Saturday Practice for Age Group Swimmers

Parents - With Coaches at Swim Meets there will be no Saturday practice. We are however encouraging all swimmers to attend the Conference USA meet at UH. The meet start time is 10:00 am for prelims and 6:00 pm for finals. Cost is $15 for entry. This is a great chance for those attending a championship meet next weekend to get a peek at a college level championship meet. RICE is currently in 2nd and is in a three team race with SMU and ECU for conference champs. (Even though we do not have a dive team which scores points for the team) If attending make sure to have your RICE Swimming T Shirt. It would be great to get a little home field advantage for prelims. 

See you at the pool,

Coach Jason

CUSA Championship Swim Meet @ UH

The RICE Owls Women Swim Team sets out today to defend their CUSA Championship. The CUSA Championship will be held at the UH natatorium. With conference realignment changes taking place this may be one of the last conference championship meets locally for the OWLS. Come out and chear the women on at their final meet of the season! Lets Go OWLS!!!

Pre-Meet Video with Coach Seth

CUSA Website

Map of to UH Natatorium 

Live Scoring Page

C-USA Swimming & Diving Championship Schedule
WED., FEBRUARY 15
Diving Preliminaries - 3 pm
1-Meter Diving (Men)

Finals - 6 pm200-Yard Medley Relay
1-Meter Diving (Men)
800-Yard Freestyle Relay

THUR., FEBRUARY 16
Preliminaries - 10 am500-Yard Freestyle
200-Yard Individual Medley
50-Yard Freestyle
Diving Preliminaries - 1 pm
3-Meter (women)

Finals - 6 pm500-Yard Freestyle
200-Yard Individual Medley
50-Yard Freestyle
3-Meter Diving (Women)
400-Yard Medley Relay

FRI., FEBRUARY 17
Preliminaries - 10 am400-Yard Individual Medley
100-Yard Butterfly
200-Yard Freestyle
100-Yard Breaststroke
100-Yard Backstroke
Diving Preliminaries - 1 pm
3-Meter (Men)
1-Meter (Women)

Finals - 6 pm200-Yard Freestyle Relay
1-Meter Diving (Women)
400-Yard Individual Medley
100-Yard Butterfly
3-Meter Diving (Men)
200-Yard Freestyle
100-Yard Breaststroke
100-Yard Backstroke

SAT., FEBRUARY 18
Preliminaries - 10 am200-Yard Backstroke
100-Yard Freestyle
200-Yard Breaststroke
200-Yard Butterfly
1,650-Yard Freestyle Preliminaries & Finals
Diving Preliminaries - 1 pm
Platform (Men & Women)

Finals - 6 pmPlatform Diving (Women)
200-Yard Backstroke
100-Yard Freestyle
200-Yard Breaststroke
200-Yard Butterfly
Platform Diving (Men)
400-Yard Freestyle Relay

District Results for RICE Swimming

RICE Swimmers Competed at their High School Districts the past two weekends.

The following swimmers will be moving on to their Regional Meets this weekend:

Boys
Tony Miller 50 Fr (2nd), 100 Fr (4th)
Henry Knight 50 Fr(5th), 100 Fr (4th)
Larry Zhu  100 Fr (5th)
Neil Doughty 200 IM (6th), 100 Bk (3rd)


Girls
Samantha Sanches 200 IM(6th) and 500 Fr (6th(
Katie Reiff 50 Fr (5th) and 100 Fly (5th)
Marizza Vilareal 100 Fly (6th)
Stephanie Yard 100 Bk (4th) and 100 Fr (4th)
Maggie McGuffee 50 Fr (2nd) and 100 Fr (2nd)
Anna Sobchak 100 Br (6th)

Other top 8 Finishes 
Claire Foebler (7th)

Regionals will be held this weekend for all swimmers. 1st place finishes will go to state with call ups available to the other top 8 swimmers in the state.

Good Luck to all RICE swimmers this weekend.

New IMX Swimmers

Congrats to the following swimmers for achieving their IMX scores for this SC Season:

• Abbie Balat - 2471 pts.
• Jacob Bowen - 1102 pts.
• Camryn Brown - 964 pts.
• Ian Chandler - 409 pts.
• Jeff Degroot - 2347 pts.
• Riley Harrison - 1586 pts. 
• William Kallmeyer - 1596 pts.
• Cooper Lueck - 956 pts.
• Austin Mueller - 303 pts.
• Delaney Newsome - 1699 pts.
• Sloane Reinstein - 2440 pts.
• Gus Rytting - 828 pts.
• Helen Schawe - 1067 pts.
• Isabella Smith - 1119 pts.

Official USA, Zone, and LSC rankings will be posted after the SC Champs meets. Swimmers still have one more meet to complete their IMX Scores. Wondering what IMX is follow this link.


See you at the pool,
Coach Jason

Finis Suit

These are unheard of prices in technical suits.  Many of the Rice University swimmers have worn this same suit and it compares well to the Speedo Lazer and other technical suits.  If you have wanted a technical suit, but didn't want to pay the ridiculus prices then here is your chance. Email your size and we will bill you online.  I suggest you order the same size suit you normally wear or even down size by one.  They are compression suits and are supposed to be snug.
Finis, a swim wear producer, maker of the commonly used snorkel is overstocked in their championship technical suits, The Hydrospeed Velo.  I am putting in an order on Thursday afternoon if you would like a suit. The women's knee suit retails for $300 and our cost will be $120.  The men's jammer suit retails for $200 and our cost will be $80. 


Age Group Swimmers should first speak with Coach Jason prior to ordering a suit.

Shortcourse Champs Meets

Parents- I have listed the Championship meets for all age groups of the team. If you have any questions regarding which meet is for your swimmer please email me or catch a coach at the pool. Reminder these are the meets we have been working towards so please make every effort to get your swimmer to every session of their Champs meets. There will be plenty of free weekends in March and April for travel plans:

• Shortcourse 2 February 17th - 19th @ TWST: 13 -14 year old swimmers can swim events with "A" times only. 15 & Overs can swim any event they have a time in. Swimmers can not enter an event with a NT and there is no Up Down rule for events. You can find the A/B time standards here. ( Make sure to look for theShortcourse Standards)
• Shortcourse Champs 3 February 19th @ MAC: This meet is for all 8 and Unders regardless of times. Swimmers can enter with a NT but these events swam with a NT will not be counted towards overall and individual scores. You can find the A/B time standards here. ( Make sure to look for the Shortcourse Standards)
• Shortcourse Champs 1 February 24th - 26th @ PACK: This meet is for all swimmers 9-12 year olds regardless of times standards achieved. 13-14 year old swimmers can only swim events they have a BB time in or less. Swimmers can enter with a NT (no time) but events entered with a NT can not be scored. You can find the A/B time standards here. ( Make sure to look for the Shortcourse Standards)
• Shortcourse TAGS March 8th- 11th @ TWST: This meet is a qualifying meet for 14 and under swimmers that have achieved the TAGS time standards. Swimmers can only swim events they have the TAGS time in or are apart of a relay that has achieved the TAGS time standards. You can find the TAGS time standards here. Swimmers who achieve a TAGS standards and/or are apart of a relay should prepare to swim that and every event qualified for at the meet.

See you at the pool,

Coach Jason

GULF Jr. and Elite Camps

Attached is the information and applications for swimmers for both the Junior Camp and the Elite Camp on March 24^th and 25^th respectively. Jr Camps will be for Jr Meet Swimmers 2 "A" times or less and the Elite meets will be for 3 "A" times swimmers or above. These camps will be ran by GULF LSC Coaches and will cover the following:

• Nutrition
• Dryland Training
• Limited Underwater Filming
• Stroke Analysis
• In Water work on all 4 strokes, turns and transitions

Each camp is open to only 50 swimmers and applications are taken on a first come, first served basis. Once the camps are full, no more applications will be taken so please do not delay.

The PDF's are available via email or on the www.gulfswimming.org website.

See you at the pool,
Coach Jason