This is the most EXCITING time of the year for our GMA team, as the short course championship season is finally upon us! The New England end-of-season and championship meets are starting to come at us fast and Regionals is this weekend! After that is the New England 12 & Under Age Group Championship Meet and before we know it we'll be at MIT for The New England 13-19 Age Group Championship Meet!
Throughout the season we've had team activities, team travel trips and team breakfasts. This team has become one of the more close knit and fun groups to coach here at GMA. However, it hasn't all been giggles and grins. It's been the fun and supportive atmosphere created by the GMA team members, coaches and parents that has allowed this team to grow. We've all helped each other through several months of hard training (both in and out of the water with a new CrossFit approach to dryland). We've been eating right and sleeping well, juggling homework schedules and practice schedules. We've thought day in and day out about goals. We've discussed what it means to set difficult goals and what needs to be done to achieve our own goals and to help our teammates achieve their goals.
All of this focus and hard work has resulted in many first time qualifiers for both Regionals and Age Groups. We have also seen several swimmers take their swimming to the next level, achieving more championship meet cut times and racing well enough to score points for the team. This has the potential to be one of our most successful seasons! Tomorrow night, GMA will be storming the Upper Valley Aquatic Center with almost 100 athletes, the most we've ever sent to Regionals!
We all know that success will not just be handed to us. This is the time of the year to increase our focus and intensity once again. We may be physically prepared to swim fast due to all of our hard work, but are we finely tuned and mentally prepared to hit our peak performances when it matters? We need to ask ourselves this question every day, as now is the time when those little things can get in the way of true success. There is no time left for excuses. Approach every day with a single minded focus of applying your absolute best effort to every little aspect of our training and preparation. This excellent attitude will help us be champions, win or lose.
Regionals is just the tip of the iceberg. It is the team momentum builder and the tone-setter for the entire championship meet season. How exciting that we have more athletes than ever at the meet to establish that tone of excellence! Let's continue to work hard to the end, GMA. Support each other, get PUMPED UP and SWIM FAST!
New England Swimming, are you ready for this? Here comes GMA!!
- Jarett Fitzpatrick
Throughout the season we've had team activities, team travel trips and team breakfasts. This team has become one of the more close knit and fun groups to coach here at GMA. However, it hasn't all been giggles and grins. It's been the fun and supportive atmosphere created by the GMA team members, coaches and parents that has allowed this team to grow. We've all helped each other through several months of hard training (both in and out of the water with a new CrossFit approach to dryland). We've been eating right and sleeping well, juggling homework schedules and practice schedules. We've thought day in and day out about goals. We've discussed what it means to set difficult goals and what needs to be done to achieve our own goals and to help our teammates achieve their goals.
All of this focus and hard work has resulted in many first time qualifiers for both Regionals and Age Groups. We have also seen several swimmers take their swimming to the next level, achieving more championship meet cut times and racing well enough to score points for the team. This has the potential to be one of our most successful seasons! Tomorrow night, GMA will be storming the Upper Valley Aquatic Center with almost 100 athletes, the most we've ever sent to Regionals!
We all know that success will not just be handed to us. This is the time of the year to increase our focus and intensity once again. We may be physically prepared to swim fast due to all of our hard work, but are we finely tuned and mentally prepared to hit our peak performances when it matters? We need to ask ourselves this question every day, as now is the time when those little things can get in the way of true success. There is no time left for excuses. Approach every day with a single minded focus of applying your absolute best effort to every little aspect of our training and preparation. This excellent attitude will help us be champions, win or lose.
Regionals is just the tip of the iceberg. It is the team momentum builder and the tone-setter for the entire championship meet season. How exciting that we have more athletes than ever at the meet to establish that tone of excellence! Let's continue to work hard to the end, GMA. Support each other, get PUMPED UP and SWIM FAST!
New England Swimming, are you ready for this? Here comes GMA!!
- Jarett Fitzpatrick
