Katy Freeman wins gold medal for USA!

On July 11th, at World University Games in Belgrade Serbia, UCSB's All-American Katy Freeman (pictured second from left on the top podium receiving her award) won a gold medal as a member of the USA 4x100 Medley relay team. The American team finished at 4:01.90 narrowly defeating Italy at 4:02.75. In the process the American team established a new meet record, shattering the mark set by Japan in 2007 at 4:03.11.

Katy Freeman, representing the Santa Barbara Aquatics Club in domestic competitions, split a blistering 1:05.83 for the breaststroke leg of the relay. That time (if contested as a flat start) would rank her 2nd in the country behind only Olympic champion and American Record holder Rebecca Soni. Additionally, Katy’s split makes her only the second American female to break the 1:06 barrier all-time.Congratulations Katy and good luck at the US Open in August

July 15th Age Group Swim Practice

600 Warm-Up as 200 swim 200 kick 200 swim
15 minutes of fast turns and S.O.S set
100 Social Kick
8x50 holding pace for points
100 Social Kick
Main Set
4x75 make required descend
4x50 make required descend
4x25 make required descend
Warm down

SBAC dryland ends for summer season

Due to the upcoming championship swimming events, dryland training with Erik Hansen and Emlynn Tursick will be postponed until the fall season. Over the past 6 weeks the SBAC age group and senior group have benefited tremendously from the extensive dryland training prior to swim practice, but with the biggest swim meets of the year upon us we are taking a break from the pain. Erik and Emilyn will now focus all of their attention on the swim practice. Sadly (for the coaches), dryland will not resume until September 1st.

SBAC swimmers busy this weekend

SBAC will be represented by our athletes at 3 different events this weekend. Erik Lindheim-Marx will participate in the Santa Maria Invitational, Regan Eickert and others will participate in the Santa Barbara Kids Triathlon and the bulk of our novice program will participate in our 3rd competition of the summer at the Tennis Club of Santa Barbara.

Beginning Age Group Kicking test set

The younger half of Age Group swimmers attempted a kicking test set of 10x50 on 2:00 on Tuesday July 14th. Following are the results.

Abbi 57, 54, 56, 57, 58, 58, 59, 58, 59, 55
Jordan 1:04, 59, 58, 57, 58, 58, 59, 1:00, 1:03, 1:03
Tony 1:01, 57, 59, 58, 59, 1:00, 1:03, 1:05, 1:02, 1:02
Kate 1:02, 54, 56, 57, 1:00, 59, 1:05, 1:05, 1:03, 1:05
Colin 1:03, 59, 59, 59, 56, 1:19, 1:17, 1:21, 1:19, 1:17
Jesse 1:05, 1:00, 1:00, 1:00, 1:00, 1:02, 1:02, 1:02, 1:02, 1:00
Nathan 1:07, 1:06, 1:06, 1:06, 1:05, 1:01, 1:07, 1:08, 1:06, 1:08
Parker 1:06, 1:06, 1:05, 1:05, 1:05, 1:05, 1:05, 1:08, 1:09, 1:10
Liam 1:05, 58, 59, 59, 59, 1:03, 1:01, 1:02, 1:04, 1:03
Erin 1:26, 1:32, 1:31, 1:30, 1:27, 1:30, 1:34, 1:30, 1:27, 1:31

SBAC novice competes in La Cumbre Country Club event

26 Santa Barbara Aquatics Club swimmers, along with head coach Mark Warkentin and assistant coach Becky Vossler descended upon La Cumbre Country Club last Saturday for a local novice swim meet. As one of the larger team attending the swim meet SBAC had multiple first places finishes in various age divisions. Every swimmer competed in 3 to 6 races, established new best times and received ribbons in the process. Great job SBAC!

Age Group IM test set

A group of age group swimmers at SBAC were recently challenged to swim a set of 10x100 IM on 3 minutes. Results are as follows:

Eric 1:33, 1:34, 1:36, 1:36, 1:33, 1:30, 1:32, 1:31, 1:31, 1:29.4
Courtney 1:27, 1:30, 1:31, 1:31, 1:32, 1:36, 1:35, 1:34, 1:37, 1:32.2
Regan 1:31, 1:30, 1:30, 1:34, 1:32, 1:32, 1:34, 1:33, 1:36, 1:29.8
Tony 1:51, 1:59, 1:57, 1:48, 1:49, 1:50, 1:47, 1:51, 1:54, 1:46
Parker 2:11, 2:11, 2:14
Kip 1:51, 1:47, 1:50, 1:46, 1:50, 1:54, 1:49, 1:50, 1:50, 1:48
Nathan 1:59, 1:54, 1:58, 2:00, 1:54, 1:55, 2:00, 2:01, 2:02, 1:51
Makenzie 2:05, 2:04, XXX, 1:59, 2:09, 2:10, 2:09, 2:13, 2:15, 2:05
Carly 2:06, 2:04, 2:07, XXX, 2:06, 2:10, 2:09, 2:05, 2:02, 1:54
Jordan 1:59, 2:02, 2:00, 2:03, 2:05, 2:06, 2:05, 2:05, 2:07, 2:00

Regan Eickert races in Semana Nautica 1 mile ocean swim

Regan Eickert braved the 58 degree temp of the Pacific Ocean to swim the 1 mile ocean race at Semana Nautica 2009. Regan, the youngest competitor in the event, finished in a time of 31 minutes and 55 seconds, placing 6th among all 17 and under female swimmers.