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Published February 22nd, 2008 in General, Humor, Practice and Press. 0 CommentsUMD Climbing & Awards Party - Saturday Dec 1
Published November 19th, 2007 in General and Party. 0 CommentsClimbing starts at 11am and ends at 1pm, followed by an awards party that will take only about an hour or less. Cost is $12.00 per climber, all at UMD. All students under 18y/o must have waiver signed by a parent/guardian before they can climb, bring form with you!
HERE’S WHAT TO EXPECT:
Enjoy a session of rock climbing for your group in the UMD Inland Climbing Wall facilitated by our safety-trained, friendly rock climbing instructors.
WHERE:
We’ll meet in the Lobby of the Sports and Health Center in front of the Romano Gym. After a greeting and collecting waivers, we’ll walk to the Indoor Climbing Wall as a group.
WHEN:
5 minutes prior to your contract time. (Please note, we are unable to extend your climbing past your scheduled ending time in the event of a late start.)
CLIMBING:
We’ll spend the first few minutes with introductions, safety rules and putting on harnesses and helmets. (If your group will belay for each other, instruction will take an additional 20-25 minutes.) Participants may climb two at a time in the roped area and four at a time in the Bouldering Cave. Two UMD instructors supervise climbing and belaying. At least one adult should plan on helping supervise the Bouldering Cave. All climbers will wear a harness and those 12 years old and under will wear helmets.
WRAP-UP:
At the session’s end, we’ll gather the group to talk about what we learned and encourage safe behavior for future climbing.
WHAT TO WEAR:
Wear clothing that allows freedom of movement. Shoes should lace up, fit snugly and have no open heels or toes.
Moores Prepared to go the Distance at State
Published November 15th, 2007 in Meets, Press and State. 0 CommentsAndy Greder Duluth News Tribune
Published Thursday, November 15, 2007
Grace Moores is a more effective swimmer when she spends added time in the pool.
Moores of Cloquet-Esko-Carlton made it to the Class A swimming and diving meet in the 50- and 100-yard freestyles as an eighth-grader and freshman and promptly messed up with bad starts and poor turns.
Now competing in the 200 and 500 distance freestyles, the Esko junior feels relaxed with a larger margin for error because of swimming longer races.
Moores enters the state swimming and diving meet today through Saturday with the sixth-fastest 200 freestyle seed time of 1 minute, 59.3 seconds. She also is 10th in 5:25.0 in the 500 freestyle for the meet at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center in Minneapolis. The preliminaries are at noon Friday, with the finals at noon Saturday.
“She has all-around strengths,” CEC coach Tone Coughlin said. “She used to be a sprinter, but there is no room for mistakes there, and she’d have some mistakes. Now, she has more room for mistakes and she likes those events a little better.”
Moores enjoyed mistake-free Section 5A titles Saturday in the 200 and 500 in Elk River.
“I’ve learned that other swimmers are just other swimmers, and they hurt as much as I am,” Moores said.
Usually, two swimmers advance to the state meet in each event, but in Section 5A the competition level was high with four girls qualifying for state in the 500 and three in the 200.
“It definitely brought up the competition,” Coughlin said. “She likes to chase, and when she has someone in front she will swim a lot faster. She needs someone to push her.”
At the 2006 state meet, Moores finished eighth in the 200 in 1:59.2 and 15th in the 500 in 5:31.0.
She accomplished this in a quarter of the time other swimmers typically spend practicing.
“She is the only swimmer at state that only swims the season,” Coughlin said. “I’d bet 98 percent of them swim all year round. Most of the time, if you want to go to state you have to swim all year round. She is one-of-a-kind in that respect.”
Double the exposure
Besides Moores, the Northland has six swimmers in two events each.
Duluth East junior Kim Kramer is 11th in the 500 freestyle and 10th in the 200 freestyle.
Senior Dajana Vidovic of Greenway is seeded 19th in the 100 freestyle with a 55.96 after a fifth-place finish in the event at state as a junior. Vidovic also will swim the 50 freestyle.
The other area swimmers in two individual events include: East’s Emily Punyko (200 individual medley and 100 breaststroke), Hibbing’s Britta Degnan (200 and 100 freestyles) and Grand Rapids’ Mary Jo Behr (200 individual medley and 100 butterfly) and Dana Christmas (200 individual medley and 100 backstroke).
Diving into untested waters
The only returning Class A state diving participant is defending champion Jessica Stanchfield of Orono, while four Northland divers are set to compete.
Logan Jensen (Duluth Central), Mia Overly (Eveleth-Gilbert), Hilary Ropponen (Grand Rapids) and Kelsey Myrum (Hibbing) will take their preliminary dives at noon today, with the finals starting at noon Saturday.
Jensen and coach Beth Moeller set up her 11-dive list — the routine she will follow this weekend — in late September and early October.
“We’ve strategically placed those dives,” Moeller said. “We’ve been working toward these dives. Her body knows what to expect. She is physically and mentally ready.”
Jensen, a junior, won the Section 5A title with score of 319.25. She led the News Tribune swimming honor roll with a 381.95 for 11 dives and a 234 for six dives.
“I expect her to make it into the top 16,” Moeller said of the 32-diver field. “She has some higher-degree-of-difficulty dives, and she does them well. I’m really proud of how she dives. In an 11-dive meet, not everything is going to go well. It is how you rebound, and she competes well under pressure.”
Section 5A Meet Results - 2007
Published November 12th, 2007 in Meets, Section 5A and State. 0 CommentsAre here ->
C-E-C Swimmers in DNT again
Published November 8th, 2007 in Meets, Press, Section 5A and State. 0 CommentsThe Duluth East girls swimming and diving team feels rejuvenated in Section 7A.East finished seventh out of nine teams at the 2006 Section 7AA meet,
East owns five of the 11 top seeds and hopes to win its first section championship since 2003.The Greyhounds are led by freshman Emily Punyko and junior Kim Kramer.Punyko, the only Greyhound at the 2006 Class AA meet, is the top seed in the 100-yard breaststroke at 1 minute, 10.58 seconds and the 200 individual medley in 2:22.86.
Kramer is the top swimmer in the 200 freestyle in 2:02.75 and the 500 freestyle in 5:28.08. Kramer holds an 11-second lead in the 500 and a four-second lead in the 200.
Grand Rapids
Thunderhawk seniors Mary Jo Behr and Dana Christmas are planning ahead to the Class A state meet.
“This year is different for them,” Grand Rapids coach Jerry Casey said. “Their focus is on state, while it was on sections last year and they didn’t do so well at state. [Now,] all their focus and energy is on state.”
Behr and Christmas each went to state in four events in 2006, but Christmas’ 15th-place showing in the 100 backstroke was their best finish.
This season, Behr is the section’s No. 1 seed in the 100 butterfly in 1:05.84 and Christmas is tops in the 100 backstroke in 1:04.82. The seniors lead the top-seeded 200-medley relay team and the No. 3-seeded 400-freestyle relay.
Greenway
Senior Dajana Vidovic, the one-girl swim team from Coleraine, is the No. 1 seed in the 50 and 100 freestyles. Vidovic’s fifth-place showing in the 100 freestyle was the top Northland finish in the 2006 state meet.
Section 5A
Cloquet-Esko-Carlton junior Grace Moores is the area’s only top seed for the Section 5A meet on Friday and Saturday at Elk River High School. Friday’s prelims begin at 4 p.m. and Saturday’s finals start at 10 a.m.
Moores is the top seed in the 200 freestyle in 2:02.20, and she is second in the 500 freestyle in 5:28.25. At the 2006 state meet, Moores finished eighth in the 200 and 15th in the 500.
Proctor-Hermantown
Sisters Katie and Kristie Albin each hold a fifth seed entering the section meet.
Katie, a senior, swam a 5:41.80 in the 500 freestyle, while Kristie, a junior, has a 1:06.87 in the 100 butterfly.
Section Meet Seedings
Section 7A
At Grand Rapids
200-yard Medley Relay
1. Grand Rapids, 1:59.41; 2. Mesabi East, 1:59.68; 3. Hibbing, 2:01.91.
200 Freestyle
1. Kim Kramer, Duluth East, 2:02.75; 2. Britta Degnan, Hibbing, 2:06.61; 3. Elizabeth Reed, Duluth East, 2:06.84.
200 Individual Medley
1. Emily Punyko, Duluth East, 2:22.86; 2. Dana Christmas, Grand Rapids, 2:23.57; 3. Mary Jo Behr, Grand Rapids, 2:26.27.
50 Freestyle
1. Dajana Vidovic, Greenway, 25.76; 2. Breanna Walker, Grand Rapids, 26.73; 3. Mia Boelk, Virginia, 26.80.
100 Butterfly
1. Mary Jo Behr, Grand Rapids, 1:05.84; 2. Steffani Strom, Hibbing, 1:07.81; 3. Nikki Krueger, International Falls, 1:07.84.
100 Freestyle
1. Dajana Vidovic, Greenway, 56.08; 2. Britta Degnan, Hibbing, 57.45; 3. Mia Boelk, Virginia, 58.35.
500 Freestyle
1. Kim Kramer, Duluth East, 5:28.08; 2. Elizabeth Reed, Duluth East, 5:39.89; 3. Lisa Reed, Duluth East, 5:41.91.
200 Freestyle Relay
1. Hibbing, 1:47.11; 2. Grand Rapids, 1:47.97; 3. Duluth East, 1:48.06.
100 Backstroke
1. Dana Christmas, Grand Rapids, 1:04.82; 2. Steffani Strom, Hibbing, 1:05.72; 3. Katie Christenson, Grand Rapids, 1:05.81.
100 Breaststroke
1. Emily Punyko, Duluth East, 1:10.58. 2. Michelle Vargason, Duluth East, 1:13.74; 3. Sara Lindberg, International Falls, 1:15.25.
400 Freestyle Relay
1. Duluth East, 3:56.37; 2. Hibbing, 3:56.91; 3. Grand Rapids, 3:58.12.
(The section didn’t seed diving.)
Section 5A
At Elk River
200 Medley Relay
1. Monticello, 1:57:37; 2. Big Lake, 2:00.68; 3. Milaca, 2:01.86.
200 Freestyle
1. Grace Moores, Cloquet-Esko-Carlton, 2:02.20; 2. Kayla Ruff, Monticello, 2:02.82; 3. Kristina Lindquist, Monticello, 2:04.39.
200 Individual Medley
1. Caley Oquist, Monticello, 2:14.01; 2. Kayla Drazkowski, Monticello, 2:25.52; 3. Alex Ramerth, Big Lake, 2:26.49.
50 Freestyle
1. Nikki Sadlowsky Becker, 25.45; 2. Karleee Frisk, Princeton, 25.48; 3. Nikki Cusick, Big Lake, 25.90.
100 Butterfly
1. Kristina Lindquist, Monticello, 1:02.00; 2. April Sutton, Monticello, 1:03.86; 3. Karlee Frisk, Princeton, 1:03.90.
100 Freestyle
1. Nikki Sadlowsky, Becker, 55.55; 2. Grace Fair, Monticello, 56.68; 3. Nikki Cusick, Big Lake, 57.07.
500 Freestyle
1. Kayla Ruff, Monticello, 5:26.16; 2. Grace Moores, Cloquet-Esko-Carlton, 5:28.25; 3. Kelsea Smith, Becker, 5:31.24.
200 Freestyle Relay
1. Big Lake, 1:44.73; 2. Monticello, 1:45.26; 3. Foley, 1:48.33.
100 Backstroke
1. Kayla Drazkowski, Monticello, 1:04.71; 2. Alex Ramerth, Big Lake, 1:06.62; 3. Maggie Pawlenty, Monticello, 1:07.77.
100 Breaststroke
1. Caley Oquist, Monticello, 1:09.21; 2. Blair Chmielewski, Foley, 1:15.72; 3. Rachel Carriveau, Monticello, 1:16.14.
400 Freestyle Relay
1. Monticello, 3:54.65; 2. Becker, 3:57.41; 3. Milaca, 3:58.38.
(The section didn’t seed diving.)
ANDY GREDER covers high school swimming for the News Tribune. He can be reached at (218) 723-5315 or by e-mail at agreder@duluthnews.com.