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3/12/2013 By Jill Castle, MS, RD Parents and coaches want their swimmers to feel good, eat well and perform to their best ability. But that’s not always easy to accomplish when you have growing bodies, different food preferences and developmental influences to consider. At a recent swim meet, I heard a variety of food complaints from parents: “Sarah didn’t eat at all during the meet!” “Every time I saw Sam, he was at the concession stand eating fruit snacks. He had at least 3 bags this afternoon!” “Emily had a...
By Chris Rosenbloom, PhD, RD, CSSD A young swimmer asked me about after-practice recovery snacks, specifically if she needed a special product marketed as an “after” workout recovery drink. She didn’t really like the taste of the commercial product and wondered if there were good alternatives. I admired her “food first” approach and suggested she try some of the recovery snacks listed below. A good recovery snack provides carbohydrate to replenish muscle glycogen and a small amount of protein to aid in repairing and strengthening muscles. Recovery nutrition is most...
D2 Results: D2’s was a success for Ad Astra. We had seven swimmers achieve new D1 Time Standards: Ava Cormaney, Lanie Whitehill, Riley Sirimongkhon-Dyck, Maddie Dean, Evan Dussiler, Abigail Frye, and Brandon Bunting. This is the highest number in all of Ad Astra history. It was special seeing the positivity, the camaraderie, and the fast swimming by all AAAA swimmers. This was a first time for many swimmers to swim a prelim/final format. I loved seeing the smiles when each athlete had their name called out competing in...
The following is our meet schedule for the summer. I will also post it in the news section on the website so you can look there for reference. We have chosen the meets that we think are best for the athletes. There are two meets listed on the schedule that we will need to know in advance if your child is participating. These meets are considered our travel meets. The first travel meet we must have 10 athletes commit in order to attend. This meet is located in...
MAL Championships With 60 swimmers competing for Ad Astra, we had a strong showing in Lawrence. For some swimmers this was their last meet of the season- all the hard work they put in over the 6 months paid off! One interesting fact for the weekend was that all 14 and under swimmers went at least a best time and several swimmers swam all personal best times! The relays were a highlight of the weekend for AAAA. It was great to see Ad Astra having multiple...
We had six 8 and Under swimmers compete at the 8 and Under MAL Championship Meet in Gladstone, MO. There were 187 swimmers (Record High) competing at this meet. The meet started out with a parade of athletes to recognize all the swimmers that attended the meet. Congrats to Benjamin Carroll, Adin Florence, Giuliano Lule-Paredes, Karsyn Robertson, Nicholas Stefanov, and Maximilian Whittaker for representing Ad Astra. Each swimmer was being positive, smiling, and having a great time at the meet. It was so fun to watch the young...
Ainsley Krug Leads the Way at COOL and Ad Astra Has Several “First” Moments Over 600 athletes participated in the COOL Rock the Blocks Meet. We had 28 athletes compete for Ad Astra. The weekend was filled with “Firsts” Ainsley Krug led the way for Ad Astra taking home the High Point Award for Girls 11-12 Age group. Ainsley finished 1st in 5 out of 6 races. She also swam very close to her best times, or swam a best time in each race. Some other...
Team Missouri Valley placed second at this year’s All-Star swim meet behind Team Colorado, 1,953 to 1,218. It was a great showing and AAAA played its part. Ad Astra had 11 swimmers compete this past weekend, third most from any team in our LSC. We comprised 10.8% of the entire team, but contributed 11.4% of the points to Team Missouri Valley. 10 of 11 of our swimmers scored points for Team Missouri Valley. Claire Campbell and Stephen Johnson led the way for Ad Astra Area Aquatics. Claire Campbell...
Over 50 Swimmers for Ad Astra started the New Year at True Blue Igloo Meet in Topeka Kansas. The swimmers were ready to race after a hard two weeks of Holiday Training. The training paid off as we had new Sectional cuts, new D1 Cuts, and D2 Cuts. We had new swimmers compete for the first time and it was great having them represent AAAA. True Blue Igloo set us up for the remainder of the season and helped us see what we still need to work on for...
