Sunday, December 12, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
MISD Invite Recap
Our girls were 15th in team scoring, while the boys were 13th.
We had fourteen (14) new season Top Tens.
Finishing in the top twenty for the Wolves were:
G 200 Medley Relay - 19th - Mayrena H., Sierra M., Melyssa T., Catie N.
B 200 Medley Relay - 13th - Devin S., Parker S., Jamie P., Stephan C.
B 200 Medley Relay - 15th - Caleb B., Kyle S., Henry I., Pedro S.
G 200 Individual Medley - 9th - Kirsten B.
B 200 Individual Medley - 12th - Stephan C.
G 50 Freestyle - 20th - Alyssa L.
B 1m Diving (11) - 15th - Travis B.
B 100 Butterfly - 11th - Parker S., 14th - Jamie P., 16th - Henry I.
G 100 Freestyle - 14th - Kirsten B.
G 200 Freestyle Relay - 15th - Kirsten B., Alyssa L., Melyssa T., Sierra M.
B 200 Freestyle Relay - 19th - Henry I., Pedro S., Kyle S., Devin S.
B 100 Backstroke - 10th - Stephan C., 16th - Jamie P.
G 100 Breaststroke - 15th - Alyssa L.
G 400 Freestyle Relay - 15th - Alyssa L., Kirsten B., Melyssa T., Sierra M.
B 400 Freestyle Relay - 14th - Parker S., Caleb B., Jamie P., Stephan C.
Notes:
We did a nice job in finals of either holding our positions or moving up. We only dropped places in three (3) races.
We stayed tough all the way through the meet. We had some swim lifetime bests on their eighth swim within a twenty-four hour period.
We are doing a great job of supporting one another.
We are taking care of business during the meet by warming up/down and reporting to the blocks with time to spare.
We are closing in on some team records. Christmas training will make or break our shots at taking down several THS school records.
We are one-for-one in swim-offs!
We had fourteen (14) new season Top Tens.
Finishing in the top twenty for the Wolves were:
G 200 Medley Relay - 19th - Mayrena H., Sierra M., Melyssa T., Catie N.
B 200 Medley Relay - 13th - Devin S., Parker S., Jamie P., Stephan C.
B 200 Medley Relay - 15th - Caleb B., Kyle S., Henry I., Pedro S.
G 200 Individual Medley - 9th - Kirsten B.
B 200 Individual Medley - 12th - Stephan C.
G 50 Freestyle - 20th - Alyssa L.
B 1m Diving (11) - 15th - Travis B.
B 100 Butterfly - 11th - Parker S., 14th - Jamie P., 16th - Henry I.
G 100 Freestyle - 14th - Kirsten B.
G 200 Freestyle Relay - 15th - Kirsten B., Alyssa L., Melyssa T., Sierra M.
B 200 Freestyle Relay - 19th - Henry I., Pedro S., Kyle S., Devin S.
B 100 Backstroke - 10th - Stephan C., 16th - Jamie P.
G 100 Breaststroke - 15th - Alyssa L.
G 400 Freestyle Relay - 15th - Alyssa L., Kirsten B., Melyssa T., Sierra M.
B 400 Freestyle Relay - 14th - Parker S., Caleb B., Jamie P., Stephan C.
Notes:
We did a nice job in finals of either holding our positions or moving up. We only dropped places in three (3) races.
We stayed tough all the way through the meet. We had some swim lifetime bests on their eighth swim within a twenty-four hour period.
We are doing a great job of supporting one another.
We are taking care of business during the meet by warming up/down and reporting to the blocks with time to spare.
We are closing in on some team records. Christmas training will make or break our shots at taking down several THS school records.
We are one-for-one in swim-offs!
Friday, December 3, 2010
A Few Notes
We regained our focus Monday and had some very good workouts this week. Keep it going, group!
Your shirts are in. You can pay for them ($15) and pick them up Monday.
If you can get in a dry-land/run workout on your own this afternoon and Sunday, that would be great.
Jerome, Sports Authority has our shoes on sale - ten bucks off.
You may recall me mentioning something called "deliberate practice". Geoff Colvin, author of "Talent is Overrated" describes eight (8) characteristics of deliberate practice:
An Understanding of Deliberate Practice
A summarization of Colvin’s eight characteristics of deliberate practice follow below. Readers will find a more in-depth explanation as well as a number of examples in Colvin’s original article.
“Deliberate practice is designed specifically to improve performance with the key word being ‘designed.’ The essence of deliberate practice is continually stretching an individual just beyond his or her current abilities. By contrast, deliberate practice requires that one identify certain sharply defined elements of performance that need to be improved, and then work intently on them. The great performers isolate remarkably specific aspects of what they do and focus on just those things until they’re improved; then it’s on to the next aspect.”
“Deliberate practice can be repeated. High repetition is the most important difference between deliberate practice of a task and performing the task for real, when it counts. One is the choice of a properly demanding activity just beyond our current abilities. The other is the amount of repetition.”
“Feedback on results is continuously available.” Though this is obvious, it is “not nearly as simple as it might seem, especially when results require interpretation. In many important situations, a teacher, coach, or mentor is vital for providing crucial feedback.”
“It’s highly demanding mentally. Deliberate practice is above all an effort of focus and concentration. That is what makes it ‘deliberate.’ Continually seeking exactly those elements of performance that are unsatisfactory and then trying one’s hardest to make them better places enormous strains on anyone’s mental abilities. The work is so great that it seems no one can sustain it for very long.”
“It’s hard. This follows inescapably from the other characteristics of deliberate practice, which could be described as a recipe for not having fun. Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that’s exactly the opposite of what deliberate practice demands. Instead of doing what we’re good at, we insistently seek out what we’re not good at.”
There is a definitive ‘before the work’ component. “Self-regulation begins with setting goals – not big, life-directing goals, but more immediate goals for what you’re going to be doing today. In the research, the poorest performers don’t set goals at all; they just slog through their work. Mediocre performers set goals that are general and are often focused on simply achieving a good outcome. The best performers set goals that are not about the outcome but rather about the process of reaching the outcome.”
There is a ‘during the work’ phase. “The most important self-regulatory skill that top performers in every field use during their work is self-observation. Even in purely mental work, the best performers observe themselves closely. They are able to monitor what is happening in their own minds and ask how it’s going. Researchers call this metacognition – knowledge about your own knowledge, thinking about your own thinking. Top performers do this much more systematically than others do; it’s an established part of their routine.”
There is an ‘after the work’ component as well. “Practice activities are worthless without useful feedback about the results. These must be self-evaluations” and “the best performers judge themselves against a standard that’s relevant for what they’re trying to achieve. Sometimes they compare their performance with their own personal best; sometimes they compare it with the performance of competitors they’re facing or expect to face; sometimes they compare it with the best known performance by anyone in the field.”
Your shirts are in. You can pay for them ($15) and pick them up Monday.
If you can get in a dry-land/run workout on your own this afternoon and Sunday, that would be great.
Jerome, Sports Authority has our shoes on sale - ten bucks off.
You may recall me mentioning something called "deliberate practice". Geoff Colvin, author of "Talent is Overrated" describes eight (8) characteristics of deliberate practice:
An Understanding of Deliberate Practice
A summarization of Colvin’s eight characteristics of deliberate practice follow below. Readers will find a more in-depth explanation as well as a number of examples in Colvin’s original article.
“Deliberate practice is designed specifically to improve performance with the key word being ‘designed.’ The essence of deliberate practice is continually stretching an individual just beyond his or her current abilities. By contrast, deliberate practice requires that one identify certain sharply defined elements of performance that need to be improved, and then work intently on them. The great performers isolate remarkably specific aspects of what they do and focus on just those things until they’re improved; then it’s on to the next aspect.”
“Deliberate practice can be repeated. High repetition is the most important difference between deliberate practice of a task and performing the task for real, when it counts. One is the choice of a properly demanding activity just beyond our current abilities. The other is the amount of repetition.”
“Feedback on results is continuously available.” Though this is obvious, it is “not nearly as simple as it might seem, especially when results require interpretation. In many important situations, a teacher, coach, or mentor is vital for providing crucial feedback.”
“It’s highly demanding mentally. Deliberate practice is above all an effort of focus and concentration. That is what makes it ‘deliberate.’ Continually seeking exactly those elements of performance that are unsatisfactory and then trying one’s hardest to make them better places enormous strains on anyone’s mental abilities. The work is so great that it seems no one can sustain it for very long.”
“It’s hard. This follows inescapably from the other characteristics of deliberate practice, which could be described as a recipe for not having fun. Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that’s exactly the opposite of what deliberate practice demands. Instead of doing what we’re good at, we insistently seek out what we’re not good at.”
There is a definitive ‘before the work’ component. “Self-regulation begins with setting goals – not big, life-directing goals, but more immediate goals for what you’re going to be doing today. In the research, the poorest performers don’t set goals at all; they just slog through their work. Mediocre performers set goals that are general and are often focused on simply achieving a good outcome. The best performers set goals that are not about the outcome but rather about the process of reaching the outcome.”
There is a ‘during the work’ phase. “The most important self-regulatory skill that top performers in every field use during their work is self-observation. Even in purely mental work, the best performers observe themselves closely. They are able to monitor what is happening in their own minds and ask how it’s going. Researchers call this metacognition – knowledge about your own knowledge, thinking about your own thinking. Top performers do this much more systematically than others do; it’s an established part of their routine.”
There is an ‘after the work’ component as well. “Practice activities are worthless without useful feedback about the results. These must be self-evaluations” and “the best performers judge themselves against a standard that’s relevant for what they’re trying to achieve. Sometimes they compare their performance with their own personal best; sometimes they compare it with the performance of competitors they’re facing or expect to face; sometimes they compare it with the best known performance by anyone in the field.”
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