Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Dinner at Asia Buffet

Dave Luebke Jr. (01) will be taking the team to dinner Saturday 2/21 at 6pm.

Let Dan know if you are going.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Saturday, February 13, 2010

200 Medley Relay - 1:44.73

200 Freestyle - 1:49.10

200 Individual Medley - 2:02.36

50 Freestyle - 22.58

100 Butterfly - 54.98

100 Freestyle - 49.91

500 Freestyle - 5:02.33

200 Freestyle Relay - 1:32.52

100 Backstroke - 57.56

100 Breaststroke - 1:02.44

400 Freestyle Relay - 3:26.13

We may not of Qualified for the State Meet this year. But you can not take away the outstanding meet we had Saturday.

Great Job Tide!!

Awesome Sectional

The Tide had an Outstanding Meet!!!!!!!!!

Were to Begin:

100% Season Bests.

28 of 30 Life-Time Bests.

Every Swim was a Highlight.

Freshman Christian Daniels 13th place 100 Breaststroke 1:08.81, 200 I.M. 2:15.64, 50 Free 24.45, 50 Breast 30.56.

Senior Cody Fick 12th place 100 Breaststroke 1:08.19 50 Free 23.32.

Senior Mike McNulty 8th Place 200 Free 1:52.57, 500 Free 8th Place 5:12.97 8th All-Time Tide.

100 Free 51.80, 50 Free 23.57.

Senior Dan Luebke 50 Fly 25.7, 11th place 100 Fly 57.74, 50 Free 23.72, 100 Free 51.84.

Juniors: Nick Fillbach 50 Back 30.8, 100 Back 1:09.09, 100 Free 58.25.

Josh Werling 50 Free 25.70, 100 Free 55.86.

Sophs: Cody Schober 100 Fly 1:03.31, 100 Back 1:10.75

Matt McNulty 100 Back 1:19.68

Alec Shu 100 Free 57.90, 100 Breast 1:13.33

Nick White 200 Free 2:07.46

Senior Simon Rawet 100 Free 1:02.06

Chase Hankins 100 Breast 1:26. 43

200 Medley Relay 9th Place 1:50.43 5 sec. improvement

200 Free Relay 10th Place 1:35.38 4 sec Improvement

400 Free Relay 10th Place 3:38.37 12 sec Improvement

Mike McNulty also Joined the Purple Tide All-Iron Man Team

500 Free + 200 I.M. Life-Time added together.

7th All-Time 500 of 5:12.97 and 200 I.M. of 2:12.18.

Pictures to Come, as I receive them.

So send me your pictures.

Shave Down and Dinner

Team Shave Down and Dinner went Great. They eat all the pasta, pumpkin bars, salad, and anything else that was not nailed down. Will post pictures later tonight.

GO TIDE!!!!!!!!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Sectionals

Team Meeting 9am

Bus Leaves 9:30am

Warm-up 11:30

Meet 1:00

Parent!!! Read!!!

Tickets go on sale at 10am. May only buy 4 tickets.

Need to get there early or you will not get in. This meet will be PACKED!!

Monday, February 8, 2010

READ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOW YOU HANDLE THE "DOWN" TIMES IS WHAT MAKES YOU A REAL CHAMPION

Submitted by Dr. G on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 14:37.

Anybody can feel confident and be positive when things are going great. It takes no special talent, discipline or grit to smile and feel motivated when you're on top.

However, the mark of a true champion lies in how you handle the down times. It's in those times when you feel discouraged, hopeless and unmotivated that the seeds of true greatness reside.

How you react to and manage your failures, disappointments, performance slumps and plateaus will ultimately determine whether you'll be a success or a failure in anything that you attempt, on or off the playing fields.

So let's start with some basics here:

Expect hardship, adversity and disappointment. They are an integral, NORMAL and important part of your athletic journey. No one embarks on the road from beginner to champion without encountering a ton of emotional and physical setbacks along the way. Whether it means getting cut from a squad that you desperately wanted to make, suffering a season ending injury/illness, falling into a major slump or simply being forced to ride the bench by your coach, the road to your dreams is going to be predictably bumpy. It's your job as an athlete to embracethese bumps as a normal part of the journey and then use them as a stepping stone to push yourself further along the road.

The failures and hardships that you encounter along the way are put there to make you smarter, mentally and physically stronger and ultimately more talented. They are meant to be learning opportunities. Your disappointments hold invaluable lessons for you. It's your job to sort through all of those very difficult emotions so that you can then find the important learnings within the setback and take advantage of them!

With the correct attitude, YOUR SETBACKS ARE MERELY TEMPORARY! Just because you failed last week, yesterday and today doesn't mean that you will fail tomorrow. Your past failures are not a predictor of future failures or ofpermanence, (i.e. "this always happens to me" ), unless you adopt this as an attitude. Your disappointments, regardless of how frequent, should be viewed as simply temporary occurrences. Learn from them and leave them behind you.

Get more motivated every time you fail. Failure is simply feedback and feedback is the breakfast of champions. Each setback provides you with important lessons that will help you take your game to the next level. As a result, you want to get yourself excited with each setback because, despite the "down" emotions, this actually puts you further down the road and closer to success. Can you imagine what would happen to your game if you adopted this attitude of getting more determined and motivated after each setback? That's right! You'd probably have to spend the rest of your life cursed by success!

Persistence and plain old-fashioned hard work will overcome almost any obstacle that life can throw in your path. Do not, under any circumstances ever stop working hard. Do not, ever quit! Sustained hard work in the face of failure, disappointment and frustration is the key to success and you want to use that key every day to unlock the doors that may be blocking your way.