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Summer 2009 Trojan Aquatics Swim Program
Click here to download Registration form
Our program objective is to provide a challenging off-season program which will focus on swimming conditioning as well as basic water polo drills. The program is available to swimmers of all ages (middle school, high school, adults) who are able to endure a rigorous, high-school geared swim practice.
Practice Schedule: Practices will be held Mondays – Fridays from June 22 to July 31, 7-9AM at the Wissahickon Middle School pool. (Note: no practice Friday July 3)
Membership Fees: The fee for participating in the program will be $110 for the 6-week season or $30/week for those athletes interested in training only during select weeks throughout the summer. For liability reasons, you must also be a member of American Water Polo (“AWP”): $30 each for first two individuals in each family or $75 for a family registration.
Registration: There are 2 ways to register: electronically online or hardcopy. We encourage you to use the fast and convenient online registration system. Click on the first bullet in the "Register Online" box in the top right corner of this webpage. (Online registration is also available under "Other Forms" in this box). Or, click on the "download Registration form" link above to download and print a copy of instructions and the registration forms.
Payment: send your checks for “AWP” to AWP and checks for “Trojan Aquatics” to
Ken Mitchell, 875 Longfield Drive, Blue Bell PA 19422. (Send paper registrations to Ken, also.)
The Coaches: The coaches this summer are talented, experienced, and dedicated to the sport:
Laurie Hug. Laurie is the WHS Boys Swimming Head Coach. As a USAT Level II Certified Coach she has coached age group, triathlon and masters swimmers at all levels. Laurie has been competing in, and is nationally ranked in, Masters Swimming events and Triathlons around the world for over 20 years.
Kate Devlin. Kate began her swim career with Upper Dublin Aquatic Club and Gwynedd Mercy Academy and later moved on to the triathlon, competing in the Collegiate Nationals. She was both the Boys’ and Girls’ Swimming and Water Polo Coach at a FL high school. Kate is currently teaching English at Norwood-Fontbonne Academy in Chestnut Hill.
Questions?: Contact the coaches, Laurie Hug hug_l@yahoo.com or Kate Devlin katedev@gmail.com or Melinda Wolff at mswolff@comcast.net .
State Championship and Top Times
Wissahickon's 200 free and medley relays traveled to Bucknell University Thursday to compete in the PIAA Championship. The relays consisted of Andrew Nagelberg, Chris Chiodo-Ortiz, Erik Waechter, and Adam Bossert. Nagelberg and Bossert also swam individual events. See paswimming.com for results.
District Championships - Boys & Girls
February 28, 2009
Boys who have qualified for District Championships include Adam Bossert, Sean High, Carl Krause, Andrew Nagelberg, Chris Ortiz, Craig Shapiro, Ian Smith, and Eric Waechter. Girls swimming at Districts include Becky Gilpin, Lizzie McKenna, Whitney Walsh, Carrie Johnson, Rachel Bohr and Lori Jefferson.
Friday night report from the meet - The boys are doing great and are currently in 6th place in a field of 64 teams! The Wissahickon 200 Medley relay of Nagelberg, Bossert, Ortiz and Waechter took 6th place with a time of 1:39.28 bettering their previous best time by more than 2 seconds. Carl Krause and Eric Waechter next swam a very competitve 200Free event, and both boys improved by 2 and 4 seconds respectively. Craig Shapiro swam a strong 23.53 50Free and Andrew Nagelberg placed 9th with an outstanding 21.97! The winning time for the 50Free was 21.41 - that's sooo close! Next up was Chris Ortiz in the 100Butterfly with a 56.52 a new best time. The final event for the night was the 200Free Relay. Nagelberg, Ortiz, Waechter and Bossert were smoking, taking another 6th place with a time of 1:28.56 - 2 seconds faster than their previous best! This was a very fast meet with several new District record times.
Saturday night at the Races - Well sports fans it was a great finish for the Wissahickon Swimming season. Girls finished districts dropping times in all 3 relays and some personal bests in individual events. Congratulations girls! Our guys came out to do battle with some very powerful swimming programs, 64 teams in total. When the roar of the crowds finally subsided, Wissahickon earned 10th place - an outstanding showing. Top ten final results were:
Men - AAA BOYS - Team Rankings
1. West Chester B. Reed Henderson 231.5 2. Boyertown High School 225.5
3. Upper Dublin High School 208 4. North Penn High School 199
5. Downingtown West High School 133 6. Central Bucks East HS 128.5
7. Radnor High School 113 8. Downingtown East High School 110
9. Unionville High School 89 10. Wissahickon High School 84
Chris Ortiz and Eric Waechter started off the 100Free event with more than 1 second improvements on their best times. Adam Bossert's 48.80 100Free time earned a 12th place finish. Next up was Carl Krause (5:05.08 ) and Ian Smith (5:04.28), who both crushed their previous best times in the 500Free by almost 12 seconds. Andrew Nagelberg was having another great day, this time in the 100Back event. Andrew's time of 54.90 took 11th place in a very close contest. Adam Bossert swam the 100Breast in 1:00.71 winning 7th place. The Wissahickon Boys ended the night with 4 fine performances in the the 400Free Relay. Craig Shapiro, Sean High, Carl Krause and Ian Smith finished in 3:31.00 shaving more than 7 seconds from their seed time. Click here for complete results for the boys. Click here for complete results for the girls. Great job guys and girls.Go Wissahickon!
Surburban 1 Champs
Boys Shave Heads for Leagues
Boys take 2nd At League Champs
February 13, 2009
The Wissahickon Boys had a great day, taking second place at the League Championships. Many boys dropped big time to set new personal best times. The 200 Medley Relay of Andrew Nagelberg, Adam Bossert, Chris Ortiz and Erik Waechter earned 2nd place with a time of 1:41.81. Tommy Ruser(2:00.21) and Jake Ruser (2:02.87) showed great improvement and new personal best times in the 200 Free. Tim Greer (2:15.55) shaved more than 7 seconds from his 200 IM, while Ian Smith (2:15.76) and Sean High (2:16.23) also had good swims in the event. Andrew Nagelberg placed second in the 50 Free (22.72), Erik Waechter was close(22.98) and Craig Shapiro made district qualifying time (23.58). First place in the 200 Free Relay went to Wissahickon's Nagelberg, Ortiz, Waechter and Bossert (1:30.59). The 200 free relay set a new pool record for Upper Merion. Adam Bossert also placed second in the 100 Free (49.82). Ian Smith's 5:22.34 in the 500 Free took 4th place. In the 100 Back event, Andrew Nagelberg got 3rd place (57.61), Chris Ortiz (59.17) took 4th and Carl Krause (1:00.48) made District time. Adam Bossert's 100 Breast time of 1:03.09 was his personal best, taking first place well ahead of the pack.
It was a great finish to a winning season for the Trojan boys, and a good practice run for the boys who will continue on to Districts.
Go Wissahickon!
TROJAN GIRLS COME UP AGAINST DEEP HATBORO-HORSHAM SQUAD, GO DOWN, 105.5- 74.5
Wissahickon Girls went out to Hatboro- Horsham Elementary School to face a very deep squad and came up short losing 105.5 to 74.5. Although a couple girls swam their best times of the season, they were only able to take one first place finish, Sereena Xu in the 50 Freestyle. Our Hats are off to the Hatters from HH. Congratulations to the girls on their last dual meet of the season. Time to start working towards League Champs at U. Merion on Friday, 2/13 (all kinds of crazy things can happen on Friday the 13th, who knows ????????????????????????????????????????????)
Pool air conditions and pool use concerns
Melinda Wolff met with WSD’s new Business Administrator, Wade Coleman, on 1/21/09. Summary of our discussion:
Pool/air conditions. WSD is getting info and bids on a UV system. See http://www.vce.org/chloraminearticles.html for information on this system. UD just installed one at its Maple Manor/bubble pool and GA has been using such system for several years; at both pools, the problems similar to ours has been eliminated. This does not mean WSD is going to purchase and install this system; it just means they are actively looking into it as a potential solution to our pool/air quality problems.
Attention coaches and parents and swimmers. Mr. Coleman requested that you email him (and not Ms. Fields or Mr. Meier) if/when you experience any problems with breathing or irritations of throat, lung, eyes etc. as a result of swimming, coaching, working, or just watching in our pool area . Mr. Coleman will assume there are NO more problems unless he hears directly from you otherwise.
Availability and accessibility of pool, to the various users of the pool (ie, high school aquatics teams, WMS students, WCAC, YMCA, and residents of the WSD community). Mr. Coleman will be meeting with the other users of the pool to discuss this. Ultimately, he’d like to create a grid which clearly shows who is using pool and when, with the high school programs receiving preference of times. We discussed the need to improve and increase the accessibility and availability of the pool to the community as one more way to promote aquatics programs. We also discussed the relationships between the various user groups of the pool, the history of our aquatics programs, and just about everything related to the pool and our swimming/polo programs and equipment and supplies and so on and so on. Mr. Coleman is proactive and desires to resolve the issues. Please communicate with him by email.
Ongoing, numerous discussions with administration on such topics as:
- Record board - a budget item for next year for the high school swim team, has NOT been approved yet. Budget review is at end of school year.
- Timing system. Process and tools for getting the times and splits from the electronic system is in progress. Documenting the procedures for setting up and breaking down the timing system, as well as for maintaining the appropriate levels of pool chemicals and air temperature: I’ve been stressing the need for this.
If you want to peruse my documentation on pool-related issues, let me know and I will share those correspondences with you.
Awards display cases update
In these times of "change, we’ve been inspired to update our Wissahickon water polo players and swimmers awards displays. Many of you have earned All-State and All American team selections, so we will be collecting copies (supplied by you) of the awards, along with your picture, to be displayed in the cases outside of the locker rooms. We have pictures of the boys polo and swimmers from the past two years. Girls and boys from previous years need to supply their own photo (email to cherylnagelberg@comcast.net).
Please let us know if you, your child, or any alumni, has an award to be displayed. We will be doing this ASAP. Thank you.
Cheryl Nagelberg & Kathy Johnson
Check out the new Wissahickon Swimming Stikables
Maybe you've seen the new logo on the Wissahickon Sportswear just in? Well it's also possible to show your team support in other places - you car windows, schoolbook covers, everywhere. Order a few Wiss Swimming Stikables and go wild. Use on painted walls, glass, metal and many other surfaces. Stikables are Peel and Stick, easily removable and reposition. Use indoors and outside too. Diane Ruser will have them at Sunday's Parent's Social. So show your team support and help our fund-raising too. Cost $5.
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