Congratulations and keep up the good work MOO

With the ending of the team's stellar performance at the YMCA Nationals meet this past May in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and now with the Olympics, there has been a lot of positive energy on the pool deck and pride and excitement about swimming. Congratulations and keep up the good work MOO. Here are a few announcements:

1. There is an short course yards meet on September 20th in Ocala. Entries are due Sept 13th. Check out the website for more info: http://www.dixiezone.org/Meets/0809ocala.pdf

2. We will be instituting a new feature at MOO. Drum roll....starting next month, we will be featuring a monthly MOO spotlight swimmer. This is a chance to learn more about your teammates. To kick things off, we will feature Coach Bruce. Each monthly spotlight will be featured on our team blog. Be sure to check it out next month, http://www.mooswimming.blogspot.com/

3. The annual Masters meet against Rollins is right around the corner. Several MOO swimmers have competed in the past years. This is a fun meet where master swimmers from the Orlando area at all levels compete against the college swimmers at Rollins. No registration with USMS is required, just show up. This year the coach of Rollins is looking to have the meet on Saturday, October 18th or on a Wednesday night during the month of October. The coach of Rollins wants to know which option works better for our team. Please e-mail me back your thoughts if you want to attend. Here are the order of events:
200 medley relay
200 free
50 free
200 IM
100 fly
10 min break
100 free
100 back
500 free
100 breast
200 free relay

4. Show your creativity and artistic ability! We are looking for new T-shirt designs this fall. MOO will be holding a t-shirt contest and will have the team vote on their favorite design. If you are interested, please submit your design by Tuesday, September 30th to Diane or Sean. We will then vote on them during the next week at practice.

5. Looking ahead.....mark your calendars for next year, the YMCA Nationals will take place from April 16-19th in Ft. Lauderdale.

Fay...Gustav...

Despite the storms, we were able to have practice all week last week!  Hopefully Gus will be as generous...  Bruce is out of town for work until Thursday.  We will have a workout for everyone on the deck.  Sunday Fay helped us out since the rain cooled off the outdoor pool enough we had a nice swim outside.  It was a tad green and we had one downpour, but it all worked out in the end.  8 MOO swimmers showed up and 7 of us went out for a bite to eat after practice at Jason's Deli. yumm  Last week Greg and I went to Ohio and got to go to a Reds game with Mark, Alison, and Jack Jones.  The Reds did terrible, but we had a great time.

Sunday Aug 25 noon

Casual pickup practice at the downtown YMCA at noon.

Tuesday Thundershowers...

Seems like this is a common title for our blog in the Summer.  Sean handed out the workout on the deck to about 16 swimmers.  At 7:40 we were called out for lightning and didn't get back in the pool.  Hopefully we will have better luck at the pool tonight, Bruce will be back too. Look for a new feature on our web site in September: swimmer of the month.

LMSC Newsletter features MOO

Check out the August edition of the Florida LMSC newsletter.  We have a fun little write up thanks in part to the comedy writing of Greg. Hope everyone is having a great time watching all of the olympic swimming.  We were talking about getting a group together to watch the night Dara swims.

Lightning

Well the pool is still a little cloudy, but it didn't keep 16 swimmers away Tuesday night. Unfortunately, we got a lightning call about 7:30pm and practice was cancelled for the night.  Better luck Thursday.  Yuko is missing her red mickey swim cap if anyone has seen it please return it to her at the pool.  If you haven't seen the meet photos from Cocoa Beach a few weekends ago, check them out here.

Cocoa Meet Results- click here

The meet results are in for the Cocoa Beach meet. Click here
Mark your schedules we have the next meet picked out:  September 20th in Ocala.  It is a 1 day meet, and has a flat fee of $30. Meet info You can enter 5 events.  Entries are due Sept 13th. The events are:

200Y free       200Y IM

50Y fly           200Y breast

100Y breast   50Y back

100Y free      100Y fly

50Y fly          100Y IM

200Y back    100Y back

50Y free        200Y fly

500Y free

Cocoa Beach Photos- click here

Well, they say the pool chemicals are returning to normal. Anyone who made it Monday saw the pea soup and knew we didn't get in. It is still a little cloudy but they got it open by practice Tuesday night. Hopefully it will be back to normal by Monday.
We are meeting at the downtown Y Sunday at Noon for a casual swim if anyone is interested.
The cocoa beach meet photos are up, but I still haven't written the captions. Click here The results are not yet posted, but I will let you know when they are.

Winning weekend for MOO

Great job Sean and Ryan at the Crystal River Twilight Triathlon! Sean placed 5th overall (2nd in age group) and Ryan placed 4th in her age group. Great job Moo swimmers: Colin, John, Mark B, Tom, Gil, Steve, SeanII, Erin and Diane.  In the end Colin and John tied for high point.  Erin and Diane also won high point in their age groups and swam both the 800 and 400 free.  Don't forget to ask Mark about his first masters event the 900M free. Sean II also swam his first Masters meet.   We had some great relays and made John swim the 100 fly at least 3 times.  We had a great weekend, enjoyed some BBQ, and earned lots of team points, results and more photos still to come.  Bruce has everyones ribbons and will bring them to the pool!

Cocoa beach Saturday

The Cocoa beach meet is going well so far.  We had 3 swimmers compete in the 800 free, which took most of the morning.  Today we had 8 swimmers in all, and the men's 400 free relay had no competition, and easily sailed to first place, even though Mark B. led and had just jumped out from his 800 free.  Colin and John are competing to see who can take the high point award for their age group. A few of us headed to the beach for Tacos for lunch. If you are free tomorrow, join us on the Brevard CC campus at 9am, for lots more fun! 

Good practice

We had a great practice with lots of 200's and 300's this evening.  About 16 swimmers, many gearing up for the meet this weekend.  The practice even ended with a 100IM race between Teresa and Tom.  Hope everyone can make it to Cocoa Beach this weekend to cheer on MOO.  Warmup starts at 8:00am and the meet begins at 9:00.

Raindrops keep falling on my head

It was a rainy week in Orlando, but we still managed to get some swimming in.  I have been fighting a cold and missed practice early this week, but managed to swim on Thursday.  There were about 15 swimmers and Bruce left us a good workout with lots of long stuff.  He was off visiting Family for his Birthday weekend in NJ.  Welcome back Kathleen.  Lots of us have upcoming vacations, but hopefully we will meet to swim at the pool in between.  The Cocoa Beach meet is next weekend.  I will let everyone know when the heat sheets are up on line.  And if anyone wants to carpool we can talk about it this week on deck! And of course who has a tent to bring, and take some new photos for the blog. Alison and Mark are getting Settled in their new home in Kentucky.  It has been cool enough to open the windows at night!

See everyone at the pool!

Cocoa beach meet July 26-27

Entries must be postmarked by Tuesday.....

It's not too late....

Both days, one day whatever works....

Late entries will be accepted until Friday for an additional $10.00

http://www.dixiezone.org/Meets.htm

We had a nice practice this morning at the Aquatic Center.  Colin and John worked on relay starts, while Sean II, Mark and Diane timed some long swims including the 800.  Bruce and Greg helped us with our starts.