A Solid Week of Work

Taking full advantage of two vacant weekends from meets, we have pasted together two very solid weeks of training. We have a few recruits hitting town for the weekend and are looking forward to showing off our program and university.

Team Challenge

The Static Hang Challenge was waged this morning after lifting and once again Chris Baker and Santiago Castaneda's Team #1 remained unbeaten in Team Challenges this season. Team #1 had an average of 83.3 seconds while team #2 averaged 70.8 seconds.

Top 5: Yi Liu 2:07, Mike Burud 1:47, Jake Greene 1:46, Jimmy Martin 1:39, Dawid Kundzik 1:36.

Humphrey Hill Run this Morning

The run up Humphrey Hill took place this morning!!! The tradition that started back in the mid 90's to send a message to a team that needed to race each other in practice, had its 2010-2011 installment completed today. On a cold October morning with the temp slightly above freezing the 1 3/4 mile ascent up the 1000 vertical feet mountain was won by freshman Mike Hartwell in a time of 12:30!!! It is always entertaining to see the curious looks from the passers by who wonder what could be going on!!!

Meet Time Change

Please note that the meet with Duquesne and LaSalle will begin at 10:00am on November 6th. The afternoon session will still begin at 3:30!!! This meet is being held at the Erie Community College Flickinger Natatorium in Buffalo. This is where we host the Atlantic-10 Swimming and Diving Championships in February.

5 Minute Sit-up Challenge

Following weights and dryland this morning we finished with the 5 minute sit-up challenge. Opposing teams counted for each other after proper sit-up technique was established and agreed upon. Team 1 (Brown) which consists of Baker, Castaneda, Greene, Liu, Mike Murphy, Robinson, Rowan, Paccapaniccia, Hartwell, Mackiewicz, Martin, Melchiorre, O'Donnell and Rutkowski out crunched the competition by an average of 161.7-148.4.
Top 5 were: Greene (226), Liu (209), Hartwell (205), Kundzik (202) and Nenashev (201).

Pitt Summary

Here is the link to our Pitt results. We had many decent swims for where we are at this point but never posed a threat to the Panthers. Highlights would be our 3:28.3 in the 400 Med Relay which is our fastest ever for this early and David Paccapaniccia current sophmore (Pitt transfer) had some solid swims after not competing for over a year and a half.

http://www.gobonnies.com/sports/m-swim/2010-11/files/pittvs_st._bon.htm

Now two weeks off before heading up to ECC for our meet with LaSalle on November 6th.

@ Pitt this Weekend

We are heading off to Trees Pool at the University of Pittsburgh this Saturday. Diving will begin at 11:00am and swimming at 12:00. It will be a 16 event format, which is comprised of the 400 Med. Rel and 200 Free Relay, the regular 50-100-200-500 &1000 frees, 100's and 200's of strokes and the 200 IM. This will enable us to get swims for our unusually large squad this season and permit us to bring the entire team.

WNY Invite 2010

The results are in and the first racing of the long season took place yesterday. Six 5am mornings in a row, a solid week of training and a challenging format to swim saw the SBU Men's team come away from the WNY Invite with a lot to look forward to. Here is a link to the results!!!

http://www.gobonnies.com/sports/m-swim/2010-11/files/WNY_Invite_2010.htm

Take Your Mark!!!

We are getting ready for the first opportunity to race this Saturday at the Western New York Invite. Held at UB this non-scored competition gets the areas local univeristies together to race a little after a month of training. We run two sessions with the first session beginning at 10:00am and the second session at 3:00pm. Diving will take place while the swimming is going on in each session. The schools participating are UB, Binghamton, Canisius, Niagara and SBU. If you are in the area we would love to have you stop by to see us.