Coach’s Note 1-06-11 UT Meet details for this weekend, Holiday Challenge T-Shirt info, Special Guest from USA Swimming visiting Nitro…
UT New Year’s Classic meet details: This is a Prelim/Finals meet and the first one with Finals of this season. All Finals sessions (top 8 and in some cases top 16 finishers from AM session) warm up at 5:00PM and the Finals meet starts at 6:00PM each day. Be there at least 15 minutes before your warm up. Be sure to check with coaches AND with results table on deck prior to leaving each AM session to see if you made it back for finals. If you qualify and don’t show up, there are fines that will be imposed by UT.
Holiday Challenge T-Shirts !! If you are in Advanced Silver, Gold, TAGS 2, TAGS 1, Senior 2, Senior 1, or National – and you made the designated number of team practices over the Christmas break, be sure to order your specially designed 2010-2011 Holiday Challenge t-shirt. Don’t miss out on this, as it is a testament to the hard work you put in, and an honor to be able to wear it with pride.
You may have seen a new face on our pool deck yesterday (Wednesday) helping the coaches, talking to several of our swimmers. The coaches already spent a few hours yesterday afternoon with her and have another few hours set up with her today prior to our practices beginning. We never stop learning, and we bring the latest info to our pool. Here’s some info on her:
USA Swimming Sports Consultant MJ Pasion. MJ will be bringing cutting edge technical info to us straight from the USA National Team and I have listed her bio and the things she will be doing with the swimmers below. MJ will be doing clinics in the afternoons and then specifically working with NG on Thursday am and our Senior 1, TAGS 1, and NG on Thursday pm. We are very excited about her visit and this is no charge to the swimmers—just a great chance to learn and apply to their swim!
Mariejo “MJ” Pasion
SPORTS PERFORMANCE CONSULTANT
“MJ” has spent the last quad (4 years) working with USA Swimming’s National Team Division. She was part of the Performance Science and Technology Services Team where she was able to work closely with the National Team athletes and coaches. Among her duties included video-taping, video and race analysis, lactate testing, providing nutrition information and club visits. She has been part of the technical staff for the 2006 Short Course Worlds, 2006 Pan Pacs, 2007 Pan Ams and 2008 Short Course Worlds Teams.
Before coming to USA Swimming, MJ was a head coach on the collegiate level for seven years producing several All-Americans. In additional to coaching all swimming levels, she has been coaching club swimming for the past 12 years, the last four with the Colorado Springs Swim Team. She has also coached swimming, cycling and triathlon for Chris Carmichael, Lance Armstrong’s coach, giving her a well-rounded view on coaching. MJ is a graduate of New York University where she completed both her undergraduate and postgraduate work.
- Understanding Race Analysis
- Recovery and Nutrition
- Lactate Testing
- Goal setting
- Latest stroke technique from the National Team (Back, Breast, Starts)
- Progressions to the USA Swimming National Team
That’s it for now. Thanks for being a part of Nitro Swimming. See you at the pool ! Coach Mike.
Nitro Swim 