Quirk's Quotes

Senior swimmer, Dan Quirk, sits down and gives a look into this years training, the win against Cleveland State, looking forward to A-10's and what it has been like being a senior captain.

Alumni Weekend Feb 6-8

We are going to celebrate our swimming alumni weekend this year on the weekend of February 6-8, 2009. We have a home meet against Niagara and the men's basketball team is home against LaSalle. It is the university's Homecoming Weekend as well, so I will try to see if we can get a group rate at one of the local hotels for those traveling in. If I could get an idea of the number of rooms needed this would help greatly. We will also need to secure tickets for the hoops game and I will try to work something out from that end.

Memory Banks

I am looking to the alumni to help me with this question that the team had today. We had a birthday goggle toss attempt to get out of practice today and with the inevitable miss by the birthday boy the question came up asking if anyone had made the toss to release the team from practice. I seem to recall one or maybe two successful tosses but can not remember for sure. I am sure the boys will be interested in your replies.

Akron Invite Schedule

I just received the schedule for the Akron Invite and here are the session start times. The meet runs Friday-Sunday December 5-7.

Friday 11:00 & 7:00

Saturday 9:00 & 6:00

Sunday 9:00 & 4:00

LaSalle Meet Wrap-up

Our trip to Philadelphia for our dual meet with A-10 foe LaSalle ended in 177-123 victory over the previously 3-0 Explorers but required a little more work than anticipated. Our hope going in was to give a few of the guys the opportunity to compete in alternate events but after LaSalle opened the meet winning the first three events including a 1-2-3 in the 1000 free we needed to adjust for the task at hand. The result was a solid but rather lackluster set of times. Yi Liu continued his trend of solid swims with wins in the 200 fly and 200 IM and Kevin Murphy put up a nice swim in the 500 free. David Kundzik was a triple winner in the 50 free, 100 free and 100 fly and Mariusz Michalik won the 200 breast while Freshman Peter Koenig came up with our first individual event win in the meet by stopping the bleeding in the 100 back. This gave us the opportunity to keep it close enough to regroup and get the meet under control to our advantage. Diving was once again a strong point with a 1-3-4 finish in the 3 meter and 1-3-5 outcome on the 1 meter.
We had an even stronger showing in the stands with the majority of the fans attending being SBU affiliated. Men's Swim Alums in attendance were Jason Poinatowski, Joe Murphy, Lucas Fink, Chris Ekimoff, Billy Howard, Brendan Morrissey & Ryan Bronowicz.

http://gobonnies.cstv.com/sports/m-swim/stats/2008-2009/lasalleresults11-8-08.html

The 4-1 Bonnies will next head to Akron, Ohio for the University of Akron Zippy Invite, December 5-7.

Off For Some Not So Brotherly Love

We are off to Philadelphia for a meet with LaSalle on Saturday at 12:00pm. This has traditionally been a very competitive meet with LaSalle being fully prepared for our visit. Even though we have been victorious in the last four meetings our two meets @ LaSalle have come down to the last relay. We will be doing a 16 event format and hope that we have plenty of SBU supporters in the stands.

Ilya Breaststroke

Ilya Nenshev's breaststroke video shows his need to emphasize his walls with longer breakouts. This is his 200 style stroke that requires a greater press at the extension portion of the cycle. The hips need to breach the surface and create the downhill feeling of the stroke. do not permit the elbows to tuck into your side, that shows that they have come too far back in the pull phase of the stroke. In order to get that reach, the head needs to drop into the down position to increase the DPS. he has dropped from 2:16 down to a 2:12 to this point of the season and looks like he can go under 2:10 with a little improvement.

Akron Invite Hotel Info

For the Akron Zippy Invite we will be staying at the Akron City Center Hotel from Thursday December 4-7. The hotel is right downtown and only minutes from the pool. Here is the link to the hotel: http://www.akroncitycentrehotel.com/ . The specific times for trials and finals has not come out yet but we are anticipating having it in the next week and I will post it on this blog.

Taking Down The Vikings

The men's team took the medicine that Cleveland State administered to them last year in Cleveland and gave them their own dose today at the Reilly Center Pool with a solid 141-100 victory over CSU. In last years meet the Bonnies were denied a single event victory but today, seven event titles and a total team effort were the factors in securing the victory. CSU, who was coming into the meet with a 2-0 record and a returning NCAA qualifier were stunned by a young SBU team that just kept throwing punches. The swimmer of the meet for the Bonnies was undoubtedly Yi Liu, a freshman from Toronto Canada who chopped down Jakub Dobies, CSU's NCAA Qualifier, in the 200 IM then followed it up after the diving break with a victory over CSU's stud distance swimmer Mark deSwardt in the 200 fly. Speaking of diving, SBU's divers, Ryan Pietrzak, John Larson and Trevor Herzog, threw the edge to the Bonnies by dominating CSU's only entry on the boards by handing him an SBU sweep of 1-2-3 on both boards. The 200 strokes were very solid all the way around today and there are a lot of happy swimmers but there are still plenty of areas for improvement but todays results should give them all solid reason to press even harder in practice. There were multiple personal bests once again achieved today with the most notables being Yi Liu's 200 IM and 200 fly, Jake Greene, Peter Koenig and Rob Erickson's 200 backs, David Kundzik's 50 free, Chris Happel's 200 fly and Pat Henahan's 100 free.
Here is the link to the results from the meet: http://gobonnies.cstv.com/sports/m-swim/stats/2008-2009/csuresults.html

In attendance today were a few special guests, alum and 200 backstroke varsity record holder Iain Williams who was in the area for the Bills game tomorrow as well as Zac Murphy, our adopted brother from the Friends of Jaclyn foundation (see link) http://www.friendsofjaclyn.org/ . Recent 2008 grads Roman (The Stroke Dr.) Margulis and CJ Maurer were also around for the meet. Next up is a trip to Philadelphia for a dual meet against A-10 rival LaSalle next Saturday at 12:00.