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Updated on July 23, 2008

since January 2007

The Mission of STAR Swimming is: To empower swimmers to become champions, both in and out of the water--dreams, dedication and excellence throughout a lifetime.

STAR Swimming invites all of Buffalo's Swimmers with dreams to
join us in developing one of the top teams in the USA.

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Senior National Qualifiers for November 2008

Courtney Otto

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Courtney Otto,

USA Speedo qualifiers for July 2008

Phil Aronica, Jessica Ballard, Stephen Berus, Kevin Buisman, Lauren Caldwell, Mike Dansa, Jordan Deren, Dave Erickson, Rob Erickson, Matt Geiger, Taylor Hogankamp, Michael Linn, Lauren Marchese, Jeff Moessinger, Caleb Otto, Courtney Otto, Caitlin Reilly, Alex Rindo, Ashley Schaffert, Matt Schwippert, Madi Sherry

email STAR at aronberg@ecc.edu

AAAA qualifiers since September 2007
Phil Aronica, Lauren Caldwell,
Will McCauley, Courtney Otto, Matt Schwippert
AAA qualifiers since September 2007
Jen Bentley, Mike Dansa, Barrett Erbe, Dave Erickson, Rob Erickson, Rachel Heferle, Taylor Hogankamp, Lauren Marchese, Casey McClaren, Matt Moessinger, Justin Nelson, Anna Plunkett, Madi Sherry, Madeline Shults, Jim Sundquist, Paul Timmel, Juliana Walker, Christian Westermeier

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We are a team that is focused on teaching the best stroke mechanics as well as trying to get our swimmers to reach their fullest potential. If you are interested in becoming a STAR swimmer, please contact STAR's Head Coach Rick Aronberg at 716-851-1209.

STAR swimming also has a satellite program located in Jamestown, NY. These swimmers live in that area and practice with Head Coach Bruce Johnson. He can be reached at Bjohn1547@aol.com.

STAR Swimming and UBAM have joined together to become Western New York's premier swim program. Please click here for more.

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STAR News

New Team records (31) set in July so far..

15-16 girls	Lauren Marchese 100 free 1:01.82, 50 back 33.61,	Courtney Otto 200 free 2:10.09, 400 free 4:33.97, 800 free 9:05.98, 1500 free 16:59.40, 50 fly 30.80, 100 fly 1:05.22, 200 fly 2:18.99, 200 IM 2:24.10, 400 IM 4:57.91
	Madi Sherry 50 breast 36.15
15-16 boys	Phil Aronica 50 free 24.84, 100 fly 1:00.15, 200 fly 2:12.81
17-18 boys	Matt Schwippert 50 back 29.48, 100 back 1:01.13, 200 back 2:11.99, 50 fly 26.80, 100 fly 58.65
19 & O girls	Jordan Deren 200 free 2:12.73, 400 free 4:30.03, 800 free 9:22.73, 1500 free 17:58.74,	Caitlin Reilly 100 back 1:08.53, 200 back 2:27.73,
	Ashley Schaffert 50 breast 37.42, 100 breast 1:18.67, 200 breast 2:49.94	Jessica Ballard 200 IM 2:28.09
	Kim Dale 400 IM 5:22.93
19 & O boys	Caleb Otto 50 breast 32.84

7/22/08 Attention all City Red and Blue, there is no practice on July 25th and August 1st.

7/23/08 Another...JO update.

All 10 and under events including relays will be swam in the morning session as time final events. Also, the 11-12 200 free and 200 IM are not time final events and will be swam in the morning and evening. All other 11-12 200's are time finals with the fastest heat swimming at night. (200 BR, 200 Fly, 200 Back). We will also be parading out the top heat at finals so please prepare your athletes for that process. We have 2 events that were not in the same order as the meet info. We will be going by the order in the meet info and will appear different in the meet Program. This occurs on Friday morning. We will run the 10 and under relays followed by the 11-12 400Free (not top heat) followed by 14 and Under, 15 and over and 11-12 relays and then will proceed into the 800 and 1500Free.

Please know that ONLY the TOP 8 relays in each age group will be swimming in the finals each night. We will not know which relays they will be until the psych sheet is either posted or we find out on Friday at the preliminaries. I will try to keep you posted.

The summer JO entries are posted finally. Please email Coach Rick by tonight if there are any changes. I am leaving for the Speedo championships tomorrow and the entries are due when I am gone. Thank you. Here are the Relay entries as well. The relays are subject to change as always.

Friday-Sunday Prelim warm-up 8:00am	Prelim start 9:00am
Friday-Sunday Final warm-up 4:30pm	Finals start 5:30pm

7/21/08 STAR Senior team...Practice for the rest of the week will last only 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 hours long each. Monday pm (5-6:30pm), Tuesday am (6:45-8:00am), Wednesday pm (5-6:30pm), Thursday am (6:45-8:00am), Thursday pm (5-6:30pm). There will not be any practice Friday-Saturday due to the JO Championships.

(The STAR team cheering on one of their teammates during the finals)

7/21/08 STAR captures THIRD place! Courtney Otto named Most Outstanding swimmer of the meet!
STAR swimming finished the Speedo Championships by taking third overall, just 10 points out of 2nd. STAR's previous best finish at this meet was 15th back in March of 2008. Courtney Otto also captured the high point award at this meet outdistancing herself from many swimmers who attended the Olympic Trials just a few weeks ago. STAR had a wonderful final on Sunday again after an hour delay due to a strong storm passing through. In the 800 free, Courtney Otto placed 3rd with a 9:08.11 and Jordan Deren placed 16th with a personal best of 9:22.73. Lauren Marchese then placed 16th in the 200 back followed by Matt Schwippert placing 5th in the men's back, Dave Erickson placing 12th, and Phil Aronica placing 20th. In the 200 breast, Caleb Otto finished 19th with Steve Berus coming right behind him at 20th and Mike Dansa placing 24th. Our girls 400 medley relay then came back and placed 8th overall while our men ended up 6th and 11th overall. A very special thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Aronica and Mr. Schwippert for all your help this past weekend. We could not have done the trip as successful without all your efforts!