Saturday, June 28, 2008

Diversity in Competitive Swimming: Video

Nicely done piece from the Today Show.




Another story on the topic, and Cullen Jones, from the New York Times is here.

Olympic Trials on TV


From Coach Julie:

Hope everything is going well in the off-season.
Below is the television schedule for the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials,which start this weekend in Omaha. Set aside some time to check it out-swimming is not televised as often as it should be!

Enjoy!

-JS

(Times and dates removed, since they have past - FP)

(From Frank: If you can't wait, or if you missed it, check out some of NBC's Olympic swimming video features here. )

Saturday, June 21, 2008

USA Olympic Swimming Psyche Sheet

The USA Olympic swim trials are coming up for the Beijing games.

Michael Phelps has his eye on grabbing gold in 9 events, but there are many more athletes bringing their A-game to the Omaha event. Also Katie Hoff is entered in 7 events.

Here is a link to the psyche sheet -- look at those times!

Here is a video of Hoff's world record 400-IM last year in Australia.

Sunday, June 01, 2008

Summer Camp

Interested in a summer swim camp at West Point?

Julie asks to share this info from another Tsunami parent:

"The camp has received good reviews and is very well run and safe. The cost for an overnight 1 week session is $520. "

Check out more info here...