SHARK BYTES
ELDWICK SWIM TEAM - ISSUE #6
JULY 21, 2017
SHARK BYTES WE ARE ELDWICK - COULDN’T BE PROUDER! We’ll miss you Seniors - wishing you all the best on all your new adventures and hope to see you at the pool next year cheering us on!
Ankit Bhargava Stephen Barpoulis
Week Ahead…
Eldwick sweeps a win against Norbeck Hills by ONE POINT to close out our UNDEFEATED Season!!! Gooooooo Sharks!! Hi Sharks! I can't believe the 2017 summer swim season is coming to a close this weekend with Divisionals on Saturday and the Banquet on Sunday! Congratulations to everyone on an exciting undefeated season - let's bring our competitive energy and team spirit to Divisionals tomorrow! Go Eldwick! Brogan What did you think about our last A Meet, Brogan? Winning by 1 point about sums it all up! Everyone stepped up, swam fast, and got Eldwick the win!
Save the Date -End of Season Eldwick Swim Team Banquet! THIS Sunday, July 23rd at Normandie Farms; 10710 Falls Road, Potomac; 6pm to 10:30pm We’ll have food, dancing, games, awards and tons of fun. All swimmers, siblings, parents and grandparents are welcomed and encouraged to come. We hope to see everyone there to celebrate the GREAT season and to say goodbye to our teammates, Ankit, Stephen Barpoulis and Kelsey who will be to “old” to compete next year. Tickets costs are; age 4 and under are free; ages 5 to 12 are $20.00 and ages 13 to adult are $40.00.
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Divisionals July 22nd at Ashton Swim Club1315 Hornell Dr, Silver Spring; Arrive at 7:10am; warm-ups 7:25am; Team Area is corner area of pool by diving pool; All swimmers to wear our team colors/swimsuits THEME: Black Out
Awards Banquet Sunday, July 23rd at
Normandie Farms (see insert)
All Star Relays July 29th at Rockville Swim and
Fitness Center; warm-up 9:30am to 9:55am (arrive by 9:20am). Meet starts at 10:00am THEME: ELDWICK *Check MCSL website for more AllStar information
All Star Individual Races July 30th at Rockville Swim and
Fitness Center; warm-ups 7am to 7:50am (arrive by 6:50am). Meet starts at 8:00am THEME: ELDWICK *Check MCSL website for more AllStar information
ISSUE #4
IF YOU CAN’T HEAR US …….WE’LL YELL A LITTLE LOUDER!!!!!
Things you’ll see or hear at our Eldwick End of the Season Banquet? isrft epcal ogse ot ________________ s’tel nacde _____________________
JULY 21, 2017
Our Mystery Swimmer #1- Guess Who? 1.) Swims for JFD and has a sister on the Swim Team 2.) Rescued his cat from the highway 3.) Was terrified of thunder storms when he was 5 until 7 years old 4.) When 3 asked Santa for REAL trash to put in his garbage truck
Mystery Swimmer #1 from issue #5 is Melvin Siegenthaler
koeC nda isPpe __________________
Our Mystery Swimmer #2- Guess Who?
I ma ynuhrg ____________________
1.) Loves swimming backstroke 2.) Has a younger brother on the team 3.) Wears a bright pink swim cap
isephort _______________________ Mystery Swimmer #2 from issue #5 is Dolan Plummer
hregtual _______________________ ppera tlpea dwaars _______________ spntera gnicdna __________________ gttnooncaarlui ___________________ ahwt si ofr ssdtree ? ______________ khnat yuo ______________________ ziprse ________________________ kulei eabr _____________________ wledkci desil wohs _______________ nsoire llewafr _________________
FUN TRIVIA FACTS *A blue whale's belly button is about 8 inches wide. *In the 1948 Olympics, the U.S. won every event in the swimming competition. *Elephants are capable of swimming twenty miles a day, using their trunks as natural snorkels. *Benjamin Franklin invented swim-fins.
lloobsan ______________________
*J. Scott Leary of the Olympic Club in San Francisco, CA, went 1:00.00 on July 18, 1905, to become the first man to swim one minute in the 100-yard freestyle. *The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
HAVE A GREAT REST OF 2017, SHARKS, AND SEE YOU NEXT SUMMER AT ELDWICK! CANDICE YOUR NEWSLETTER EDITOR
*What were the first goggles made of? Divers in the 1300's made goggles from polished, clear tortoise shell. The first rubber goggles, which had heavy glass lenses, were invented in the 1930’s *Tracy Caulkins is the only swimmer ever, man or woman, to own American records in every stroke
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JULY 21, 2017
SHARK BYTES WE ARE ELDWICK - COULDN’T BE PROUDER! We’ll miss you Seniors - wishing you all the best on all your new adventures and hope to see you at the pool next year cheering us on!
Ankit Bhargava Stephen Barpoulis
Week Ahead…
Eldwick sweeps a win against Norbeck Hills by ONE POINT to close out our UNDEFEATED Season!!! Gooooooo Sharks!! Hi Sharks! I can't believe the 2017 summer swim season is coming to a close this weekend with Divisionals on Saturday and the Banquet on Sunday! Congratulations to everyone on an exciting undefeated season - let's bring our competitive energy and team spirit to Divisionals tomorrow! Go Eldwick! Brogan What did you think about our last A Meet, Brogan? Winning by 1 point about sums it all up! Everyone stepped up, swam fast, and got Eldwick the win!
Save the Date -End of Season Eldwick Swim Team Banquet! THIS Sunday, July 23rd at Normandie Farms; 10710 Falls Road, Potomac; 6pm to 10:30pm We’ll have food, dancing, games, awards and tons of fun. All swimmers, siblings, parents and grandparents are welcomed and encouraged to come. We hope to see everyone there to celebrate the GREAT season and to say goodbye to our teammates, Ankit, Stephen Barpoulis and Kelsey who will be to “old” to compete next year. Tickets costs are; age 4 and under are free; ages 5 to 12 are $20.00 and ages 13 to adult are $40.00.
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Divisionals July 22nd at Ashton Swim Club1315 Hornell Dr, Silver Spring; Arrive at 7:10am; warm-ups 7:25am; Team Area is corner area of pool by diving pool; All swimmers to wear our team colors/swimsuits THEME: Black Out
Awards Banquet Sunday, July 23rd at
Normandie Farms (see insert)
All Star Relays July 29th at Rockville Swim and
Fitness Center; warm-up 9:30am to 9:55am (arrive by 9:20am). Meet starts at 10:00am THEME: ELDWICK *Check MCSL website for more AllStar information
All Star Individual Races July 30th at Rockville Swim and
Fitness Center; warm-ups 7am to 7:50am (arrive by 6:50am). Meet starts at 8:00am THEME: ELDWICK *Check MCSL website for more AllStar information
ISSUE #4
IF YOU CAN’T HEAR US …….WE’LL YELL A LITTLE LOUDER!!!!!
Things you’ll see or hear at our Eldwick End of the Season Banquet? isrft epcal ogse ot ________________ s’tel nacde _____________________
JULY 21, 2017
Our Mystery Swimmer #1- Guess Who? 1.) Swims for JFD and has a sister on the Swim Team 2.) Rescued his cat from the highway 3.) Was terrified of thunder storms when he was 5 until 7 years old 4.) When 3 asked Santa for REAL trash to put in his garbage truck
Mystery Swimmer #1 from issue #5 is Melvin Siegenthaler
koeC nda isPpe __________________
Our Mystery Swimmer #2- Guess Who?
I ma ynuhrg ____________________
1.) Loves swimming backstroke 2.) Has a younger brother on the team 3.) Wears a bright pink swim cap
isephort _______________________ Mystery Swimmer #2 from issue #5 is Dolan Plummer
hregtual _______________________ ppera tlpea dwaars _______________ spntera gnicdna __________________ gttnooncaarlui ___________________ ahwt si ofr ssdtree ? ______________ khnat yuo ______________________ ziprse ________________________ kulei eabr _____________________ wledkci desil wohs _______________ nsoire llewafr _________________
FUN TRIVIA FACTS *A blue whale's belly button is about 8 inches wide. *In the 1948 Olympics, the U.S. won every event in the swimming competition. *Elephants are capable of swimming twenty miles a day, using their trunks as natural snorkels. *Benjamin Franklin invented swim-fins.
lloobsan ______________________
*J. Scott Leary of the Olympic Club in San Francisco, CA, went 1:00.00 on July 18, 1905, to become the first man to swim one minute in the 100-yard freestyle. *The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
HAVE A GREAT REST OF 2017, SHARKS, AND SEE YOU NEXT SUMMER AT ELDWICK! CANDICE YOUR NEWSLETTER EDITOR
*What were the first goggles made of? Divers in the 1300's made goggles from polished, clear tortoise shell. The first rubber goggles, which had heavy glass lenses, were invented in the 1930’s *Tracy Caulkins is the only swimmer ever, man or woman, to own American records in every stroke
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