We've got just less than two weeks until the reunion weekend. Everyone on the Men's Swimming and Diving Board and the coaches have been working hard to prepare a great weekend for everyone. Please make sure you email Russ if you are going to the cocktail reception at Joe and Liz Hebert's on Friday night so we can plan on numbers.
The Men's team participated in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life on Friday April 18 - Saturday April 19. The overnight event generated lots of enthusiasm from the 5 College Community and I was proud of our team's participation and fundraising. Isaac Ebert and RJ Rappe took the lead in organizing this and kudos to them
Let's start posting some comments here to drum up interest in the weekend.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Alumni Reunion
Hey Gang
We're getting things ready for the reunion weekend. Thought a blog might be fun to share ideas and let people know who is coming etc. Let's get people psyched for the weekend and join in supporting UMass Swimming and Diving!
Russ
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
A little Pop, slight fizzle, then a Bang
Saturday morning trials started great, with 3 lifetime bests in the 200 Back. Man-Drew placed first with a very controlled 1:50 and Max with a well swum 1:52 to place 5th. Drew also swam a personal best and squeaked in at 16th with a 1:57.
The 100 Free and the 200 Breast were a little off for us today but we still managed to place a tired Juan Moliere in finals(he'll be ready tonight he claims!) and Nate and AJ in consols. Nate looked great but missed his 50 wall and came out at a stand still. I think we'll see a 45 out of him tonight. Brian Schmidt, fresh (or not so fresh) off his 1100 yard race day, managed to squeak into finals of the 200 Breast with a lifetime best 2:07. Weaver swam a strong 2:08 but just missed the top 8 and is in tenth for tonight.
Then we picked up speed as Mike Berthaume swam to the top seed in the 200 Fly with his best ever 1:52...he swam it a little too hard the 3rd fifty and was just holding on at the end but should be a little more controlled tonight. Tim Smith churned to a lifetime best in 1:54 for 7th while senior Derek Castellana finalled in 6th place with another 1:54, just ahead of Tim.
Tim has to do the mile this afternoon then we start the evening session with three milers in the final heat: Brad Sloan, Tristan Partridge, and defending champ Justin Brooks!
GO UMASS
The 100 Free and the 200 Breast were a little off for us today but we still managed to place a tired Juan Moliere in finals(he'll be ready tonight he claims!) and Nate and AJ in consols. Nate looked great but missed his 50 wall and came out at a stand still. I think we'll see a 45 out of him tonight. Brian Schmidt, fresh (or not so fresh) off his 1100 yard race day, managed to squeak into finals of the 200 Breast with a lifetime best 2:07. Weaver swam a strong 2:08 but just missed the top 8 and is in tenth for tonight.
Then we picked up speed as Mike Berthaume swam to the top seed in the 200 Fly with his best ever 1:52...he swam it a little too hard the 3rd fifty and was just holding on at the end but should be a little more controlled tonight. Tim Smith churned to a lifetime best in 1:54 for 7th while senior Derek Castellana finalled in 6th place with another 1:54, just ahead of Tim.
Tim has to do the mile this afternoon then we start the evening session with three milers in the final heat: Brad Sloan, Tristan Partridge, and defending champ Justin Brooks!
GO UMASS
Friday, February 22, 2008
Friday Night Firsts!!
The boys won 4 of the seven events tonight and 1-2'd the backstroke and the diving!
We started off with frosh phenom Brian Schmidt cranking a 4:03 IM to place third - that's almost 10 seconds better than his high school best!
That was followed by an awesome come from behind 100 fly by Nate Bromage to tie the St. Bonnie Polish National Team freshman in a blazing 48.88....one more yard and it would have been Nate all alone. Mike Berthaume was 3rd and Zack Priest was 4th!. We were a little off in the 200 Free but scored good points with 8,12,13,14,15 place finishes to show our depth.
Brian Schmidt came back with another lifetime best in the 100 Breast at 57.28....Pat Kuehne finished at :58.42 in a lifetime best in the consols!.
Then came the show! Andrew and Max 1-2'd the 100 Back (both 50.+), then RJ and Byron put on an awesome display to finish 1-2 in the 3 Meter Diving (A10 Record for RJ)....then we followed with a very exciting Medley Relay win as Willbrant, Schmidt (Yup - 1100 yards of racing for him today!!!), Bromage, and Moliere took the lead early and never looked back!.
We've got another strong day planned for tomorrow - Team Score has UMass with 577.5 and SBU with 421.5.
The coach and everyone else are getting tired but Day 4 has always been what UMass Swimming is all about.
GO UMASS!!
We started off with frosh phenom Brian Schmidt cranking a 4:03 IM to place third - that's almost 10 seconds better than his high school best!
That was followed by an awesome come from behind 100 fly by Nate Bromage to tie the St. Bonnie Polish National Team freshman in a blazing 48.88....one more yard and it would have been Nate all alone. Mike Berthaume was 3rd and Zack Priest was 4th!. We were a little off in the 200 Free but scored good points with 8,12,13,14,15 place finishes to show our depth.
Brian Schmidt came back with another lifetime best in the 100 Breast at 57.28....Pat Kuehne finished at :58.42 in a lifetime best in the consols!.
Then came the show! Andrew and Max 1-2'd the 100 Back (both 50.+), then RJ and Byron put on an awesome display to finish 1-2 in the 3 Meter Diving (A10 Record for RJ)....then we followed with a very exciting Medley Relay win as Willbrant, Schmidt (Yup - 1100 yards of racing for him today!!!), Bromage, and Moliere took the lead early and never looked back!.
We've got another strong day planned for tomorrow - Team Score has UMass with 577.5 and SBU with 421.5.
The coach and everyone else are getting tired but Day 4 has always been what UMass Swimming is all about.
GO UMASS!!
Friday morning session produces good stuff!!
Some nice swims this morning - highlighted by Andrew (now known as Man-Drew) Willbrant qualifying first in the 100 back with a smoking :50.6. We also had a great swim by Max (I'm Baaaack) Butler finishing 3rd in 51.0. Zack attack Priest placed in the final as well and also qualified in the 100 fly top 8.
The first event of the morning was the 400 IM....freshman Brian Schmidt had a pretty painful 4:05 swim but is in the final along with junior Brad Sloan. Brian hadn't swum an event yet and was a little stiff while Brad didn't feel that good either but we'll warm him up a little differently tonight and he'll be ready to go.
The 100 fly was awesome with both Bromage and Berthaume coming in at 49 plus and seeded 2nd and third. AJ Vozella started to come around by making finals in the 200 and we placed four guys in consols. Next came the backstroke performance then we saw Schmidtty break through with an awesome 57.6 (nothing like a 400 IM for warm up) and a solid 58.0 from John 'I'm not injured any more' Weaver. Pat Kuehne stroked into the consols with a 59.2.
Things look good for tonight as we also put 4 divers into finals of the 3 Meter competition with RJ first, Byron 2nd, and freshmen Adam Duffield and John CLark 4th and 7th respectively. I'm gonna say we have a pretty good diving coach.....the women went 1-2-3 on 1 Meter last night!!!!!!!!!
We're building up some real energy and confidence as we pass the half way point of the meet. More fireworks tonight!
GO UMASS
The first event of the morning was the 400 IM....freshman Brian Schmidt had a pretty painful 4:05 swim but is in the final along with junior Brad Sloan. Brian hadn't swum an event yet and was a little stiff while Brad didn't feel that good either but we'll warm him up a little differently tonight and he'll be ready to go.
The 100 fly was awesome with both Bromage and Berthaume coming in at 49 plus and seeded 2nd and third. AJ Vozella started to come around by making finals in the 200 and we placed four guys in consols. Next came the backstroke performance then we saw Schmidtty break through with an awesome 57.6 (nothing like a 400 IM for warm up) and a solid 58.0 from John 'I'm not injured any more' Weaver. Pat Kuehne stroked into the consols with a 59.2.
Things look good for tonight as we also put 4 divers into finals of the 3 Meter competition with RJ first, Byron 2nd, and freshmen Adam Duffield and John CLark 4th and 7th respectively. I'm gonna say we have a pretty good diving coach.....the women went 1-2-3 on 1 Meter last night!!!!!!!!!
We're building up some real energy and confidence as we pass the half way point of the meet. More fireworks tonight!
GO UMASS
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Thursday Night Thunder!
We started with the 500 and 4:34's from both Brooks and Talarick and a very nice 4:37 from Sloan establishing the tone for the night.
Willbrant, steamed to a 1:53 IM and then Juan Moliere took the title in the 50 Free at :20.77.
Later on the 200 Free Relay was led off again by Juan in a blazing :20.48 as the team of Moliere, Bromage, Vozella, and Priest got touched out by two one hundredths for 1st place by a quick Duquesne team. I must say they followed the coach's orders and held their starts as we are moving into the team score lead and didn't want any DQ's.
At the end of the evening we've extended the distance over SBU to 76 points with a strong day coming tomorrow. Brian Schmidt, Zack Priest, Derek Castellana, and Mike Berthaume haven't swum an individual event yet and they are chomping at the bit!
Our fans were awesome, pumping up the volume and exhorting the UMass swimmers to extra effort. Full results should be on the UMass athletics website soon or at www.atlantic10.org
GO UMASS
Willbrant, steamed to a 1:53 IM and then Juan Moliere took the title in the 50 Free at :20.77.
Later on the 200 Free Relay was led off again by Juan in a blazing :20.48 as the team of Moliere, Bromage, Vozella, and Priest got touched out by two one hundredths for 1st place by a quick Duquesne team. I must say they followed the coach's orders and held their starts as we are moving into the team score lead and didn't want any DQ's.
At the end of the evening we've extended the distance over SBU to 76 points with a strong day coming tomorrow. Brian Schmidt, Zack Priest, Derek Castellana, and Mike Berthaume haven't swum an individual event yet and they are chomping at the bit!
Our fans were awesome, pumping up the volume and exhorting the UMass swimmers to extra effort. Full results should be on the UMass athletics website soon or at www.atlantic10.org
GO UMASS
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