FREESTYLER. Issue 12, Summer 2017 LOOK OUT FOR THE NEXT ISSUE! ON THE FLIP SIDE: UPCOMING EVENTS. ASA excels at MCSL Summer League

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1 All-Star Aquatics Swim Team Potomac Valley Swimming FREESTYLER Welcome to ASA s newsletter, Freestyler, for the entire community to share news, photos and information about meets, social events and swimming in general. Jump In! Have news and photos you would like to share? Please anything of interest to asa.swimming@gmail.com Issue 12, Summer /20 7/23 8/3 8/6 8/8 8/12 8/9 8/12 ON THE FLIP SIDE: UPCOMING EVENTS PVS 14-under LC JO Fairland, MD (Qualified USA Futures LC Geneva, OH (Qualified USA LC East Meadow, NY (Qualified USA LC Eastern Richmond, VA (Qualified ASA excels at MCSL Summer League In the week leading into PVS Age Group Championships for the 14 & Unders, US Open and USA Futures for the 15 & overs, several ASA swimmers had a chance to tune-up at the MCSL Coaches Long Course invitational. To qualify to swim this meet, a swimmer had to rank in the top 8 in the MCSL in their event. ASA was well represented: 8 & Under: Lexie Bishop: 50 Butterfly: 1 st Alternate Maeve McCarthy: 50 Free: Qualified 3 rd, Finished 3 rd Time: 38.10, 50 Butterfly: Qualified 1 st, Finished 3 rd Time Her Freestyle time is a new ASA record! Jonathan Mitchum: 50 Free: Qualified 6 th, Finished 7 th Time: 39.80, 50 Back: Qualified 5 th, Finished 7 th Time: Kirk Morgan: 50 Free: Qualified 1 st, Finished 1 st Time: 34.68, 50 Butterfly: Qualified 1 st, Finished 1 st Time: Both times are new ASA records, and the Butterfly is a new MCSL record! Francesca Opipari: 50 Butterfly: 2 nd Alternate TURN TO PAGE 5 FOR MORE MCSL SUMMER LEAGUE NEWS! LOOK OUT FOR THE NEXT ISSUE!

2 If ASA parents needed reasons.. lorem ipsum dolor 7 Reasons Why the Pool Beats the Beach By: Mike Gustafson//Contributor July 12, 2017 The commencement of humid, muggy July means one thing: Millions of humid, muggy humans will migrate from land to sea, from backyards to beaches. All those pristine outdoor swimming spots you once enjoyed? Kiss them goodbye. Thousands will flock to your ancient watering holes, shorelines, lakeside beaches in search of cooling off, in search of water games, in search of summertime fun. Including your non-swimming, non-chlorinated friends. That s right, swimmers. It s swim season. (Wait. Isn t every season swim season?!) While the last thing a water-logged, chlorinated swimmer wants to hear from other friends is, Let s go swimming! you will probably go along with friends to the beach, pool, or lake. Summer is, after all, for swimming. You can only evade those non-swimming, pool-venturing friends so long. Sometimes, you will just have to go swimming with your non-swimmer friends, the ones who know not the slings and arrows of 6am July wake-up alarm clocks. Then, a decision is made: Where to swim? The beach or the pool? Admittedly, I have always preferred the turbulent currents and wild escape of large, non-chlorinated bodies of water. But there s an argument to be made, at least for the average competitive swimmer, that the beach (or lake, or river) may not be superior to the chlorinated confine where you spend every waking minute of your life. Here s are 7 Reasons Why The Pool Beats the Beach: 1. As a swimmer, you re King of the Pool. In the summer, I spent the entire day at practice or swimming in lakes, rivers, or more pools. Why? I loved water. And when you love water and swim for sport, you re an heir of Poseidon. Meaning, you re more comfortable around water than any other non-swimming friends. It s like if your ballerina friend wants to go dancing. At the pool, you re basically in charge. 2. If you re already at the pool, getting to afternoon practice is pretty easy. All good daytime swim trips must end; if you re already at the pool, getting to the pool is, uh, very easy. 3. Sweet, sweet chemical clarity. Some beaches in this world are beautiful: Clean, open, unexplored. Many other beaches in this world are covered: With humans, and what humans leave behind in the water. (Yep.) Sometimes, especially when scanning any crowded, warmwater seaside, I m thankful for the occasional diluted disinfectant like chlorine. 4. Hot concrete is not as hot as scorching sand. I have been on sand that has blistered my feet. It was so hot, I couldn t walk. But I ve never been around a pool with the same kind of heat. 5. Racing non-swimming friends. Let s face it: Any time you swim with your non-swimming friends, a race will occur. Some football player will say, C mon, let s race, swimmer! So you race. And when you race in a pool Let s go down and back, ok? nailing that flip turn and dominating that football player feels so, so good. 6. At the pool, you can actually see underwater. In lakes or rivers or the ocean, underwater, it s hard to see. Sometimes this is great; sometimes, especially when playing around, you want to dive underwater and blow air bubbles, handstand contests, dive for rings, and play every other underwater pool game. Here, the pool is again superior. 7. Diving boards. The great separator between the beach and a pool? Diving boards. Belly-flops. Cannonballs. Every long, sun-kissed day at the water isn t the same without some diving board action. In Conclusion Are there as many, or more, arguments countering that the beach is better than the pool? Yes, of course. But for the purposes of the competitive swimmer, sometimes spending another few hours at the pool really ain t so bad. 2

3 lorem ipsum dolor Junior / Senior Champs Notes 29 swimmers represented ASA at the Junior / Senior Potomac Valley Championships held July 6-9, 2017 at the Freedom Center in Manassas, VA. Alan Li led the boys squad with an 8th place finish and team record in the 200 fly (2:09.52). Lena Redisch led the girls squad with a 5th place finish and team record in the 1500 free (17:50.36). Top 10 finishers in Junior Champs include: Zachary Bergamn 7th in 200 Breast (2:43.44), Gaoxing Cosgrove 9th in 200 Fly (2:24.23), Rafaela Gutierrez 7th in 200 Back (2:34.54), Rory Stumpf 3rd in 200 Breast (2:41.55) and Molly Sullivan 7th in 50 Free (29.05) and 9th in 100 Free (1:03.14). Finalists in the Senior Champs include: Danny Calder 1st in "B" final 200 fly (2:11.04), 5th in 'B" final 400 IM (4:55.26), Chris Emerson 10th place 'B' final in 50 free (25.63), 2nd place 'B' final in 100 fly (59.75), Olivia French 5th in 'B' final 100 free (1:00.58), 8th in 'B' final 100 fly (1:05.86), Sydney Grube 7th in 'C' final 200 Breast (2:55.07), Al Li 7th in 'C' final 50 Free (25.50), 6th in 'C' final 100 free (55.56), 8th place in 100 fly (59.14), 10th place in 200 fly (2:09.52), Caroline McTaggart 6th in 50 free (27.11), 7th in 100 free (59.78), 10th in 100 fly (1:05.93), Lena Redisch 10th in 'B' final 200 fly (2:32.35), 2nd in 'C' final 200 free (2:11.01), 5th place in 1500 free (17:50.36), Margaret Wolfson 2nd place 'B' final 100 breast (1:17.63). Olivia French will represent ASA at the USA Swimming US Open Championships in East Meadow, New York. Al Li, Zachary Einhorn, Chris Emerson, Danny Calder, Lena Redisch, Margaret Wolfson and Caroline McTaggart will represent ASA at the USA Futures Championships in Geneva, Ohio. Rory Stumpf, Gaoxing Cosgrove and Stefan Heller will represent PVS at the Eastern Zone Swimming Championships in Richmond, VA. 3

4 lorem ipsum dolor General News and Schedules LONG COURSE MEET SCHEDULE Congratulations to the ASA Board! I want to thank everyone who voted for our board nominees. We reached quorum! After tallying the votes, the proposed slate will join the ASA Board. The ASA Board will be: Patrick Donahue Kirk Morgan Steve Redisch Rebecca Fayed Karl Stumpf Pamela Franklin Michelle Martin (SAVE THE DATES) April FISH Fairland (9-over) May LC GMU, VA (All Ages) Machine LC Lee District, VA (All Ages) June MD Rockville, MD (Qualified 9-12 NBAC LC Baltimore, MD 11 PVS LC TBD (All Ages) 25 PVS LC TBD (All Ages) 27-1 USA LC Indianapolis, IN July PVS SR/JR LC Freedom Center, VA PVS 14-under LC JO Fairland, MD August USA Futures LC Geneva, OH 8-12 USA LC East Meadow, NY 9-12 USA LC Eastern Richmond, VA Make sure you check the calendars for practice and meet updates! 4

5 ASA excels in MCSL Summer League cont lorem ipsum dolor 9-10 Andre Brooks: 100 Free: Qualified 2 nd, Finished 1 st Time: 1:06.86, 50 Butterfly: Qualified 2 nd, Finished 1 st Time: Both times are new ASA records! Zach Fayed: 50 Back: Qualified 3 rd, Finished 5 th Time: Cameron House: 100 Free: Qualified 7 th, Finished 5 th, Time: 1:13.94, 50 Breast: Qualified 5 th, Finished 6 th, Time: Madeleine Simmons: 50 Butterfly: Qualified 6 th, Finished 7 th, Time:36.91 Kyle Wang: 100 Free: Qualified 7 th, Finished 6 th, Time: 1:12.75, 50 Butterfly: Qualified 3 rd, Finished 3 rd, Time: Klara Young: 50 Butterfly: 2 nd Alternate Caitlin Hofmann : 100 Breast: 2 nd Alternate Sienna Karp: 200 IM: Qualified 4 th, Finished 2 nd Time: 2:32.32, 100 Breast: Qualified 5 th, Finished 4 th 1:22.85 Both times are new ASA records! Cate Navarrette: 100 Breast: Qualified 6 th, Finished 8 th, Time: 1:27.83 Georgia Yang: 200 IM: Qualified 6 th, Finished 7 th, 2:42.79, 100 Butterfly: Qualified 1 st, Finished 2 nd, Time: 1: Emily Noll: 100 Back: 2 nd Alternate Danny Calder: 100 Butterfly: 1 st Alternate Olivia French 100 Butterfly: Qualified 4 th, Finished 3 rd, Time: 1:03.52 Alan Li 200 Backstroke: Qualified 5 th, Finished 8 th, Time 2: Butterfly: Qualified 1 st, Finished 6 th, Margaret Wolfson 200 Breaststroke: Qualified 2 nd, Finished 2 nd, Time: 2:42.91 As noted, several ASA team records were set at the meet, we look forward to updating the record books again the next few weeks as the kids participate in their championship meets! Go ASA!!! 5

6 lorem ipsum dolor Let s Get Technical: Housekeeping Issues RISING STARS REGISTRATION Rising Stars Fall Registration opened on Monday July 17 th! Adhering to Traffic Rules at Stone Ridge and Bolger Center At All Star Aquatics, we must remember that we are guests at the facilities where we practice, Stone Ridge and Bolger Center. Being a guest means being respectful of the people that work there and following all of the traffic rules on each campus. New dates and information can be found on the ASA website. Pass this information along to any swimmers that may be interested! Please be respectful drivers and follow all of the traffic patterns on each campus. For additional and the most up to date information, go to Important Links Have news and photos you would like to share? Please . asa.swimming@gmail.com Don t forget to like us on Facebook! Meet Mobile & Deck Pass (apps for phone) 6