roster to 58.

CAMEL Coaching Staff Growing

The entire short course staff, Coach Ann, Coach Bill, Coach Margee and Coach Molly have all returned for long course and CAMEL is pleased to announce that three additional coaches, Allyson Sega, Cynthia Mascolo and Tina Hughes, two assistants, Kelseas Fortner and Anne Weeks, and one intern, Katelyn Brucho, have joined the 2007 CAMEL Coaching Staff bringing CAMEL’s staff to 12. Allyson Sega brings over 13 years coaching experience to CAMEL. Coach Ally has coached both Age Group and Masters swimmers, most recently for the Meridan Seals and Glastonbury Swimming. Cynthia Mascolo has significant experience teaching competitive swimmers and has been the Head Coach for Pinebrook Swim Club. Coach Cindy and Coach Ally both were CT USA swimmers, are USA and ASCA certified coaches, and both are also certified CT teachers. Coach Ally and Coach Cindy will work predominantly weekends, including meets. Tina Hughes has competed internationally; currently competes for Columbia University and, as of February, for CAMEL. Coach Tina was a developmental specialist for Glastonbury Park & Rec and also coached Glastonbury Swimming’s 12 and under USA squad. Coach Tina will be coaching mostly weekday mornings and will head our Pre-team lesson staff. Two other college athletes, both long time CAMEL swimmers, Kelsea Fortner from Marist and Anne Weeks from St. Joe’s, will be coaching predominantly in the evenings and will both be part of CAMEL’s Pre-team Lesson staff. Katelyn Brucho, a swimmer and coaching intern from Connecticut College, has been working with our developmental swimmers. The addition of these coaches to the staff has enabled CAMEL to broaden the scope of its programming to now include college athletes at one end of the spectrum and young novice swimmers at the other end of the broadened team spectrum. CAMEL has been able to expand its Master’s offerings to include a fitness component and has added a Pre-Team Lesson Program. The additional staff will continue to improve CAMEL’s already excellent swimmer to coach ratio. CAMEL is now able to offer two distinct summer morning practices (beginning May 14) allowing the Juniors and Seniors each use of the full pool and the full attention of the coaching staff. CAMEL anticipates that many practices will now have significant one on one instruction. Coach Dan Mascolo is also returning for CAMEL’s High School & College Pre-Season Camp in August.

CAMEL Board Active In and Out of the Pool

CAMEL’s Board is proud to announce they are joining with USA Swimming to offer a Club Leadership and Business Management School. The CLMB School is required for all new clubs. However, it is also highly recommended for all existing programs. USA Swimming offers this exciting and unique workshop for club coaches and board members to learn how to be effective in leading and governing their team. Coaches and board members work together in learning about new strategies to improve their club. The course will be offered Wednesday, May 23 from 9AM to 3:30PM at Connecticut College’s Harris Rectory in Room 1973. A light breakfast and lunch are included with the class in the $14 per person fee. Please contact Coach Ann for further information. CAMEL’s board continues to work diligently outside the pool creating wonderful opportunities including CAMEL’s new Pre-team Lesson Program and this Leadership School and now CAMEL’s board has begun working in the pool, as well: CAMEL Secretary, Jessica White Langley (pictured left), is the newest CAMEL Master Swimmer bringing CAMEL’s longcourse roster to 56.

CAMEL Welcomes Two More Members

Camel is pleased to welcome two new members. Qiuyin Ren (pictured right) will join our 11/12 girls squad, practicing with the Bactrians. Also new to CAMEL is Pat Hogan who is our 10th Master Swimmer participating in CAMEL Longcourse 07. The addition of Quiyin (prononced chewin as in chewin’ gum) and Pat to the roster bring CAMEL’s Longcourse 07 Roster to 55 (not including swimmers on hiatus for the summer). In addition to the USA team and the Master’s team, CAMEL offers a Pre-team Lesson Program and certification classes in CPR, First Aid and Coaches Safety Training. Enrollment for CAMEL’s June/July Pre-team Lesson Program has begun. Pre-team Lesson groups will be filled first, come first served and are anticipated to fill rapidly. CAMEL urges interested participants to register ASAP.

CAMEL Welcomes New Member

Camel is pleased to welcome Caroline Yu (pictured left) to our 11/12 girl’s squad. Caroline will be a member of our Bactrian practice group. Caroline brings CAMEL’s long course roster to 53. The recent addition of CAMEL’s new Pre-team Lesson Program is also anticipated to increase membership.

Vote for this Season’s CAMEL Team Suit

Voting for the team suit will be held over the next two days, e-mail your vote to Coach Ann. Pictured from right to left:

• Mercury Swirl - thick strap, blues & black
• Whirlwind - thick strap, blue & black
• Axcel Splice - thin strap, black with blue splice (may be able to add “CAMEL” on front in black letters)
• Current CAMEL Suit - Camel logo on Black/Blue splicesuit (matching caps with names available in orders of 12+)

CAMEL Continues to Grow

CAMEL welcomes the Janz family to our team. Andy, 12, will participate with our Alpaca group and Lea, 9, will participate with our Bactrians. George and Gretchen have both joined our Masters group. The Janz family brings our 07 roster to 51. CAMEL swimmers and staff are also enjoying working with the athletes that are participating in our three day try-out this week and we anticipate that a number of them will also join us. Swimmers that choose to join CAMEL need to submit a CAMEL registration form, a USA registration form and a Xerox of their birth certificate along with thier $55 USA registration fee and at least 1/2 of their tuition and an escrow deposit. Relevant documents may be accessed ont he “Join Us” page and on the “Documents” page. Please contact Coach Ann for further information.

CAMEL ANNOUNCES PRE-TEAM LESSON PROGRAM

CAMEL has announced the start of a Summer Pre-team Lesson Program. All CAMEL pre-team lessons will be taught by USA Certified Coaches. There will be 32 class sessions that are each 40 minutes long. Pre-team lessons will run for seven weeks beginning June 18 and concluding August 3. Swimmers may choose between morning sessions scheduled for 9:40 - 10:20 AM or evening sessions scheduled for 5:20 - 6:00PM. All pre-team sessions are held at Connecticut College’s Lott Natoatorium and cost $188 which includes membership in United States Swimming for 2007 and membership in CAMEL through AUgust 30, 2007. Registration begins today, Monday April 9 at 6:00 PM. For further information, contact Coach Ann.

CAMEL Registration and Meet Sign-ups Ongoing

CAMEL welcomes Bryan Levine, 14, to our Guanaco practice group. CAMEL is also pleased to welcome two new Masters, Mary Ann Burstein and Charles Estabrooks. Interest in CAMEL continues to increase with inquiries every day. Try-outs and on-site registration is scheduled for Monday, April 9, 6:00 - 7:30PM in the Lott Natatorium spectator gallery. To sign up for meets each swimmer should submit a meet commitment form ASAP. Based on the meet commitment forms on file as of April 4, a meet attendance chart has been compiled and will be used to enter meets as soon as the meet information becomes available. Please check the meet attendance chart and contact Coach Ann to correct any errors and/or to submit any missing meet commitments. There have been two meets added to the 07 long course meet schedule, the WRAT Senior AA meet May 11-13 and the OMNI Distance meet May 18, if interested, please contact Coach Ann. Revised meet commitment forms can be submitted at any time, though once the team entry is sent, there is no guarantee changes can be made and refunds are not possible.