Olympic Trials!!

Happy Monday!

Thank you to everyone who helped put on a great meet on Saturday! It is always so much fun when both of the Roseville teams swim each other.

This week is Olympic Trials in Omaha Nebraska ! They will be shown on the NBC and USA network. This is a great way to get all of the kids excited, as we get close to the end of our season. You can also see a heat list and live results at www.omegatiming.com.

U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Swimming Sunday, June 29 8:00-9:00 pm ET NBC
U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Swimming Monday, June 30 8:00-9:00 pm ET USA
U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Swimming Tuesday, July 1 8:00-9:00 pm ET USA
U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Swimming Wednesday, July 2 8:00-9:00 pm ET USA
U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Swimming Thursday, July 3 8:00-9:00 pm ET USA
U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Swimming Friday, July 4 8:00-9:00 pm ET NBC
U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Swimming Saturday, July 5 8:00 -9:00 pm ET NBC
U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Swimming Sunday, July 6 8:00 -9:00 pm ET NBC

(For those who have satellite reception check when USA will be broadcasting the Trails part of the Trials and Finals meet. On Dish network USA broadcasts at 5 PM - time to use TIVO.)
You can watch the trials on the net at nbcolympics.com, they start at 9am PDT. http://www.nbcolympics.com

It might also be fun to tape some of it to show at practice. Have a great week!


Megan Henry
Recreation Coordinator
Parks and Recreation
City of Roseville
1545 Pleasant Grove Blvd
Roseville, CA 95747
(916) 774-5983
(916) 774-5999 fax
www.roseville.ca.us/parks

MaryTess Taylor signs full-ride athletic scholarship with CSUF

Our Sugarbear Coach MaryTess Taylor recently signed a letter of intent to swim for California State University of Fresno on a full ride athletic scholarship.

MaryTess, who took 3rd place this year in the 100 Breast Stroke in California State Finals for Sierra College, had received offers from Northridge, Concordia, Whittier and Chapman prior to signing with Fresno.

Fresno state is re-instating their Division I Women's Swimming and Diving team and is being headed up by Jeanne Fleck from Ohio State.
Here is an article on Jeanne's background and recent appointment and a recent interview.

"I am really excited. Besides being Division I and offering all of the academic programs of my interest, I am looking forward to seeing what I can accomplish by just focusing on swimming and not playing polo for the next couple years." said MaryTess. "Fresno is also very much a sports town, which should be a lot of fun."

MaryTess was a Roseville Sugarbear recreational swimmer since age 5 and retired last year from the Sugarbear program at age 18 and was awarded the Diane Dawson Memorial Award by the Sugarbears. She has been a Sugarbear coach for the last two years.

MaryTess has also swam and played polo for Oakmont High School and Sierra College.

While swimming recreational for the Sugarbears greatly instilled her great love and passion for swimming, it is the aquatics program at Sierra College which MaryTess credits as developing her to the next level as a collegiate swimmer, reaching Community College All-American status (top 16 within the nation) her freshman year at Sierra. The aquatics program at Sierra College, led by Coaches Scott Decker and Chris Breitbart, is phenomenal. The Sierra College women’s team has finished within the Top 2 in State for the past 4 years in a row.

While attending Fresno State, MaryTess plans to get a teaching credential and will be studying Art and French. Marytess is fluent in French.

Marytess lived in France for three years from age 12-14 and was submerged into the French culture and language by initially attending a Catholic French school in Cannes. She later transferred to an International School in Mougins where she continued her French and also studied Spanish. She hopes to go back to live in France at least 6 months to a year after Fresno.

Oakmont High School
2004 Defensive Player of the Year (waterpolo)
2005 MVP Waterpolo
2006 MVP Waterpolo
2004 MVP Swimming
2005 MVP Swimming
2006 MVP Swimming
2005 & 2006 Swim Captain

Sierra College
2007 Team Captain (Water Polo)
2007 Kate McCollum Award (Water Polo)
2007 Most Improved (Swimming)

Podcast #37: 2008 Auburn Meet. We Are Family

Interviews from our 2008 Meet with Auburn held on June 21st. Sugarbear President Jef Huber and Sugarbear swimmer Lauren Sims perform the interviews. Includes an interview with former Sugarbear and current Sugarbear coach MaryTess Taylor who recently signed her letter intent to swim for Fresno State on a full-ride athletic scholarship.
Click here to listen to the podcast. The podcast is 23MB in size and 24 minutes in length. A broadband internet connection is required.

9-10 and 11-12 Age Group Social Approaching...

A call out to all our 9-10 and 11-12 Sugarbear swimmers. A reminder that our 9-12 age group social is this Wednesday, June 25th from 5-9pm at Lakeview Hills Beach and Clubhouse. This is an event you don't want to miss! Click here for directions to Lakeview Hills. Please bring your bathing suit, towel and appetite. Also feel free to bring a fishing pole, if you like to fish.

Meet Results and reports from Auburn Meet now available on-line

Hot Stuff! That was some Disco Fever today!

Great job by the Sugarbear swimmers, as well as the Sugarbear parent volunteers starting the meet on-time and wrapping up our final home meet of the summer.

A shoutout and well wishes to our retiring Sugarbear swimmers, who have swam their final Sugarbear home meet at Oakmont Community pool:

• Allie Sallati
• Lauren Thomas
• Lindsay Mosbrucker
• CJ Wilder
• Nick Mater
• Cody Palmer
• Clay Molina

Lauren Thomas has graduated from high school, but is only 17 so is eligible to return next summer, if she chooses.

A thank you to our Head Snackbar Monica Busby, Grill Master Charlotte Johnson, Head ComputerOps Mike Hynes and their corresponding crews for an excellent job!! Well Done!!!

Podcast #36: 2008 Granite Bay Meet. Deep Fried Gators

Interviews and Country theme quiz led by Sugarbear parent, Mike Bardini, from June 14th Meet with the Granite Bay Gators. Also includes Sugarbear swimmer, Morgan Leffel (age 10), performing our national anthem a cappella.

Click here to listen to the podcast. The podcast is 18 MB in size and 19 minutes in length. A broadband internet connection is required.

Reminders for this Week

A reminder that we are now switching to morning practices.
Also, there are no more Monday practices!

If you have signed up for one of the optional Monday morning clinics (8-10am) they are being held at Oakmont Community Pool.

Our meet results with Granite Bay and various reports have been posted to our Sugarbear website. We are so proud of our Sugarbears and the progress!!!

Please don't forget that this Wednesday, June 18th is our annual Swim-a-thon.
Checkout our website for additional details, Pledge Sheet, Top 10 reasons to participate, prizes (individual and family), etc.
We thank you for your support!

Also on Wednesday, June 18th is our 13-18 Sugarbear Teen Social at Lakeview Hills (5-10pm).
Click here for directions.

Go Sugarbears!!

Podcast #35: 2008 Placerville Meet. Burning Love

Interviews and exciting moments captured from our 2008 Meet with Placerville held on June 7th. Sugarbear President, Jef Huber, captures the moment when Justin Sutter breaks Scott Strong’s 15-18 Boys 100 Free Sugarbear Team Record. Jef also does a good job of capturing the excitement on the very close finish to the meet. Also includes an interview with former Sugarbear Mary Ann Cruz who still holds 3 Sugarbear team records.

Click here to listen to the podcast. The podcast is 20MB in size and 21 minutes in length. A broadband internet connection is required.

Elvis is ALIVE! Placerville Meet a blast!

Our meet results and related reports from today's meet with Placerville are now available on-line.

A very exciting, fun and competitive meet. Great Job!!

Final score Sugarbears, 1,832.50, Dolphins 1,787.50.

Congratulations to Justin Sutter for breaking another Sugarbear Team record, posting a 48.53 in the 100 Free.

Some quick reminders:

We have one more week of evening practices, before switching to morning practices.

This is one week later than originally scheduled.

If you signed up for the Monday clinics, the first one this Monday, June 9th, will be held at the Roseville Aquatics Complex (RAC), instead of Oakmont.

There will be no more Monday practices beginning June 16th.

Our team pictures are in and filed within the family folders, available for pickup.

For those who did not attend Time Trials, there will be a picture make up day, Tuesday June 17th at 9AM.

Parents, if you have yet to do it today, please be sure and give your Sugarbear a hug.

Podcast #34: Pool deck interviews at 2008 Time Trials

Interviews and shoutouts from our 2008 Time Trials held on May 31st, 2008. Sugarbear swimmer, Lauren Sims, joins Sugarbear President Jef Huber on the pool deck (and elsewhere) interviewing several Sugarbears. Includes interview of returning Sugarbear swimmer CJ Wilder, who is now 18, swims for Sierra College and still holds the 9-10 Girls Sugarbear team record in the 25 Breast (17.59).
Click here to listen to the podcast. The podcast is 20MB in size and 21 minutes in length. A broadband internet connection is required.

Time Trial Results now available

Great Job at our Time Trials Sugarbears!

Congratulations to Justin Sutter for capturing three new Sugarbear team records!
Go Justin!!

The day was a bit longer than usual, but we greatly appreciate everyone's good spirits and cooperation.

Fortunately, the weather was very pleasant.

FYI. Our results from Time Trials are now available on our sugarbear website.

http://www.sugarbears.org/

Accessible from the Stats/Results link in the top header of the site, or from the Results/Stats/Results tab towards the bottom of the main page.

Or, feel free to bookmark and use the following crazy URL for the summer:

http://sugarbears.org/results-main

In addition to the results and version 4 of our on-line roster, your ComputerOps Head, Mike Hynes, has also provided TopTimes reports by Name and by Event. Our team records have also been updated.

Swimmers are encouraged to enter their Personal Best into our on-line system, compare them to their expected qualifying times for the Meet of Champions (MoC) and set their own personal goal times. The corresponding MoC Goal Times will be listed for each swimmer as they enter.

Lastly, a reminder that if you are not able to make next Saturday's meet with Placerville, you should already be signed out.

GO SUGARBEARS!!!!