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~ - Wednesday, June 25, 2008
The Wave the Wheat meet is coming up fast! Please choose your volunteer positions today.
Wave the Wheat is Thursday - Sunday, July 10 - 13. We need lots of help for our BIG meet of the year, so please volunteer for multiple jobs and/or sessions. We need around 40 people to help at each session, and we have 8 sessions! That's BIG! :)
Remember that if you are unavailable to work the weekend, please contact Angie or Jim Evers (acevers@sunflower.com, 865-1662) ASAP to make other arrangements (necessary to avoid the $50 fine).
We still need help in many areas, including these:
- Apparel & Heat Sheet Sales - sell t-shirts and heat sheets.
- Hospitality - help with serving food & drinks to coaches and officials.
- Announcing - on-the-job training available
- Awards - label and sort medals.
- Timers - we need 20 timers for each session! Timing is so easy to learn, and these are the best seats in the house.
- Setup & Breakdown - many hands make the work go faster.
Again, please consider volunteering for more than one session. We need you!
The best way to sign up is online on the Worker Selection page (select "2008 Wave the Wheat Meet"). If you have any questions on how to use the online sign-ups, please contact the Evers (acevers@sunflower.com, 865-1662).
Thank you to those who are already signed up. Great job!
~Angie & Jim Evers
VP - Operations
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Board Meeting and By-law change
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. - Sunday, June 22, 2008
The Board meeting regularly scheduled for the third Wednesday of the month is rescheduled for Wednesday, July 23 at 7 pm. July 16 is the first day of Sectionals.
At the meeting, the Board will vote on a Resolution to modify the by-laws to clarify the function of the Vice President - Liaison. The Resolution states:
The Vice President - Liaison with the Membership shall be a
voting member of the Board of Directors. The duties shall include, but not
be limited to, acting as a liaison between the general membership and the
Board of Directors to resolve issues and, if needed, bring questions and concerns of the general membership before the Board; the coordination of the parent representatives for each swimming group; and such other related duties as the Board of Directors may authorize or direct.
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BOARD POSITIONS OPENING
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Attention – Leadership Opportunities! The following Board of Director positions will be expiring at the general meeting in September. Position Current Board Representatives
Presidents Carl Gallagher/Nancy Ulrich
VP Fundraising Ed and Polly Sloan
VP Liaison Shawn Henderson
Secretary Open* If you interested in serving a 2-year term in one or more of these roles please let us know by emailing us at cgall311@aol.com.
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IMPORTANT COACHING NEWS
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. - Saturday, June 21, 2008
Hello to all of our members - We want to inform everyone that Scott Bliss, our Head Age Group Coach, has resigned to accept a coaching position with the Kansas City Blazers. Join us in congratulating Scott and wishing him all the best with his new team. He has worked hard to help the our swimmers excel and made immeasurable contributions to the Club. This is a tremendous opportunity for Scott to advance his career and we will still see him around at MVS meets in the future.
Thanks for all your hard work, Coach Scott, and best of luck.
The Aquahawks will be working to name a replacement for Coach Scott as quickly as possible. We will seek applications and Coach Mike will announce the successor as quckly as possible.
Rest assured that the Aquahawks will continue to have the best coaching team in the Missouri Valley.
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Fundraising Wave the Wheat
Deadlines:
Your fundraising Money and Ads are due in TOMORROW! (June 23rd by 7:00p.m.)
New Banner orders and artwork in JPEG or PDF format are due this Friday, June 20th!
Please leave your money and ads in the file marked “Sloan Fundraising” at the pool…. (Black rolling file cabinet)
Our deadlines are set by our printer…. No Exceptions!!!
Thank you
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Fall Start Date
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Aquabreak Summer/ Fall 2008
The Aquahawk Program will break from August 6th (or your swimmers last competition) until Monday September 8th, 2008.
All Swimmers will receive information on what group they will start with in the Fall, prior to their last date of competition this summer.
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Fundraising - Monday, June 09, 2008
Your fundraising packets are due June 23rd. All of your businesses should have been contacted by now. If you have new banners sold the deadline for turning in art work and information is June 20th.
Thank you for your support
Polly and Ed Sloan, VP of Fundraising esloan01372@aol.com
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Aquahawk Info / Reminders
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! - Friday, May 30, 2008
Aquahawk Swimmers and Parents;
We hope you are excited for a great summer of swimming in this 2008 Olympic Year. Once every 4 years our sport receives the glory it is due and the athletes get to perform against the top swimmers in the world and we get to watch on live TV. GO USA!
This week the Aquahawks, are looking forward to swimming at the Beach Bash Meet in Topeka KS on June 6, 7, and 8th in Gage Park in Topeka KS.
Our National Team swimmers will participate in the SWIMVITATIONAL (Olympic Trails Test Meet) in Omaha NE at the Qwest Center next weekend of June 6-9th.
The Lawrence IMX meet is also quickly aproaching, please declare your intent to swim in the meet on our website. Parents should also volunteer to work at the meet using our online sign up sheet.
Also, remember now is the time to be “hitting the pavement” and asking your business to sponsor the Aquahawks for the Wave The Wheat invitational. Packets are due back June 23rd.
See you at the pool……
Coach Mike
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Bronze/Discovery Info
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Schedule Change - Bronze/Discovery
The Aquahawks have decided to merge the Discovery and Bronze programs this summer in an effort to streamline the introductory levels of our program. This will mean a practice schedule of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 5:30-6:30PM at LIAC. This schedule will work alongside our Mini-Meets scheduled for the Thursdays of June 12th, July 3rd and July 17th. These meets will be held in place of practice. If you need a meet sign up sheet, see Patrick or Cassie.
This summer, we are also offering swim and turn clinics Saturday mornings at Haskell from 10:30-11:15AM. These clinics will be limited to the first 20 swimmers who sign up and will cost $5. Please email Patrick at normanpphawk@hotmail.com to sign up. The dates for the clinics are May 31st,June 21st, July 5th and July 19th.
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Practices for Monday, May 26
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Due to the goofy hours at the LIAC, we have a special practice schedule for some groups on Monday.
Senior
6:30-9:00am ODP
Platinum
6:30-8:45am Haskell
Gold
9:00-10:30am LIAC
Silver
9:15-10:15am LIAC
Varsity
4:30-5:45pm LIAC
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Air Cap Swim Meet Update
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. - Monday, May 19, 2008
Due to the lack of participants that want to travel as a team to the Air Cap Swim Meet in Wichita at the end of June, we will no longer be traveling to this meet as a team. The team will still plan on attending the meet, but just not as a team travel. The Air Cap meet will now be an "on your own" meet.
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Bill Payment procedure change
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With the explosion of our rolling file cabinet at the IAC, you are unable to place your bill payment in my file. Please mail your payments to my attention at the Aquahawk office at P.O. Box 1100, Lawrence, KS 66044. The address is also listed directly on your invoice. I ask that you continue to mail your payments to the office even when the filing cabinet is fixed. It is more convenient and safer to process your payments. Thank you! Jolisa Buchner, Business Manager
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Wave The Wheat Packets
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Attention Swimmers:
Swimmers who did not pick up their Wave the Wheat Fundraising packets at the Awards Banquets will find their packets in their folder in the box at the pool.
Thank you
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Wave the Wheat Fundraising
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Important Dates
WAVE THE WHEAT Fundraising Packets will be distributed Monday May 5th at the Awards Banquet.
Key Dates:
- Packet Turn in Monday June 23rd
- New Banners Turned in Friday, June 20th
WAVE THE WHEAT FUNDRAISING REQUIREMNTS OF $175.00 PER SWIMMER ONLY APPLIES TO:
SILVER GROUP SWIMMERS
GOLD GROUP SWIMMERS
PLATINUM GROUP SWIMMERS
SENIOR AND PRE –SENIOR GROUP SWIMMERS
VP Fundraising: Polly and Ed Sloan
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Congratulations to Coach Mike !
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. - Sunday, April 27, 2008
Congratulations to our own Head Coach Mike Soderling, who has been named Missouri Valley Coach of the year. Mike received this award at the Missouri Valley meeting on April 12. Aquahawks' swimmers have been improving each season and it is fantastic to have Mike, and the Aquahawks, receive this recognition.
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MORE BOARD OPENING INFO!
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A position description for each of the positions in which you are
interested will be provided. The Secretary position is currently open due to the
resignation of Bev and Bill Sparks. If you are interested in fulfilling this
vacancy through the end of the remaining term and gain Board experience please
let us know that as well. The Board will consider filling this position for the remainder of the term at its next
meeting. Filling this vacancy does not commit you or the Board to be nominated
for this position for the regular 2-year term.
Thank you for considering these important leadership roles
for the Aquahawks.
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Volunteer News
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Calling all Members! We will need everyone to chip in to help with our two meets this summer. The IMX meet is June 14 and 15 and Wave the Wheat, the meet which keeps us solvent, is July 10-13. Unfortunately, we have had some problems getting volunteers recently, thus, we have reluctantly opted for mandatory assistance from members. We will have sign up sheets at the banquet which is May 5 from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. We will also have this web site set up so that you can sign up electronically.
With enough help from all we will be able to accommodate schedules. We understand that sometimes other obligations prevent members from attending some or all of our meets. However, we have some things that need to be done before the meet, some of which (like phone calls) can be done before the meet.
The bad news is that we must require each member to sign up for some job at each meet. If a member fails to sign up, the member will be assigned a job no later than a week before the meet. If the member has signed up or has been assigned a job but cannot fulfill the obligation, the member needs to find a substitute. Please contact any Board member if this problem arises. Otherwise, failure to fulfill the assignment will result in a $50 penalty which must be paid before the swimmer can enter another meet.
We really hate going the penalty route and have avoided it for many years, unlike the other clubs in the Missouri Valley. Unfortunately, our club is not large enough that we can afford to have some members opt out of helping at meets. We hope we never have to use this rule.
If we all chip in, we will need to do just a little bit. Thanks!
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Division I / Stanford Grand Prix
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. - Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Missouri Valley Division I Championship
The Aquahawks finished 3rd in a close team race with Wichita Swim Club,
at the 2008 Short Course Missouri Valley Swimming Championships on March 7th -9th.
Highlights included outstanding swims by Ben Sloan and Cameron Case on the men’s side of the meet. Sloan broke the club record in the 13-14 boys 200 butterfly by 7 seconds swimming a 2:08.69. Sloan also was outstanding in the 200 and 400 IM.
Case dropped 6 seconds in his 400 IM and inched closer to his goal of a Junior National standards in the Breaststroke and IM events.
In the 11-12 boys Canaan Campbell was spectacular posting lifetime bests in all 8 of his events including a new club record in the 11-12 boys 500 freestyle.
Thomas Bach swam all lifetime bests in his 1st Division I meet and team mate Jordon Portela scored big points in the 10&U division as an 8 year old.
Congrats to the following 14 and under swimmers who placed in the Top 8 at Division I’s;
Lukas Armstrong, Roland Burd , Courtney Caldwell, Canaan Campbell, Cierra Campbell, Heather Cistola, Ethan Fisher, Phoebe Grabill, Reese Grabill, Dakota Hoagland, Sydney Sirimongkhon-Dyck, and Ben Sloan.
Aquahawk National Team to California.
5 Aquahawks will attend the USA Swimming Stanford Grand Prix meet in Palo Alto CA on April 4th-6th.
Chloe Portela, Caitlin Gallagher, Emma Reaney, Heather Clark and Morgan Flannigan will represent the Aquahawks in northern California.
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AQUABREAK
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` - Monday, March 10, 2008
Schedule Notes
NO Practices for ALL Aquahawk Groups - Monday March 10th
Aquabreak
ALL Groups will swim Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday March 10-13th. After which we will go on break until Tuesday
April 8th 2008.
FREE New Swimmer Clinic
Thursday April 10th 2008 - For swimmers interested in joining the program.
6:00-7:00pm at the Lawrence Indoor Aquatic Center
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SECTIONAL NEWS
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UPDATE - AQUAHAWK Women Finish 2nd at Sectionals. - Monday, March 03, 2008
The Aquahawk Women took 2nd in the Team Race at the USAS Sectionals in Columbia MO yesterday evening just ahead of Wichita Swim Club and falling short of the Kansas City Blazers in an exciting 4 team race on the womens side of the meet which included Rockwood Swim Club out of St Louis MO.
Final Womens Team Scores
KCB 543
LAW 499
WSC 419
RCKW 418
The Team was lead by an outstanding performance by Senior Captain Caitlin Gallagher who finished in the Top 8 in the 100 Breast (3rd) 200 Breast (4th), 400 IM (8th) and 200 Fly (6th).
Chloe Portela Was 4th in the 100 Butterfly and qualified for Summer Junior Nationals.
Maddy Dalcamo also qualified for USAS JR Nationals in the 50 Free and placed 4th in the 100 Freestyle.
Sisters Alyssa And Stacey Rudman also made the finals and were finalists in the Free and Back Events.
Heather Clark and Sarah Schwartz made finals in the Back and Fly events.
Elle Weber and Marley Suckow made the finals in the 100 and 200 Breaststrokes.
Morgan Flannigan and Molly Albrecht were also outstanding and created lots of points between them making the final heats in the 100 and 200 Freestyles the 400, 800, and 1500 Free. Albrecht also made the PM heats in the 100 and 200 Backstrokes.
Emma Reaney was the Regional Champion in the 200 IM and was also 4th in the 200 Fly. She also placed top 8 in the 400 IM and 100 Breaststroke.
On the Mens Side of the meet Cameron Case was a finalist in the Breaststrokes and IM events. And Ethan Fisher made his debut at sectionals in the 1500 and 800 Freestyles.
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Late breaking news! Every single Aquahawk team member qualified for finals on Saturday. What a fantastic accomplishment against quality competition from all over the Midwest. Hats off! 200 IM: Cameron Case, Caitlin Gallagher and Emma Reaney. 50 Free: Maddy Dalcamo, Chloe Portela and Stacey Rudman. 200 Breast Caitlin Gallagher, Marley Suckow, Elle Weber and Cameron Case. 100 Back: Molly Albrecht, Heather Clark, Chloe Portella, Alyssa Rudman, Stacey Rudman and Sarah Schwartz. 400 Free: Morgan Flannigan and Molly Albrecht.
The Aquahawks 800 Free relay team (Albrecht, Flannigan, Dalcamo and Reaney) stunned the crowd by winning Gold on Friday night. Emma Reaney also took Gold in the 200 IM. The 400 Medley Relay team (A. Rudman, Gallagher, Portella and Dalcamo) took silver. Caitlin Gallagher took bronze in the 100 breast on Friday night. Maddy Dalcamo and Chloe Portela earned Junior cuts in the 50 free and 100 fly respectively.
Way to go Aquahawks and Coach Mike! The Aquahawks women's team is currently third in the point standings behind the Blazers and Wichita but ahead of the St. Louis teams. Our B Medley Relay team (Albrecht, Suckow, Reaney and Flannigan) took 5th place overall on Saturday night which was a huge contribution to Aquahawks point totals. There is one more day of tough competition before we are done.
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Notes and Dates
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. - Friday, February 15, 2008
Schedule notes
We will not have practices on Friday March 7th and
Monday March 10th due to the Division I Championship swim meet in Wichita KS.
Post Divison I / Aquabreak
We will swim Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday March 10-13th. After which we will go on break until Tuesday
April 8th 2008. *Some of the
Senior group swimmers will continue to train during this period. On April 8th the schedule and practice times for all groups will remain the same.
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Aquahawk News Report
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Speedo Greater
Southwest Invitational Dallas
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29 Swimmers participated in the Greater Southwest
Invitational In Dallas
TX last week.
Maddy Dalcamo setting a new OPEN and 15-16 girls Aquahawk Club record In the 100 Y Freestyle with a 51.58 The record was one of
the oldest on the board and held for 11 years by past former Aquahawk and Notre Dame standout swimmer Kristin
Van Saun. Dalcamo also swam a 1:53.33 in the 200 Free shaving 4 seconds off her
pervious best and qualifying her for the NCSA Junior Nationals in Orlando FL
next month.
15 year old Chloe Portela was meet champion the 100
Butterfly, swimming a 57.20. the time set a new club record for 15-16 girls. Later in the meet Portela went 24.60 in the
50 free also setting a new club standard for 15-16 girls, finishing off a
weekend where Portela swam 4 personal best times and helped the Aquahawks women’s
relays finish in the Top 5.
The following Aquahawk swimmers finished in the top 16 down
in the big “D”
Kain Anderson (Breast).
Courtney Caldwell (Fly), Cameron Case (IM), Heather Clark (Back), Ethan
Fisher (Dist Free), Reese Grabill (Back), Halley Jarrett (IM), Maddie McCaffrey
(Fly), Kara Mishler (Fly), Stacey Rudman (Free), Ben Sloan (Fly), Eric Sparks
(Free), Marley Suckow (Breast).
USA SWIMMING GRAND PRIX
The Aquahawks will hit the road again on February 16th
and head to Columbia MO for the USA Swimming Grand Prix
meet.
9 Aquahawks have qualified and
will compete with top US and international swimmers including American and World
record holders Michael Phelps, Natalie Coughlin, Amanda Beard, Gary Hall Jr., Ryan
Lochte, and Katie Hoff.
The following swimmers have qualified and will represent the
Aquahawks at the USA Swimming Grand Prix: Women:
Molly Albrecht, Morgan Flannigan, Maddy Dalcamo, Caitlin
Gallagher, Halley Jarrett Chloe Portela, Emma Reaney, Stacey Rudman, Alyssa
Rudman, and Marley Suckow.
Men:
Cameron Case
KANSAS HIGH SCHOOL STATE MEET
Also February 16th several Aquahawk swimmers will
be representing their high school teams at the State Championships in Topeka KS. State qualifiers include Alex Boyer (LHS), Nolan
Frank(FSHS), Mitch Moore(FSHS), Zach Henderson(LHS), and Eric Sparks (Topeka
High)
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Midwest All Stars 2008 Results
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12 Aquahawks Qualify for 2008 MV All Star Team
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! - Monday, January 14, 2008
The Lawrence Aquahawks have qualified 12 swimmers to
represent Missouri Valley Swimming in this weekends Midwest All Star Meet to be
held in Lawrence at the Indoor Aquatic
Center Saturday (1/19)
and
Sunday (1/20).
The Meet will feature the Top 14 and Under Swimmers from Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, South Dakota, and Missouri.
Congratulations and best of luck to the Aquahawk All Stars!
Boys
Lukas Armstrong (FR), Roland Burd (BK / IM), Canaan Campbell (BK/FR/FLY), Nathan Evers (FR / FLY),
Ethan Fisher (Dist FR / IM / FLY), Ben Sloan (IM / BK)
Girls
Courtney Caldwell (FR/FLY), Cierra Campbell (FR/ FLY), Heather
Cistola (FR/ IM), Reese Grabill (FLY), Maddie McCaffrey (FLY), Kara Mishler
(FLY)
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2008 Aquahawk Shirts on Sale
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. - Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Our 2008 Aquahawk T Shirts are $12.00 and will be on sale at Thursday afternoon practices for the next few weeks.
We will wear our new shirts on Saturdays of swim meets this year. The shirt is dedicated to the spirit of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing this summer.
GO AQUAHAWKS - GO USA!
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Our New Site
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. - Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Please take the time to become familiar with our new web
site. Thank you for your understanding
and patience while we put the new site together, we hope the new and improved web site will help
our club operations and communications.
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Gallagher to attend UCONN in August 2008
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. - Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Aquahawk Swimmer Caitlin Gallagher has singed a letter of
intent to swim at the University
of Connecticut starting
this August 2008. Gallagher is a USA
Swimming National Qualifier in the 200 Breast Stroke and Regional finalist in
the 400 Individual Medley. Caitlin is
Team Captain of The Aquahawk Senior Squad and attends Free State High School.
Gallagher also took recruiting trips to Brown
and Villanova. “I am really excited for
next year, said Gallagher, it has been one of my goals to swim at a Division I
school, and I am also relieved to be finished with the process of choosing a
college. It was a great experience to go
to the different schools and be hosted by the college swim teams.
UCONN Huskies Swimming
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Air Capital Information
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We have received specific warm up information for Air Capital. Please click here to view.
Due to the meet, practices will be held for Senior group only.
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