State Championships!!!

Well...at long last...here are my pictures from the State Championship meet at Brophy Prep in Phoenix. We had a great...albeit long...weekend. The image to the right is the pool as it looked at sunset.


Seniors swam on one side and age group kids on the other...so oftentimes there were two Heat kids swimming at the same time in different pools!

A professional photographer was on hand again to take pictures. His name is Jon
Simpson and you can see the gallery of photos on his website.
These are the pages with Heat kids (and adults...Kate =): 21, 22, 53, 68,
71, and 77. There are pics of Katelyn, Anna, Ashton, Kate, Jake and Alexander.
There may be others...and if I missed you I apologize.

Alexander, Ashton, Katelyn, Jesse, Kate, Myriah, and Nick all made finals...way to go guys! Note Ashton's game face...VERY intimidating!

Our 13-14 girls relay team did a great job and took time off of every relay they swam. There was some very tough competition, but they held their own. Nice work Ally, Emily, Jessica and Myriah....well done ladies!


Congratulations to Katelyn for achieving her first ever Jr. National Time!!! What an achievement!

This picture is the result of a scheme cooked up by Barbara Hernandez (Ally's mom) and myself to get Coach to smile for the camera...she was tickling him and STILL all we get is a grimace. Sheesh Coach!



I don't have much else to say...I think my creativity is sapped!! So here are my pictures...hope you enjoy them.



(first pic, second row = Jessica swimming breast in the medley relay)

Regional Photos by Harry Allen

For those at the regional swim meet, you may remember that there was a gentleman taking pictures with a very nifty camera. He approached us and gave us his website address and said there would pictures posted from the meet...including some of our kids.

His website is http://homepage.mac.com/h65allen/WSFRegional327/index.html

Have a look!

Cool pictures from the West Wetlands

I thought you all might like to see these. They're pictures of a hummingbird nest with baby hummingbirds and their proud mama standing guard!

Thank you to Tina Stuart, a good friend of mine, for these pictures!
VERY COOL!

Practice makes...better

Thank you Audra Flores for providing us with some pictures of a random day at 4pm practice!

Coach Andersen and I sure do look stern...I wonder why? lol

Caitlyn practicing breaststroke.



Coach David getting ready to get in the water with his Red 2 group.








Red 2 in the foreground and Red 3 in the background.
Lookin' good!

Troy the Equipment Guy.

"Pssst....you need to buy a suit?"

Regionals in Goodyear

What a GREAT weekend we had in Goodyear, AZ!! 18 kids made Regional cuts and headed off to the beatiful YMCA pool in Goodyear for this year's Regional meet. We only took 10 kids last year...so our team has improved a LOT over the year! Way to go kids!

The results are finally in and we had a FANTASTIC 72% personal best times!! WOW!

To lead off the meet, our 11-12 girls put on an exciting and wonderful show with their FIRST place win in the 200 Free Relay!! That got everyone fired up and we had a TON of best times on Friday.

However, that night we were up WAY too late eating dinner at Macaroni Grill. The food was great (after a 2½ hour wait!!) but we were all exhausted and we stumbled back to our hotels to go to bed.

Saturday most of the kids were exhausted, and it showed. It also taught them how important a good night's sleep is when you're out of town at swim meets. But, there were some good swims and again, we had a great time watching the relay!

Sunday was better, and again the relay team did an outstanding job getting everyone excited for the morning's events.


A special thank you to Vicky Timms for helping to secure the cool t-shirts for this year's Championship Team!! They turned out to be FANTASTIC!

Also, a big thank you to Mrs. Kaba for putting together goodie bags for all the kids...we just LOVED the squirt guns Leigh!! /end sarcasm. Haha...at least they weren't kazoos!!

Altogether it was a fabulous meet.

Thank you to all the kids for a great job in the water, and to all the parents for your continued support of the team and your committment to your kids.

They may not say it very often...but without their parents the team wouldn't be nearly as successful. So, you have my gratitude and appreciation.

Caution:

Swimmer with 'tude.