Dolphin Times, Issue 1, Season 2015

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.