News and Announcements
Hello Tuna!
Team Meeting & Mini Meetings
Today’s team meeting at 3:45 will have a special NBA trivia – come ready to play a Kahoot game with us! (Some have told me having the Kahoot app on a phone is easiest or a split screen on a computer)
Mini meetings have been going great! They are a ton of fun and a great way to connect with our swimmers. On Wednesday’s and Thursday’s
Parent Meeting
We wanted to have the opportunity to connect with our parents and share where we are at during all of this. Join us this Wednesday at 7:00pm for a short Zoom meeting. Remember to complete the Safe Sport course if you can! (Info attached at very bottom of this email)
Strength & Conditioning and Ab Circuits
Bridge routines below as well as Lily Ott’s ab circuit!
Click here to sign up to create your own ab circuit to share with the team!
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Lily’s Ab workout
Wall Sit Challenge
We ended our pushup challenge (more on that below) and started a wall sit challenge! Check out what our athletes are doing:
48m Luca Gissendaner
45m Alanna Baker
40m Alisa Zhou
30m Annabelle Kilgore, Don Swartz
25m Brooke Bent
24m Alessia Root
22m Max Brown
21m Sydney Brakebill
20m Adeline Turner
15m Kate Lynch, Mia Solomon
12m Ben Bishop
10m Holly Tarantino, Sophie Keith Brown
9m Charlie Stewart
7m Ines Lovato
6m Zev Schuman
5m Micah Sher
3m Kallen Wank
2m 45s Amelia Loiacono
1m 35s Ana Roudebush
1m Brenda Lein
Push Up Challenge
We are seeing how many we can get up to 700 each week… go tuna!
700 Kallen Wank, Aliyah San Andreas, Luca Gissendaner, Justin Wong, Alanna Baker, Ana Roudebush, Mia Solomon, Cat Watrous, Henry Harlow
630 Maria Forney
600 Marion Woolf, Zev Schuman
560 Dean Gustavson
550 Lena Wang
534 Brooke Bent
511 Jack Dumbacher
510 Steve Clark
500 Alisa Gray, Alena Sharp, Bruno Coelho, Emily Fee, Ben Bishop, Gavin Green, Charlie Stewart
480 Sophie Lee
455 John Vreeland
425 Sophie Keith Brown
410 Chas Thorp
400 Micah Sher, Skyler Barnes, Jane Thompson
350 Holly Tarantino, Alessia Root
345 Esther Chang
340 Max Matthews
300 Sydney Brakebill, Nina Bonte, Jonah Lee, Cindy Clements
280 Shawn DeMont
250 Andre Ignoffo, Mark Lutzker
180 Ken DeMont
150 Harry Wait
100 Brenda Lein, Matthew Sessions
35 Catherine Nottage
Hello
I hope everyone is hanging in there!
TPC UPDATE - The pool is still closed (just waiting for us), but some of the lower tennis courts will be available for members to play tennis with their families. A step in the right direction! I’ll keep everyone abreast of any movement toward re-opening, and what that will look like.
FAMILY - Go outside, play some Frisbee, go hiking, fly a kite, etc. To help maintain mental health, make sure you get up and go somewhere and do something (obeying all social distancing directives, of course)!
SCHOOL - This week is Teacher Appreciation Week and Nurses Week! Thanks to all out there who are busting their butts teaching our kids (parent-teachers too!),and all of you nurses who are on the front lines or waiting for a possible surge in responsibilities. I am grateful for all you do! Show your gratitude this week!
SWIM - Good swimmers are good athletes. Good athletes need to be diligent about their diet, flexibility, strength, cardio, and mental game. I challenge us all to make sure we are getting better in each category. You can tell from some of the photos on this email that the elite swimmers are pretty fit!
DIVING - If you want to be a great sprinter, it all starts with a great dive! Here are a couple cool dive videos:
Physics of diving
Caeleb Dressel is one of the most explosive divers ever! Dressel Jump, Dressel Dives
Some FAST female swimmers:
Simone Manuel 100 Free – Stanford
Abbey Weitzel 50 Free – CAL
QUOTE - We can’t touch things (on our walk)…because of the Corona. – Katelyn McDonald (6)
See you at the pool! Coach Mike
Hi All
Team Meeting & Mini Meetings
Like normal copying our info below for todays 3:45 team zoom meeting. We are also starting to offer some mini meetings for chance for personal interaction with the coaches each week. We are starting with just 3 this week and will offer more if there is demand. Sign up for those HERE by 12:00 on Thursday! Meetings will be on Thursdays (for now) in the afternoon.
Topic: NBA Team Meeting
Time: Apr 20, 2020 03:45 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83333478778?pwd=amVndC9wejRyejBFeUFIYkM0NHFzUT09
Meeting ID: 833 3347 8778
Password: 030295
Activity Logs
Keep them coming in – we know it is repetitive but its a good way to push yourself with new weekly challenges/improvements and to keep yourself accountable and connected with your coaches :) we love hearing from you!
Dryland & Ab Circuit
Monday HERE
Wednesday HERE
Friday HERE
We want our swimmers to create 10 minute ab circuits that can be shared with teammates – do it with your training buddies on zoom/facetime and keep each other accountable. Sign up to do one HERE and Devon will email you with more info. Hoping to send out at least 2 circuits each week starting next Monday
Pushup Challenge
We are continuing with this and have masters swimmers, parents, and coaches getting involved as we are one team! Lets keep making each week stronger!!! Working on a new challenge for the month of May… stay tuned :)
1750 Vincent De La Tour
1710 Bruno Coelho
1600 Sophia Bell
1560 Cat Watrous
1402 Maria Forney
1100 Alena Sharp
1050 Sydney Brakebill
1025 Axel Redemann
825 Kai Makino
751 Kallen Wank
730 Alanna Baker
725 Ken DeMont
715 Gavin Green
700 Luca Gissendaner, John Vreeland
680 David Cline
630 Maggie Hansen, Mia Solomon
605 Ines Lovato
600 Zev Schuman, Max Gilsenan
580 Cindy Clements
550 Jane Thompson
540 Katherine Wu
525 Marc Watrous
500 Kelsey Brakebill, McKenzie Kwei, Sophie Keith-Brown
495 Nina Lawson
490 Emma Keith-Brown
450 Holly Tarantino
441 Brooke Bent
400 Annabelle Kilgore
375 Alisa Zhou
370 Alessia Root
310 Sarani Puri
300 Skyler Barnes, Aliyah San Andreas, Alex Gershman, Alicia Brasch, Henry Harlow
255 Reese Dahlgren
240 Heather Flynn, Mike Green
210 Alisa Gray
200 Reese Burns
175 Matthew Sessions, Mark Lutzker
165 Tricia Wallace
160 Sophie Lee
150 Harry Wait
127 Nina Bonte
105 Peter Schoen
100 Kate Lynch, Tristan Lu
90 Miles Smith
85 Derek Thompson
80 William Tucker, Amy Thompson
70 Lara Zaman
64 Katie Kelly
60 Julia Thompson
45 Charlie Stewart
30 Catherine Nottage
6 Brenda Lein
Pump Up Songs
We have gathered the pump up songs and will be sharing our plan in the team meeting tonight/in a separate email later tonight. Be there!!!
Safe Sport
We have a few parents and swimmers who have completed this for us (thank you!!!) But we need more to become a Safe Sport verified team. Take any extra time you have to help us out – thank you in advance! Check out the instructions below
The document Safe_Sport_-_Parents___Athletes.pdf was attached to this post.
Hello-
FAMILY-
I took the kids out for some ‘Gratitude Chalking’ at the nearby creek walk (over by Marin General). They loved it, and it sure did make a lot of people smile. Thanks to all the health care workers on our team! I know there are quite a few; and, the increased stress level associated with the pandemic is nothing to sneeze about! (too soon for COVID humor?..)
SCHOOL-
Get organized and do one of your most challenging tasks first! That’ll lighten your load for the rest of the day. Good for parents working from home as well!
SWIMMING-
Today on the Zoom mtg.
We went over an easy stretching routine that we can incorporate into our daily activities.
I assigned the homework of visualizing one race (stopwatch optional).
We talked about respecting ourselves, others, and our homes (we’ve been spending a lot of time in them!)
We also watched a couple of classic breaststroke races:
Kevin Cordes with the super long strokes (count ’em!)
Adam Peaty with a much faster tempo
QUOTE- Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. – George Eliot
See you at the pool soon!, Coach Mike
Hello -
Activity Logs
We are getting a great amount of people sending these in – getting more detailed and consistent! Keep them coming :)
Team Meeting
Info below for this weeks team meeting… can’t wait to see all of your facesTopic: NBA Team Meeting
Time: Apr 13, 2020 03:45 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/75559929360?pwd=TFE5SXdNQmlETCtxN21iQmtxMksvQT09
Meeting ID: 755 5992 9360
Password: 044348
Pushup Challenge
Once again – WOW! We have gotten so many people participating… including coaches, some of our masters swimmers, and even some parents! Keep it up NBA family
1710 Bruno Coelho
1700 Cat Watrous
1645 Luca Gissendaner
1505 Charlie Stewart
1400 Zev Schuman
1350 Sydney Brakebill
1200 Nicky Glenn
1021 Henry Harlow
850 Gavin Green
800 Alena Sharp
700 Kallen Wank, Ken DeMont, Ana Roudebush
600 Maddy Gruender
560 Dean Gustavson, Mia Solomon
540 Aliyah San Andreas
530 Kai Makino, Alanna Baker
430 Emma Keith-Brown, Maria Forney
420 Nina Lawson, Sophie Lee, Katherine Wu
410 Lena Wang, Kelsey Brakebill
400 Jane Thompson, Sophie Keith-Brown, Tor Aune
390 McKenzie Kwei
360 Holly Tarantino, Ben Bishop
350 Alisa Zhou
330 Alessia Root
320 Sarani Puri
310 Marc Watrous
300 Annabelle Kilgore
250 Andre Ignoffo
240 Emily Fee, Shawn DeMont
220 Alex Gershman
212 Brooke Bent
210 Reese Burns
200 Ines Lovato
160 Nina Bonte, Ali Kosmowski
150 Harry Wait
125 Reese Dahlgren
100 William Tucker, Joe Delaney, Mark Lutzker
84 Don Swartz
73 Tricia Wallace
70 Jeff Cooperman
60 Bob Schultz
50 Adeline Turner
45 Melissa Lewis
40 Andrea Salmi
35 Kate Lynch
30 Adam Engelskirchen, Miles Smith
25 Catherine Nottage
20 Matthew Sessions, Brandon Smith
Pump-Up Songs!!!
We are going to discuss this more in the meeting this afternoon – SEND US YOUR ALL TIME FAVORITE PUMP UP SONG! This can be a song you listen to to get motivated during dryland workouts, before races, songs that fire you up, etc. Let’s keep these appropriate :) We have a fun idea we are working on using these – so let’s get a ton of submissions!
Safe Sport
Just like last week – we need your help! Please both parents and athletes take some time to complete this free online course through USA swimming. This helps to certify our team as a Safe Sport team! All of your coaches take these courses annually and we need you to participate as well! See link below for information
The document Safe_Sport_-_Parents___Athletes__1_.pdf was attached to this post.