GMA Captain's Season Opening

Hello GMA Swimmers, Coaches, and Parents

I am kicking off the Bi-Weekly Captains’ Blog on gmaswim.com! In case you haven’t heard, the votes are in for the 2009-2010 GMA captains. They are: Merritt Boardman, a senior at Rice High School, Taylor Grey, a senior at CVU, Becky Anderson, a senior at Essex High School, and me, Dylan Hadden, a junior at Colchester High School. On behalf of all of us I can say that we excited to lead the team to another successful season throughout New England, and the country.

It’s been a great start to the 09-10 short course season at GMA. After about 6-8 weeks of technique based, aerobic training, its clear the team is ready to start focusing on their fast mid-season meets in December. Along with making a change in our training intensity, it’s also that time of the season again where GMA begins its goal setting process. Although still early in the process, most swimmers have outlined their end-of-season goal times and are planning what steps they need to take to achieve them. Some of the things said ranged from training goal times in practice to staying healthy outside of practice, and working on specific weaknesses like no-breath turns and SLUDK.

All in all it looks like people are beginning to settle into their school routine and with the next few weeks looking like they should be a challenging increase in training intensity, GMA will be focused and ready to swim fast in December, and at champs.

Let's Go GMA!!

Dylan Hadden