BLUE VS GREEN

The best turn out in years, good job by Owen , Beth , and Anne for getting their swimmers to the meet. Thanks to the parents for getting them there. As the year goes on we will keep up dating the scores. here are the scores after the Blue/Green Meet.

Blue Green

Swim-A-Thon 3038 4478
Spirit Signs 15 15
Family Spirit 10 10 20pts for the Wolhrab Fmily
10/under
participation 23 21
Team Scores 1124 1099
Totals 4210 5602

What a meet !, from top to bottom we swam well. Just about all swimmers took the step to the next level and in my opinion even though we weren't the biggest team we swam the best of all the teams there. Good job by the parents of shamming all the other team parents in to cheering for their swimmer SANDSHARK PARENTS made the meet more exciting.

MEETS THAT SWIMMERS QUALIFIED FOR:

JUNIOR NATIONALS

CASEY COOPER

SENIOR SECTIONALS

CASEY COOPER

ANA FISH

KURT WOLHRAB

KAYLON KIRK

NC SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

Kaylon Kirk

Casey Cooper

Kurt Wolhrab

Meg Wolhrab

Ana Fish

Alyssa Fish

Bennett Westling

Mark Carey

Allison Detomasso

Alex Zang

14/under Age Group Championships

Allison Detomasso

Eugene Zhang

Mark Carey

Kendell Feild

Julie Latturulo

SC Meet

46 Sandsharks swimmers in the meet, Great job parents getting your swimmers to the meet. 2 days to swimming FAST ,time to pack your swim bag . The t-shirts will be at the meet Friday night and Saturday for pick-up, Parents & Swimmers please don't wear the meet shirt until Saturday night at Finals. Let's have some fun.

GO SANDSHARKS

SC Psych Sheet

Here is the first psych sheet

http://www.sportstiming.com/Meets/CA-SC/08CarolinaClassic/

SC Meet update

To all Sandsharks attending the meet in South Carolina

· Everything is as planed the only change is that the all 11/12 have been moved to the AM session instead of the afternoon session.
· The size of the meet is perfect for our team which means that a lot our swimmers will be making finals. Parents should plan on their swimmer being in the night session. Finals swimming should be taken advantage when the opportunity presence itself.
· As soon as the psych sheet is out it will be posted.
· As information is given it will be posted.

Blue v Green

Each year the Sandsharks have a blue vs green meet right around the holidays. This year and from now on, the blue and green teams will compete all year. There will be 3 main competitions:

Swim-A-Thon - Blue/Green Meet - Spirit Week

Each team will be given pionts, for each event, over the course of the season . They will get their banner on the web site for the next year. Captains of the Blue Team this year are Casey Cooper & Meg Wolhrab; Captains of the Green Team are Kaylon Kirk & Kurt Wolhrab. We are doing this mainly to get the younger swimmers involved, help them get to know the senior swimmers and feel more part of the Sandshark family.

Swimmer Spotlight: Alizabeth Bowlus

SWIMMER SPOT LIGHT: Alizabeth Bowlus

Age: 10

Birthday: June 2nd, 1998

School: Sandhills Farm Life, 5th grade

Best Event: 50 Backstroke. It is different from all of the other strokes because you can always see who you are racing

Swimming for: 1 year

Goal for this season: Make JO cuts in the 50 freestyle and 50 backstroke

Things she plans to do to reach goals this season: Work on faster flip-turns, tighter streamline, and starts.

Favorite Swimmer: Michael Phelps. He has good sportsmanship and he always improves himself.

Favorite thing about swimming: Being independent, not having to count on anyone but yourself.

Hobbies besides swimming: Play outside, doing crafts

Favorite movie: Get Smart

Favorite Food: Steak

Long-term Goals: Go to the Olympics, live in Alaska, have lots of pets.

Favorite thing about being a Sandshark: You have great teammates, the coaches help you improve yourself, getting to spend time with Andie Schaible and Brooke Sayers.

South Carolina Meet

Looks like we are going to have nice turnout for the SC Meet; 42 simmers so far. Picture of he pool on left. Sandshark will have their share of swimmers in the finials at night, it would be good to have as many swimmers & parents there at Saturdays finials even if your swimmer is not in the session. This is a great way for them to see the next level.

South Carolina Meet

Design Change

We have changed the design a little

Fall SeasonT-Shrit

T-Shirt orders form, will be in boxes and on the Internet as soon as I get prices. They will be due at the Tuesday of next week . Short & Long Sleeve will be available. I would like swimmers and parents to wear them on Saturday , at the South Carolina Meet if they can. To the left is the design.

Sandshark Forever Party

SANDSHARKS ALUMNI: If you are lucky enough to be a graduate of the Sandsharks then please join us at Dugann’s Pub on Tuesday December 23rd at 8:00pm to tell embellished stories of how it use to be and make up stories about how it should be. Please check the web site for all the information about this fun night with the Sandshark family.

Sandsharks Retired

Each year we retire a few more sharks. This sharks that will were retired

Emily Michael
Kristin Chavis
Lindley Fleury
Joey Ransdell

and even though Sam and Susie are gone their Sharks will be retired when they graduate Sam in 2009 and Susie in 2012

Developmental Meet

Great job at the Developmental meet this weekend the newbies swimming the first 100 IM remember to check the calendar the next development meet is the Blue vs Green

Here are their times:

Karlyn Ferguson = 1:28.34

Wallace Beeson = 1:33.75

Fiona Duffy = 1:37.46

Emily Hodges = 1:47.23

Hans Johnson = 1:54.44

Carlos Field = 1:55.12

Mary Etowski = 2:33.22

Kaycie Atherton = 2:50.67

Hannah Burns = 2:19.68

Reece Dickerhoff = 2:23.22

Jenna Burns = 2:05.21

Hannah Gulley = 2:17.50

Patrick Byers = 2:39.61

Will Byers = 2:46.94

Juliette Neveu = 3:06.42

Kyla Jones = 3:09.87

Jolie Ferguson = 3:10.60

Danny Essex 3:17.47

Meghan Etowski 3:47.44

Florence Dolan 4:13.31

Pictures for the 2009 end of the year slide show

Parents & swimmers remember to take pictures for the slide show this year here are some great shots that Mrs. Fry took at the Star Meet. The meet itself went great Mark Carey picking up his first JO cut and Eugene Zhang missing about 4 by 1 second total, I can't wait to see him swim in SC. All the Swimmers and parent need to get ready for BIG SWIMMING in SC.

SWIMMER SPOT LIGHT

Casssidy Fry

Age: 13

Birthday: September 28th

School: New Century Middle, 7th Grade

Best Event: 100 backstroke

Swimming for: 3 Years

Goal for this season: Make JOs in the 50 free, 100 backstroke, 100 free, 200 IM

Things she plans to do to reach goals this season: Work on starts, turns, and technique

Favorite Swimmer: Michael Phelps

Favorite thing about swimming: Going to meets, hanging out with swimmer friends. She loves to do relays at practice and at meets. Her favorite relay is the 200 medly relay, swimming either backstroke or butterfly

Pets: One cat named Snow. Also has a brother, Matthew (17) who also swims at Union Pines

Hobbies besides swimming: Playing the flute, reading, bike-riding

Favorite movie: Harry Potter movies

Favorite Food: Spaghetti with Meatballs

Long-term Goals: Go to UNC, be a doctor

Best thing about being a Sandshark: Having a team that will always be there.

sam last night with the Sandsharks

Sam has his chick magnet hat on

Pictures of Sectionals

Ramdom pictures from Trials

The last pictures from trials Mary T on the pool deck with her kids, a close up of the pool from the deck, and a great shot for Hansen in the prelims of the 200breast

Thursday Casey and I went to the National Team Dinner during the dinner each of the Olympic Team from 1932 on was brought up to have to have their pictures.left members of the 1972 team ,members of the 1976 the greatest men's team of all time only loosing 1 medal in all the men's events,bottom Brian Goodell he greatest distance in history

Mens 50 free semi last night

Jones and Hall in the middle of the pool

2 World Record last night

Great night the best yet, Casey saw 1st and 2nd world records set . The mens 200 back and 200 im two of the best races I have ever seen Lochte came out on the short end of the stick both times but he dose keep Phelps and Peirsol honest. 13,500 spectator the biggest swimming crowd ever everybody got free T-shirts I got red Casey White. Marcy you did good we love you.

Casey & Meredith shopping

One of my oldest friends Chris Weissman is here with his daughter Meredith ,and Casey and her are doing what they do best shopping

the meet