2010 Northern Area Triathlon, July 18

Chena Lakes Recreation Area on July 18, 2010 See Northern Area Swimming website for more information.

 Midnight Sun Festival Update

Dear MSST Swimmers and Families Once again this year we were given a great fund raising opportunity at Solstice. They have asked us to return for clean up detail as we did such a wonderful j...

 Midnight Sun Festival

The Midnight Sun Swim Team will be manning a booth during the Midnight Sun Festival on 20 Jun 2010. We will be sell wings out of a booth called "The Midnight Sun Swim Team Wing Shack" and will be...

 MSST Swimmer brings home the gold at 3A Track State

Link to Daily news minor Article FAIRBANKS ? Lizzy Bennett already had state medals from her high school cross country and swimming careers. The Monroe Catholic senior was lacking medals from tra...

 New Board Elected

A new Executive Board was elected on Friday night during the Year-End Banquet. The new board will take over in October. Here is the slate: President Elect-Corky Randall Secretary-Barbara Haney T...

 2 MSST Swimmers sign with Division I schools

 2 MSST Swimmers sign National Letter of Intent with UAF

 Goering Signs with Illinois

 Date Change for Annual Banquet

 JO Results

 SWIM-A-THON Prizes

 Weekly News

 SWIM-A-THON NEWS

 Team Results JO

 JO Results

 Friday results JOs

 1st Day JO Champs

 JO Warm-up Times

 MSST Soar at NA Champs

 Photos from NA Champs

 2010 NW Age Group Sectionals

 2010 NW Senior Sectional Results

 Senior Sectionals

 Spring Break practice Schedule

 Great Alaska Open Results

 Holiday Practice Schedule

 Gifts for Teens for Santa's Clearing House

 MSST Swimmer Signs with the Lobos

 MSST Christmas Party

 FOOD BANK DONATIONS

 Swimmer try-outs

 Article about MSST Swimmer Anne Goering

 Meet And Greet for Coach Crowe

 Article in the papper about Lizzy Bennett

 Registration Fees

 New Head Coach

 Technical Swim Suits

 Results for Back to School Meet

 Dues will increase 1 Oct 09

 New Practice Schedule

 Psych Sheet for Senior Sectionals

 MSST Team Photo

 Successful Time Trials

 Time Trials on Friday June 26th

 Coach Katie Bio up online

 Coach Candidate Meet and Greet

 Practice Cancelled Saturday May 30th to Wednesday June 3rd

 Novice Practice

 Map to Ft. Wainwright

Here is the map to the Ft Wainwright pool for our Senior and Junior swimmers.

 Northern Area Swim Camp / Coaches Clinic

Attention SWIM WORLD! Back to School Swim Camp/Coaches Clinic - Westcott Pool - North Pole, AK Highlights Stroke Technique Long Axis & Short Axis Drills Sports Nutrition Preparing for College Inju...

 Summer schedule

Parents and Swimmers, I have put together the schedule for the summer. This schedule will go into effect Wednesday, May 20th. The schedule is as follows: Novice 3x: practices will be MWF from 6:0...

 HEART WALK

HEART WALK Don?t forget to join in the fun on Saturday May 16th at 9:00am. We will meet in the Veterans Park downtown and please wear your pink MSST shirts. Parents I still have...

 MSST Swimmer Signs National letter of Intent

MSST Swimmer Alyssa Keill has signed her national Letter of Intent to swim for the University of New Mexico (Lobos) on 28 Apr 09 in the lathrop Library. Here is the link to the Newsminer article on it...

 ANNUAL BANQUET

ATTENTION MSST PARENTS AND SWIMMERS!!!! The annual banquet and meeting is fast approaching!! Please mark your calendars for Saturday May 2nd from 3:30 pm till 7:00 pm. The event will be he...

 Practices for beginning of May

Parents and Swimmers, We have hammered out the pool schedule for the first two weeks of May while Hamme is closed and school is still in session. During this time the Senior squad will be practicing a...

 News from North Western Age Group Sections

It has been a bitter sweet meet so far. Because of the constant cancelations of air travel in Alaska due to Mount Redoubt, Richard Chen has been unable to attend. I understand their frustration and sy...

 Practice Schedule for next week

John and I will be heading to Anchorage for Junior Olympics. I am very excited by our prospects especially after how well we swam at Northern Area Champs. We will be having a very light practice sched...

 Northern area and JO's

Thank you to all the volunteers this last weekend at the Northern Area Championships. Without your help in officiating, timing, clean up, hospitality and a myriad of other duties we could not have put...

 NCSA Junior Nationals Day Two

Hello again everybody. Today Keegan got to swim the 50Br, an event which our seniors rarely get to swim. He ended up going a 27.46 and tying for 64th place. Well done Keegan! Tomorrow is our last da...

 NCSA Junior Nationals Day One

Today Keegan Severns had a good swim at what has turned out to be a massively fast meet. Keegan went a 58.60 in his 100 Breast this morning, being just off his best time that he posted last week at ...

 Entries for Junior Olympics

I am looking forward to the Northern Area Meet this week end. We have alot of individual swim and relays. Should make for some excellent swimming. There is also the banquet so please let?s all plan o...

 Alaskans Fair Well at Senior Sectionals

Out of the 8 team from Alaska that attended the Senior Sectioals meet only two team scored pionts at the meet. SEAK was one of them and MSST with the other. To read more about this story click on t...

 Nome Meet Canceled

Parents & Swimmers The Nome meet has been canceled. We where not able to get enough swimmer to go to be able to get the group rate. Well we will try again sometime down the road. If you have an q...

 Northern Area Meet Update

Parents / Swimmers With the Northern Area Champs just a few days away we still have a lot of Jobs that need to be filled in order to make this meet run smoothly. The most important ones are Cle...

 Junior National Results

Here is the link for Results for the Junior Nationals Meet in Orlando, FL. We want to wish Keegan the best of luck and SWIM FAST Junior National Realtime Results

 Results from Senior Sectionals

Below is the link to the results for our swimmers at Senior Sectionals. Senior Sectionals Results

 Hotel Rooms for JOs

This is the MSST family list for the hotel rooms we have received so far: NAME DATE SIZE BED Rooms 1. Coach Shockey 4/2 to 4/5 S 1 2. Coac...

 Northern Area Meet Update

All With the Northern Area Meet next week there are a lot of Jobs that need to be filled in order to make this meet run smoothly. Please go the the website and sign up for Jobs by clicking on th...

 Senior Sectionals

The Psych sheet is posted to to the Website for Senior Sectionals. Senior Sectionals Psych Sheet

 Hotel Room for JOs

All We have a block of rooms for the team at the Comfort Inn in Anchorage. If you need a hotel room for JOs that you will need to email the following information to Chunhua Goering chunhua_...

 Nome Meet Updated

Parents & Swimmers This is an update to the Nome Meet in April. Our date to lock in the ticlkets has been extened till 9 Mar 09. Northern Area has to have a at least 10 individuals attending to ge...

 Updates From Coach Shockey

I have several items to get out. During spring break we will have normal practice times. This includes AM times for senior swimmers. In an attempt to continue to grow and develop our swimmers I have ...

 From Coach Shockey

From Coach Shockey, With the whirl wind of events and pool closures over the coming months I will try to keep you all informed. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. My phone numbe...

 From Coach Shockey

Practice Schedule We will be having normal practice times while we are gone to the Valdez Banana Meet. Coach John and Coach Carrie will be there to conduct training. This brings up my coming chang...

 Valdez Banana Meet Update

Parents: I would like to get the word out about the coming Valdez Banana Meet trip. Swimmers should have snacks and drinks for the ride down. If you would like they can bring movies, which would b...

 JOs Information

Parents, Swimmers & Coaches Meet Invite for Junior Olympics as well as Event File is now available on the website under the JO Event link. You are now able to signup online for this event...

 Thank you from Coach Shockey

I would like to thank everyone for the warm welcome and kind gifts last evening. I am looking forward to our first meet this Saturday. On another note there is still time to get your entries in for ...

 Banana Meet Update

Parents & Swimmers After the Northera Area Meeting I have some updated information for the Banana Meet. First off the cost for the bus will be $40 not $50 as I put out earlier. If you have already...

 Meet in Nome

Northern Area is offering a non-qualifiers meet in Nome. The meet will be 11 Apr 09. Northern Area has reserved 20 tickets for swimmers who may want to attend. If you deside to go you would fly out ...

 Welcome Event for Coach Shockey

Parents / Swimmers Come one, come all to the welcome and meet our New Head Coach, Coach Shockey. When: Wedensday 11 Feb 09 right after practice Where: Hamme Pool Who: MSST Families and Swimmers T...

 2009 Banana Meet Information Updated

Banana Meet Valdez For those who want to attend or our attending the Banana Meet here is the information you have been waiting for. Northern Area has got two busses to transport all North Area Swi...

 Valentines Meet

Parents / Swimmer Online Sign-up for the Valentines Meet is availalbe. Registration Deadline is 8 Feb 09 Greg

 Message From Coach Shockey

I am looking forward to training and learning with you all at the Midnight Sun Team and am very excited to begin this new journey. I was impressed with the level of athlete performance and the great...

 No Practice January 19th

No Practice Monday January 19th due to pool being closed. Senior weight training practice will go on as normal.

 The New Coach

Parents and Swimmers, I wanted to write this email and make sure that we are all on the same page. As Greg Evershed and the board have announced, Coach Shockey will be taking over the team shortly...

 MSST News Update

Parents & Swimmers First, I would like to tell you that Coach Shockey has accepted the Job as Head Coach for Midnight Sun Swim Team. We are currently working on the fine details but he s...

 MSST News

Parents & Swimmers The MSST Hiring Committee met last night and has come to a decision on a new Head Coach for MSST. An initial offer was made to Coach Marvin Shockey to become the next MSST ...

 Coach Butcher / Coach Shockey

Parents / Swimmers I want to thanks for for the great turnout for both Coach Butcher and Coach Shockey question and answer session. The questions you asked of both Coach where great and provid...

 Coach Shockey Practice / Question & Answer Session

Parents / Swimmers This Saturday?s practice 10 January 2009 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am will be held by one of the tw0 top picks for Head Coach for MSST. Coach Marvin Shockey will be here and wi...

 Coach Butcher question & answer session

Parents / Swimmers Coach John Butcher is one of our top picks for Head Coach of MSST after our interviews were conducted. On Thursday evening ( 8 Jan 09) starting at 6:00pm (right after practice...

 USA Swimming Imposes Suit Restrictions

USA Swimming will be outlawing suits that extend below the knee, shoulders, or neck beginning May 15, 2009. The ban is only in effect for swimmers 12 & under. The rationale is that these suits are...

 Pratice

Parents / Swimmers Pratice is back to it's normal schedule Greg

 MSST NEWS

Parents and Swimmers I write you today to give you an update on things with MSST. Coach Corey and the MSST board have come to a mutual agreement and Corey?s last day with the Midnight Sun ...

 Pheleps athlete of the year

Micheal Phelps was named to the top of another athlete of the year list. http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/pgStory?contentId=9005168&MSNHPHMA#sport=COLLEGE%20FOOTBALL&photo=9002424

 Temp cut-off for practice

I know that some people called the pool wondering if we were still having practice today. We do not have a cut-off temp for practice. Please use your own judgement as to if you come or not. We will ...

 Newsminer article on coach John

Check out the Newsminer for an article on coach John. http://newsminer.com/news/2008/dec/15/swimming-coach-loves-working-fairbanks-young-pool-/

 Cjristmas Party

Last Reminder for our Christmas Party. The team will be providing pizza and beverages but we would like to have some other things to eat as well. So could we have families with the last names A t...

 Age Group Champs Recap

We had multiple finalists each day. Some finaled in all of their events. Shelby Perkins did her butterfly coach proud by winning both the 100 and 200 Fly's on her way to a 2nd place overall ranking....

 Winter Break Practice schedule

Practice schedule during school break is as follows. 8:30-10:30AM Seniors/Juniors 4-6PM Seniors/Juniors/Age Group 5-6PM Novice No practice PM on Wednesday Dec 24th/Dec 31st.. No practice Thursday De...

 Wishbone meet

Wishbone results are posted. Thanks to all Parents who made it such a great meet.

 Club Swimming

Olympic Swimmer Mark Gangloff, who came up for Age Group Champs last year, talks about the importance of club swimming. http://stacktv.stack.com/showroom.aspx?lineupID=Next_Level%202&channelID=Next%...

 The Myths and Misconceptions about Swimming for a Year-Round Club

The Myths and Misconceptions about Swimming for a Year-Round Club By Jim Rusnak, Managing Editor of Splash Magazine Many country club and summer recreational league swimmers have the wrong idea ab...

 Roles and Responsibilities on your club

Roles and Responsibilities on Your Club 1. How can we help support the team? That?s a great question. Check with the coach to find out if there is a parent?s committee or booster organizatio...

 10 Commandments for swimming parents

10 Commandments for Swimming Parents by Rose Snyder, Managing Director Coaching Division, USOC Former Director of Club Services, USA Swimming (adapted from Ed Clendaniel?s 10 Commandments for Little...

 Sticking with swimming

Sticking With Swimming?.What Can a Parent Do? The Unfortunate Path that Many Swimmers Follow: The swimmer?s career often starts with 8/under success and high parental enthusiasm. The child is enco...

 Getting noticed by colleges

Dave Marsh, the former Auburn NCAA champion and Olympic coach, Talks about getting noticed by college coaches. http://stacktv.stack.com/showroom.aspx?lineupID=Next_Level%202&channelID=Next%20Level&t...

 Breakfast Study

BOSTON, Nov. 11 MA-BRI-new-study BOSTON, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- A groundbreaking new study published in the November 2008 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition(1) shows that eaters ...

 USA SWIMMING BANS HIGH-TECH SUITS FOR YOUTH COMPETITORS

USA SWIMMING BANS HIGH-TECH SUITS FOR YOUTH COMPETITORS USA Swimming banned the revolutionary, high-tech swimsuits for athletes 12 years old and younger. USA Swimming house of delegates v...

 Date of Junior Olympics Changed to 2nd-5th, 2009

Due to a recent announcement from the Municipality of Anchorage, Bartlett Pool has been schedule for major renovations beginning April 6th. The Alaska Swimming Junior Olympics was originally schedu...