Maria's GMA Wisdom

“Mom, tell me again, what is your profession”? This is a question I have heard frequently from my offspring as they fill out one form or another.

I thought about this as I stood on deck this weekend at the Winter Classic meet, surrounded by GMA swimmers checking in and out, warming up and down, racing, crying, eating, laughing, and cheering. I did a quick mental inventory of how I landed here on deck wearing the GMA coach’s shirt.

I was once an age group swimmer. GMA's founding father Jim Donoghue was my coach. I showed up at school with frozen pigtails after early morning practices. I lost hundreds of pairs of goggles. I was the confused child hanging on to the gutter trying to figure out how to breathe to both sides. I begged to use kickboards. I understand.

I also have been a GMA swim parent. I watched my child throw up blue Gatorade. I went the wrong way in the I-89/91 matrix more than once. I pondered the question of how my child’s breaststroke could look SO different every time she swam it. I cried when she finally broke 1:00 in the 100 Free. I understand.

I am a GMA masters swimmer. Laura is my coach. I have SLUDKA’D. I have chest pressed. I have “overkicked”. I have double descended hitting my goal 200 race pace. I understand what its like to train the GMA way.

My life experiences in the pool, driving to the pool, and sitting at the pool have all led me to my current position, on deck coaching your children. I am privileged and honored. I appreciate your willingness to lend them to me for a few hours every day to work with them and help them become better swimmers. I appreciate the commitment you have to getting them fed and watered and where they need to be. I appreciate your trust in believing in the GMA philosophy and letting GMA coaches do their jobs. At GMA, every skill progression, interval set, dry land exercise, and warm up protocol is based on science and experience. For every activity in or around the pool there is a reason.

As many of you remember, before computers and heat sheets, there was the dreaded “Bull Pen”, an extremely chaotic area full of cold, folding chairs in rows, hordes of excitable children, and two or three sacrificial parents trying to get and keep the swimmers in order. Like the rotary phone, the bull pen has become extinct thanks to modern technology. Now our kids have the capability to actually warm up their muscles, get their hearts pumping, and get their mojo flowing, before every race.

Your children are athletes. Athletes perform best when they are warmed up. During a typical GMA age group practice, athletes will swim their best times near the end of a 90-minute workout. Simply, warming up is a good thing; standing behind the block for 15 heats of the 200 freestyle is not.

I had a posse of worried age groupers circling my coaching wagon last weekend. They were staging a protest against pre-race warm up. By utilizing my extraordinary communication skills (yelling and wagging my finger), ultimately I convinced them to warm up. While some embraced the concept more than others, I am proud of all the age groupers for trying something new and preparing for a race the GMA way. Age Groupers were rewarded with several personal best times and championship cut times. (I love it when it works out that way...)

I am lucky to have my unique perspective of GMA swimming and coaching. Though I have not seen it all, I sure have seen and experienced a lot of it. It is from this place of experience that I can say, I believe in our GMA parents, athletes, and coaches. We are a mighty team. Lets keep on working together to achieve excellence.

Gotta go, time to drive to the pool......

Maria Cimonetti

Vision for Team GMA!

11/25/09
This morning during our first workout of the day, I had a vision of our GMA team-of-the-future. We had over twenty high school-aged athletes, training away with focus and intensity. As they finished their first fifty of over-kick swimming, I saw a pool filled with National-caliber athletes. It was so exciting. Each and every athlete in the pool was demonstrating the technique, commitment, effort and attitude necessary for excellence. Every swimmer was caught up in the thrill of training with enthusiasm. I was so thankful that I could share that vision with the athletes in the water and let them know that I believe in their dreams, their goals and their potential.



One of the main reasons that I decided to become a swim coach was to share my eternal hope in the power of goal setting and dream making. I was especially excited to support young people in achieving their goals and dreams in life. I think that is the value in seeing our team as a National-caliber team. It inspires ALL of our athletes to challenge themselves and to reach for their peak potential. It inspires all of our coaches to work with our athletes to help them realize their goals. Most importantly, it bonds us all together as a group of people determined to be the very best teammates and human beings that we can be. Is there any better way to direct one's life?



Thank you for being a part of my GMA vision. Thank you for inspiring our team to greatness!



Laura Matuszak

Training Magic, The GMA Way

So, I was chatting with Coach Brian on the phone the other day, (actually I was bragging to Brian) about a training session that seemed like magic from the previous night’s practice. I was telling him about how each and every one of our swimmers were working to their potential and how there was some racing going on in our set of 20 x 100. Everyone, I mean every person in the pool, kicked butt on the last max effort 5 x 100. One swimmer swam her fastest 100 in practice so far this year at the end of 19 other 100’s! Coach Brian encouraged me to make it known that I was pleased with the results from that practice. So, thinking about it, I looked back in my training journal where I had taken the time to highlight three other sessions that I thought were magic from this season. And I got to thinking about WHY those sessions were different from other sessions. Originally, I wondered if design of the set encouraged some of the magic, but after considering existing variables from each session I came to realize that teamwork is the common denominator and why those sessions were different. At each of the sessions our swimmers came together and sometimes silently, sometimes with a knowing look, and sometimes with a few words of encouragement, worked together to achieve something that most certainly would have been tough to do on their own. And, as a coach, I know things are going well when the swimmers are taking things under their own control and kicking butt as a team!

Coach Laurie Albert

Head Coach - GMA Upper Valley

Coach Eileen says, "Get tough GMA!"

The theme for the Senior, Sectional, National group this past week has been “toughness”. We are not talking about the kind of toughness where you hold your hand over an open flame or anything like that, but a toughness of spirit and a willingness to get the job done no matter what. We have been talking about toughness being defined as “consistently performing at the upper range of your talent and capabilities no matter the competitive circumstances”. This concept is being explored by experts outside of GMA as well as our resident expert Laura Matuszak! Since we have so many athletes whose stated goals are very ambitious, we wanted to have the athletes explore what they are willing to do to achieve them and to give them tools to access their inner reserves of strength when necessary. This process isn’t always easy. As all adults know, success doesn’t come without some suffering and even pain. Our decision to experience that pain and discomfort may well be the key to unlocking the best performances we are capable of.

When I was a young athlete, we called this “guts”. “No guts no glory” was a popular phrase of the time. When I think about this idea of toughness however, I do believe that guts are a pretty accurate term for what is going on. From the butterflies before the race, to the sometimes roiling insides an athlete gets after a tough race, to the hunger that always follows a good training session, the guts are where it happens! Training that place inside us is critical for excellence. I was a very successful swimmer as a kid. I pretty much raced on guts alone. I loved to compete and there was no amount of pain too great that it could keep me from my cravings for a best time, a win, a fast swim. I didn’t however, love to practice! My father, who was usually a peripheral figure in my swimming, looked at me one day as I was waffling about practice. “Eileen,” he said. “You have guts. Someday though, you are going to have to race someone who has guts AND is good. She is going to beat you.” Here at GMA, we pride ourselves on our practice ethic. Most of are kids are GOOD. Now it’s time for the guts….lets get tough!!

Coach Eileen Hall

Another Wonderful GMA Season Is Underway

Another wonderful GMA season is underway.

We just finished our distance meet this last weekend. I was impressed by how many athletes pushed themselves in the longer events. There were many regional swimmers who completed a 500, there was one who even did a 1,000! The age groupers' hard work during their practices also showed because their 100 split times were very even throughout their distance races.

Regional 1 and 2 had twenty swimmers last night in training and our group is the largest it has been in a while. We recently had new swimmers join our team and this is one of my favorite times of the year. The swimmers who are new to the team are used to our routines and are now able to focus on learning the specifics of each drill set. The swimmers who are returning get to revisit the drills and their techniques, serving as great group leaders.

Last night we got to focus on BREASTSTROKE! Since the IMX meet is coming up soon, we’ve been focused on improving all parts our Individual Medley. In Breaststroke, we started by focusing on our body line in streamline kick, then we focused on flexing the feet out during the kick. Our pullouts have been amazing! Every swimmer has been doing pull-outs past the flags and many are starting to get to the white lane marker.

It’s been a super start to this season. I’m excited to watch the athletes become faster and stronger throughout our season and I anticipate seeing our team members grow closer as teammates and friends.

Sincerely,
Nick Mack

HELLO from the FLA senior challenge

Today was a good day for us here at the FLA Senior Challenge. Despite extreme heat we performed well, posting best times across the board. Taylor complained continuously throughout prelims, naptime, and finals. He dropped 9 seconds in his 400 free g0ing a 4 14. Ubert swam well in his 400 free as well dropping 3 seconds at 4 17 and a sectional cut. Dylan dropped 2 seconds in his 100 back and got his first zone cut. I dropped 2 seconds in my 400 free posting a 4 11. We are repping GMA here in FL, swimmming fast and getting our tans on.
The weather here has been pretty typical for Florida. Hot in the morning and afternoon and the occasional fatal lightning storm in the evening. We have had a light show these past two nights and missed out on the end of finals due to the storms......too bad ;). I dont know about the other three guys, but sharing a room with them has been a great time! We have also created a unique smell that some would call a haunting aroma.
Tomorrow is our last day and we are looking to finally swim a relay together as a team. Hope all is well in VT....GMA pwns

Happy spring everyone! School is almost over and summer looms tantalizingly close. It is natural to think if this time of the year as the beginning of a season. As the GMA swimmers will tell you however, that is not the case at all as far as our long course season goes! Our long course championship meets are getting closer all the time and actually, this is more like the middle of our training season. This is why I was so excited to see how many athletes remained focused this weekend as we experienced a disruption in our pool schedule.

St. Michael’s college needed to shut the pool down for maintenance and we had to do 4 days of training with no water! Laura put together some amazing dryland workouts that really kept the athletes working hard. I am proud of those of you who made the effort to come and participate. It would have been easy to say “Oh, well, it’s not worth it to go for only dryland” and stay home. Instead, you realized that strength and load bearing workouts are as critical for your success as pool time and you attacked the non-traditional training with enthusiasm and GREAT attitudes. I have no doubt that it was hard, but those of you who were here know that it was worth it!

Saturday was our Dryland Olympics. The kids competed in a variety of events like running (some did a 5K), lifting, pushups, pull-ups, and the 100 yard dash, just to name a few. Taylor G. and Caroline W. were the big winners of the Senior/Sectional/National group. As Olympic partners, they pushed one other to perform well and each proudly took home a $10.00 gift certificate to Moe’s. Dylan H. and Ubert (the elder) tied for second. Other winners were Brenna C., Emma H., Lauren K., David L. and Lindsay M.

After the Dryland Olympics were over, we enjoyed a celebratory team brunch, thanks to the effort of Senior/Sectional/ National parents. Good job everyone! I am constantly amazed at how hard you work and as always, proud to call myself a GMA coach! See you in the pool! (Finally!)

Sincerely,

Coach Eileen Hall

Ring in the Spring!

The second GMA Spring Clinic has started and it is great to see not only returning swimmers from the first clinic, but also returning swimmers from the winter season and even more new faces! I can see the excitement building for the long course and summer rec seasons. On top of that, the weather is starting to look much more like summer!

Hopefully the weather will hold for the 25th Annual Vermont City Marathon on May 24th. This will be the 2nd year GMA has run one of the many water stations providing valuable support to the marathon runners. The GMA water station is on mile 25.5, right at the end of the 26 mile course. Last year, it was so much fun watching the competitors. We saw the wheelchair athletes as well as the winner of the last three years, Matt Pellitier, pass by our station. The marathon involves such a variety of athletes who have competitive goals, or race to achieve personal goals. Some bring a fun flair to the race by running in creative costumes.. I am looking forward to seeing another exciting marathon and to helping GMA show our commitment to our community!

Lets have some fun again this year! Please sign up on the Vermont City Marathon Poster or e-mail Laura to sign-up. We need 20-25 volunteers to cover two shifts. You can choose to attend for one or both shifts. Everyone is welcome! So if you are swimmer, family member or friend, come sign up!

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Sincerely,
Coach Tim Bard

GMA Swimmers "Clean Up" In the Pool

On Friday, May 1st, 2009 twenty of the GMA Senior, Sectional and National swimmers worked diligently to clean the Saint Michael's College Pool. To show their appreciation for the use of the wonderful Saint Michael's College Pool, the GMA swimmers devoted about 45 minutes of their training time to scrubbing the pool gutters, cleaning the pool deck, organizing the pool closet and generally beautifying the pool area. The coaches were impressed with the athletes and their effort. Each athlete promptly got to work cleaning. Every GMA athlete did so with smiles on their faces and determination to finish the task at hand. You will notice that the water line on the gutters has been painstakingly scrubbed away and the pool area is neat and clean. THANK YOU GMA SWIMMERS FOR DOING YOUR PART!!

Seizing Opportunities

Two weekends ago we had the opportunity to race at the historic Yale 50 meter "practice pool." The facilities were adequate, the warm-up space and time was exceptional, the meet hosts were generous and friendly and the schedule of events was ideal. We were given an exceptional opportunity to race long course indoors early in the long course season. This was a chance for our athletes to challenge themselves competitively and begin trying their racing strategies for the season. While we were not blessed with exceptional competition from the other teams participating in the meet, we were certainly blessed with many competitive advantages at this meet.

It was wonderful to see many of our athletes at the meet making the most of the meet. The majority of our athletes took the opportunity to warm-up for the entire sixty minute warm-up session and gain a feel for the long course pool. The majority of our athletes raced incredibly well with focus and determination to achieve best times and learn from their experiences. The majority of our athletes raced in 8-10 events within 20 hours. The majority of our athletes left the meet either with personal best times or with new observations about their approaches to racing which. While the conditions were not ideal, our GMA athletes seized their competitive opportunities.

GMA athletes have also seized their training opportunities over the last week during school vacation. Our athletes who were in town over the school vacation showed incredible dedication to their training. Almost all of our athletes who stayed in the area for vacation INCREASED their practice attendance last week. By all accounts, our athletes who travelled on vacation over the school break found ways to exercise and maintain their fitness levels. I have received reports that our athletes took their workouts to local pools while on vacation to train their normal GMA workouts. We have heard that our athletes spent and hour to two hours each day on vacation running, swimming, lifting and exercising. GMA athletes love to train and keep themselves in shape. They take the opportunity to remain fit, whether at home or away over vacation periods.

As we all return to the pool as a team, I know that we will seize the opportunity to take our training to the next level. We have only one month until our major long course competitions begin. In less than 15 weeks, the long course season will be completely over. Now is the time to get training, get working and get going FAST! Our GMA swimmers have shown that they have the focus and attitude that is required to make the most of their competitive, training and team opportunities!

Carpe diem, GMA!

Laura Matuszak

At Last Vacation Time Is Here!

At last vacation time is here! I am leaving on Friday for a week in St. Lucia with my family (and Merritt) and I will say, without apology, that I am glad to be getting away. I absolutely, without a doubt, 100 percent love coaching and working with the athletes everyday, but I am smart enough to appreciate and enjoy a vacation when it comes my way. I will surely miss everyone, especially the hard workers in Lane Finity or Lane David or whatever they are going to be!

I know that a lot of other folks will be traveling over break and this brings me to my point. While it is great for your attitude and state of mind to get a break from the pressures of your training routine, your conditioning will suffer unless you pay a little attention to it while you are away. I know it seems like a drag to have to think about working out when you are supposed to be relaxing, but consider this…exercise is relaxing! Imaging what your life would be like if you weren’t exercising your minds and bodies each night? How would you deal with social and academic stress? How would you deal with family issues? The work you do in the pool is not only essential for helping you meet your swimming goals, it is a tool that helps you survive the day-to-day in middle or high school. But the big thing to remember is that each day you don’t train, your goals are harder to achieve. Although it may feel good right now to say “I deserve a break” or “One week off won’t hurt me”, the truth is that this is a very important time in long course training and a week off could very well be the difference between getting that cut time, or missing it by a second.

So what am I suggesting? Well, it is not as bad as you may think! By all means, relax on your vacation! Put swim practice out of your mind if it helps you refresh. Don’t, however, neglect your body or your goals. You wouldn’t go a whole week without water or food, would you? Exercise is just as important for what you all have stated that you want to achieve this summer. So, what should you do? Well, swim ideally! If you are near a pool, swim for an hour or more a few times over the week. Laura can give workouts to anyone who wants them if you feel like doing more. No pool? How about running? A 45 minute run combined with push ups and crunches is an excellent workout. Get your heart rate up as often as possible. When you think about it, how much time are we really talking about? 4 hours over the course of the week? Are you willing to commit 4 hours to meet your goals? Are you willing to commit more? I am confident that all of you could answer yes to both of those questions!

As for me? Well, fear not! I will be maintaining my coaching skills while I am on vacation. (I want to meet my goals as well). Merritt and Dylan will enjoy all of the benefits of being on vacation with their swim coach! So pack those goggles GMA and have great break. I will see you all when I get back!

Coach Eileen Hall

Let the Long Course Season BEGIN!

Just when you thought we would have a break from the intensity of the swimming season, we are back to racing again!! The long course season is off to a great start. Our Senior, Sectional and National athletes have had several weeks of great training and are fully engaged in the goal-setting process. Additionally, some of our National athletes competed in a long-course Montreal
last weekend and are on their way to achieving some of their competitive goals. We are so excited to see our Age Group athletes and Clinic swimmers back in the pool next week. It will be great to have the GMA team back together and working hard together to be the BEST we can be!



Enjoy the video clips of our GMA swimmers in their first long course races of the season and I will see you in the pool soon!

Sincerely,

Laura Matuszak

Coach Tim Reflects on the Season

With the all-team practice held on Friday, March 20th, 2009, we wrapped a great season. Our GMA swimmers have worked hard this year and it was fun to see them all have so much fun together. At the practice our swimmers continued working on their goals, worked with each other and just had fun in the water. I was quite impressed with the dedication of the older swimmers at the all-team practice. They taught our younger athletes about their experiences and they shared their knowledge of the sport with the team. In the water, our older athletes provided a safe and fun environment for the team to celebrate the end of a successful short course season. I think their efforts in the pool reflect several GMA core values - to be the best program, not just for technique and training but also for committment and for personal development. GMA swimmers show incredible teamwork. They work together to make each swimmer achieve their personal best with the strong support of their teammates.

Even though the short course season is over, it was very apparent the swimmers are excited to celebrate their accomplishments at the Banquet on Sunday March 22nd. The athletes in my Regional improved tremendously in their stroke technique. They can now roll their hips efficiently in freestyle and backstroke, they can breathe every 3 strokes in freestyle and they can press forward from the chest and core body for their short axis strokes.

During the team meetings this last week, many of the Age Group, Regional and State swimmers were excited about continuing their swimming either through long course with GMA, summer swim team with the Knights or with one of the many other summer swim teams. We talked about the importance of staying active and healthy and of keeping their goals in mind throughout the summer.

I am very proud of the individual and team accomplishments of my group and the team as a whole. The hard work put into the season is very apparent and each swimmer should be proud of their achievements, big and small. It is sad to see the short course season come to an end and it is very exciting to see the long course season, spring clinics and summer swimming on the horizon!

- Tim Bard

Championship Excitement . . . Way to go TEAM GMA!

Wow! What exciting New England Championship meets we have had as a team. We have seen our athletes make incredible time drops, improve their racing skills and display the results of all of their hard work this season. More importantly, we have seen our teammates cheer each other on and become closer in their relationships with one another. What a pleasure to share in these experiences with our athletes!

While I have been totally energized by the enthusiasm and emotions of our championship meets, I was equally enthused by our athletes' efforts in training these past few weeks. Yesterday, we had excellent team attendance. The pool deck was alive with our athletes working hard to improve their swimming and our coaches engaged in teaching the best swimming skills. This commitment to improvement is one of the many things that makes GMA a great team! Thank you coaches, parents and swimmers.

We are looking forward to our final championship meet, the Speedo Championship Meet, this weekend. We are also looking forward to celebrating the season on Friday, March 20th with a special all-team practice and on Sunday, March 22nd with team photos, the Olympic Meet and the team banquet. We have much to celebrate GMA swimmers!

Thank you,
Laura Matuszak

Champs Are Here!

The splash symphony at the pool has had a different melody this week. Monday marked the beginning of the last week of training before the New England 13-19 championship meet at MIT. Team meeting Monday was pretty powerful. Everyone got to say out loud what their meet goals were and after that, they all talked about what they were going to for the team this weekend. We heard many great voices all with really team oriented focus. Some of the best plans came from the crowd in the corner-Jessie, Lauren, Galen, Hadley, Emma and maybe a few others. They spoke up with pride about their plans to come to practice this weekend and stay in touch with teammates who were swimming. It was a great opportunity to highlight the long term team goals that require everyone to remain committed regardless of what point in the season we are in. We did some visualization as well to help to isolate the race in their minds and be able to really feel and see what they are doing!

There has been a TON of energy from the kids. Each day during dryland I have felt an increased impatience. No one really wants to intentionally goof off, but they are all itching to swim! It is pretty awesome. We have worked them hard on race pace and technique, reminding them over and over that they need to have every detail of their race down pat. It takes an enormous amount of focus and the athletes have attacked the challenge! We have also put the relays together to let them practice their starts. Thanks to Laura’s brilliant idea-“Relay Challenge 2009”, there is new motivation to race fast in the relays. There is a pizza party on the line for the first relay team to swim the Junior National qualifying time and there is an added buzz of competitiveness all around.


Tonight was the last night of practice before we set out tomorrow. We used the bands to “slingshot” the athletes for 25 yards, really giving them a feel for crazy speed! First, they had to swim to the end with the resistance band on. (Ok, so the coaches need amusement too!)

I am really looking forward to being on deck with these outstanding kids. They are ready to swim fast and represent GMA. They have set challenging goals and I know many will be achieved. See you at MIT!

- Eileen Hall

February 26, 2009 - Regional 2

Tonight’s practice went really well. We had a really high turnout of kids for a Thursday during vacation week. It's nice to see so many folks committed to coming to practice after many of the kids have had their end of the season meet.

As we were walking down the stairs it was really nice to hear the kids talking about their goals. It was one of our focuses this year was to have kids use their goals more effectively. I think talking with their peers and hearing their goals said out loud from someone else allows them to not only hear more repetitions but reflect and think about what their peer is saying.

We focused a lot on flip turns tonight and the quality of sludk. One of the items we discussed from the regional meet was trying to get kids to do the same amount of sludk but use it more effectively. We had kids sludk consistently past the flags for two of our main focus sets. We do similar things for stroke count so we are now trying to incorporate it into our sludk.

Dry-land went really smoothly as well. We started doing some station work this week and the kids seem to really enjoy having the fast pace between the activities. The kids have enough knowledge about the basic dry-land exercises where we are now able mix up different varieties of activities!!!

Overall it was a great night! - Nick

It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

This is such an exciting time of year to be swimming! Starting last weekend and ending in March, there are championship meets being held around the regional and around the country. Swimmers from all kinds of programs and in all parts of the United States are gearing up to swim their best at the end of the short course season!! What is GMA doing to get ready to race?

First, we are celebrating the successes that we have already experienced this season. We had an excellent New England Regional Meet with almost all of our swimmers achieving at least one personal best time at the meet. The excitement from winning personal best prizes and from racing well as a team is fueling the efforts of our Age Group and Speedo Championship swimmers. This weekend, our qualified 12 and younger swimmers will compete at the NEW Upper Valley Aquatic Center at the New England 12 and Under Championship Meet. They will spend the week in training, preparing physically and mentally to race their best! Let's go GMA!

Next, as we begin the championship meet season, we are renewing our focus on the fundamentals 0f swimming - stroke technique, streamline, efficiency. After a great visit last Monday (1/9/09) from USA Swimming Sports Performance Consultant, Rick Bishop, our Senior, Sectional and National swimmers have some valuable teachings about the importance of streamline, dolphin kicking and attitude in their racing. We are hopeful that our athletes will take these teachings to heart; implement the teachings in their training; and prepare to race their best at championships.

Finally, since some of our athletes have completed the short course competition season, we think that it is important for our teammates to stay in the water until the end of March. This is an important time to share in the joys of the team during championships and to focus in the water on stroke improvements that will help ALL of our atheltes qualify for championships in the future. Remembering that the the team goal is to win the National Championships in swimming, we know that we will need EVERY athlete to swim their best in order to achieve this massive goal. The preparation for this goal happens EVERY day at practice.

We'll see you at the pool soon!

Sincerely,
Laura Matuszak

GMA Wednesday 2/4/09

The team is getting ready for the New England Regional Meet. We are excited for our Developmental athletes who will get a taste of a big New England Meet. In addition, many of our Senior and Sectional swimmers have set specific goals for their Regional performances. The daily training this week has been focused on meet preparation and racing skills for our athletes attending the Regional Meet. Spirits have been high and we are looking forward to a great weekend of racing.

Our Age Group and National Group swimmers are also getting focused on their end-of-season meets later in the season. Their training is in the final stages before taper and they are anxiously awaiting the meet preparation period.

The coaches are beginning their athlete evaluations for the season, are considering team awards for the end of season banquet and are planning ahead for the summer long course season. We hope that our successes during the New England, Sectional and Junior National Meets this winter will encourage all of our teammates to stay in the pool with GMA in the spring and summer. The program flier will be posted within the next few weeks so keep your eyes open for it on our homepage!!

LET'S GO GMA!! SWIM FAST and HAVE FUN!

Welcome to our new GMA blog

Dear GMA parents, swimmers, coaches and fans,

Welcome to our new team blog! The coaches, captains and athletes will use our blog to share the latest training and racing news and information. This will serve as our way of keeping everyone in the loop about the day-to-day happenings with the team. Of course, our website will still function as our primary source of team information, dates, results, and swimmer data.

I hope that you enjoy our blog and that it helps you gain a better feeling about our GMA champions!

Sincerely,
Laura Matuszak