CBAC Newsletter
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Season
Wrap-Up
The
2004 spring season ended with a respectable eighth place finish at the LSC
Championships and a 27th place finish at Sectionals for the men’s team.
Eric
Pinno, Eric Skrabacz, and Brittany Culpepper demonstrated standout performances
at the LSC championships and each qualified for the MD All-Star Team. Trey
Rueffle made the All-Maryland Team. And
yours truly, also made the All-Maryland team as coach. Many CBAC swimmers closed the gap to making
All-Star and All-Maryland Team honors.
You’ll make it—just keep putting in the effort.
CBAC
Makes National News
During the filming of the Athens Olympics, NBC showed a bio on Michael Phelps that included shots from the local Baltimore station. Who should appear with Michael but CBAC’s own Allison Davis and Lisa Gabrelcik in a fantastic photo op! Thanks to Allison & Lisa for wearing their CBAC team shirts!
Maryland
Swimmers Compete in 2004 Athens Olympics
Michael Phelps & Katie Hoff of NBAC represented our nation by swimming in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. By now you’ve seen the accolades broadcast on television, in print, and online. It’s so great to see “our” swimmers perform on the biggest stage of all! Just think, CBAC swimmers have the chance to compete with some of the best in the world. Congratulations to Michael & Katie!
For
the 2nd year in a row, CBAC hosted and won the Maryland Open
Water Championships at St. Mary’s College of Maryland waterfront. Coach Chuck and waterfront supporters witnessed
valiant efforts by all participants. Your Maryland State Champions include:
1K:
Olivia Ray, Keara Schmieser, Tricia Salta, Nora Burghardt, Paschal Glavinos,
Jackson Webb
3K:
Emily Burghardt, Chuck Burghardt
5K: John Kitner, Eric Skrabacz
Participants: Jamie Branaman, Becky Burghardt, Jessica Roberts,
Natalie Hewitt, Leah Hartigan, Melissa Boughton, Jennifer Ray, Rachel Bilo,
Lindsey Millen, Annie Burghardt, Caitlyn Branaman, Brittany Culpepper, Lisa
Errington, Charlotte Cameron, Caitlyn Kogel, C.J. Culpepper, Alex Smith,
Jaqueline Kitner, Lisa Gabrelcik, Allison Davis, Laura Suarez-Hewitt, Kim
Burghardt, Kathryn Easterling, Michael Ursic, and Trey Rueffle. CBAC is proud of its history of state champions
in open water. The list keeps on
growing!
Open
water swimming is a unique challenge and one could say it provides another
avenue for swimmers to be successful. It’s like long course and short course, apples
and oranges. Open water is simply
another fruit in the bowl.
Top
16 Nominees from the 2003-2004 Season
“Top
16s” are
swimmers who have achieved a time standard that puts them in a league of
their own. This means that nominees
are eligible to be among the Top 16 athletes in their age group in the entire
country. Wow—what an achievement! Congratulations to the following CBAC swimmers
who achieved this standard: Brittany
Culpepper, Eric Pinno, Eric Skrabacz, and Will Richards. Swimmers who came very close: Melissa Boughton, Davi Clark and John Kitner.
100
Pieces of Pizza!
Members
of the CBAC team got together this summer and had their annual “eating”
contest. Trey Rueffle ate 25 pieces
of pizza – wow! Eric Skrabacz downed
20 slices and former CBAC swimmer Sean Cummings managed to eat 12. On the female side Kelly Skrabacz & Anna
Joy each gobbled 8 slices in a tie for first place. The last eating contest (tacos) was won by former CBAC swimmer and
US Coast Guard Academy student, Andy Serb, who ate 14 tacos and topped it
off with a choco-taco for dessert! The
participants survived and everyone is ready for the next contest. How about shrimp?
USA Swimming Fee Increase
USA
Swimming has increased its fees by $1 for the 2005 season and will increase
by $1 per year for the next several years. USA Swimming increased its fees to support
their efforts to offer more programs such as “Outreach” (including swimmers
with disabilities) and research to provide every opportunity available to
registered swimmers. The total cost
for USA Swimming membership for 2004-2005 is now $61.
Sunfest Open Water Swim
Sunfest
is an event that takes place in Ocean City, Maryland over the weekend of
Sept. 25th. It is a great
time to fit in that last trip to the beach with a festive atmosphere. Coach Chuck recommends swimming in the 1K or
FunK for the younger first-timers. Remember
this is swimming in the ocean—sign up as soon as you can by going to the
CBAC website and clicking the link to register.
Stroke Clinic Soon
The CBAC Stroke Clinic
is open to all. This will be
free to our members and offers the opportunity to get back in the water
and get reacquainted with each other.
The focus is on swimming basics and having fun! Hope to see you there.
New Swimmer Assessments
New swimmer assessments
will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 7th at the Elks Club Pool
on Chancellor’s Run Road at 5:30pm and at the Outdoor Pool on base Sept.
8-9 at 5:30pm. If you do not
have base access we strongly suggest you attend the Elks Club assessments. If you know anyone who cannot make it
please call Coach Chuck at (240) 725-0034 or email him: swimcoachcbac@aol.com
Team Suits & Outfitting
Please mark your calendars
for the team outfitting on Sept. 21st at 6:00pm. Location
TBD.
Florida Training Trip – On!
CBAC will take a training trip to the Orlando area again this year just after Christmas time. This is a fantastic opportunity for swimmers to train, have fun, and stay ahead of the game. Tentative dates: December 26-January 02. More details coming soon.
CBAC Welcomes All to Another Exciting Season
This season will be big & exciting for CBAC with 3 meets to host, the Maryland Open Water Championships (June @ St. Mary’s College) and Super Sectionals (long course, July 21-24) in the summer of 2005. We will need all the help you can provide to make this an awesome year. Committees and volunteers will be called upon. Please answer the call to help when you can. When everyone pitches in we all win. Together Everyone Achieves More – Go Team!
CBAC Grads
Eric
Skrabacz will swim with the UMBC Retrievers, a division I school and member
of the American East Conference. We
wish him the best of luck this year!
Your CBAC Coaching Staff
Chuck Jacobs, Cindy Slattery, Porter Chavone, Denise Buckley, Trey Rueffle, Julio Zarate, Gus Federle, Susan Shannon, Chuck Burghardt, Penny Branaman, and 2 more TBA. Every effort will be made to staff as many coaches at each site as possible. Coaches may alternate sites to offer their assistance with each CBAC group.
This
season’s calendar will be distributed at time of registration. For practices times & locations please check the CBAC website:
www.cbacswimming.org
TEAM COMMUNICATION
At
CBAC our primary means of communication has entered the 21st
century—we use our website to convey most team information & news, along
with email to communicate. We hope
that you visit the website frequently because schedule changes and updates
are posted there first. Please feel
free to contact Coach Chuck with any issues or concerns you may have (240)
725-0034.