Bannockburn Swim Team
Dolphin
Times
Issue 1, Season 2015
Please share the Dolphin Times with
your swimmers. We email only to the parents, but the fun of the newsletter is
for the kids to see their names and their races written up. Pictures and prior
editions of the Dolphin Times are available online at http://bannockburnswimteam.blogspot.com.
Packed First Practice Helps Bannockburn
Dolphins Kick Off 2015 Summer Season
By Doll Finn
Senior Dolphin Correspondent
The Bannockburn Dolphins opened the 2015 season with the
traditional First Tuesday of Summer practice, which falls the day after
Memorial Day. It seemed to this correspondent that there were nearly 100
swimmers during the three different practice times.
This grizzled reporting veteran is accustomed to seeing the
pool full of eight and unders. And this reporter has seen jammed lanes for
years in the 9 to 12 year old practice.
What surprised us were the packed lanes for the 13 to 18
year old practice. As the deal had a shortage of older swimmers last year, this
change bodes well as the Dolphins head into competition next month.
Spotted by the near-sighted Dolphin reporting crew in the
last days were James Cobau, Sarah Cobau, Anna Louise Cobau, Alexa Crist, Gabby
Helf, Jonathan Rufino, Cookie Lair-Ferrari, Owen Wassiliew, Evelyn Wassiliew,
Cole Wassiliew, Gideon Helf, Jessie Kline, Maya Lall, Nadia Lall, Natalie
Keller, Jack MacIsaac, Naomi Seiberg, Jacob Seiberg, Darby LeFaivre, Katya
Damskey, Bella Learn, Ella Scott, Andrew O’Brien, Alex Butman and so many
others that we lost track.
We are also sure there were many new and returning swimmers
whom our team of correspondents just didn’t recognize or forgot that we saw in
the chaos of those first few days. Don’t worry. We will get your names in one
of the next editions.
By way of background, the Dolphin Times is the official news
source of the Bannockburn Dolphins. The newsletter aims to publish by the
Tuesday after each A Meet.
Each issue will cover that week’s A Meet as well as the
prior week’s B Meet. The goal of the Dolphin Times is to get as many names in
each publication as possible. For A Meets, we provide stroke-by-stroke coverage
of all events. We differ it up for the B Meets where we highlight each swimmer
who improved their time in an event by at least 10%. As a credit to our
coaches, that is usually a big number of kids.
We post the Dolphin Times on the bulletin board outside the
entrance to the pool and we email it out to swim team families. Please share
the newsletter with your swimmers, as it is always fun to see your name in
print.
And don’t forget our blog
-- http://bannockburnswimteam.blogspot.com
-- where we will try to add a picture or two to each addition of the Dolphin
Times.
Dolphin Times is always looking for interns willing to write
up a meet, team event or anything else related to Bannockburn swimming. Please
contact our editor, Haydn the Dog, at haydnthedogseiberg@gmail.com if
you have anything to contribute.
Let’s face it. Our editor is a dog. So he is unlikely to
catch any typos or other errors. We want to fix anything we got wrong so email
the dog and we will adjust the online version ASAP.
Go Dolphins!
Life-Long Dolphin Back as Head Coach
By Walter Tu Kold
Junior Dolphin Correspondent
Head Coach Malena Lair-Ferrari is back to lead the
Dolphins in their 2015 summer campaign.
Malena is a life-long Dolphin, helping lead the team as a
swimmer when the team won the highly competitive Division E. She has been head
coach for five years, the last three of them as the solo head coach for the
team. She’s also been swimming for the national team of Argentina.
Joining her as an assistant is Kellan Steele, another
career Dolphin who is in her second year as an assistant coach though she
previously was a junior assistant coach and pre-team coach.
We also have two new coaches.
Sherrill Han is an assistant coach who previously worked
as the pre-team coach for King Farm. And Chris Root coached and swam previously
for Cedarbrook Pool and was captain of the Walter Johnson swim team.
While the coaches are often busy on the pool deck during
swim practice, this Friday is a great chance to meet all of them during the
Back to Pool night.
Dolphins Compete This Season in Division H
By Haydn the Dog
Editor in Chief
The Dolphins had a difficult 2014 campaign, which resulted
in the team moving to Division H from Division F.
We have lots of friends in this division, which also includes:
1.
Tanterra
2.
Palisades
3.
Inverness
4.
NCC
5.
Merrimack
As an unbiased and objective source of all things related to
Dolphin swimming, Dolphin Times is predicting with 100% certainty that this
will be a fun and exciting summer of swim team competition that will conclude with
a slide show in the basement of a church.
