Club Clothing

Alison Bruchet will be at Semiahmoo School this Monday nite Nov.17 at the 6 pm practice time. And next week also Monday and Thursday nites. Anyone wanting to order the Club Tracksuits will be able to fill out a form and do so.  Alison will hopefully have a selection of sizes to try on. We hope to have them delivered in time for Christmas giving if anyone is thinking PRESENTS. We will probably not order again till closer till Spring as we need to have a fairly good sized order to make it worth while. Alison has just received the LONG SLEEVED T-SHIRTS in Youth and Adult sizing and ALSO have HOODIES in both Youth and Adult sizings as well. They are instock and taking up space in her store room.  ALSO anyone still needing a fitting for a club uniform can size up and Alison will bring to the next practice as she also has them in stock.

Throwing Clinic with Dr. Bondarchuk in Kamloops

Athletes Berni, Jallisa, Christina and Stephanie traveled with coaches Fred and Jim to Kamloops last week-end for 5 training sessions with the world-renowned Throws coach and former Olympic Gold Medalist.  Dr. Bondarchuk has about 10 high performance athletes currently training with him in Kamloops including 3 internationals and 2 Olympians from Beijing.

Heading up to Kamloops, we really were not too sure of how much time or attention we might get with Dr. B, or how much interaction with the other athletes?  After the 1^st day we were unanimously excited and grateful that we got more than we expected.

We met with the head coach Jarett McLean and discussed the training schedule.
The first session was at 9am, and we had Jallisa (intermediate) and Christina (novice) throwing hammer,
Berni and Stephanie throwing discus.  Dr. B showed up at 9 and gave us his undivided
attention for about 30 mintues before the other world-class throwers started to arrive.  The other athletes
started to work in with our group and with 3 circles it was an efficient session and Dr. B.
was busy shuffling from 1 circle to the next.  The Ocean Athletics coaches were able to discuss training
programs with the athletes and find out about their throwing schedule and various weights
as well as their weight training program which we could observe at the nearby shed.
At 11am we drove down to another training site where the shot-putters train.  Berni, Stephanie
and Christina again started first under the watchfull eye of Dr. B., then 30 minutes later
along came Olympian Dylan Armstrong and another high level Shot putter.  Dylan’s program this week
had him throwing a 19lb. shot, which appeared to be landing in the range of 19 Metres.
I had a good chat with Dylan about his weight training program and his throwing regimen
which includes shots from 6Kg (dents in the cement wall 25M away) upto 9Kg and 10Kg.
Suprising to learn that Dylans weight training program is all relatively light weights with
an emphasis on speed.   Dylan was eager to share his knowlege with us, encouraged the
athletes to ask him questions at any time and was a true ambassador of the Kamloops
T&F club.

At 3pm it was back to the Hammer/Discus cages, and this time only Jallisa continued with
Hammer as the other 3 threw Discus.  Jallisa learned a new wind-up routine which gave
her first turn entry more momentum and it immediately showed in her throwing distances
roughly 10% farther.  She also seemed to stay in good balance from the constant feedback
of Dr. B. which is in contrast to her 2008 competition year where she was off form more often
than not.  We had a visit from Judy Armstrong and learned some more about the economics
of the high performance athletes.

On day 2, we were told that the high performance athletes had a rest day and we would
have Dr. B all to ourselves.  Christina decided to take another try at Hammer and it was
a great success with her acheiving many 3 turn throws with the heavier 4Kg implement into the 30M range.  Jallisa again
had a good set of throws approaching 40M and some more fine tuning from Dr. B and Ocean coach
Fred Sommer who by this time had become a protoge of Dr. B.  In additon we had a visit
from Olympian Sultana Frizell on her rest day and I had the opportunity to discuss her observations
of the throwers and learn about her training program and progession from high school
through college.  I had the chance to chat with 6 of the high performance athletes and
the 2 Olympians were the most accomodating and helpful, i must send them a letter of
gratitude.  Stephanie and Berni were excited by their Discus progress and Fred continued to learn more from Dr. B.

After a 2 hour break we came back for the last session where all 4 girls were now all
throwing Discus.  Dr. B. made some good points which Fred was able to digest and
again they all showed some improvements. The 3 girls all made some technical refinements and were throwing over 30M, in the range of their personal bests.  Masters athlete – Berni seemed to be the most excited and energetic of all taking the most throws and making some great progress, clearly throwing beyond her seasonal best.

We felt that the cost of the clinic was very modest for all of the training and knowledge gained over the 5 sessions and we got more than we had bargained for, so we felt it appropriate to get some thanksgiving turkeys and other goodies for Dr. B and his athletes.  We have lots of pictures and videos of both our athletes and the high performance athletes.

Club uniforms on sale

Ocean Athletics End of Season Sale

Lycra (C&C) shorts:  				$15
Parma shorts (youth & adult):			$20
Samba compression shorts			$20
Team 4 Shorts (women’s)				$25 
Racing singlet (club logo)			$30
Adidas Cap sleeve racing top(club logo)	        $30
Youth/Adult short sleeve tshirt	                $10
Youth/Adult long sleeve tshirt	                $15
Youth hoodie				        $24
Adult hoodie				        $25

Club Photo, Pinetree Classic, Crescent Park

Monday, September 15 - 6pm sharp. Club photo. Please wear your Ocean
competition top and shorts, blue club t-shirt or blue hoodie. No jeans
please. Please try to arrive on time so that we can have the best light
possible for the photo.

Entry deadline for Pinetree Classic - Mundy Park - is Monday, September 8.
Please sign up at the track or email Cathy Butler with your entry. If you
could please include your BC Athletics # that would save Cathy a tremendous
amount of time. You can look up your BCA number at www.bcathletics.org
( BCA Membership number and status checker)- need name and birth year.
Cathy's email is bcbutler@shaw.ca

Saturday October 4 - Crescent Park Festival of Cross Country - an Ocean
Athletics and Semiahmoo SunRunners co-sponsored event. In addition to the
regular Lower Mainland series races, this event is also the preview event
for the 2008 BC High SChool XC Championships which will be held Saturday
November 8. We need lots of volunteers for the October 4 event. Please
send an email to Brenda Keturakis to let her know you will be able to
volunteer at this event - 9am - 2pm. Brenda's email is bycar@shaw.ca

Carla breaks 3000 points!

Carla's 3003 points places her #1 all time top 10 for Girls 14 pentathlon.  She accomplished this at the summer games in Kelowna.

Her results
Event             Result        Score
80m hurdles   13.7      492
HJ               1.63         711
SP                 9.65        601
LJ                  4.51        531
800m             2:30.51    668
Totals                         3003
- She won 4 of the events and came second in the hurdles
- Hj and sp were pb's
- She beat the previous all time top 10 best by 59 points