Welcome to Josh and Tyrese who joined East Coast Swimming this week. Good to see you here.

We lost a day at Pompey Park this week because of lightning but still had a record attendance. Well done to all of you for a great weeks training.
Mon AC 0 PP 0
Tue AC 14 PP 0 Lightning
Wed AC 16 PP 15
Thu AC 9 PP 8
Fri AC 10 PP 11
Sat AC 14 PP 14
Total AC 63 PP 48 Total 111

Today will be a big day for our little team.  Assuming that at least 3 people show up for practice this afternoon and log some distance, we will have surpassed the 2000 swims mark.  What this means is that since the 28th of September 2009, the team as a total, has had a total practice attendance of over 2000 swimmers.  In this time ECS Swimmers have swan 3,599,600 meters or 2236 Miles.  This means that we have more then swam from Delray Beach to New York and back.  Congrats to all.

This is great, but where do we go from here?  I suggest a new team goal.  Lets do the distance to swim around the world.  At the equator the earth is 7926.41 miles around.  Today we have completed 28.22% of that distance.  I think we can make it the whole way by the end of this year.  What do you think?  Can we do it?

I’ll put a chart and website to show our progress.  Lets make it happen!

Welcome to five new members, Chris, Jeanett, Kaeli, Charles and Jon. I know you have been here for a while Chris. It’s just that we never said welcome.

We have been asked to tell you that Tracey swam 5×100, 2000 kick and 5×100 warmdown this morning. We do not know why she wanted this known.

BEO newly inducted leadership www.najdaneptunephotography.com

On Saturday, January 16th East Coast Swimming was invited to attend and speak infront of the Palm Beach County Caucus of Black Elected Officials(BEO).  East Coast Swimming would like to thank the BEO for having us.  We enjoyed meeting with them and discussing our plans for the future of East Coast Swimming and the Adopt-A-Swimmer Program.  We also enjoyed discussing with them the plans for swimming in the county as a whole and how we could impact their constituents.

It was also a very informative meeting for the members that attending.  Coach David Wright, Nicole Gunderson, Chris Kane and Ben Stille were delighted to spend time learning about the BEO and

Ben speaking to the BEO photo by Nadja Neptune

the amazing things that they are doing in the community.  We were privileged to learn from Verdenia C. Baker, Deputy County Administrator on how the county operates and their procedures for implementing new programs.  The group also, got to witness their induction of a new board.  This is a very impressive organization working for the betterment of all Palm Beach County residents.   

We would especially like to thank former Commissioner Addie Green for inviting us and for providing us with this great opportunity.  We would secondly, like to thank Nadja Neptune Photography for graciously supplying us with the pictures from the event.  Nadja can be found on the web at http://www.nadjaneptunephotography.com/ or via phone at 561-584-0262.

Here is who was there and what was done
Francis, Bruce 2800
Gundersen, Nicole 3400
Maier, Mike 2000
Kyle 700
Liam 2800
Bobby 700
Dajaeh 2800
Miles 1200
Emily 2800
Zealand 2000
Kendall 1700
Spyder 700
Sarah 3000
Wenzel, Christine 4000
Elise 200

Wednesday attendance at Aqua Crest – a great morning’s training – well done all you guys
Barhydt, Wendy 3200
Cottman, Stewart 200
Evans, Suzanne 200
Goggin, Sherrill 1000
Gross, John 1300
Gundersen, Nicole 4600
Johnston, Bob 2000
Johnston, Bonnie 2000
Kerness, Tracey 3000
Louis, Sonia 3000
Mikulski, Kerry 1200
Pechter, Stuart 2000
Stille, Ben 2000
Radovcic, Sergio 2500
Wenzel, Christine 2000
Jeanett, Segal 1200

Ben, aka “the rhino man”.  He was trying out the snorkel this morning to compensate for a neck injury.  As if he didn’t look silly without, then you add that crazy thing!

Pompey Park is truly a beautiful place.  Thank you for having our morning swimmers.