Minuteman Masters hosted a very successful tri clinic on Saturday, June 16th at our home LCM pool in Bedford, MA. Nine participants enjoyed personalized attention from four Minuteman Coaches. Coaches Rich Axtell, Nate McBride, Sue Sotir, and Ellen Stanley offered expertise on freestyle technique, drafting, and sighting. The clinic was broken into the three disciplines after a brief welcome and warm-up.
Coach Rich introduced the freestyle technique portion of the clinic and prescribed drills to the participants. Coach Nate introduced drafting along with illustrations and organized participants into pairs for drafting drills. (Coach Ellen hopped in so each swimmer had a mate) Coach Sue introduced sighting and utilizing illustrations prior to sending the group of participants through a series of sighting exercises. Two coaches were positioned at each end of the pool for optimum feedback throughout the clinic.
Video was shot of Coaches Ellen and Sue practicing proper techniques taught in the clinic. Coach Nate then captured each participant on video. Videos of Coaches Ellen and Sue along with participants video were posted on the Minuteman website. Each video is accompanied by written commentary.
The clinic managed to stay on a 90 minute timeline that allowed for material on the itinerary to be addressed in detail. The Coaches did a great job by maximizing feedback and new material introduction in the time allowed for the clinic. Feedback received from participants has given the clinic a resounding “two-thumbs upâ€. Due to the success of the tri-clinic, Minuteman will be hosting another clinic soon! Stay tuned for the announcement!!!
-Head Coach Rich Axtell
This was undoubtedly one of the best all around meets I’ve ever attended in all my years of swimming Masters. Everything came together beautifully, the pool was consistently perfect (Middlebury uses Bromine instead of Chlorine = awesome air & water quality), the crowd was great and the records…the records were dropping faster than they could announce them. Overall, 49 New England Records, 1 World Record, 2 US National Records and 6 Canadian National Records…it was incredible. Plan ahead and put it on the calendar for next year because its going to get even better. Thanks Muffintops for a great weekend!
Final Top Three Team Standings (Full Team Standings also Available):
NEM Large Teams
CMSC-NE Cambridge Masters 1103
NEM Medium Teams
MIDD-NE Middlebury Muffintops 499
MMAN-NE Minuteman Masters 408
STOWE-NE Stowe Masters 326
NEM Small Teams
SWMRI-NE Swim Rhode Island 213
LANES-NE Liquid Assets NE Swimming 193
GSP-NE Granite State Penguins 107
Non-NEM Teams
MAINE Maine Masters 430
TYMS Trillium Y 160
CONN-CT Connecticut LMSC 151
Men’s Highpoint:
Chris Smith – TYMS – 97
Women’s Highpoint:
Constance Sasser – CMSC – 89
Highpoint Scores
Printable Award Labels
All results with 50 splits
All results with cumulative splits
THIRTEEN NEW ENGLAND RECORDS ONE NATIONAL RECORD…IN ONE DAY!!! That brings the meet total to 19 records in less than 24 hours. That doesn’t include the relays. The big dinner after the meet was awesome and the people are having such a great time. Great weather, a tremendously well run meet and some of the fastest swimming around. Congrats to all of our new record holders. Tomorrow looks to be an amazing day.
Tobi Limke – W30-34 – 400 IM – MMAN – 5:35.69
Karen Bierweri – W55-59 – 400 IM – UMASS – 6:45.28
Barbara Hummel – W55-59 – 200 BR – UVRAY – 3:18.16 (National Record)
Dan Rogacki – M60-64 – 200 BR – GSP – 3:13.34
Jay Jones – M60-64 – 100 FR – CMSC – 1:05.87
Tobi Limke – W30-34 – 50 BR – MMAN – 34.60
Don McIntosh – M60-64 – 50 BR – MIDD – 37.35
Tobi Limke – W30-34 – 100 BA – MMAN – 1:13.76
Mary Gentry – W45-49 – 100 BA – UVRAY – 1:22.11
Don McIntosh – M65-69 – 100 BA – MIDD – 1:21.87
Barbara Hummel – W55-59 – 50 BR – UVRAY – 41.36
Karen Bierwert – W55-59 – 400 FR – UMASS – 5:52.15
Don McIntosh – M65-69 – 400 FR – MIDD – 5:36.76
Team Scores after Day 2
1. Cambridge Masters 642.5
2. Middlebury Muffintops 244
3. Maine Masters 239
4. Minuteman Masters 215.5
5. Unattached 174
6. UV Rays 147
7. Liquid Assets NE Swimming 89
8. Connecticut Lmsc 88
9. Swim Rhode Island 84
10. Granite State Penguins 80
10. Trillium Y 80
12. Adirondack Masters 70
13. Thousand Island 67
14. Stowe Masters 57
15. Suburban Athletics Masters 48
16. Usf Masters 41
17. Cape Cod Masters 38
18. Illinois Masters 36
18. Sarasota YMCA Sharks 36
20. Umass – Amherst 34
21. Westmount YMCA 32
21. La Vague Brossard 32
23. Central OR Masters Aquatics 27
23. Keene Swim Masters 27
23. Andover YMCA (Ma) 27
23. Abc Masters –Gray Sharks 27
27. Duxbury 26
28. Great Bay Masters 25
29. Ludlow Community Center 24
30. Twin Oaks 18
30. Williston Sports 18
32. Garden State Masters 16
32. Western Mass Water Horses 16
34. Concord YMCA 13
35. Burlington YMCA 10
36. Burlington Masters 9
36. Riverton Masters 9
36. Tamalpais Aquatic Masters 9
39. Laconia 8
40. Brattleboro Masters 1
If you are not here…you have no idea what you are missing. This is, by far, one of the nicest pools in New England. Air, water, space, speed…all here. Just in the 1500 alone, 6 New England records have already been broken. The meet coordinators have gone above and beyond to make this a great meet.
Caitlin Leahy – W25-29 – 1500 Free – CMSC – 19:30.50
Galen Rinaldi – W35-39 – 1500 Free – CONN – 19:35.27
Karen Bierwert – W55-59 – 1500 Free – UMASS – 22:29.30
Michael Schmidt – M40-49 – 1500 Free – Maine – 18:43.24
Frank McElroy – M55-59 – 1500 Free – GSM – 21:09.82
Don McIntosh – M65-69 – 1500 Free – MIDDLEBURY – 22:00.53
Current Team Scores:
1. Cambridge Masters 49
2. Unattached 34
3. Middlebury Muffintops 28
4. Minuteman Masters 27
4. Connecticut Lmsc 27
6. Maine Masters 25
6. Stowe Masters 25
8. Granite State Penguins 22
9. Western Mass Water Horses 16
9. Liquid Assets NE Swimming 16
11. Concord YMCA 13
12. Garden State Masters 9
12. Tamalpais Aquatic Masters 9
12. Burlington Masters 9
12. Trillium Y 9
12. Umass – Amherst 9
12. Sarasota YMCA Sharks 9
18. Laconia 8
19. Usf Masters 7
19. Thousand Island 7
21. Twin Oaks 6
22. UV Rays 3
23. Brattleboro Masters 1
Greetings Swimmers!
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The Middlebury Muffintops are proud to be hosting the 2007 New England LCM Championships and we look forward to seeing you in a few short weeks.
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Although entries are still being processed,we have posted a preliminary psych sheet and athlete list on the meet website: http://www.middleburymuffintops.org/LCMChamps/Default.aspx .  Â
Check again in a few days for updates.
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Please note: It is not too late to sign up for the Saturday Social, even though you’ve already sent in your meet entry. As of now we have nearly 100 folks registered. So please join us for live music, great food and a wonderful Vermont setting at Roland’s Place (10 minutes from the pool). If you would like to attend the Social (and havent registered yet) please respond to this email with the number of attendees and then send a check (payable to Middlebury Muffintops) to LCM Champs PO Box 953 Middlebury VT 05753.Â
You must let us know about the social by Friday June 15th so that we can provide a final head count to the restaurant.Â
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See you in a few weeks!
Bill Townsend
Jessica HolmesÂ
NEM Swimmers,
The deadline for the LCM Championship is just a few days away. Don’t miss this weekend in Vermont. A great and rare opportunity to swim long course, get some times in for top ten and enjoy a rare NEM social on Saturday night! Attached please find the entry form. For further info on the meet go to: http://middleburymuffintops.org/LCMChamps/Default.aspx
After a lengthy search, USMS has hired an Executive Director, a full-time person to oversee the day-to-day activities of this organization of some 44,000 swimmers, which includes all of us. It is a long overdue step to take our organiztion to the next level.
GBM has scheduled their traditional LCM meet at the Jenny Thompson pool in Dover, NH for July 22nd. If the weather cooperrates, it is usually a great meet, followed by a barbecue. Put it on your calendar. Info will soon be available at http://www.greatbaymasters.org/gbmmeets.php
Laszlo Eger
President
NEMSC
Recently, Bob Boder and Bill Ewan finished their second Swim Clinic with the Ludlow Masters team. It was an extremely successful clinic and included underwater video as well as detailed stroke analysis. You can read the story by downloading the PDF here.
Elsewhere, Minuteman Masters Swim Club, in Bedford, MA, is hosting their first clinic of the summer on June 16th at the Hanscom AFB Pool (Long Course). There will be detailed stroke analysis and teaching as well as video sessions. Details are below:
Minuteman will be hosting a swim clinic Saturday morning June 16th during our normal workout time. This clinic will be open to both Minuteman athletes as well as non-Minuteman athletes. The focus will be on triathlon swimming; training for a triathlon swim, discussion, and video!
Space will be limited to the first 20 athletes to sign up. 10 spots are being reserved for non-Minuteman athletes. You may sign up for the clinic by emailing Coach Rich Axtell: rich@minutemanmasters.com and let him know you would like to come.
The cost for this inaugural clinic will be specially priced as it is the first clinic of the summer!
Cost for Minuteman athletes: $5
Cost for non-Minuteman athletes: $15
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