Michaela Coplen scored at 98:50 of the second overtime to send Carlisle to a 2-1 win over Central Dauphin East Tuesday night.
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Girls Soccer Roundup: Coplen's late goal lifts Carlisle past CD East in double overtime
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Boys Soccer Roundup: O'Brien, Ly lead Boiling Springs past Shippensburg
Justin O’Brien and Josh Ly each scored a pair of goals to send Boiling Springs past Shippensburg, 4-2, Tuesday.
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Girls Soccer: Cumberland Valley squeezes past Red Land in rematch
The fourth Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Game between Red Land and Cumberland Valley took place last night at Eagle View Stadium and the Eagles used an early second half goal from Jen Falcone…
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Eric Hansen, Chuck Batchelor to Lead USA Swimming 2012 World Championship Teams
In an update to an earlier story, USA Swimming has named their full coaching staff for December's Short Course World Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.
Arizona head coach Eric Hansen (men) and Chuck Batchelor of the Bluefish Swim Club (women) will lead the staffs as they lead a post-Olympic squad that is at least as full as the one the Americans took to Dubai in 2010.
To see the full American roster, click here.
Hansen is most responsible for one man and one woman on this year's roster, both breaststrokers in Ellyn Baumgardner and Kevin Cordes. He also now coaches backstroker Bonnie Brandon, with Clark Burckle and Matt Grevers representing the club arm of the Wildcats at Tucson Ford.
Batchelor is the official coach of record for another breaststroker, Laura Sogar, though Sogar spends much of her time training at the University of Texas. His most famous trainee, Elizabeth Beisel, isn't making this trip.
The assistant men's coaches will be Tony Batis from Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics (PASA), Josh White from Michigan, and Whitney Hite from the University of Wisconsin. Hite is a former assistant at Arizona, where Hansen is now the head coach, and a former under-coach of current National Team Director Frank Busch. Batis put Jasmine Tosky on the team, though was still named an assistant on the men's team and not the women's. White is the man responsible for the training of the Wolverines' elite distance group that includes three current and former National Teamers. Of the three, Ryan Feeley will be the lone representative at Short Course Worlds, swimming the 1500 free.
On the women's side, Bruce Marchionda from Western Kentucky, Rachel Stratton-Mills from Asphalt Green, and Bill Rose from Mission Viejo have earned the honors. Stratton-Mills will travel with her high school star Lia Neal, Rose trains Chloe Sutton, among other National Team members, and Marchionda (as discussed earlier here) coaches butterflier Claire Donahue at Western Kentucky.
Though at a Short Course World Championship, the coaches don't have a ton of technical coaching responsibilities for athletes who they don't regularly train, this staff's particular expertise is stacked with distance coaches and breaststroke coaches, specifically. Also interesting is that almost the entire men's coaching staff (with the exception of Batis) have heavy Big Ten college roots. Overall, the staff has a nice mix with three college coaches and 5 club coaches.
USA Swimming Coaching Staff
Head Men’s Coach: Eric Hansen
Head Women’s Coach: Chuck Batchelor
Assistant Men’s Coaches: Tony Batis, Whitney Hite, Josh White
Assistant Women’s Coaches: Bruce Marchionda, Rachel Stratton-Mills, Bill Rose
Head Physician: Jim Johnson
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Meetings, first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 pm - News Item
Meetings, first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 pm News Item The Keystone Chapter of PIAA football officials will meet on the following dates at 7 p.m.: Oct. 16 and Oct. 30. ... Teams to be honored include the 1959, 1960 and 1961 Shamokin Greyhounds District 4 basketball champions, the 1962 and 1963 Coal ... |
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Streamlined News: Chenault Picks College; Cavic Retires; Short Course Worlds Coaches Named; Cal Men Start Dual Meet Season
PHOENX, Arizona, October 10. THE recruiting wars keep heating up, and today it was the University of Southern California that got a big verbal commitment from Chelsea Chenault, who made the Olympic ...
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The Morning Swim Show, Oct. 10, 2012: Steve Schmuhl's Working Toward Short Course Worlds And Top 9 Team Finish for Indiana
PHOENIX, Arizona, October 10. ON today's edition of The Morning Swim Show Indiana sophomore Steve Schmuhl talks about the great summer he had in the pool, which resulted in a spot on the American te...
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Nick Apostolu Proves He's Special On & Off Field - CBS Local
 CBS Local | Nick Apostolu Proves He's Special On & Off Field CBS Local Apostolu, a two-way lineman at right offensive guard and defensive tackle, is a major reason why Springfield is 5-1 this season and primed to earn another high seed in the PIAA Class AAA District 1 playoffs. He's getting attention from a number of ... |
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USA Swimming Tabs Eric Hansen, Chuck Batchelor as Worlds Team Head Coaches
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, October 10. USA Swimming today announced the coaching staff for the U.S. Team that will compete at the FINA Short Course World Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, December 1...
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ASCA Offers 'Southern Voice' Coaches Clinic
MEMPHIS, Tennessee, October 10. COACHES Clinic Offered by The American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA) and sponsored by FINIS will be offered on November 2-4, 2012 in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Milorad Cavic Signs Papers; Makes Retirement Official
Serbian-American swimmer Milorad Cavic today officially signed his papers to notify FINA, the international governing body for swimming, of his retirement. With that, he is pulled out of the drug-testing pool, and ending the career of the 28-year old butterflier.
Cavic retires in parallel to his arch-nemesis Michael Phelps after the London 2012 Summer Olympics, a fitting end to the greatest swimming rivalry of the last 15 years. The two gave us one of the iconic moments in the history of Olympic sport, where a late stroke by Phelps somehow magically found its way to the wall before Cavic's well-time finished to claim a gold medal in 2008.
The rivalry really heated up after that, as the swimmers rolled on toward Rome and the battle over polyurethane suits heated up. In 2009, Cavic offered to buy Phelps a new suit after growing frustrated at claims that a better quality of suit is the reason that he was even close to Phelps.
But this was just a window of a magnificent and intriguing career. Cavic is a Serbian and American citizen who was born-in and grew up in California and swam collegiately for Mike Bottom at Cal. He is still the 15-16 National Age Group Record holder in the US in the 100 yard fly with a 47.10.
He swam at four different Olympic Games under three different flags. In 2000, at 16, he was DQ'ed in his first Games in the 100 fly while swimming for Yugoslovia. By 2004, it was Serbia & Montenegro, and then finally just an independent Serbia for Beijing and London. He fought through adversity in his career. Facing burnout in 2006 after finishing his final NCAA Championships, he walked away from the sport, but Bottom lured him back to the Race Club, and most recently Club Wolverines. In 2010, a recurring back injury became so bad that he couldn't stand without excruciating pain, and ended up having surgery.
At his final Olympics, he just missed a medal in his best event, finishing 4th in the 100 fly, but still came back valiantly. He will end his career with one Olympic medal, a World Championship in the 50 fly from 2009, and two European Titles in the 100 fly.
It is now time for the next great swimming rivalry to emerge. Muffat-Schmitt? Adrian-Magnussen? Van der Burgh-Cordes? There's no obvious ones, but just like Cavic-Phelps, it's hard to predict where these things come from. It may be another generation before we see a pair whose matchup excites us as much as these two did.
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Six-Star Prospect Chelsea Chenault Makes College Decision
PHOENIX, Arizona, October 10. ANOTHER huge domino fell in the women's Class of 2013 recruiting wars as Swimming World six-star Chelsea Chenault made her collegiate decision today.
Chenault is rema...
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Swimmer Blackouts: More Common Than You Think
Commentary by Shoshanna Rutemiller
TEMPE, Arizona, October 10. IT was a tragic, unexpected event. A year ago today, one of my close friends died in an accidental drowning at the Arizona State Mon...
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Chelsea Chenault Fights On, Joins USC Class of 2017
Another major recruit in the high school class of 2013 has made her college decision, as Junior National Teamer Chelsea Chenault has committed to swim for Dave Salo and the USC Trojans for the next four years.
Chenault is a fantastic freestyler, and in fact her 1:44.12 from last year's East Bay championship meet is one of the fastest we've ever seen in high school competition. She also brings a 49.64 in the 100, and a 4:36.69 in the 500 from the same East Bay meet. That 500 time would have placed her 5th at last year's NCAA Championships.
Her 2011 sophomore season in the high school ranks wasn't her best, but she definitely turned things around as a junior. She's also a star in long course, having swum on the 2012 Jr. Pan Pacs roster that traveled to Hawaii. There, she won the 200 free (1:58.19) and was 2nd in the 400 free (4:08.38), both of which came at the end of a long summer of competition spanning from May's California State Championship meet.
Along with Jasmine Tosky, who is a freshman this year, she will form the nucleus of the future of this program. She will immediately step onto the 800 free relay, which could be NCAA title contenders in 2014, and should join the 400 free relay as well.
Chenault also has a 55.0 in the 100 fly, a 1:58 in the 200 fly, and a 2:01 200 IM.
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Milorad Cavic, Part of Memorable 100 Fly Final in 2008, Officially Retires
PHOENIX, Arizona, October 10. MILORAD Cavic, who made international headlines in 2008 as the silver medalist in the 100 butterfly at the 2008 Olympics, submitted his retirement papers to FINA earlier ...
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Mullen Musings: Serious Breaststroke Technique Talk
By G. John Mullen
SANTA CLARA, California, October 10. INNOVATION distinguishes between a leader and a follower. -Steve Jobs Don't wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it. ~Author Unknown
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Industry News: Athlete Approved and PacePal Unite to Raise Funds for Anthony Ervin's World Cup Tour
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, October 10. ON behalf of Athlete Approved and PacePal, we would like to thank all of the matching contributors that helped us raise a total of $2,000 for Anthony Ervin's World Cup...
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Kevin Renshaw Announced as Acting Head Coach of British Gas ITC
LOUGHBOROUGH, England, October 10. BRITISH Swimming recently announced the appointment of Kevin Renshaw as acting head coach at the British Gas Loughborough Intensive Training Centre (ITC), as reporte...
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Passages: ASCA Hall of Famer Don Sonia, 82
VERO BEACH, Florida, October 10. ASCA Hall of Famer Don Sonia, 82, passed away Saturday "after a bout with pneumonia," reported the TCPalm in Florida.
Sonia earned induction in the ASCA Hall of Fa...
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Passages: ASCA Hall of Famer Don Sonia, 82 - SwimmingWorldMagazine.com
Passages: ASCA Hall of Famer Don Sonia, 82 SwimmingWorldMagazine.com Sonia owned and coached the Glendale Swim School from 1961 to 1966 before moving to the Philadelphia Aquatic Club. He began his coaching career in the Army in 1954, before finishing a 57-year career with the Indian River Masters program. |
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