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My skin is dry. My hair is half dead. And if you just so happen to lick my arm, the pungent scent of chlorine will fill the room in a matter of seconds. I’m a mediocre swimmer on a high school swim team, but to a certain extent, most swimmers can relate to the problems
Dia Gawronski began her swimming career at the age of seven. She swam at Cheshire Academy her freshman and sophomore year and just recently transferred to Woodland junior year. She is also Woodland’s most recent swimming icon. Gawronski became a part of the Woodland Girl’s Swim team at the start of this school year. Becoming
The Long River Wildcats finished their season strong with an 8-1 record and will attend states Saturday, January 30.
Butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle. The Long River Swim Team has been working very hard throughout their season in order to perform well at meets and perfect these four strokes. As the season is quickly coming to a close, the swimmers, the eighth graders in particular, led by Coach Mike Magas, are beginning to look back
[tps_header] [/tps_header] The ballots were cast and the votes have been tallied; these are the sports moments that will be remembered. Plays, runs, swims that put the team ahead. Wins that made a great season even better. The following were voted in as the most memorable plays for Woodland’s 2014 Fall Season. If you have
A new season of woodland sports is just around the corner. For winter sports we have Boys and Girls basketball (freshman, JV and Varsity), Boys and Girls indoor track and Boys swimming and diving. The boy’s varsity is looking to improve on their record from last year which was 8-14. The girl’s varsity basketball is
By: Tina Vlamis “Don’t even consider the option of losing,” was the mantra repeated by girls’ swim team captain Katie Drewry leading up to Woodland’s victory against Torrington on September 19th. This victory has been goal of the swim team since 2005, which was the last time they defeated Torrington. In the past decade, the
At the sound of a beep, swimmers explode off the blocks and fly into the water. Hands push through the water and feet splash. Approaching the wall, they kick it up a gear. In a race to the finish, fingers stretch to reach the wall. It is freshman fingers that touch the wall first. Freshman
Making School History:: One Dive at a Time All is quiet, the only noise being the sound of the filter system, as Steve McCusker, walks onto the diving board. He takes a deep breath and walks to the edge. The chlorine stained blue board bends under his weight. He bounces up and down and then in one fluid motion
6 days a week, 2 and half hours a day, for 3 and half months. That’s approximately 14 weeks, 84 days, and 2,016 hours. Over one swim season that is about how much time the boys swim team spends together. But this only counts their practices. This doesn’t count the extra-long meets or the
NVL Finals. The time to set yourself apart from everyone else. The time to show who’s really the best of the best. The time to make a name for yourself. And for 2013, that name was Sacred Heart. At the Boys’ Swimming Championships, the top eighteen swimmers faced off to see who would be crowned
