Park City Results

Winner's Circle 

Tiffany Farris won the 15-16 girls 100 Free event
Leon Weingartner won the 11-12 boys 50 and 100 Breast events 
Camden Snow won the open 200 IM event 


DART Records 

Stephanie Dansie  11-12 girls 50 Fly 31.01 
Tiffany Farris    15-16 girls 100 Back 1:03.52 
Cambria Callaway  10&U girls 50 Free 31.84 


Double-Digit Time Drops 

Cambria Callaway       50 Free 13.04 second drop 
Jack Capra             200 free 13.33 second drop 
Spencer Goff           100 IM 35.12 second drop 
Hallie King            100 Fly 14.51 second drop 
                       200 Free 10.75 second drop 
                       200 IM 10.13 second drop 
Silvia Leon-Moreno     100 Free 10.09 second drop 
                       100 Back 18.77 second drop 
                       100 IM 16.29 second drop 
                       200 Free 16.83 second drop 
Tiaree Towler          100 Free 13.94 second drop 
                       100 Breast 15.18 second drop 
Felix Weingartner      100 IM 10.10 second drop 
Stephanie Dansie       200 Free 9.99 second drop (close enough)


Seven year old Peyton Fairchild had clean swims (no DQ) in each of the four stokes, a rare feat for someone so young in their first ever sanctioned meet.  She did get DQd in her 100 IM, but that was her only one.  Great job, Peyton.

Quote 'O the Month

"I'm thinking that I shouldn't have filed my nails last night.” ― Dara Torres

Torres made this comment after being out-touched by just one one-hundredth of a second (0.01) in the 50M Freestyle at the 2008 Olympic games.  She set a new American record in that race and won the silver medal behind Germany's Britta Steffen. Torres was 41 years, 125 days old at the time.

Would longer nails have helped Dara?  She swam 50 meters in 24.07 seconds, or .020 meters (0.78 inches)  every .01 seconds.  Dara lost by about 3/4 of an inch.   

LIVE, From Park City, Utah

DART Swimmers have arrived in Park City for DART's first official meet of the season.  Tonight's session starts at 5:30 PM and tomorrow's session at 8:30 AM.  Follow along with Meet Mobile (free app).

Sharks in attendance:

Kylie Barber (9)

Hudson Towler (8)

Tiaree Towler (11)

Cambria Callaway (10)

Jack Capra (9)

Jordan Goff (16)

Hallie King (11)

Silvia Leon-Moreno (11)

Eli Blanchard (13)

Tina Crum (14)

Tiffany Farris (16)

Clay Hatch (14)

Rhiannon Ruesch (13)

Camden Snow (13)

Felix Weingartner (14)

Leon Weingartner (12)

Stephanie Dansie (12)

Peyton Fairchild (7)

Spencer Goff (11)

  

Hudson,  Peyton and Spencer will be swimming in their first sanctioned travel meet.  Peyton, the youngest DART swimmer attending, will be swimming in her first sanctioned meet, period.  Luck, to you all.

Official meet name:  PCS Sprint Kick-Off Mixer.

PCS = Park City Swimming
Sprint = No distance events
Kickoff = Start of short course season
Mixer = Girls and Boys get seeded and swim together, aka mixed.

Other teams attending, besides Park City and DART include:

CUDA, CCAT, CHAT, DRAT, EAT, Elko, Layton, RACE, SWAT, UTES, WCST

Weather:  High today: 38, Low tonight: 28  Kudos to the swimming Gods for indoor pools.

Swim Caps - Part One

Pictured below, Mark Spitz on the cover of the September 1972 edition of Time Magazine.  Spitz had just dominated Olympic swimming with seven gold medals, seven world records, and zero swim caps.

Just four years later, Scotland's swimming superstar, David Wilkie, sports a cap in the '76 Olympics.  Times were a changing.

Swim caps have become so common place in the sport, that virtually every experienced swimmer wears them, unless they shave their head.  Older caps were made of various cloth materials.  One can still find Lycra Spandex caps, though such caps have been overrun by more popular materials, namely latex and silicone.  Lycra Spandex is permeable, which creates drag and doesn't even keep your hair dry, the very reasons swimmers wear caps.  Latex and silicone it is.

Latex versus Silicone:  Each have their advantages and disadvantages.  Swimmers usually prefer one over the other for their own reasons.  Here's a comparison to help you choose.

Latex	Silicone
Cheaper	More expensive
Thin material	Thicker material
Stretch easily	Stiffer stretch
Stretchy	Super Stretchy
Can pull long hair	Pulls hair less
Stays on better	Can slide up
Gets sticky in the heat	Doesn't get sticky
Rips easily	Harder to rip
Wrinkles on top (drag)	Less wrinkles
One size fits all	Youth and adult sizes
Less durable	More durable

Top Ten Things that Suck During a Race

10.  Goggles come off in the first 10 yards of your 1650

9.  Cap rips just 30 seconds before your race

8.  Stopping at 150 yards thinking you just finished your 200

7.   Bashing your head into the wall on the backstroke

6.  Leading your heat in the fly, and then realizing everyone else is doing the breaststroke.

5.  Swimming a best time, only to have it erased with a DQ

4.  Missing your race Talking to coach after missing your race

3.  Right heat, wrong lane

2.  Falling off the blocks, in front of everyone

... and the number one thing that sucks during a race ...

1.  Suit ripping in the wrong place at the wrong time

Aging Up

Cambria Callaway swims her last meet in the 10 & under age group this weekend in Park City.  Sunday she turns 11.

Isaac Jones hits double digits a week from today, celebrating his 10th on the 10th.

Nicholas Renstrom also hits double digits, today! Happy 10th B-day, Nicholas.

Camden Snow is the old man of the October babies.  He's turning 14 on the 23rd.

What Time Is It?

For the 19 swimmers going to the Park City meet this weekend, Coach Bob wants you at the pool at the following times:

Friday (Oct 4th):  4:10 PM
Saturday (Oct 5th):  7:10 AM

For those new to the swimming world, there are thee important times associated with every meet.

1)  Show Up Time - When DART expects you to arrive at the pool
2)  Warm Up Time - When teams may officially begin their in-pool warm up
3)  Meet Time - When the first heat of the first event takes place

Coach Bob typically almost always wants DART swimmers to arrive at the pool 20 minutes before the advertised warm up time.  For every meet in the future, and hopefully you will be attending many, plan on arriving 20 minutes before warm ups, even if you don't hear him explicitly say it.

How do you know the advertised warm up time?  It's in the meet information document, posted on our website. Using the Park City meet as an example, here's how to find it ...

On DART home webpage, click on the meet title:

Then click on the Meet Information link:  

 

Warm up times and meet start times are posted in the document:

The meet information document contains many tidbits of useful information.  If you'll notice in the last graphic, it states the pool's address.