THE TRIPLE LINDY News about swimming, diving, & water polo!!!

Volume 2, Issue 1

Aug/Sept 2010 ISSUE

Welcome back to another addi-

tion of The Triple Lindy. I am

extremely excited and ready for the 2010-11 season. We have a

lot of events and new things

coming up.

I have seen a lot of swimmers

compete this summer through

USA swimming and summer league swimming and I am

proud to say that we are com-

ing into this season in much better shape and conditioning

than in the past.

As you may of heard, every two years, UIL athletics realigns the

districts and regions. We have

lost the teams from Keller ISD and Northwest, but gained a

handful of teams from Irving

and the Richland/Haltom area.

First of all, I want all swimmers

and families to attend our an-

nual Pasta Party at Cross Tim-bers Middle School on Sept 2.

At this event, parents will join

the booster club, sign up for

volunteer positions, purchase

swim apparel, and order team

pictures.

Our first meet of the season is

our Inter Squad August on

September 25th.

Our fundraiser this year will be the Sprint Pentathlon on Oct

16th. I expect about 500 swim-

mers at this meet. This meet

will generate funds for the booster club. We need a lot of

help from the parents!

The Varsity will be going on a

team trip to Alief, TX on Dec

10th-11th. I am very excited that our team was invited to

this prestigious swim meet.

It will be our first travel meet in

my tenure at GCISD.

We will be starting varsity water

polo in the spring after regions.

We will be holding tryouts in

December.

The season will begin at the conclusion of Region Champi-

onships.

Finally, we will be hosting the

District 5-5A Championships at our pool. We will need parent

help to make the meet run

smoothly.

I would like to thank all the

parents for being instrumental

in making this program suc-cessful. A big thank you to

Cheril Rios and Debbie Mon-

teiro for being the booster rep-resentatives, the booster club

members for volunteering their

time, and the Green family for donating waters to the swim

team.

Coach Jau

Stephanie Klocke is our newest assistant swim and water polo coach for the 2010-11 season. Coach Klocke recently graduated from Iona College where she competed as a swimmer and water polo player. Her background also in-cludes coaching summer league swimming in Southlake and she is currently the Head Age Group Coach of Dallas Water Polo Club.

She can be contacted via email Stephanie.klocke@gcisd.net and over phone at 817.251-5352.

GCISD Aquatics welcomes Stephanie Klocke as our assistant swim/water polo coach!!!

THE 2010-11 SEASON WILL BRING OUT THE BEST OF GCISD AQUATICS!!!

Welcome: Newest GCISD swim/dive athletes Big Time Accom-plishments

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Team Trip News Images of the Month About the Triple Lindy...

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10 questions with Madison Monteiro

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Alumi Spotlight: Briana Brotherson

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TIP OF THE MONTH: Relay Starts

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Inside this issue:

IMPORTANT

DATES

� Pasta Party Sept 2nd @

CTMS 6PM

� Intersquad Meet Sept 25th

9:30am start

� Team Building @ Group

Dynamix Sept 25 4-8PM

� Meet against FMHS @

HOME Sept 28th 6PM

start

PLEASE WELCOME OUR NEWEST MEMBERS OF THE GCISD FAMILY!!!

CHHS GHS

Jacy Bently Jake Bardin

Diego Cardenas Natasha Bolton

Sophie Cardenas Sarah Butz

Drew Jordan Anna Freedenfeld

Lauren Miller Christian Kalmbach

Ashley Nied Aidan McCue

Natalie Preola Madeline Mitchell

Natalie Sabre Andrew Moore

Nida Sayani Miranda Myers

Connor Sisk Max Roberts

Madison Whitlock Lauren Sanders

Aundrea Scott

Nick Torraca

Lauren Voigt

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BIG TIME ACCOMPLISHMENTS!!!!

Will Huffman & Nick Torraca at na-tional level triathlons this summer. Both athletes also competed at the

TISCA Triathlon Championships in the Spring. Huffman won the state title and Nick placed 13th. He was also selected to train at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs this summer. Torraca competed at

the USAT Youth Elite Nationals.

Christine Riddle: A 2010 CHHS Graduate was recently selected as Dale Hansen’s McDonalds Scholar Athlete. She will be on WFAA Chan-nel 8 sports segment on Aug 29th.

This fall, she will competing for TCU.

Madison Monteiro of GHS & Ryan Hall of CHHS recently competed at Sectional Short Course Championships in Con-

roe, TX. Both athletes achieved numer-ous best times and finaled in their

events.

Lexi Colon of CHHS was recently selected on the Team North Texas Zones Team. The meet

took place in Atlanta, Georgia.

If you have any story ideas, pictures, &

announcements email Coach Jau: daniel.jau@gcisd.net

Mistakes and omissions may happen. I will do my best to acknowledge mistakes and omissions in the next issue. Please contact me if you have any suggestions. I would like to keep the newsletter to 5 pages or less. The Triple Lindy is planned to be monthly newsletter. The Triple Lindy is in-tended to provide information about GCISD Aquatic Programs, GCISD ath-letes, and alumni.

The varsity swimmers and divers will be competing at the 2010 Alief Varsity Invite on Dec 10-11. Alief is a community in Harris County (Houston). We will be competing against 16 of the finest teams in South Texas. I plan to take approxi-mately 40 varsity swimmers and divers to the competition. Time standards and factors such as work ethic, attendance, and attitude will be considered for travel.

“This is a great invitational

against the top teams in south

texas for our swimmers and

divers.”

Got any story ideas? Errors & Omissions?

TEAM TRIP NEWS: 2010 ALIEF VARSITY INVITATIONAL

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IMAGES OF THE MONTH

10 QUESTIONS WITH

MADISON MONTEIRO

Madison Monteiro

Grapevine High School

Varsity Swim Team

Captain

11th grade

1) How old were you when you learned to swim? 2

2) What’s is your favorite class other than swimming? AP Art

3) What is your favorite stroke? Breaststroke & IM

4) Do you have a nickname? Triple M G

5) What do you plan to do after high school? Swim in college, have a suc-cessful career, and become a woman.

6) What is your favorite food? Pineapples, Mangos, sandwiches, and Mexi-can candy.

7) What do you like to do for fun? (other than swimming) Play the violin

and piano. Hang out with friends, reading, tanning, shopping, eating, and creeping on people on facebook.

8) What is your favorite song? “Can’t Be Tamed” by Miley Cyrus

9) What are your goals this season? Break the 100 breaststroke record and the 200 IM record. Hoping for a junior national cut in the breaststroke. I want to rank in the top 20 in my class.

10) What’s the best part of being on the GHS Swim Team? All the friends I made and the experience on being on a big high school team. I get to know a lot of people from other schools because of swimming. And the best part of it all is being coached by the venerable Coach Jau.

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ALUMNI NEWS:

Q&A with Briana Brotherson!

CHHS ‘03

Kansas ‘07

B.A. in Communications

All-American

Holds 5 school records

Swam for Clemson Univ

& Kansas

7 Time Big 12 Finalist

1) What are you doing these days? I work for Bechtel Corporation-

Largest Engineering, Procurement & Construction company in the US. I am cur-

rently working on the Keystone Pipeline Project as Document Management Su-

pervisor.

2) Any advice for the high school swimmers/divers? Don't take anything for

granted. Every moment counts. Every memory is special.-Also, believe it or not

all the years of swimming 10,000 yards a practice while staring at a black line and

singing songs in your head will really pay off in ways you could never imagine.

3) Any memories you would like to share? Swimming has developed me in so

many ways. My success in school and my career are due to the skills I achieved

from swimming; hard work, dedication, determination, and discipline. Cherish

the memories because they are truly a blessing.

Tip of Month (courtesy of USA Swimming)

RELAY STARTS RELAY STARTS

WITH COACH DAVID ELLINGHAUS OF THE BEGNW MARLINS

BY KELSEY SAVAGE HAYS

Starts set the pace for any race, but in a relay, there are three other people depending on you to nail it successfully. The pressure causes some swimmers to hesitate and others to spring ahead, with splits significantly faster than their individual events. Here’s some advice from coach David Ellinghaus of the BEGNW Marlins for swimmers looking to improve their relay starts: The Arms “It’s important that the starter is confident getting momentum from his arms,” says Ellinghaus. The swimmer should keep his hands out front of his body and use them to track the finisher in the water. When it’s time, the starter swings his arms up and over his head, and follows their movement into a dive. Once you’ve started swinging your arms, focus on producing a fast dive. The Legs In a top-notch relay start, the racer takes a full step forward, all the way from the back of the block to the front with both feet. This step propels the body and is a big part of what makes the relay start faster than a flat start. Novice relay racers might try building up to the full step by keeping one foot at the front of the block and the other at the back. With one foot or two, the step is taken just as the arms come down and forward—the whole body moves in one fluid motion towards the water. Putting It Together To perform a relay start effectively, the swimmer initiates his arms before the finisher touches the wall. The time when the athlete on the block begins circling their arms depends on the speed of the incoming swimmer and how long it takes the athlete on the block to complete the relay start. Judging the timing of when to begin the relay start is why it is very important to practice it.” Ellinghaus makes sure his swimmers practice off all their teammates to prevent error, even if the relay order changes during a meet. And don’t neglect the finishes. Ellinghaus says, “nine times out of ten, a poor start is the fault of the swimmer in the water.” An extra stroke or long glide can cause a false start. To prevent that, Ellinghaus practices finishes as much as starts—helping his swimmers perform the best relays possible.

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