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    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!

Photos
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 (9 mos pregnant!)		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
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