Summer Long Course Meet
July 12- 13. They don't call it LONG course for nothing. Bet you could use Darra Torres health team after that one. I sure am going to be sore.
The weather was as they say, “for the ducks” but it worked perfectly for this meet. Overcast cool, occasional drizzle to keep you cool, and that 4 am early morning downpour to cool the pool down…. perfect. Didn't need the sunscreen or gatorade all weekend.
Bumpy Jones sets another record age group. So what else is new? However the quote of the meet wasn't after his record setting swim but but after the one where he didn't set the record. “Don't know how I didn't beat that guy's record. He was so old.”
Congratulations to our many SPM high point winners! Taking home the coveted first place towels were: Ted Bradley (25-29); Eric Herman (35-39); Kern Davis (50-54); and Charlie Kohnken (75-79). Second place key chains were won by: Carmen Adams and Brent Sunnucks (18-24); Jim Montante (25-29); Paul Scoville (45-49); Jo Ann Harrelson (50-54); John Cox (70-74). Overall third place went to: Jessie Bardin (18-24).
Speaking of Jessie Bardin – congratulations are in order for breaking the Florida LMSC 18-24 age group 200 Free record with a fast 2:10.15 and for anchoring the record-setting 72+ 200 Free Relay (2:08.94) with Sara Cantu, Alisha Adams and Carmen Adams. More Florida LMSC records were broken on the men's side with Ted Bradley (25-29) going 2:02.63 in the 200 Free and 2:15.18 in the 200 Individual Medley. Not to be outdone by the younger crowd, Bill Specht, in the 50-54 age group, took down the 50 Fly record with a 27.91 and the 200 Fly record with a 2:21.85. Bill might have been pushed just a little bit in that 200 by Brent Sunnucks, who somehow managed to bust out a 2:19.57 with no real training over the summer (unless we consider teaching swim lessons every day training!)
Rick Walker, Sarasota Y Sharks Masters coach, wants to know where we got all the “young kids” from and was quite jealous of the turnout in the 18-24 and 25-29 age groups for our team so….thanks kids for showing up and making other teams take notice. We had some fabulous swims out of those age groups as mentioned above, but others need to be mentioned. On the women's side we enjoyed having sisters, Carmen and Alisha Adams compete with us for the first time. Both girls swim at St. Leo College during the school year. As mentioned earlier, Jessie Bardin is a great addition to the team and she swims at University of Tampa during the school year. Sarah Swoch and Samantha Mooren were back for more competition fun and Sarah commented on how much the consistent swimming paid off with some great time drops. We welcomed Regina Macolino and Sara Cantu back to competition with this meet and they both had solid swims. On the young guys side it was good to see Jim Montante and Jeff Swisher (25-29) back racing again, after competing together at St. Pete High back in the day.
In the 35+ age groups, it was nice to have our regulars: Eric Herman (had another great meet!), Jo Ann Harrelson, Sharon Steinmann, Kern Davis, Bill Specht, Nick Lang, Storm Eddy, Gary Bastie, Jim Stine, Jim Davis, Theun van der Veen, John Cox, Charlie Kohnken, Bob Beach, Harold Ferris, Ralph Coxhead and Bob Atwood (yes, Bob I saved the best for last). We did have some new swimmers, Dawn Clark and Paul Scoville, who both had excellent swims in their events and were a big help on relays. And lastly, cannot go without mentioning how sweet Tim Kennedy was to sign up for the 1500, after just completing the 28.5-mile swim around Manhattan , to support girlfriend Carolyn Kiper in her first pool meet. Oh yes, and then let her beat him too!
As always, we cannot host the meet without volunteer help and a BIG thank you to the following: Officials – Charlotte Petersen, Steve Freeman, Mike Halfast, Kevin Mooren, Woody McDaniel, Peter Bardin, Joe and Jeanne Finke, Angela Jones and Dan Nardozzi; SPM helpers – John Reich, Grace Austin, Bob Aldrich, Howard Brown, Gary Bastie, Marie Camoes, Vance Eaddy, Robert Chamberlin, Chris Swanson, Vicki Quail; SPA helpers – Rob and Laura Krall, Georgi Krastev, Hristina Krasteva, Alex Grant, Bobby, Summer and Autumn Finke, Dan Tripp and Kira Linde. Very special thanks go to Alegra Reich for being the “right-hand” person all weekend, Bruce Day for timing and getting all those fun mystery heat awards, Kern Davis and Paul Scoville for taking pictures, and to Aaron Peter for the fabulous job announcing all weekend.
Next up on the FUN swim meet agenda: Non-sanctioned “high school format” intra-squad meet on October 19th and SYSM/SPM Short Course Meters Bridge the Bay Meet on November 16th and 23rd.
ResultsPhotos
38 th Annual Short Course Championship Meet
March 28-30. What a great weekend! With a well-designed meet t-shirt, Chamber of Commerce weather, a new scoreboard, fast swimming and tons of volunteers, this year's “Flock to the Blocks” 38 th Annual Short Course Yards Championship Meet was a rousing success. St. Pete Masters had one of our best turn-outs ever with 52 swimmers entering the meet and contributing to our combined team score total of 2,058 points (Sarasota Y was second with 762 points)! Of course, a big portion of these points is from the relays and a big round of applause to my Saturday swimmers – Coach PattyI did not have to change or cancel one single relay that day. Thanks to all of you for showing up and being there to support this team effort!
St. Pete Masters was quite successful individually as well. Congratulations to the following swimmers were recognized with our coveted high point towel awards:
| 1 st Place | 2 nd Place | 3 rd Place | |
| John Doolittle (35-39) | Genoa Fedyszyn (25-29) | Sarah Swoch (18-24) | |
| Charlotte Petersen (40-44) | Eric Herman (35-39) | Chris Swanson (45-49) | |
| Judy Humbarger (55-59) | Ron Collins (45-49) | Bill Specht (45-49) | |
| Tim Kennedy (50-54) | Pam Geiger (50-54) | ||
| Jo Ann Harrelson (50-54) | Gary Bastie (55-59) | ||
| Sandy Steer (65-69) | Peter Betzer (65-69) | ||
| John Cox (70-74) | |||
| Bob Beach (75-59) | |||
Of course, the high point award is not the only reason our team shows up to swim at this meet. Some enter to see how the training is paying off, some for fun, some because I bully them into it and then some to set records. Once again, Ted Bradley (18-24), shows us how, with very little training and a ton of talent, you can set a new Florida and Dixie Zone record in the 200 backstroke (1:56.54). Charlotte Petersen (40-44) set a new Dixie Zone and Florida record in the 1650 Free by going 18:34.87. Diane Williams (65-69) broke the Florida 50 Free record with a very fast 32.89. Last, but certainly not least, Judy Humbarger (55-59) had an unbelievable meet. She set new standards for Florida in the 100 Back (1:13.72), 200 IM (2:42.03) and 500 Free (6:30.67) and broke the Florida and Dixie Zone records in the 50 Back (33:86), 400 IM (5:51.39), 100 Fly (1:11.33) and 50 Fly (31.65). Congratulations to these four swimmers on their accomplishments!
It was great to see Chris Burke back competing and congratulations to Genoa Fedyszyn, Jackie Smith and Nick Lang on their first meets with us. Looks like quite a number of our swimmers had some personal bests: Bruce Day was 5 for 5; Storm Eddy dropped 7.17 in the 200 Back; Eric Herman in the 200 Free, Fred Lewis, 100 Back; Jerry Little dropped 4.47 in 100 Breast; Pat Marzulli, 1650 Free, Jill St. Louis in both of her events, and Flavia Zappa dropped 2.55 in her 1000 split on the 1650 Free. In the “I'm not getting older – I'm getting better category”, Alex Ramirez-Miller (80-84) managed to drop a whopping 3 minutes and 12 seconds off of his 1650 Free. The team really got a kick out of Laura Albee, showing up with the three kids in the stroller and no warm-up at all, swimming personal bests in the 50 Breast, 100 Free and 50 Fly. The kids were happy because they got mom's medals to wear on the ride home – and no, Laura did not get to warm-down either! Finally, many of us noted Charlotte's great job of cheering on her teammates, particularly getting everyone up to cheer on Phyllis Mathiot (85 years young), in her 50 Back and 50 Free. Thanks Charlotte and way to go Phyllis on those two 2 nd place finishes.
Sunday morning was fun as Fred kept pulling items out of the weight room (Speedo sandals, packages of hot sauce, who knows what else…) to inspire people to buy raffle tickets. If you bought $15.00 worth of raffle tickets you got a free pair of sandals! The sales really picked up after that and we were able to donate $266.00 to SPA's inner-city pool program. Thanks to all that purchased tickets and congratulations to Gary Bastie and Marie Torsney (she was one of the “raffle ladies”) that won from our team.
Did I mention we had a ton of volunteers? SPMer's turned out in force a we cannot thank all of you enough. The meet ran so smoothly and the compliments rolled in from attendees, but it is all due to all of you that helped out. Once again, Fred came through with his SPA swimmers (many of them on their first day of spring break!) volunteering all weekend. Of course, they may have been more willing since he was competing in the meet and they really enjoy critiquing his swims. So, without further ado, thanks to the following:
| SPM | SPA |
| Jack Wells | Jacob Hawk |
| Angie Orr | Emman Crescembeni |
| Bruce Day | Katie Coleman |
| Vance Eaddy | James Taddeo |
| Colleen Egan | Jonathan Taddeo |
| Konrad Euler | Robert Vanneste |
| Sandy Steer | Dan Tripp |
| Alegra Reich | Colleen Quinn |
| Bob Aldrich | Sidney Newfield |
| Sharon Steinmann | Abby King |
| Jackie Piper | Kaitlin Frehling |
| Jim Davis | Lauren Piper |
| Bob Atwood | Cameron Chambers |
| Dave McCord | Rachel Shea |
| Al Johnson | Hope Andrews |
| Wendy Johnson | Hristina Krasteva |
| Suzzette Seril | Georgie Krastev |
| Sharon van der Veen | Alexandra Jones |
| Melissa Dipple | Mari Flanagan |
| Lisa Flanagan | Kaitlin Carr |
| Betsy Wells | Patrick Rinard |
| Aaron Peter | Melanie Rorer |
| Diane Bradley | Kira Linde |
| Lenore Rupert | Terry Decker |
| Stephanie Lee | Burrows Family |
| Harold Ferris | Ashley Arbasak |
| Tom Smith | Paige Tripp |
| Mike Torsney | Alex Grant |
| John Reich | |
| Don Steer | |
| Brian Rimel | |
| Joe Baker | |
| Dottie Smith | |
| Marie Torsney |
A big thank you to our officials: Dan Nardozzi, Kevin Mooren, Joanne Gauzens, Woody McDaniel, Angela Jones, Kim Stoddard, Steve Freeman and Mike Halfast. Many of you do not realize the amount of extra time and effort that goes into being a certified official. They must be re-certified every two years and work a required number of meets each year to be able to volunteer their time for you.
And thanks to our coaches. The times were as red hot as the scoreboard numbers. And those red hot numbers were the SPM women, including Coach Patty, in their blue and red suits. She showed it off in the 400IM. Not to be out done Coach Fred also showed his stuff in the 400IM.
Let's keep the momentum going – set your goals for Hurricane Man on May 10 th and/or our Long Course Meters Championship Meet July 12-13. We look forward to seeing all of you there!
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Daily Results Friday Saturday Sunday
Complete results
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2008 Hour Swim
SPM should do well again this year in the hour post swim with 55 swimmers and 206,665 yards. We came up a little short of last years 59 swimmers and 216,355, but still another great job.
| Name | Yardage | |
| Ted Bradley | 5,220 | |
| John Reich | 5,115 | |
| Charlotte Petersen | 5,100 | |
| Kern Davis | 5,085 | |
| Brian Rimel | 5,000 | |
| Tim Kennedy | 4,900 | |
| Ron Collins | 4,850 | |
| Eric Herman | 4,740 | |
| Bob Villacres (Chopper) | 4,595 | |
| Kerry Sullivan | 4,570 | |
| Lori Leadbetter | 4,500 | |
| Gary Bastie | 4,485 | |
| Laura Kaleel | 4,470 | |
| Steve Freeman | 4,420 | |
| Sharon Steinmann | 4,330 | |
| Pat Marzulli | 4,275 | |
| Alegra Reich (kick/swim!) | 4,270 | |
| Adrienne Forkois | 4,260 | |
| Jill St. Louis | 4,200 | |
| Joann Harrelson | 4,185 | |
| Ken Williams | 4,170 | |
| Bob Aldrich | 4,110 | |
| Sarah Swoch | 4,045 | |
| Pam Geiger | 4,045 | |
| Kate Cillian | 4,025 | |
| Dan Nardozzi | 4,010 | |
| Jeanne Finke | 3,950 | |
| Rich Knipe | 3,940 | |
| Nick Lang | 3,850 | |
| Chris Swanson | 3,830 | |
| Kay Herrera | 3,645 | |
| Barbara Prescott | 3,640 | |
| Fred Lewis | 3,625 | |
| Claudia Junqueira | 3,600 | |
| Bob Beach | 3,535 | |
| Patty Nardozzi | 3,535 | |
| Dan McClenathan | 3,475 | |
| Storm Eddy | 3,415 | |
| Diane Williams | 3,315 | |
| Christina Noordstar | 3,225 | |
| John Cox | 3,105 | |
| Charlie Kohnken | 3,115 | |
| Flavia Zappa | 3,085 | |
| Alexis Zubrod | 3,060 | |
| Harold Ferris | 2,955 | |
Christine Kirchner |
2,950 | |
| Sandy Steer | 2,850 | |
| Katie Knight-Perry | 2,760 | |
| Suzzette Seril | 2,665 | |
| Mary Lou Mitchell | 2,440 | |
| Annette Frisch | 2,425 | |
| Woody McDaniel | 2,125 | |
| Jerry Little | 2,050 | |
| Ned Allen | 2,050 | |
| Bob Atwood | 1,475 | |
| TOTAL YARDS | 206,665 | |
Women's Relays |
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| 18+ | Forkois, A., Swoch, S., Cillian, K. | 12,330 |
| 25+ | Petersen, C., Leadbetter, L., Reich, A. | 13,870 |
| 45+ | Kaleel, L., Steinmann, S., St. Louis, J. | 13,000 |
| 45+ | Harrelson, J., Finke, J., Swanson, C. | 11,965 |
| 45+ | Junqueira, C., Nardozzi, P., Seril, S. | 9,800 |
| 55+ | Geiger, P., Prescott, B., Eddy, S. | 11,100 |
| 55+ | Zubrod, A., Mitchell, M., Frisch, A. | 7,925 |
| 65+ | Williams, D., Steer, S., Knight-Perry,K. | 8,925 |
| Men's Relays | ||
| 18+ | Bradley, T., Reich, J., Rimel, B. | 15,335 |
| 25+ | Herman, E., Villacres, B., Sullivan, K. | 13,905 |
| 45+ | Davis, K., Kennedy, T., Collins, R. | 14,835 |
| 45+ | Freeman, S., Williams, K., Nardozzi, D | 12,600 |
| 55+ | Bastie, G., Marzulli, P., Aldrich, B | 12,870 |
| 65+ | Cox, J., McDaniel, W., Allen, N. | 7,280 |
| 75+ | Beach, R., Kohnken, C., Ferris, H. | 9,605 |
| Mixed Relays | ||
| 18+ | Bradley, T., Reich, J., Petersen, C., Leadbetter, L. | 19,935 |
| 18+ | Villacres, B., Sullivan, K., Swoch, S., Cillian, K. | 17,235 |
| 25+ | Rimel, B., Herman, E., Reich, A., Forkois, A. | 18,270 |
| 45+ | Davis, K., Kennedy, T., Kaleel, L., Steinmann, S. | 18,785 |
| 45+ | Collins, R., Freeman, S., St. Louis, J., Harrelson,J. | 17,655 |
| 45+ | Williams, K., Nardozzi, D., Finke, J., Swanson, C. | 15,960 |
| 45+ | Knipe, R., Lang, N., Junqueira, C., Nardozzi, P. | 14,925 |
| 55+ | Bastie, G., Marzulli, P., Geiger, P., Prescott, B. | 16,445 |
| 55+ | Aldrich, B., Lewis, F., Eddy, S., Zubrod, A. | 14,210 |
| 65+ | Beach, R., Cox, J., Williams, D., Steer,S. | 12,805 |
| 65+ | Kohnken, C., Ferris, H., Knight-Perry,Mitchell,M. | 11,270 |
If you think you could have done better, remember you're not too slow you're just too young.
SCM Meet
Nov. 18 / SCM: Bridge the Bay Meet -- Day 2. St. Petersburg FL.
It was a beautiful day but Ted Bradley didn't seem to be enjoying himself. Why was he nervous as a cat. He was stretching, pacing the deck, shaking his arms out and taking a load of grief from Bill Specht. Did anybody else notice how nevous Teddy was before he swam? Why became clear when he broke the Men's 18-24 age group National Record for the 200 SCM Backstroke going 2:08.69. It was essentially a solo swim without any competition. Hey none of us can go 2:08 for 200 Back.
Thanks to everybidy for their help in running the meet especially our coach Patty: officials; Dan Nardozzi, Steve Freeman, Charlie Kohnken, Kim Stoddard, and Kevin Mooren:
volunteers; Kurt Steinmann, Leslie Treat, Bruce Day, Lisa Plescia, Konrad Euler, Monica Martinez, Dave McCord, Harold Ferris, Theun van der Veen, Katie Knight-Perry, Ned Allen, John Cox, Joe Baker, Christine Swanson, Tom Smith, Christine Kirchner, Sandy Steer, and Chris Burke. Welcome back to the pool Chris.
Results ( November 11 ) ( November 18 ) ( complete ) - Certified Leadoff Splits
Psych sheet
Water Polo at North Shore
Water polo is more popular at North Shore that even. Several team members are very active in the new Thunder Bay Water Polo Team. And Read more about it at the St Pete Times. 5K/10K - Sunday 8/24 and Sunday, 9/14 (must be completed by 9/15). We start at 7:30 am and need to be finished by 12:00 for lane ropes change. Please send Coach Patty an e-mail to reserve a lane for either of these dates. Next the 3000/6000 yard postal - Sunday 11/2. It's a BOYMarch 29. Mr Forkois Junior make appearance at SCY meet. Nov 26. Also adding to the SPM baby boom is Jocelyn Kate Bruner born on Monday Nov 26, 2007.
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