Friday, March 20, 2009

Grace Gifford competes at Paralympic National Championship


Grace is competing this week at the US Paralympic Swimming Championship. She is racking up lifetime bests including tonight's 50 Freestyle and 400 Freestyle. Incidentally, a month ago at our Northwest Conference Championship, Grace crushed by ten seconds her own American record in the 200 Breaststroke for her classification.



Monday, March 16, 2009

Western Region Sectional Championship

I spent the end of last week in Washington for the Sectional meet. Great swims by quite a few of our senior recruits and I got the chance to watch a lot of juniors, as well. Like meets across the rest of the country right now, an abundance of fast swimming.

It's always nice to talk with coaches about their swimmers, particularly those who are academically minded who will be a great fit for both our team and the vibrant learning environment at Lewis & Clark.

I also got to spend about 45-minutes talking physiology with a coach friend. Specifically anaerobic threshold training and the ramifications of training just above or just below this level. It's great to bounce ideas off of someone else and find out how they do things.