Never be afraid to overcome your fears, sometimes all you need is a little push. #MotivationMonday

Let me start with some advice for the freshmen: I'm sick, stay away from me. Now for the boring stuff. Hope school is going well. My first exam was this week, but I was kind of in denial that I had to start the 3 month long season of constant exams, so I didn’t show up. I highly recommend this strategy as it is much more fun than studying. We are three days into official practice, so I hope there is still at least a little bit of excitement for the season left in you. Stay motivated each and every practice so that we can beat Ithaca again. I left you hanging at the end of my last blog post, and I know you have all been waiting to hear how the USAM coaches did in the coach’s relay at our summer champs in August. We did the 200 medley relay, with Meg leading off, myself doing breaststroke, coach Rob doing fly, and my friend Niko anchoring. I regret to inform you that we were out touched by a team of 4 in-shape college swimmers. Hopefully next year Rob will pull his weight a little more so that we can take back our championship record. Something good did come out of this race though. Meg swam 50 backstroke in 23 seconds, and beat David Gardiner in the lane next to us. Looks like he lied about all that training he did over the summer. David almost got away with convincing us he trained. There’s no way Matt could get away with that because his new gut would give it away. I know everyone misses Meg, and I wanted to let you know that she misses the whole team, too. Whenever we text her or snapchat her, she responds with something like “Even when I don’t have anything to do with you annoying kids, you still drive me crazy!” Aww she’s too nice! See you dark and early at 6am weights! -DC

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Did you know Erin loves cats so much her entire room back home is cat themed and she snuggles with her two cats, Genie and Junior every night. #FunFactFriday

#ONETEAM #ONEFAMILY 

After the first week of practices, grill master, David Gardiner, cooked up 5lbs of chicken and rice for us. Team dinners are the best, hopefully the first of many for this year! 

#bonding #getbig

Adam Sherman is an expert at scuba diving, hes dove all over the place from his bathtub to the Mariana Trench #FunFactFriday

Hi everyone!

Kathleen here. I am so excited to be back on campus! After working from 6am-5pm nearly everyday this summer, as well as swimming and lifting, I was certainly more than ready to come back to school. I did not swim as much as I would have liked, as my club practice times conflicted with the rec team that I was coaching every morning. So basically I swam for a little more than an hour 5 times a week. I did however really get into lifting. I lifted every other day all summer. The funny thing is that when I got back to campus I was talking to Aubrey and I realized I did the wrong lift all summer! It turns out Drew sent me like a separate individual email to me with the link to our weight program, except it wasn’t ours; it was softball’s. Sooo I was doing new stuff we’ve never done before- like hang cleans! It was definitely an experience. Anyways, whenever I wasn’t working I pretty much hung out with my friends, went to the beach, or spent time with my new baby Godson. I’m excited to be back in the water here, I missed you all so much! I also can’t wait to be back on deck cheering for you all! It’s so weird calling myself a sophomore and not being the baby on deck anymore- my apartment, with Barb and Siena, we always forget that we’re no longer the freshies. We live in Stac with a bunch of other athletes but we haven’t ventured out to meet any of them yet. The people above us are wicked loud and annoying so we don’t really like them all that much for that. Then again, we’re really loud. But oh well no one lives below us this year so it’s all good. Looking forward to a great season! See you all at practice!
Bye!

Never give up  #MotivationMonday