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Here’s your newsletter for this week.

NOTE: The first All Team Practice will be July 8, not July 1 as stated in this newsletter.

June 26 website

Ashland defeated Mechanicsville by a score of 1201-887.  The breakdown by division was as follows:

 Novice: Ashland 626, Mechanicsville 467

Advanced: Ashland 155, Mechanicsville 117

Junior Varsity: Ashland 117, Mechanicsville 73

Varsity: Ashland 94, Mechanicsville 49

Senior Varsity: Mechanicsville 49, Ashland 35

Advanced Relay: Ashland 118, Mechanicsville 66

Senior Varsity Relay: Mechanicsville 66, Ashland 56

Seth Gulas broke the team record in junior boys’ 100 IM.

Quadruple winners for Ashland were: Joseph Boyle, Curran Henry, Shane Henry, Quinny Kinser, and Ian Miller.

Triple winners were: Matti Grant, Seth Gulas, Campbell Mills, Matthew Pienkowski, Meadey Reihl, Emmeline Roberts, Samantha Senfield, Taylor Smith, Molly Strange-Boston, Bender Vaught, and Ben Williams.

New championship meet qualifiers from this meet include: Ian Miller, Bennett Pienkowski, and Emmeline Roberts.

Attached is information regarding our annual swim marathon.  We will hold the swim marathon on June 23 during practice.  This would have been Jamie Hess’s 20th birthday.  You will find information on Jamie and the history of his fund, as well as a pledge sheet your swimmer(s) can use to raise money for this noble cause.  Please educate your swimmers as to who Jamie was and the role that he continues to play on our team and in our community.

To website visitors from other teams: if you would like to help us and make a contribution to this annual effort, please email ashlandbarracuda@comcast.net for information on how to do so.

As in the past, we are looking forward to a visit from the Hess family who will help us count lengths and provide refreshments for the day. 

Swim Marathon Info

Swim Marathon Pledge Sheet

Here is the newsletter for this week.

June 19 website

PARENTS… Please be sure to read your email in regards to additional information following the meet.

First of all, thanks to everyone who helped the meet run smoothly tonight.  Perhaps few of you may have realized that there was a transition tonight- our long time Meet Director Bill Artiglia handed over these duties to Les Cook.  Bill, now our Meet Director Emeritus, has led set up and take down since Calvin Coolidge was President, and he helped us again graciously tonight.  A nd we want to thank him X1000.  Thanks also to Les and his crew as they begin to take on these responsibilities for the next 80 or so years.

Ashland defeated Milestone 1472.5-905.5.  The breakdown by division was as follows:

Novice: Ashland 687.5, Milestone 445.5
Advanced: Ashland 259, Milestone 120
Junior Varsity: Ashland 123, Milestone 63
Varsity: Ashland 119, Milestone 80
Senior Varsity: Milestone 95, Ashland 86
Advanced Relay: Ashland 110, Milestone 64
Senior Varsity Relay: Ashland 88, Milestone 38

Quadruple winners for Ashland were: Mark Dinger, Seth Gulas, Ben Schubert, Ted Schubert, Samantha Senfield, and Ben Williams. 

Triple winners were: Shea Shea Burch, Matti Grant, Curran Henry, Baddy Addy Klinger, Libby Klinger, Will Mallory, Miranda Menk, Lucas Pienkowski, Thomas, Perkins, Robbie Talmage, Helen Wasz, and Elisa Worrell.

Seth Gulas set team records in junior boys’ 50 free, 100 free, and 50 back.  Ted Schubert set a team record in intermediate boys’ 50 back and pool records in intermediate boys’ 50 back and 100 free.  Will Mallory set a team record in senior boys’ 100 free.  A Milestone swimmer also broke 2 pool records in the mite boys’ division.

The following swimmers qualified for the championship meet:  Chace Blackburn, Blake Boschen, Joseph Boyle, Julia Chambers, Mark Dinger, Colleen Gannon, Morgaine Goettl-Meyer, Matti Grant, Seth Gulas, Curran Henry, Shane Henry, Rachel Hoar, Quinny Kinser, Baddy Addy Klinger, Libby Klinger, Will Mallory, Miranda Menk, Peter Moberg, Thomas Perkins, Lucas Pienkowski, Matthew Pienkowski, Meadey Reihl, Will Roberts, Ben Schubert, Ted Schubert, Samantha Senfield, Taylor Smith, Ducote Talmage, Kyle Talmage, Robbie Talmage, Kristen Trexler, Kyle Tyson, Bender Vaught, Ben Williams, and Elisa Worrell.

Also congratulations to our new swimmers who competed in their first ever swim meets tonight.  We have swimmers in each of the age groups who are new to the sport.  We also have a large number of previous swimmers who are new to our team.  We are pleased to have all of you.

Finally,  with school ending tomorrow, the pool will open at 1:30, so we will not be able to practice.  (We had not mentioned this because if tonight’s meet had been thundered out, the Town was going to let us finish it tomorrow, and we didn’t want to create confusion by saying that there was no practice because the pool was open and then turn around and say that we could have the meet even though the pool was supposed to be opened.  We dodged the thunderstorm for Week 1!)  So celebrate the Best Day of the Year by going to play at the pool tomorrow, and spend plenty of time there over a long weekend.  We will look forward to seeing everyone on Monday as we begin morning practices and look forward to a steady practice schedule after a more unusual opening few weeks for practice.

Attached is the newsletter for the week of June 12.

June 12 website

Special thanks to the PHYMCA for helping us with our diving certifications again this year.  The Y continues to support our team by providing pool time at reasonable times for a reasonable rate to help us certify our swimmers for diving instruction.

Folks who drove by the park this afternoon saw a full pool!  The water will cycle through the filter overnight, and hopefully the pool will open for business for the weekend.  It’s supposed to be hot- but more bearable- so feel free to do some hanging out  this weekend a the pool.

Attached is the meet absence form.  If you will be missing a meet, please complete this form and send it to Kevin as soon as you know the dates of meets you’ll be missing.  It is absolutely imperative that we know who will be available to compete in each meet as soon as possilbe.  Thanks!

Meet Absences

It’s not late to sign up for the Barracudas’ team.  Just fill out the registration form and send it with payment to the team registrar.  Summer is only a few weeks away!