Spring at The Swimming Hole -

The Stowe Swimmers have been in the pool for 5 weeks of our Spring Stroke Clinic!  One week left and we will be watching the videos of our workouts to check in on technique.  Our goals have been to work on our underwaters off the wall, meaning our dolphin kicks.  To use each wall to gain speed and explode rather than rest off the wall with passive legs.  We have committed one week to each stroke, to practice drills and body position.  This week we revisited intervals and steady cardio efforts, holding pace at 65-70% of max. 

5 swimmers volunteered at the 9th Annual Stowe Triathlon and helped time the participants' 500 meter swims in the pool.  They represented their Club well and cheered for the racers and enjoyed watching a 500 rather than swimming one for a change.  They also got to watch and time their coach race, which was fun role reversal!  Thanks Rachel, Emily, Seychelle, Megan, and Heidi!

Summer Swim Club starts on Monday, June 18th

We are looking forward to a fast and fun 7 week season working toward the Vermont State Swim Championships! 

Sign up to swim this summer with this registration form. 

2012 Award

Awards: Preseason times, Postseason times, improvment

8 & Under age group

9 & 10 Age Group


11 & 12 Age Group
13-14 Age Group & 15 & Over Age Group & over all team improvment!




Personal Best Count (during Stowe Swim Meets)
Swim-A-Thon Records for 2012 (one hour swim)
Stowe Swimmers Team Records (swim meet times)
Yvain Hoekstra, Swimmer of the Year
*Displaying a desire to improve, using technique & effort, setting a goal & achieving that goal. Starting the season not doing flip turns in meets & by the end of the season qualified for Regionals in 2 back stroke events because of his flip turns! Yvain also only missed 2 practices this year, amazing commitment!

Will McIntosh, Coaches Choice For Development Award

*A real leader in practice, making connections in his swimming between effort, technique, and focus and finding results. Trying somthing new, swim meets & using practice as a tool to improve. A great supporter of his lane mates and team mates & a desire to keep it going!

Alexis Faith, Most Personal Bests (23)

At all the swim meets Stowe attended as a team, Alexis improved her swims 23 times! She attachs each race and worked for it in practice!

King & Queen of Freestyle, fastest Senior Swimmers in 50 meter Free (practice times)

Oliver Ames & Emily Haskins

Prince & Princess of Freestyle, fastest Junior Swimmers in 25 meter Free (practice times)

Emily Ames & Ludwig Kumpf

White Cap Winners - most names on the white caps for each lane this season

Lane 1 - Hannah Burdick

Lane 2 - Tanis Hoekstra

Lane 3 - Heidi Brynn

Lane 4- Seychelle Duckworth

15 & over group Rachel Haskins - our Senior moving on to college.... with Oliver & Emily. 13 & 14 Group: Izzy, Seychelle, Megan, Parker, & Max

11 & 12 Age Group: Yvain, Heidi, Alexis, Cassie, Eugene, & Posy

9 & 10 Age Group: Lilly, Tanis, Zach, Owen & Will

8 & Under Group: Lynn, Emma, Anthony, Emily, Eva, Hannah, Sophie, & Alex

March Memmories

March marked the end of our 2012 season & with that we celebrated our achievments with a Home Meet and Award Banquet. The last 2 weeks weeks in practice we raced eachother over and over again, for our end of season times and for fun. Enjoy some picutures:

Lane 1: Girls love to swim! Emaline, Emma, Hannah, Amelia, Sophie, & Anna

Lane 2 hanging around: Justin, Tanis, Will, Owen, Lilly & Gunner

Too cool, Justin, Tanis, Emily, Lilly, Owen & Will

Lane 3, Jazz hands! Posy, Taylor, Samantha, Heidi, Alexis,

Chapman, Miles, Yvain & Owen sneeking in under the lane.

Show me your muscles....

Camera Shy!

Ladies of Lane 4: Izzy, Emily, Seychelle, Megan & our Graduating Senior, Rachel! Much Love!

The girls have Spring Fever, Bikins! A last week tradition at Stowe!

What a great Season!

Bring it on March!

Stowe Swimmers will be back in the water tomorrow, Wednesday, after a week plus of vacation! We have 6 practices remaining before our End of Season Home Meet, Friday, March 16th. Practices will be focused toward this meet and we will also be swimming our post season 25/50 free & 50/100 kick to get new personal best times. I'm excited to see some real improvment, and I think the swimmers will surprise themselves! Looking forward to seeing everyone in the water tomorrow.

Valentine's Day Pracitce, Tuesday 2/14

New England Regional Championships

GO STOWE!

17 Stowe Swimmers competed in 106 individual events & 3 relays this weekend at the Upper Valley Aquatic Club in White River Jct. This was one of 6 sites hosting this same meet for teams in New England with swimmers who meet the qualifying times during the season starting September 2011. Stowe finished the 3 day meet with personal best times in 70% of their individual events & besting all 3 relay seed times. 8 Swimmers were awarded ribbons for top 16 place finishes in 28 events, as well as 2 relays (Girls 11-12 Medley -15th & Free- 11th).
Congratulations to all 18 swimmers for showing excellent sportsmanship- congratulating your fellow racers from other teams, team spirit-for cheering for all your team mates races, respect-for the host facility & other teams, humility-being receptive to praise from team mates & coach and ready for constructive feedback to improve your skills, & of course race attitude-ready to race and give it your all! Check out the full Meet Results!
8 & Unders: Alex Fuss & Lynn Russell
9-10: Lilly Carleu, Grace Dupuis, Zach Fuss, Tanis Hoekstra, Owen LaBombard, Samantha Wisdom
11-12: Heidi Brynn, Alexis Faith, Yvain Hoekstra, Posy LaBombard, Cassie Wisdom
13-14: Megan Gresham & Seychelle Duckworth
15 & Over: Emily Haskins & Rachel Haskins
*qualified but unable to race were Will McIntosh (10) & Max Petrow (15)

Girls 9-10 Medley Relay!

Girls 11-12 Free & Medley Relay

Owen & Megan waiting to swim early in AM!

Tanis & Grace hanging between races under our bannor!

Practice Goals keep us focused

The Stowe Swim Club has been following weekly goals this season to help keep us focused, motivated, and fast!

Week #13, January 17th: Swimming Fast helps you swim Fast
We practices feeling uncomfortable to help us understand what feeling fast feels like, we used tools like flippers and paddles to help our feel of the water and move our bodies Fast! On 1/19 the Senior swimmers had Sprint Day, which sounds easy but sprinting is hard work and they proved it!


Week #14, January 23rd: What Motivates You? Rewards come in all forms!
We wait all season for this week, CANDY LAND DAY! The kids get to enjoy the water, swimming with friends, and of coarse candy. Check out the workout board.
Week #15, January 30th: Trust your Training & let it happen!
With our last regular season meet as the end of this week, and the qualifying Regional Championships in 2 we use this week to complete are training and feel ready for what comes next! Our swimmers that don't compete enjoy the benefits of the speed work and accountability of their workouts, feeling proud of the hard work and what they are able to accomplish!

Week #16, February 6th: Remember the small stuff matters & make it happen!
Take ownership of your training and bring the focus back to what is important, technique and feel! We tapper this week as a team because its feels great to dial back the distance, increase the rest, and feel fast in the water! We also got some early end of season times for some of the swimmers, and they look fast!!! I can't wait to see what early March will bring as we bring our season to an end and really compare how far we've come!

Next week: Recovery is Important
We will be helping our racing swimmers recover from a big meet and bring everyone back together to continue some strong technique work and slowly build the distance back up with some comfortable pace swims. oh, and.... GAME DAY on Monday 2/13. FUN is important too!

We only have 4 weeks left of the season, it goes by so fast and I can't wait for our end of season HOME MEET on 3/16!!

2 sucessfull meets in 2012

Stowe Swimmers raced in 2 successful meets 2012, both at the St. Michael's College pool in Colchester, VT, hosted by the home team Green Mountain Aquatics. A three day meet January 6-8th had 17 Stowe Swimmers racing with 42% personal best time finishes, which is a great place to be in a heavy training month! On February 5th, 18 swimmers attending the Vermont Specialty meet and accomplished 85 splashes with 52% being personal best times. At the conclusion of this meet Stowe had 19 swimmers qualify for New England Regional Championship meet in 106 individual races.

The 2/5 meet also gave Stowe the opportunity to race some relays, one being our only graduating Senior, Rachel Haskins, in her last Stowe relay!!!

You can find the results of both meets on the New England Swimming web site!