Welch 2015 Parent Volunteer Drawing award winners

Congratulations to Sue Wilson and Chris Gabany who respectively won our 1st prize ($80 CRPR gift certificate) and 2nd prize ($40 CRPR gift certificate) 2015 Welch Parent Volunteer Drawing awards.  Their volunteer efforts at Welch meets and fun events, as well as the valued time and efforts from everyone else were greatly appreciated and helped make our swim meets and team activities run more efficiently.  We hope that everyone enjoyed the 2015 Welch Swim Team season and we look forward to your return in 2016.

Welch Swim Team 2015 Food Drive Results :-)

Thank you to those that contributed to the Welch Swim Team's 2nd annual Food Drive to benefit the State College Area Food Bank.  Carson & Kate reported that we collected and donated 88 pounds of needed food to our local food bank.  Your generosity towards this worthwhile cause that benefits those in need is greatly appreciated. :-)

Color Run Penn State

Hello Welch Swimmers! 

 

Let’s go for a run! The Penn State Color Run on September 7^th.

 

Sign up today! Bring your parents too, since us coaches probably can’t keep up with all of you!

 

Sign up for the 9:15am wave: http://thecolorrun.com/penn-state/ We have already created a team you can join during the registration process (saves you money). Select the “Welch Sharks Swim Team” option (you may need to search for the team).

All Welch Sharks can meet at the Nittanyville Rock next to Beaver Stadium at the corner of Curtin and Porter roads at 8:30am on the day of the race. At 8:45am we will head to the starting line together and start the fun!

Please let the coaches know if you plan to be there (welchcoaches@gmail.com), so we can keep an eye out for you!

Hope to see you there!

Your Welch Swim Team Coaches 

State College Area YMCA (SCAY) 2015 Stroke Clinic Info (9/8 - 9/11)

The State College Area YMCA (SCAY) Swim Team will hold it's 2015 Stroke Clinic for swimmers age 12 and under that are not on year round swim teams.  This is a FREE 3 day clinic that will run SEP 8th to SEP 11th from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the SCAYmca located at the corner of W. Whitehall Rd. and Waupelani Dr.  REGISTRATION FOR THE CLINIC IS REQUIRED.

For more information please contact SCAY Head Coach, Steve Power at (814) 231-0340 or by email at spower[at]ymcaocc[dot]org

The SCAY 2015 Stroke Clinic Flyer PDF is available at the following link.

• SCAY 2015 Stroke Clinic Flyer PDF

2015 Welch Age Group Individual Entry Meet Point Award Winners

As something new for the 2015 season, we tallied the regular season individual entry (no relays) swim meet points earned by all Welch Sharks Swimmers in their respective age groups:

• Age 6 & Under
• Age 7 to 8
• Age 9 to 10
• Age 11 to 12
• Age 13 to 14
• Age 15 to 18

Based on the totals, at last Friday’s (7/31) season ending Fun-day Friday practice, we awarded a special medal to the top point achiever within each age group and a trophy to the top/overall point leader among all age groups for the 2015 Welch Sharks Swim Team.  The final results were close in some age groups and the overall was also competitive.

With great Welch Shark pride our 2015 Welch Sharks Swim Team’s Individual Entry Point Achiever recipients are:

• Age 6 & Under:  David Ulmer (93 pts)
• Age 7 to 8:  Molly Olds (87 pts)
• Age 9 to 10:  Mackenzie Paggett (90.5 pts)
• Age 11 to 12:  Annie Geng (83 pts)
• Age 15 to 18:  Savannah Wilson (89 pts)

Our inaugural Overall Individual Entry Point Leader and Top I/E Point Recipient was from the
Age 13 to 14 group with 110 total i/e points:  Noah Witt

Congratulation to these swimmers as well as the many other Welch Sharks who swam very well this season.

Please contact your Team Parent Rep via email (welch[dot]sharks[dot]swimteam[at]gmail[dot]com
to make arrangements to get the medal if your swimmer was listed above and was not at last Friday’s practice and did not receive their award.

2015 CHAMPS RESULTS w/ CPSL and Team Records

Our Welch Sharks had a very active and productive final two weeks of the 2015 CPSL swim season.  We may have not had the most team points in our back to back TUE/THU match-up against our friendly rivals from SPRA, but we had a number of our swimmers stand out by setting new WELCH TEAM RECORDS.  We also had several SHARKS break both WELCH and CPSL records at this week’s season ending CHAMPS meets.

First let’s recognize and congratulate the new WELCH individual and relay team record holders with a regular season summary of new Welch records.

Welch Regular Season Individual Welch Records:

·         Carter Hardy:
#20 Boys 15-18 50 Free  -  22.63  Date: 7/21/15

·         Colter Long:

#28 Boys 15-18 100 IM  -  55.57  Date:  6/18/15
#38 Boys 15-18 50 Breast  -  27.32  Date:  7/7/15

·         Noah Witt:
#58 Boys 13-14 50 Fly  -  26.43  Date:  7/23/15

·         Garrick Zheng:
#24 Boys 11-12 100 IM  -  1:03.04  Date:  6/18/15
#56 Boys 11-12 Fly  -  27.86  Date:  7/21/15

·         Molly Olds:
#29 Girls 8 & Under 25 Breast  -  20.06  Date:  6/25/15

Welch Regular Season Relay Welch Records:

·         Seth Erdley, Colter Long, Tobias Van Dyke, Ben Gingher
#08 Boys 13-18 200 Medley Relay -  1:41.92 Date: 7/7/15

·         Ben Gingher, Colter Long, Seth Erdley, Carter Hardy
#74 Boys 13-18 200 Free Relay -  1.31.65  Date: 6/18/15

Welch CHAMPS Records=R  (&/or W = new Welch Team Record):

·         Ben Gingher:
#38 Boys 15-18 50 Breast  -  28.12 R  Date:  7/28/15

·         Colter Long:
#28 Boys 15-18 100 IM  -  52.71 R/W  Date:  7/28/15
#38 Boys 15-18 50 Breast  -  27.41 R/W  Date:  7/28/15

·         Noah Witt:
#26 Boys 13-14 100 IM  -  59.78 W  Date:  7/28/15
#58 Boys 13-14 50 Fly  -  25.84 R/W  Date:  7/28/15

·         Garrick Zheng:
#24 Boys 11-12 100 IM  -  1:02.68 W  Date:  7/28/15
#56 Boys 11-12 50 Fly  -  27.21  R/W  Date:  7/28/15
#62 Boys 11-12 100 Free  -  54.83  R/W  Date:  7/28/15

·         Zachary Lambert:
#22 Boys 9-10 100 IM  -  1:17.24 W  Date:  7/30/15

·         Seth Erdley, Colter Long, Tobias Van Dyke, Ben Gingher
#8 Boys 13-18 200 Medley Relay  -  1:41.40 W  Date:  7/28/15

CHAMPS Meet Results are available by clicking the following link.

·         2015 CHAMPS RESULTS

Welch Team Records:

·         Welch Team Records

CHAMPS (10 & Under) Meet Programs and Swimmer Entry Lists AVAILABLE FREE

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!  Get your FREE 2015 CHAMPS (10 & Under) MEET PROGRAM and TEAM SWIMMER ENTRY LIST

• 2015 CHAMPS (10 & Under) MEET PROGRAM
  
• 2015 CHAMPS (10 & Under) Welch Team Swimmer Entry List

Download for free to your phone or tablet and follow the meet.  Know when and where your swimmer should and will be.  Don't miss their event.  Get your copy NOW!

We still need some Welch Parents to help with seeding/seating and scores/awards.  Welch is the only team presently NOT TO FILL ITS VOLUNTEER REQUIREMENT.  Please step up to volunteer for your last chance of the season.  Thanks