By now you should have received an email from your swimmer's coach asking for your help to fill their table at the Power Breakfast happening on Tuesday, April 8th on Brophy's main campus. It is important that BEST be well represented at the breakfast by the people who use the Sports Campus the most. Please email your swimmer's coach and tell them that you would like to show your support by sitting at their table. Thank you!
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On Saturday, April 26th, Arizona Swimming is hosting a clinic designed for those interested in becoming a swim meet official. No experience is necessary, just a willingness to be involved. The majority of officials at BEST have senior swimmers, so we are looking for parents of our younger swimmers to get some training. You have to be at the meets anyway, so why not be an official. Please contact AZ Swimming at the following address to RSVP by April 15th event@azswimming.org
The clinic will also have training for those interested in learning to operate Hy-tek's Meet Manager software. This is the software that runs our meets.
Breakfast starts at 7:30 a.m. followed by sessions pertaining to what ever area you are interested in learning about. Lunch will also be served.
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Please join us to wish Kohei Kawamoto the best in his pursuit of swimming excellence as he attends the 9th FINA WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008 in Manchester from April 9th-13th and then on to JAPAN SWIM 2008 (Japan's Olympic Trials) April 15th-20th. We will be hosting a send off party to wish him luck on Tuesday, April 1st at 6:00 p.m. Attached is a short bio on Kohei. He has been training off and on with the Gold groupfor the past two years. GOOD LUCK KOHEI
Due to the Season Finale meet this weekend, the Saturday morning practices have changed as follows:
NO PRACTICE FOR RED, WHITE, RISING STARS & STARFISH. All other groups will practice at their regular time.
On Tuesday, April 8th at 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. in Harper Great Hall on the main campus, Brophy will be hosting its Power Breakfast to support the contruction of the new Sports Campus. You will be receiving an email from your swimmer's coach requesting your attendance on that day. Please show your support for the future of BEST and the new sports campus by being there. All those interested in attending must email your swimmer's coach and get on the official invitation list. Let's show the support and spirit of BEST. Thank you in advance for your support.
Due to a miscalculation and printing of duplicate awards labels, we were short some medals and ribbons for the state meets. We have placed the reorder and will get everything by April 1st. Please be patient as we will get each swimmer all the awards that they have earned.
Start gathering pictures of our BEST swimmers for the 4th Annual BEST Awards Banquet to be held on Sunday, May 4th at 4 p.m. Pictues should be on CDs and video on DVDs and either bring them to the office or put them in Katie Rottman's (Red) or Patrick Rottman's (White) mailboxes. All pictures and video must be submitted by FRIDAY, APRIL 11TH.
TO: BEST Membership
FROM: Head Coach Dave Gibson
I want to personally thank everyone for making this past weekend a great one.
A HUGE thank you goes to Sandy Lee for leading the charge in hosting such a large undertaking. We basically hosted 2 meets - the AZ State Age Group Championships and the AZ State Senior Championships. We had every team in the state here, which amounted to over 1000 swimmers, plus coaches, officials and families/spectators.
Sandy, thanks for your tireless work and endless hours here for 4-5 days.
Whether you officiated or worked the clerk of course or helped make hospitality a big hit or patrolled the warm up pool & deck mashalling or manned the computers or timed...we could not have run such a wondeful and successful meet/weekend without you & your help. Thank you, thank you, thank you to all BEST parents. You are truly the best.
AND, to top it all off BEST won the Senior State meet and was 2nd in the Age Group State meet (getting closer to that 1st place). The BEST boys won the boys division of the AG State meet (Chris Webb was high point 13-14 boy & Celina Li was high point 11-12 girl). Congratulations to all of the BEST swimmers for a great weekend of swimming.
Congratulations Sarah!
BEST Excels at Seattle Sectionals
The Brophy East Swim Team had a great Speedo Sectional Championships in Seattle, Washington over the weekend.
BEST won the Men's Team title, was 2nd in the overall combined team scores (to King Aquatics) and 4th in the women's team. This was probabaly the fastest Sectional Championship in the country. BEST's Alex Lendrum was the male high point winner also.
Two of the highlights of the weekend were 2 new Olympic Trial cuts achieved by Alex Lendrum in winning the 200 back (2:03.94) and Erica Stock's 3rd place time of 2:34.69! Whitney Lopus picked up new OT cuts in the 100fr & 200IM also.Way to go!
Other highlights follow:
800fr: Ashley Evans, 2nd, 8:43.28 (OT), Malia Johnson, 9th, 9:11.31 (Jrs B), Alex Lendrum, 2nd, 8:28.92 (Jrs), Mark Rubin, 12th, 8:47.86.
200fr relay: Ashley E./Julia C./Noriko, I/ Cimone M, 7th, John W./Austen T/Michael B/Kohei K, 2nd, Patrick C/Alex L/Chris L/Mike J, 11th.
100fr: Traycie Swartz, 2nd, 56.54 (OT), Whitney Lopus, 4th, 57.02 (OT), Ashley Evans, 5th, 57.77 (Jrs), John Wojciechowski, 11th, 53.81(Jrs B), Austen Thompson, 13th, 54.20, Patrick Cardenas, 16th, 54.61, Michael Branning, 20th, 54.67.
200breast: Erica Stock, 3rd, 2:34.69 (OT), Harrison Gibson, 16th, 2:31.13.
200back: Alex Lendrum, 1st, 2:03.94 (OT), Austen Thompson, 7th, 2:09.74 (Jrs), Mike Johnson, 21st, 2:14.75, Chris Lee, 23rd, 2:25.50.
200fly: Whitney Lopus, 2nd, 2:11.83 (OT), Ashley Evans, 3rd, 2:12.46 (OT), Malia Johnson, 9th, 2:18.39 (Jrs), Erin DeVinney, 18th, 2:23.12 (Jrs B), John Wojciechowski, 3rd, 2:07.73 (Jrs).
200 med rly: Noriko I/Amanda D/Cimone M/Ashley E, 4th, Alex L/Austen T/John W/Kohei K, 1st, Chris L/Harrison G/Mike B/Patrick C, 10th.
200fr: Whitney Lopus, 2nd, 2:01.38 (OT), Traycie Swartz, 6th, 2:05.26 (Jrs), Ally Loper, 24th, 2:09.94, Mike Johnson, 22nd, 2:00.23.
400IM: Erica Stock, 10th, 4:59.43 (Jrs), Alex Lendrum, 1st, 4:31.88 (Open), Austen Thompson, 4th, 4:35.72 (Jrs), Nick Ryan, 19th, 4:45.43.
400fr relay: Ashley E/Ally L/Julia C/Cimone M, 5th, John W/Kohei K/Austen T/Alex L, 2nd, Patrick C/Mike B/Mike J/Brian C, 6th.
100back: Traycie Swartz, 2nd, 1:03.54 (OT), Noriko Inada, 3rd, 1:04.29 (Open), Ashley Brwer, 14th, 1:06.54 (Jrs B), Alex Lendrum, 4th, 58.83 (Jrs), Mike Johnson, 19th, 1:01.33 (Jrs B).
400fr: Ashley Evans, 2nd, 4:15.21 (OT), Malia Johnson, 17th, 4:26.36 (Jrs B), Alex Lendrum, 1st, 4:05.06 (Jrs), Austen Thompson, 7th, 4:08.68 (Jrs B), Michael Branning, 14th, 4:15.87, Mark Rubin, 18th, 4:14. 32.
100breast: Erica Stock, 10th, 1:14.15 (Jrs).
100fly: Whitney, 1st, 1:00.20 (OT), Kohei Kawamoto, 1st, 53.76 (Open), John Wojciechowski, 3rd, 56.32 (Jrs), Mike Johnson, 21st, 58.81 (Jrs B).
800fr relay: Alex L/John W/Michael B/Austen T, 2nd, Brian C/Mike J/Patrick C/Mark Rubin, 4th.
200IM: Whitney Lopus, 5th, 2:19.07 (OT), Alex Lendrum, 1st, 2:09.57 (Jrs), Austen Thompson, 5th, 2:11.96 (Jrs B).
1500free: Ashley Evans, 1st, 16:43.70 Open), Erin DeVinney, 13th, 17:48.44, Mark Rubin, 14th, 16:50.68.
50free: Traycie Swartz, 1st, 26.07 (OT), Cimone Miner, 20th, 27.59 (Jrs B), Norkio Inada, 22nd, 27.77, Kohei Kawamoto, 7th (fly), 24.93.
400med relay: Noriko I/Amanda D/Malia J/Ashley E, 3rd, Alex L/Austen T/John W/Kohei K, 1st, Mike J/Harrison G/Patrick C/Michael B, 11th.
We are now looking forward to some fast short course racing at the Arizona State meet and then we will get back into full training to prepare for Long Course competitions in April, May, and the summer. BEST now has 4 females and 1 male qualified for the US Olympic Trials in Omaha in July. With a few more meets before that, I know we can/will get some more. We are also looking like we will have/could have a strong Junior National meet.
Congratulations Erica!
Southwest Airlines:
This will be the team flight traveling to and from Far Westerns. Everyone is responsible for making their own plane reservations. If you have any questions please let us know.
Itinerary
Date Flight Routing Details
Wed Apr 02 767 Depart PHOENIX AZ (PHX) at 11:10 AM
Arrive in OAKLAND CA (OAK) at 1:20 PM
Sun Apr 06 1164 Depart OAKLAND CA (OAK) at 9:25 PM
Arrive in PHOENIX AZ (PHX) at 11:15 PM
Please go to http://results.teamunify.com/pnws2/ to follow the results of the Sectional meet in Federal Way, WA. Alex is not the only one doing great things. BEST is doing awesome. Check it out!
BEST PASTA POTLUCK
LET’S GET READY FOR STATES – ALL GROUPS
TUESDAY, MARCH 11TH
6:00 – 7:00 P.M
PLEASE BRING THE FOLLOWING
A – L PASTA DISH
M – S SALADS/BREADS/DESSERTS
T – Z DRINKS
PRACTICE TIMES:
GOLD, SILVER & BRONZE 3:30 – 5:00 P.M.
BLUE, RED & WHITE 5:00 – 6:00 P.M.
RISING STARS 5:00 – 6:00 P.M.
STARFISH 4:15 – 5:15 P.M.
