Get to Know a Swimmer: Tracy Spurrier

We're now in our second full day of training trip down in here in Deerfield Beach. Today we're going to profile freshman and Baltimore native Tracy Spurrier.

Name: Tracy Spurrier
Nickname: Tray Tray
Year: 2012
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Favorite Events: 200 Back, 1000 Free
Favorite Hobbies: Decorating, Baking
Favorite Food: Chicken Parmesan
Favorite R-MC Swimming Memory: When Ben realized he bought lane lines for a 25 meter pool, not a yard pool. [Ed: That's not an accurate representation of what went down. The correct lane lines were purchased]
Favorite Movie: She's the Man
Inspirational Quote: "It's 5:30 am. Sleeping isn't an option. Second place isn't either."

Get to Know a Swimmer

It's December 24th, 2008, and our swimmer of the day is junior Marlene Graf. Marlene is a 4-time ODAC Champion and was the 2007 ODAC Rookie of the Year. Here are a few of Marlene's favorite things:

Name: Marlene Graf
Class: Junior
Hometown: Wilton, CT
Favorite Event: 200 Free
Favorite Hobby: Dancing the night away
Favorite Food: My dad's special pasta & sauce
Favorite R-MC Swimming Memory: Kicking W&L's butt in the 800 free relay at ODACs freshman year
Favorite Movie: The Little Mermaid
Favorite TV Show: Grey's Anatomy
Favorite Quote: "Oh my Gosh, Nemo's swimming out to sea!" ~Finding Nemo

Winter Break Update

Already bored with winter break? Wondering what to do with all this free time?(...Cough, go swimming, cough...) Fear not, we've got you covered. You can check in all this week for updated "get to know a swimmer" posts on the blog. Plus, starting this weekend, we'll have entries and pictures of our adventures in Florida as the team goes down to Deerfield Beach for training trip. Stay tuned for more.

YMCA Champs

Last Friday marked the end of the fall semester here at R-MC. What better way for our swimmers to celebrate than to work concessions for 12 hours the next day?! We hosted the championship meet for the Richmond YMCA swim league on Saturday, and the team worked concessions all day. They did a great job with it, and it was actually a lot of fun. Two observations from the day: a) I've never seen so many people in the Brock Center before, and b) it's amazing how much food those kids can eat at a swim meet.

Here are a couple pics from the day:

ODAC Swimmer of the Week - Sarah Almond

Congratulations to our very own Sarah Almond, who was named the ODAC Swimmer of the Week for the week of November 25th. Sarah was recognized based on her efforts at the YJ Invitational on Nov. 21st and 22nd. Sarah was a perfect 7 for 7 at the meet. Individually, she won both the 50 and 100 freestyles (25.66 and 56.26). She also anchored all 5 winning relays. The 200 free relay, 400 free relay, and 800 free relay each broke the previous Estes Aquatic Center pool record. Not a bad way to finish off the first semester.