Coach Peter Clark Visits CAMEL

USA Swimming Sport Development Consultant, Peter Clark, was CAMEL’s guest Wednesday. Coach Clark taught a Club Leadership and Business Management School throughout the day. CAMEL hosted representatives from BAC, FVST, VALY and VSYM to join them for this exciting opportunity. Coach Clark presented strategies coaches and board members can use to work together to be effective in leading and governing their teams. He also provided information about further resources USA offers to clubs to facilitate their missions. Coach Clark then brought his decades of experience to the deck last evening. He mesmerized CAMEL’s athletes and engaged them in a wonderfully focused practice. After spending some time addressing body positioning, Coach Clark reviewed technical aspects of all four strokes and then gave each athlete individualized ideas to improve their technique. CAMEL athletes benefit greatly from hosting some of the most accomplished coaches in the swimming world. Our next vistiting coach will be a third return visit from Phil Moriarty who, in addition to coaching at Yale University for years, has also been a coach for the USA Olympic Team.

Another Successful Weekend for CAMEL Swimmers

Grace Moriarty (pictured right) was recognized as “Swimmer of the Meet” at the OMNI Meet this past weekend. Five of Grace’s swims were new lifetime personal best times and three were new Age Group Championship qualifying times. Grace was at the end of the lane cheering her teammates on for every race as CAMEL’s Juniors achieved 100% best times thorughout all of Sunday’s events. Overall, CAMEL swimmers posted an amazing 72% new personal best times with Jordan Estabrooks, Jesse Gardner, Carolyn Romano and Asia White all swimming 100% best times. Twenty-five new Season Records were recorded with three Senior qualifying times and nine Age Group qualifying times swum by CAMEL swimmers including Asia White, Brian Hughes, Tina Hughes, Kameal Kalhoran and Adelaide Taylor setting six new All-Time CAMEL Records. Rhianna Blake, Andy Janz, Lea Janz, Rachel Kriet, and Steph Novotny also swam well for CAMEL. The fantastically fast swimming was accompanied by equally fantastic fun with clipboards and crosswords disappearing, dinosaur hair, another roof visit and CAMELS in tutus! CAMEL results and Full USA Results have been posted on the “Meets” page and updated Season Records and All-Time Records have been posted on the “Goals” page.

What a Weekend!

CAMEL swimmers participated in three meets across CT this weekend. At Cheshire’s Distance Meet Adelaide Taylor, Eva Nelson, Asia White and Grace Moriarty collectively achieved 100% best times with ½ of their swims and one of their lead-off splits new CAMEL All-time Records: Asia White, 100 Fly, 200Fly, 200Back and Adelaide Taylor, 800 Free. Eva Nelson led off her 800 with a lifetime best time in the 400 Free. At Westport’s Senior AA Meet, 6 of the 20 swims were new lifetime best swims. Tina Hughes (pictured left) set a new All-time CAMEL Record in the 1500 qualifying for Senior Champs in that event and also in the 100 Fly and the 200 Fly. Adelaide Taylor achieved 75% best times and qualified for Age Group Championships in the 100 Fly and the 200 Breast. Steph Novotny’s new personal best time in the 50 Free places her in CAMEL’s Preliminary Senior “A” 200 Free Relay. At Yale, Sheyanne Biltcliffe, Stephi Lefebvre, Jordan Estabrooks and Dan Nohara all competed in their first meet. 86% of the CAMEL swims (78 of 91) were new personal lifetime best times and Seth Adams qualified for Age Group Champs in both the 100 and the 200 Backstroke events. Kameal Kalkhoran, Bryan Levine, Jay Lockaby, and Jocelyn Rogers all achieved 100 % lifetime best times for the weekend. Brian Hughes, Andy Janz, Lea Janz, Caitlin Koshoffer, Steph Lawton and Tyler Tremblay also swam well for CAMEL. Full USA results and CAMEL results are posted for all three meets on the “Meets” page. Updated CAMEL Records and 07 Season Records are on the “Goals” page.

CAMEL Apparel, Swim Merchandise, Equipment and CAMEL Bracelets

CAMEL swimmers, families, and friends are invited to explore our online CAMEL poloworks store. Show your team spirit - wear CAMEL apparel. Also, if you need any swim equipment, CAMEL is an affiliate of Swimoutlet. Please note when ordering equipment that CAMEL suggests the following items:

• Meet Suit - The Female Speedo Axcel Splice (black with a royal blue splice), the Male Axcel Splice Jammer or the Male Axcel Splice Brief is required for all CAMEL swimmers starting Fall 07
• Meet Cap - Purchase from Coach Ann until they become available on line
• Goggles - Two pair are required for all swimmers, Speedo Vanquishers and Speedo Female Vanquishers are strongly suggested for senior swimmers
• Kickboard - required for all swimmers; Zura sprint board is the recommended kickboard
• Mesh bag - required for alpacas and seniors; Speedo mesh equipment bag deluxe is recommended
• Fins - required for all alpacas and seniors; Speedo Optimus is the recommended fin
• Pullbouy - required for all alpacas and seniors; TYR Pull Float is recommended
• Ankle lock - required for all alpacas and seniors; the Speedo Ankle Lock is recommended
• Paddles - required for all seniors; Speedo Power Paddles are recommended
• Drag suit - Speedo Training Suits are often worn by seniors
• Practice suits - any, but Speedo suits are suggested
• Practice caps - any, but Speedo caps are recommneded

Links for both of these sites are posted halfway down the right sidebar of every page on the website. If you would like to order a CAMEL bracelet ($2.65 each), please contact Taylor Strelevitz. Though the sample picture has different colors and sayings, the CAMEL Bracelet will be RoyalBlue/CamelTan/White and will have I “heart icon” CAMELS and the back will have our “spit happens” saying on the back.

CAMEL’s First 07 Meet Filled with Acheivements

Seven new All-Time CAMEL Longcourse Meter Records fell at an amazingly fast first meet for CAMEL swimmers. Brian Hughes set new team marks in the 13/14 Boy’s 800 Free, 200 Fly, 200 Back and 400 IM. Adelaide Taylor (pictured right) acheived records in the 800 Free and the 400 IM and Asia White’s 50 fly swim was also a team record. Adelaide Taylor’s 1:23.25 in the Girl’s 13/14 100 Meter Breaststroke was CAMEL’s first Zone qualifying time for the 07 season. There were twelve Age Group Championship times achieved at the meet: Brian Hughes (4), Adelaide Taylor (3), Asia White (3) Andy Janz (1) and Grace Moriarty (1). Overall CAMEL swimmers acheived 53% new personal best times. The Juniors acheived an amazing 88% and, though in the midst of CAMEL’s notorious Mile Mania week and all entered in the ten longest events of the two day meet, CAMEL’s seniors were able to acheive 33% new lifetime best times despite those adversities. Rachel Kreit was recognized as Swimmer of the Meet for consistent effort preparing for and iequally amazing effort participating in this challenging meet. Andy Janz and Lea Janz both campeted in their first meet as CAMELS. Also swimming well for CAMEL were Sabrina Brown, Jessica Charron, Lillian James, Kameal Kalkhoran, Eva Nelson, and Stephanie Novotny. CAMEL results are posted on the “Meets” page. Full USA results will also be posted on the “Meets” page when they are made available by the meet host.

CAMEL’s Lessons and Camp Both Growing

Two more athletes, Dana Tricarico (pictured left) and Tyler Tremblay, have registered for CAMEL’s HS & College Pre-season Camp which will be offered for three weeks, August 6 - August 24. CAMEL’s Pre-team Lesson Program has also grown with the addition of Erin McNeish to our morning Pre-team Group.

Please contact Coach Ann to register for either program.