HALEY BISSELL 04-21

AMY HUTMACHER 04-27

JINU CHOE 04-04

ALISSA NAGEL 04-15

QUINCY SCHMIDT 04-06

MARJORIE CHRISTIAN 04-21

MAUREEN SOUZA 04-05

BRENDON EBY 04-03

KATE STOCKLEY 04-29

LIZ FERGUSON 04-28

COACH’S CORNER

SENIORS

We are back into the groove and doing a fine job. Work outs will be quality until a week out from J.O.’s, then we will take some rest. So be in the water at 2:30 and we will be done by 4:15, excluding the distance swimmers, (sorry Jess, Amy & Liz). If you have not qualified to swim J.O.'s’ be prepared to swim relays. I will let you know.

Our Senior Swimmer of the Month is JESSICA FAULKNER! Congratulations Jess.

Robert Roosa will be coming home this summer to train and will represent AST at the Olympic Trials. Many other college swimmers will be home training with the possibility of a few more Olympic trials swimmers coming in, and maybe a few more swimmers qualifying for Olympic Trials.

Dear Aurora Swim Team Family members and friends,

Recently we have said Goodbye to one of our dearest family members Suzanne Weller (Emily McCoy’s mother). We have set up a fund in her memory, to plant a tree along the coastal trail where Suzanne spent countless hours running, walking and enjoying nature. We will be putting the remaining money into a fund to ensure Emily’s ability to travel home for the holidays, to be with her father Kevin and her brother Conner during the next year. Emily will be attending Brown University this fall.

You can send a check made out to AST Memorial Fund

And mail it to:

Suzanne’s love of family and life was so evident while she was here with us. We will forever hold her close in our hearts and use her strength as a benchmark, as we move forward with our own lives.

Cindy

THANKS

To all AST swimmers, parents and friends for their crowd support for our swimmers. In 24 years of coaching, with countless swim meets and national competitions under by belt, I have never been a part of anything so exciting!

Again, Thank you.

Cindy

PRE-SR GROUP

Hey Group,

What an exciting meet! Congratulations to Quincy and Emily for such great accomplishments in swimming. Group, take advantage of having such outstanding swimmers and wonderful people on our team. Take some time to talk with them and listen and learn from what they have to say. Congratulations again!

My heart and prayers go out to the McCoy family and Emily.

BLUE GROUP

NOTES FROM JOHN

Hi all,

This last month we had the privilege of hosting the Speedo junior National West swimming championship at Bartlett Pool. This meet was a wonderful opportunity to see some of the best young swimmers in the nation. My favorite moment was watching Quincy Schmidt swim to victory in the 100 breaststroke! It was incredible!

I would like each of you to think about what you like the most about swimming. Maybe you enjoy swimming in meets, or you like learning new backstroke or freestyle drills. Whatever it is, write it down on paper and bring it to practice, and we will talk about it.

The Blue/Gold Swimmer of the Month is:

Ashley has been coming to almost every practice, and has been working hard. She also does difficult sets without ever complaining! Good job Ashley!

Coach John

For 2 NEW STATE RECORDS in the 17-18 Men’s

100 & 200 Yd Breaststroke

WHITE GROUP

(Notes from Tim)

Hello White Group,

Coach Tim

SPEEDO JUNIOR NATIONAL WEST

FACTS:

This meet was by far the biggest and most prestigious swimming event ever to come to Alaska. There were two other Junior Championship Meets taking place simultaneously, event for event in Buffalo, NY, and Orlando FL.

There were approximately 175 Teams registered in the Anchorage Nationals from 18 states:

IMMEDIATE PAST-PRESIDENT’S CORNER

With Jr. Nationals behind us we look forward, as a Team to AST’s hosted meet the first weekend in May. The Splash into Spring meet has become a favorite with new and experienced swimmers alike. We will need volunteers, food items and support. You all did an excellent job with your participation at Jr. Nationals; we had involvement from almost all of our families! We know we can count on you to supply the necessary man-hours and items needed to make the Splash into Spring meet a success for AST. Be on the alert for flyers and phone tree messages to let you know how you can help.

Again, we congratulate all of AST’s members for the outstanding support displayed at the Jr. Nationals meet. Thank you all!

Vickie did a wonderful job of heading up the Athlete Social committee. She spent many hours organizing food, decorations and volunteers to make this event a success, Which it was! There were over 300 swimmers who joined the party and thanks to Vickie and her crew, they had a great time!

AST THANKS YOU!

We would like to make it a habit to honor and thank all of you who come forward and volunteer at meets and for other functions of the Team. We know we will leave someone out, and for that we apologize in advance, however, we are determined to thank publicly in our newsletter as many as we can. If you know of someone who has helped and is not mentioned, please write a

note and put it in the Suggestion Box and we will print it next month.

AST thanks all of you who helped with the

Thanks so much to all of you!

To all of the AST families, who either contributed food items or money to purchase needed items for the Junior Nationals Athlete Social, we thank you. Again, we apologize if we left anyone out; we sincerely appreciate each and every donation.

AKIN, ALLEN, ANCTIL, ANDERSON, ASHLEY, BERDAHL, BIGELOW, BISSELL, BLOOMFIELD, BRADY, BUTCHER, CABLE, CAMPBELL, CASE, CHOE, CHOI, CHRISTIAN, CHYTHLOOK, COUTU, COVEY, DUHART, EBY, FAULKNER, FERGUSON, FISCHER, FOGELS, FORD, FRENIER, GARNEY, GUNKEL, HANNI, HENSEL, HOLT, KANESHIRO, KIM, KOWELEWSKI, LEE, LINGNAU, LIPKA, MASALUNGA, MAYRA, McCLAIN, MIESSNER, MOON, NAGEL, NICHOLLS, NOONAN, OSWALD, OTERO, RAPOSA, SCHMIDT, SCHULTZ, SCOTT, SMITH, SOUZA, STERLEY, STOCKLEY, TANG, TERRY, TIBOR, URE, VanDaff, VU,

Gilbert Raposa now has Uncle Joe’s Pizza Coupons. These coupons sell for $12.00 and are good for ANY large pizza from Uncle Joe’s, (and he makes a MEAN PIZZA!). For each pizza sold, $4.00 goes back to the Team. If you have not already raised the $200.00 minimum in fundraising, you may raise it with the book sales, or the Uncle Joe’s Pizza coupons. If you have met the $200.00 minimum, then 70% of every $15.00 per Book, or 70% of the $4.00 per Pizza will go into your swimmer’s individual Travel account.

Please call Gilbert Raposa at 349-9443 to arrange to pick up books or Pizza coupons to sell. He usually has them in his car, so catch him in the parking lot or give him a call.

More Fund raising opportunities!

We are ready to reintroduce our Newsletter-Heat Sheet Ads Fundraiser. We will host up to two meets this coming swim season, (our first hosted meet will be the Splash into Spring meet the first weekend in May) and we plan to continue our monthly Newsletter. We offer local businesses very low cost advertising space in our Newsletter and Heat Sheets. If you would like to take advantage of this offer, please call Bonnie Schmidt at 345-0785. She will be able to give you information and order forms for the Ads.

SUGGESTION BOX

There were a few questions and suggestions:

Can goggles be donated to the Team for a tax deduction? AST has receipt forms available and you may fill in the donated item and it’s worth to report on you tax return.

It was suggested that we have a Baby Team Picture shot when our regular Team photos are done. This is a great idea. Bring your baby to the Team photo session, it usually comes up in May, but we will need someone to volunteer to head up the photo session and get the information out to our members. Any takers?

YOUR FILE SIGN? When the poster is in the window, someone has put something in your file.

PLEASE DO NOT GIVE DUES CHECKS TO YOUR COACH. YOU MAY PUT CHECKS IN THE LOCK BOX UPSTAIRS AT THE DIMOND POOL OR MAIL THEM TO

AURORA SWIM TEAM

TEAM FUNDRASER

OLYMPIC BOOK

You have the chance to buy a great book and help the Team out. We get a $10.00 kick back for every book sold (after ten).

It covers the first 100 years of Olympic Swimming. It has everything you ever wanted to know about each Olympics, including stories about swimmers and races. I have one at the pool if you want to take a look. The cost is $26.50 with $10.00 coming back to the Team if we order 10 or more. This is an Olympic year. why not have some background as you watch the world’s swimming stars go for the gold. All money we raise in this fundraiser will go to incentives for the swimmers and some training aids. Let me know ASAP if you want one.

Cindy