SAS Aquatics Center

Today Ms. Smith played the part of a victim of serious injuries so that the lifeguarding class could authentically perform an initial assessment. Thank you Ms. Smith

First Aid Fun in LG Class

It wasn’t just another Saturday at the pool. 120+ swimmers were out to register their baseline times for the start of the competitive season; whilst trying to establish a PB and/or nab a ribbon in an event or high points medal for their overall efforts.

The 10 and under swimmers swam in the a.m. with mountainous improvements from last year in the 7-8 year old division ; the results are as follows: GIRLS Josephine Mah 1st place with 28 points, Andrea Chew 2nd with 21 points, and Chee Ling Wu 3rd with 19 points.  BOYS William Huang 1st with 28 points, Albert Yun 2nd with 22 points and Nicholas Chan and Justin Wong tied for 3rd with 17 points. A very competitive and improving 9-10 age group came up with the following results: GIRLS Eashawn Luo 1st place with 26 points, and tied for 2nd Anin Lou and Keaton Blovad with 19 points.  BOYS Tristan So 1st with 28 points, Alexander Chen 2nd with 20 points and Joshua Hemsworth 3rd with 16 points. 

In the afternoon another highly competitive and well represented group, the 11-12 year olds, splashed it out in races that left only the smallest of margins between 1st and 6th place, with the following overall High Points results: GIRLS Michelle Xu 1st place with 26 points, Karen Zhoa 2nd with 24 points, and Carina Seah 3rd with 14 points.  BOYS Michael Grenon 1st with 28 points, Richard Wu 2nd with 20 points and G Hao Lee 3rd with 13 points. 

The powerful 13-14 year olds showed that they could give our 15 and overs a shoulder to shoulder race with the following results: Lydia Oldham and Erika Lu tied for 1st place with 26 points, and Yipsum Wu 3rd with 22 points.  BOYS G Ping Lee 1st with 28 points, Raymond Song 2nd with 22 points and Fabien Ma 3rd with 16 points.

The 15 and over group had minor representation at the meet due to a number of swimmers out on Habitat for Humanities trips. However those present swam with determination to declare their place on the podium with the following results: GIRLS Amy Parsons 1st place with 28 points, Jessica Hao 2nd with 26 points, and Charlotte Van Damme 3rd with 10 points.  BOYS Benedict Wong 1st with 28 points, Leonard Wang 2nd with 24 points and Roger Xu 3rd with 13 points.  For all the event results and scores click into ”Meet Info and Registration” in the upper right hand corner of this page.

Jon Biros Aquatics Director. 

The 7-8 and 9-10 Aqua Eagles team selections are beening emailed out on Thursday afternoon Sept. 11th, with details team placement and practice schedules.  We would like to thank and congratulate all 121 swimmers that came to the tryouts; our expanding pool of skill swimmers at the ES is credit of the focus they put to developing new skills to a high degree.  If you have not been contacted by email please send coach Michael Yu michael.yu@saschina.org (7-8s) or Coach Olesya Boyko olesya.boyko@saschina.org (9-10s) an email. We have had some emails to parents/swimmers in the past come back as ‘undeliverable’ and in a few cases the addresses written in the Tryout Registration Form were unreadable.

There will be three options offered to our swimmers that tried out. They are as follows:

1. Blue Swim Team. The fastest swimmers in all four strokes with excellent technique. Will practice 3 times per week. (Mon. Wed. Fri.)

2. Red Swim Team. The fastest in one or two strokes with excellent technique and the ability to move to blue quickly. Will practice two times per week. (Tue. Fri.)

3. Orange Team. Good swimmers swimming all or almost all of the competitive strokes but lacking the experience of competitive swimming techniques including the starts and turns. These students will swim in the Spring (April to June 2009) in a ’start-up’ competitive league similar to CISSA with other International Schools in Shanghai.

Practices for Blue begin Sept. 15 from 3 to 4 and Red Sept. 16 from 3 to 5.  Click here for the Practice Schedule for Sept. and Oct. Season 1 practice schedule . The first meet for Red and Blue is Sept. 20th at SAS. The next more competitive meet for Red and Blue is Sept. 27th at SAS. See the link in the upper right-hand corner “Current Meet Info and Registrations” for your registration forms, which must be completed to take part.  Practices and swim meets for Orange being in April. 

It is important that you report to your coach your availability for your team selection and complete the registration form before the 1st practice. This can be done by email or by dropping by the Aquatics Center. If you do not intend to swim for your selected team please let us know as soon as possible, as it will effect the TEAM placement of other swimmers.

Next swim team Tryouts will be held the week of Nov. 24th

Swimmingly, Jon Biros, Aquatics Director

08-09 Aqua Eagles Uniforms are here.  Swim Team Uniform Order Form

The 11-12 and 13-14 Aqua Eagles team selections have now been emailed out with details of the practice schedules.  We would like to thank and congratulate all the swimmers that came to the tryouts; our pool of talented swimmers at SAS is brimming.  If you have not been contacted by email please send coach Andy Jin andy.jin@saschina.org (13-14s) or Coach Susan Skiff susan.skiff@saschina.org (11-12s) an email. We have had some email to parents/swimmers come back as ‘undeliverable’ and in a few cases the addresses written in the Tryout Registration Form were unreadable.

There will be three options offered to our swimmers that tried out. They are as follows:

1. Blue Swim Team. The fastest swimmers in all four strokes with excellent technique. Will practice 3 times per week.

2. Red Swim Team. The fastest in one or two strokes with excellent technique and the ability to move to blue quickly. Will practice one to two times per week.

3. Orange Team. Good swimmers swimming all or almost all of the competitive strokes but lacking the experience of competitive swimming techniques including the starts and turns. These students will swim in the Spring (April to June 2009) in a ’start-up’ competitive league similar to CISSA with other International Schools in Shanghai.

Practices for Blue 11-12 will begin Tuesday Sept. 9th.  Practices for Blue 13-14 will begin Monday Sept. 8th. The 1st hour for 13-14 on Monday will be dryland so bring your PE gear and running shoes; 2nd hour is swimming.

Practices for Red 11-14 will begin on Friday Sept. 12th.

It is important that you report to your coach your availability for your team selection before the 1st practice. This can be done by email or by dropping by the Aquatics Center. If you do not intend to swim for your selected team please let us know as soon as possible, as it will effect the TEAM placement of other swimmers.

Regards,

Jon Biros

Aquatics Director

Congratulations to all swimmers that made the season one Puxi HS team.  Swimmers please find an informational letter linked with swim meets and practice schedule.

On November 9th skipper Rich Wilson will circumnavigate the globe by himself non stop. The Vendee Globe 2008 race route will take Rich around the world through some of the treacherous waters on earth, past the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn. Check out more about Rich’s adventures here.

Now that Michael Phelps has eight gold medals securely around his neck we can all start focusing on this years swim team adventures.    Please e-mail the coach or sign up at the section activity sign ups (MS and HS). 

On the Puxi campus tryouts for the following age groups are listed below.  3 to 4 dates are give with the last date designated at the time trial. We expect that you attend at least one or two of the tryout swim practices before the time trails on the last day of tryouts.

High School:  Thursday, August 25th, 26th and 28th (time trial) 3pm-5pm  Coach Wargo- elizabeth.wargo@saschina.org 

Middle School 13-14 age group (including 12 year olds that will turn 13 before November 1st, 2008): September 1st, 3rd and 4th (time trial) Coach Jin- andy.jin@saschina.org

Middle School 11-12 age group  (including 10 year olds that will turn 11 before November 1st, 2008): September 1st, 2nd and 4th (time trial) Coach Skiff- susan.skiff@saschina.org

Elementary School 9-10 age group (including 8 year olds that will turn 9 before November 1st, 2008): September 3rd, 5th, 8th 3pm-4pm and 10th (time trial) 3 to 5 pm. Coach Boyko- olesya.boyko@saschina.org

Elementary School 7 & 8 age group: September 3rd, 5th, 8th 3pm-4pm, and 10th (time trial) 3-5pm.   Coach Yu-michael.yu@saschina.org

Please make sure to come prepared to swim with appropriate swimming attire (sports style suit, goggles, towel and water bottle).

Students in Middle School and Elementary School must register for tryouts.  Registration form are available on the following links: 7 to 10 year olds registration, 11 to 14 year olds registration.  Click here for Time Trial Qualifying Times.

Pudong students check the category “Pudong” in the upper righthand corner of this home page for your program information.

It’s almost that time of year…… and with the new school year brings a fresh chance to be a member of the Aqua Eagles swim team. Detailed tryout information will be posted shortly but until then here are a few tips to get you ready:

• get in the pool, or better yet if you are around a clean lake or ocean go for a swim with a buddy- start off easy if you haven’t swum in a while with some basic freestyle and focus on the simple things like streamline and bilateral breathing, do some catch up and throw in some flick drill if you up for it
• get some fellow buddies together and create your own set
• watch the Olympics…..focus on just how effortlessly the superstars like Michael Phelps makes it look (check him out below courtesty of youtube and the Today Show

• finally if you don’t have access to water just get active…go for a jog, do some plank holds and crunches

See you back at the Aquatics Center is a few short weeks….safe travels and happy swimming until then.

~Coach Wargo