We Are Rusty.

Katie Reeves and Katie Tomkinson (Tom Tom) are figuring out how they can prevent their injuries. Reeves rolled her ankle boxing that morning and Tom Tom hurt her shoulder lifting weights. Here is what they thought might work with their rusty body parts.

The Gauchos Getting in Shape Quickly

The Gaucho swim team finished the successful 2009 fall training camp with the second NES (National Event Series). NES consists of

1700 free (1650+50free)

800 IM (200 of each stroke)

400 IM (100 of each stroke)

400 IM

200IM

500 free.

It is a total of 4000 yards. The apple in the picture belongs to the swimmer who had the fastest times for both the first and second NES (they were one week apart). The slowest time for both men and women were by far the fastest (by more than 2 minutes) as well as the average of the team. Nice job, Gauchos!

We used to be gymnasts!

2008 U.S. Olympic Trial qualifiers: Katie Ure and Naomi Javanifard were once gymnasts. They don't talk about outfits, but they tend to match their attire often especially in the weight room. It was a perfect look for the routine they came up.

Fishermen vs. Swimmers

Most of the people's brains are formed when they come to college. Some are good at numbers while others are very visual. For some people, 100 feet and 100 inches seemed the same when they are in the water and swimming near the pier. For some others, Gregg's words don't stay in their brain. Even though fishermen were yelling at the Gaucho swimmers: "someone got a shark an hour ago," the Gauchos competed the Ocean Swim = a mile swim + a mile run and made the fishermen very unhappy.Picture: from left Tyla Willment (2nd tie) Monica Finnoy (2nd tie) Mitchell Long (winner) Tim Freeman (2nd place) Carri Cook (winner)

Video taped by coach Eric Fehr. His comments were something to be shared in the future. Eric, you are very talented. I hear those film studies major students might need another class because their class just got canceled two days ago due to the budget cut.

Freniors Victorious

Gauchos played ultimate frisbee this morning in foggy Santa Barbara weather. The match was a team of freshmen and seniors verses sophomores and juniors. UCSB hasn't started classes yet, so they were by themselves in a big intramural field. They blended to the fog while playing that it almost looked like they were in a movie scene. The Freniors won the both men's and women's matches.

Congratulations, Gauchos!

Men's score: 8-5

Women's score: 7-5

Tough women do box.

“Champions aren´t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.”
-Muhammad Ali

Our women's team started a morning training session on Wednesday at 8. The first hour was the 4th session of boxing partnered up for the first time. The second hour was the spinning at Recreation Center. Women's boxing is definitely up in coming for a trend.

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. "

-Muhammad Ali

This is only the third boxing session for these swimmers. You can see how Eric is exceptional at coaching these athletes.

Countdown 50's kick

Gauchos finished up the first week of training with a morning practice of some drilling, kicking, stroke specialties. During a kick set, we did a countdown going 50's @1:01. The idea is that you always have to come in by the top (or where you started/pushed off) and go a second faster by each 50. Two swimmers: Mariana Prutton and Ryan Garcia did 22x50's @1:01 which they descended to 38 seconds.

Anne Marie May had this paddle (AMM Special) for 3 years. She is finally strong enough to break a paddle. In this picture, she was supposed to show a crack instead of breaking it. Can you see how surprised she was?

You can always hope ...

We went to Goleta Beach for our annual first Friday team activities. The first activity was Capture the Flags which included a little bit of wrestling on sand. The water was warmer than usual (approx. 68 degrees), and everyone was able to swim through while some decided to overachieve by swimming a wrong course and added some yardage. While those were figuring out where they needed to go, Courtney Bauer, a senior sprinter, took the chance to take a lead and manage to finish first. Remember, you can always hope for a great finish of a race, and a chance could come to you.

Winners of Capture the Flags: Kendall Neely and Dan Morris (2nd years in a row)

Winners of Run-Swim-Run: Joe Plume and Courtney Bauer

Let me see your butterfly

The first week of the season is reviewing four strokes each day. We went over all four strokes now, but can you guess which swimmers are in the pictures? (hint: they are not butterflyers.)