NC Swim Camp 2011

It's time to sign for up the 2011 Northern Colorado Swim Camp!  There are two camp sessions; each lasting Monday through Thursday with an option of staying for the Start and Turn Camp.  This is a great opportunity for swimmers to work on their technique and learn more about swimming!





NC Swimming Alum & NCAA "B" Qualifer Tori Gutt

The first camp session starts Monday June 5; Session 2 starts Monday June 13.

To learn more about the NC Swim Camp click here.  GO BEARS!

NC Swim & Dive Booster Club

Kira Alger

You can now support the AquaBears out of the water by becoming a member of the Northern Colorado Swimming and Diving Booster Club!  As a member of the booster club you will receive regular email updates throughout the year, an invite to our end of the season team banquet and a NC t-shirt. 

Tatum Boehnke

To sign-up and learn more about the Swim and Dive Booster Club click here

A Day in the Life.....Spring Training

While a swimmers' spring training is not quite like that of baseball, it is still an exciting time for the team.  The AquaBears get to focus on things that will help them next season including agility drills and technique work in the pool.

Freshman Kaitlin Sorensen gives us a glimpse of what spring is like for the AquaBears.

Freshman Kaitlin Soresen

Tuesday, April 12th 2011, my eyes are abruptly awaken to my alarm at 6:05 a.m.  To most college students 6:05 is quite an early rise. Possibly only birds and squirrels rise that early. Oh yeah and swimmers.

After my rise at 6:05, I walked with my roommates to practice. This month in April, it is spring training, so our swim practices are only an hour, but for an hour we are able to work on technique in strokes and turns. So basically all the fundamentals of the strokes. So for practice the coaches have been working on all the turns the past 2 weeks. I was able to work on my breaststroke turn. Quite helpful if I do say so myself.

After practice ended at 7:30, I walked over to the dining hall to eat breakfast with the team and can I just say I was quite excited for breakfast this morning because 1) its breakfast and 2) they had bear claws which are basically the best breakfast pastries ever. So naturally I was quite excited for breakfast.

After breakfast I started getting ready for school. I am a Journalism major but right now I'm mostly taking liberal arts classes. So today I had my Sociology of Genders, and Women's Studies classes. My sociology class is one of my favorite classes this semester. My teacher Professor Mark Riddle is so lively and allows the class to be very interactive which makes the class fun. A class to take FOR sure.

After my Sociology class and my Women's Studies, I headed off to lunch and was able to get Gourmet to Go. After lunch I took a much needed nap to catch up on some missed sleep. At 2:50, I walked on over to Butler Hancock for dryland. At dryland on tuesdays, we do sprints and sprint shuffles. Middle Distance runners run 12 minutes and then sprinters lift for an hour.

After dryland, here comes dinner! Next to breakfast, best meal of the day. At dinner today, chicken fried chicken was on the menu and it was yum yum yummy. I paired the chicken with lemonade and a piece of bread. So all in all dinner was delicious.

After dinner I went back to my dorm to work on my homework for the evening. I was able fit in some extra time to watch The Dance Scene, a new show on E!  And then like any other day I called it a night. This is what being a Bear is all about. Best life ever!

Go Bears!

AquaBears Banquet

The AquaBears celebrated their season this past weekend with a banquet attended by over 80 people including representatives from Academic Success, Jimmy Henderson and Michael Kallsen, and our Faculty Representative, Dr. Michael Mills.

Senior Tori Gutt (Scholar Athlete; Swimmer of the Year), Senior Kelly Schmeckpeper-Cook (Diver of the Year), Sophomore Allison Scott (Most Inspirational) and Freshman Renee Stephens (Most Improved) were honored with the four awards which the team votes on.

Also honored were this year's captains who passed the torch to next year's captain Tatum Boehnke, who will be joined by a Team Council selected by Tatum and the Coaching Staff.

The following is a list of the 2010-2011 AquaBears accomplishments:

·        Achieved team Cumulative GPA of 3.08

·        Finished at .500 for dual meet wins

·        Finished 6^th at the MPSF Championships, beating Cal State Bakersfield, who beat us by 70 points last year. 

·        We were 98% for season best performances at MPSF

·        8 new school records, Tori Gutt in the 100, 200 Breast and 400 IM, and Kelly Schmeckpeper-Cook on 1M and 3M, 200 Medley Relay (Sammy Leonard, Amanda Donegan, Gina Riggle, and JJ Smith), 400 Medley Relay (Sammy Leonard, Tori Gutt, Courtney Van Oost, and Gina Riggle), and 200 Free relay (Gina Riggle, Jamie Byrne, Kira Alger, and JJ Smith)

·        33 New All Time Top 10 Athletes

·        49 New All Time Top 10 Performances

·        1 NCAA B Cut (Tori in the 200 Breaststroke) and 2 NCAA Zone E Qualifiers (Kelly and Sara Moldenhauer).

·        Tori will be our first Honorable Mention Scholar All American, which requires a NCAA B cut and a minimum 3.5 GPA.

·        Inducted our first ever hall of fame diver, Sabra Moss who dove here 1993-96.

·        And in recruiting we have committed 16 new athletes, and still waiting 3 decisions.  

Seniors Kelly, Alisha, Alana & Tori

Thank you to all who have supported the AquaBears this season, from near and afar.  We wish this year's graduating class of Tori Gutt, Alana Dauman, Alisha Dauman and Kelly Schmeckpeper-Cook only the best in their future endeavors and look forward to seeing them at Alumni events in the future. 

The AquaBears are looking towards next year............