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June 18-20, 2010
LC Southeasterns, July 22-25, 2010
November 5-7, 2010
January 14-16, 2011
TENN HS STATE Meet Feb. 11-12, 2011

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PRACTICE CHANGE:
For the groups of Red, Gold, Black, Senior PREP,
Junior, High School & PRE-COMP:
There will be no practice
Saturday, Sept. 4 and Monday, Sept. 6 due to Labor Day Holiday.
National group check with Andy or Jim.

The Southeastern Swimming Swimposium
is scheduled for October 2 - 3 in Orange Beach, AL. Come on down, the beach is sugar white and the water's fine...
TNT Swimming is hosting the event again and this year has put together another great Swimposium for swimmers, parents and coaches.  
<Click here for more information>
This is a great experience for our swimmers and parents. Last time was a blast.

Swimmers -CHANGE!!
Southeastern Swimming is pleased to announce that Ryan Lochte will be the clinician at the 2010 Southeastern Swimposium, Saturday, October 2 in Gulf Shores, AL.

As you know, Ryan is the currently the hottest swimmer in the world, winning 6 gold medals at the recent Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine, CA. He is the world record holder in the 200 IM and also has the fastest times in the world this year in the 400 IM, 200 freestyle and 200 backstroke.

The clinic includes in water demonstrations and instruction; motivational talk to the swimmers; and an photograph and autograph session for the swimmers with Ryan.

Registration will be taken on a first come, first serve basis and is open to the first 200. The clinic will fill, so please forward this information and Swimposium link to your team families now.  It is filling up..

Parents - Sue Anderson from USA Swimming do a 3 hour seminar entitled, "Are You a Great Swimming Parent?" Sue was instrumental developing USA Swimming's "Successful Sports Parenting" CD.  She is the real deal when it comes to parent education. 

Coaches - Bryan "PK" Karkosa, from Auburn University will talk with coaches about "Dryland Strength and Conditioning Techniques for Swimmers; Age Group through Senior Level."   PK is well known for his contributions to Auburn's highly successful NCAA competitive swimming program.

Special Events - Welcome reception for coaches at Tacky Jacks Grill & Tavern sponsored by All American Swim Supply; TNT Beach Blast at Waterville, USA includes all park rides, mini golf, arcade and the awesome Flow Rider surfing machine.

Come on down, the beach is sugar white and the water's fine...

GKAISA City Meet Results
Pilot had a great showing. Over 175 swimmers from Pilot swam in the GKAISA City Championships. Several best times and records achieved.
6 City Meet Records Broken
Bryar Long-100 IM, 50 Breast
Courtney Graff-50 Free
Trenton Reed-50 Back
Addison Smith-50 Free
Summer Brown 50 Fly

Check out the final results to see the large amount of best times and finals swims on Sunday from our Pilot Swimmers.
Way to go! Full Meet Results

Pilot Returning Swimmers
Practice resumes on August 23.
Have a great break and good luck in your 2010-2011 school year.

Schedule & Results Page
SHORT COURSE SCHEDULE is posted
You may go and Results, meet info pages, time standards on this link. You may get all your information for each meet on all the meet info pages from entry forms, warm-ups psych sheets etc.
Click here for link to Schedule & Results Page

Time Standards Page
You may check links to your swimmers times in SWIMS database, time standards to all meets.
Click here for link to Time Standards Page .

2009-2010 NISCA HS All America---FYI: High School coaches will have to submit NISCA All American applications by March 31st. Pilot coaches cannot submit NISCA All American.

 

 

 

 

News From The Deck

EVAN PINION JUMPS INTO 20TH IN THE WORLD-800 Freestyle
Click here for the article from Swimming World.

Evan Pinion Represents TEAM USA
Pilot Aquatic Club's Evan Pinion (15) is representing the United States in his first International competition at Jr. Pan Pacific Championships in Maui August 26-30th. The meet highlights some of the best up-and-coming swimmers in the world, and is an opportunity for teenagers to gain valuable international competition experience, along with representing their country for the first time of their lives. Swimnetwork.com will provide On-demand coverage of the races and Live Results. Good luck Evan and GO TEAM USA!!! The Pilot Family is pulling for you.

Live Results

Day 1 Results :
- Pinion wins Gold for Team USA in the 1500 meter freestyle, breaking the Jr. Pan Pac Record with a time of 15:17.09 !

Day 3   Results :
- Pinion wins Bronze in the 400 meter freestyle with a time of 3:52.56 !

Day 4 Results :
- Pinion wins Gold in the 800 meter freestyle with a time of 7:58.93 !

5 Pilot Athletes Represented at U.S. Nationals 2010
 – Irvine, CA 8/03 - 8/07/2010

The sun wasn’t the only thing shining in southern California last week as 1438 athletes represented over 320 teams in the five-day U.S. National competition at the William Woollett Aquatic Center in Irvine California. Over 30 Olympians competed in the meet, including big names like Amanda Beard, Natalie Coughlin, Ryan Lochte, Aaron Piersol, Michael Phelps, Rebecca Soni, and Dana Vollmer. Pilot Aquatic Club had 5 individuals representing the team in Irvine: Hayden Baker (17), John Paul Gaylor (17), Katie Keel (19), Evan Pinion (15), and Alex Ward (18).

Katie Keel (19) finished in the top 100 of the womens competition, placing 94th in the 100 meter breaststroke, and also competed in time trials for the 200 meter breaststroke and the 50 meter freestyle. Hayden Baker finished 77th in the 200 butterfly, 99th in the 100 butterfly, and swam a life-time best time in the 200 meter freestyle time trials. John Paul Gaylor finished 47th in the 1500 meter freestyle, and swam life-time best times in the 400 and 200 meter freestyles. Alex Ward capped off his senior year with Pilot finishing 110th in the 400 IM, 44th in the 200 butterfly, and 90th in the 100 meter butterfly.

Highlighting Pilot’s performance at U.S. Open was 15-year-old Evan Pinion finishing 53rd in the 200 meter freestyle, 76th in the 200 meter butterfly, and 10th in the 1500 meter freestyle with a time of 15:25.54. Also swimming in his first of hopefully many finals in the national scene, Evan finished 10th in the 400 meter freestyle (3:53.04). Those results in the 1500 and 400 meter freestyles set 2 new Pilot Team records in the Open Age Group, placing Evan among the top 2 swimmers in the country of 18 and younger athletes, and qualifies him for the Junior Pan Pacific Championship team that will meet in Maui to compete against Pacific-bordering nations. Best of luck to Evan representing Team USA in Hawaii this coming week!!

“What a fantastic meet! Any time you have the fastest swimmers in the country all vying for positions on International teams the atmosphere is going to be both pressure-filled and electric. Our swimmers did a wonderful job of controlling their emotions and focussing on their races. We came away from the meet having gone 9 out of our 13 swims being new lifetime best times. Plus, putting a swimmer on the Junior Pan Pacific Team has now raised the bar for the rest of the swimmers on the Pilot Squad. The message we'll be bringing away from this meet is "If you dream big, listen to your coaches and work hard there's no limit to what you can accomplish. With our strong performance at Southeastern's and a great Nationals, I really feel like we've built some momentum going into our short course season.” ~ Coach Jim Rumbaugh

Congratulations to the 5 Pilot athletes in your representation at the National level. You have all shown great class and leadership in your representation of our team and community on the national scene. The Pilot family is proud and looks forward to our future. GO PACK!!

Full Results

SES Places 4th in Southern Zone Age Group Championships – July 27-31, 2010

Pilot Aquatic Club qualified two swimmers, John Myhre (14) and Adam Thomas (13), and chose Coach Stephen Langdon (Black Group Asst.) to join 45 other swimmers in representation of PACK and Southeastern Swimming in the Southern Zone Age Group Championships Meet in Atlanta Georgia.

John Myhre competed in 6 events throughout the week, finishing 30th in the 200 freestyle, 15th in the 200 backstroke, 19th in the 400 IM, 15th in the 100 backstroke, 21st in the 400 freestyle and 20th in the 200 butterfly.

Adam Thomas competed in 4 events placing 20th in the 200 freestyle, 16th in the 100 butterfly, 16th in the 100 freestyle, and 6th in the 50 freestyle.

Southeastern Swimming finished 4th in the combined scoring out of 13 total LSCs that were represented at the Championship meet. Congratulations to John and Adam and Boogie in your representation of Pilot Aquatic Club. Your representation on the regional level is something we are all proud of. GO PACK!

Full Results

PACK: Huge Success in SES Championships
Over 50 teams paths converged on The University of Tennessee this past weekend to compete in the 2010 Long Course Southeastern Swimming Championships.  The four-day competition, held in both pools, included 963 athletes including a squad of 106 Pilot swimmers.

Pilot Aquatics had an outstanding meet walking away from the meet with a 3rd place finish to Nashville Aquatic Club and Excel.  92% of our swimmers that competed in the meet walked away with lifetime best swims.  Senior swimmer Jenny Darby (17), swam Junior Nationals qualifying standards in the 100 and 200 meter freestyles, and qualified for a Junior Bonus cut in the 50 freestyle.  Dylan Rasnick (16) also swam to Junior Nationals Standards in the 400 IM and a Junior Bonus cut in the 200 IM.  Also qualifying for a Junior B cut was Isaac Taylor (17) in the 50 Freestyle and Ally Hardesty (16) in the 50 freestyle, 100 backstroke.  Jace Howanitz (20) also racked up a Senior National Bonus cut in the 100 freestyle.    

Pilot capped off the successful competition by winning both the men’s and women’s senior age groups and qualifying John Myhre (14) and Adam Thomas (13) for the Southeastern Swimming Zone Championship held in Atlanta, Ga this week, where they will represent the Southeastern Swimming division in competition at the Georgia Tech pool.  

“Our kids performed very well this past weekend.  We didn’t reach my ultimate goal of winning the meet but I was encouraged to see so many swimmers making it to the finals.  I know that some parents of our younger swimmers are questioning why we aren’t more competitive in those age groups.  I’d like to first say that our Red, Gold and Black group coaches are doing a fantastic job.  They are doing exactly what I’ve asked of them, and that is, to prepare these young swimmers for a long and healthy future in the sport.  The reason we continue to win both senior divisions at Southeasterns is because we prepare our young swimmers properly.  I’m extremely excited to see the progress of these young swimmers over the next few seasons.

Congratulations on an exceptional summer season.  I am very proud of the way we represented the Pilot team here in our home pool.    ~ Head Coach Jim Rumbaugh

Special thanks goes out to The University of Tennessee, Allan Jones Aquatic Center, and RecSports Student Aquatic Center for the help from your staff and use of your facilities.  Thank you to McCallie School, Scenic City Aquatic Club, and the Maryville/Alcoa Flying Dolphins for the use of your Daktronic Timing Systems.  Thank you to Coach Jackie Bussard-Bertucci and the Pilot Board for your many hours of work to organize this competition.  Thank you parent volunteers, meet officials, Pilot coaches and athletes for everything you did to make this SES Championship meet a success.  

Pilot Aquatic Club also has four senior boys (Alex Ward (18), Hayden Baker (17), John Paul Gaylor (16), and Evan Pinion (15) ) traveling to compete at Senior Nationals in Irvine, California next week.  We wish them the best of luck and GO PACK!!!  

92% of Pilot Swimmers entered in the meet swam best times!
Ben Absher (20), Matt Absher (18), Caleb Allen (17), Maddy Arthur (10), Will Arthur (13), Christian Baker (15), Matthew Bales (12), Addison Bond (12), James Bretscher (14), Chase Brown (10), Summer Brown (15), Hayden Burns (13), Brandon Calfee (15), Phillip Carter (15), Reese Catron (12), Eddie Ceausu (9), Nicole Ceausu (12), Anna Chaloux (16), Derek Connolly (14), Marisa Connolly (15), Jaron Cook (14), Ashley Darby (13), Jenny Darby (17), Michael Darby (10), Simone Digby (10), Jake Dovgan (15), Taylor Drake (12), Zeke Duck (18), Eli Engle (10), Lucy Fortune (15), Allison Fowler (15), Rachel Fowler (15), Abraham Gale (12), John Paul Gaylor (17), Drew Gill (18), Spencer Gill (18), Brian Glatt (17), Chris Goodman (15), Courtney Graff (12), Jack Hamilton (10), Ally Hardesty (16), Alex Hines (11), Cam Holcomb (10), Jace Howanitz (20), Katie Keel (19), Kloee Keener (10), Christina Klouda (14), Josiah Klouda (11), Chelsea Kyle (17), Nick Lambson (15), Alli Lapps (12), Bryar Long (13), Jake Lucheon (18), Josh Lucheon (18), Blake Macnair (16), Amanda Martin (13), Stephen Martin (10), Bethany McNabb (13), Parker Miles (15), Grant Mills (17), Charlie Morton (10), Jade Morton (12), Ben Myhre (16), John Myhre (14), Fallon Parker (17), Libby Penn (10), Evan Pinion (15), Hannah Pinion (17), Braeden Price (11), Dylan Rasnick (16), Kaylie Rasnick (14), Trenton Reed (13), Abigail Rumpp (10), Ethan Sanders (10), Lindsay Sanders (9), Owen Sanders (12), Lauren Sapp (13), Addison Smith (9), Andrew Spencer (16), Sam Sullivan-Moore (12), Isaac Taylor (17), Melinda Taylor (12), Adam Thomas (13), Madison Thomas (16), Jake Tidwell (12), Lexi Tutor (17), Stephanie Tymoszuk (11), Derek Vaughan (14), Mia Wallace (16), Camilla Wang (14), Glenna Whaley (11), Hayden Williams (10), Madeleine Wolfenbarger (10), Clarence Wong (14), Jon Woo (15), Nicholas Woo (13), Holten Wyatt (15)

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