The Power of Positive Thought

THIS WEEK IN PRACTICE: Team Goal - replace negative thoughts with positivity!
Wednesday 11/9 was the loudest practice this season, as Message in a Bottle day called for team cheers along with team work. It was great to see the teams of mixed age groups working together to accomplish their "messages" as they hurried to be the team swimming the most meters, in other words, accomplishing more "message" workouts than the other teams. We had fun team names with 'Team Michael Phelps' lead by Oliver Ames, 'Purple Penguins' led by Emily Haskins (swimming the most distance during the Junior practice time & loudest team cheer), 'The Wed Dogs' led by Seychelle Duckworth, and 'Purple Ninja's' led by Rachel Haskins (swimming the most distance overall). We finished practice by cheering on the Juniors with a 25 meters choice from a cannon ball start! Great job everyone!

Thursday 11/10 the seniors accomplished a 'test set' of 100's on a challenging interval of their choice, for 30 minutes. Everyone did great and learned how to stay positive, believe in themselves, set a goal and achieve, and how to improve as an athlete. Way to go to our white cap winners, Lane 4: Emily Haskins holding 20x100 on 1:35 & Cassie Wisdom 17x100 on 1:55, Lane 3: Parker Klingsburg 15x100 on 2:15, Lane 2: Tanis Hoekstra 20x50 on 1:30. These swimmers where chosen for their tenacity in this workout and positive self talk.

SWIM TEAM:
New England Regional Qualifying Times have been released. Congratulations to 6 of our swimmers who have qualified on 10/30. Heidi Brynn (11) 100 Back & Breast, Zach Full (10) 100 Free, Megan Gresham (13) 500 Free, 200 Fly & Back, 400 IM, Emily Haskins (15) 200 IM, Rachel Haskins (18) 500 Free, & Samantha Wisdom (10) 100 Free, 50 Fly, Back & Breast, 100 IM.

NEXT WEEK IN PRACTICE:
Team Goal - "Support your Team: give support & you will receive support!)

Wednesday, November 16th - Stowe Swimmers 2nd Annual Swim-A-Thon
~all swimmers in practice this day will be swimming for 1 hour as many laps as they can!
~all swimmers need a lap counter, bring a friend or relative to cheer you on!
~gather pledges or donations for your laps! (due November 28th)
~set a goal and go swim it!

I can't wait to watch all the swimmers burn it up in the pool!