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Welcome to the Home of the West Seneca
 SUMMER SESSION
Signups for the summer session will be held june 6th morning at the Kiwanis center and June 9th, tues night also at the Kiwanis center. Cost will be the same as spring ($90 for groups 1/2 (practice will be 10:45-11:45) and $110 for groups 3/4 (practice 9-10:45). Practices for Monday through Thursday will be at West Senior and Fridays will be at the Centennial Pool (weather permitting). Practices will start on June 29th and go until August 14th. The last week may be at East Senior or all held at Kiwanis Center (details to follow).
SPRING SESSION
NEW -- As most of you know many of our practices have included some longer timed swims. 200 IM, 200 frees and 500 for the younger kids and even longer stuff for the older kids. It's very nice to see all our kids trying their best and doing some real nice times in practice. Good job!
10 and under - Events
200 IM, 200 Free, 100 Back, 100 Breast and 100 Fly
11 and 12 year old - Events
200 IM, 400/500 Free, 100 Back, 100 Breast and 100 Fly
13 and up to 18 years old - Events
200 IM, 400 IM, 400/500 Free, 200 Back, 200 Breast, 200 Fly
MEET FEES
Updated Meet “Invoice Sheets” were put into to mailboxes. If you owe any fees for relays or event fees, please pay them as soon as possible, as we would like to close our books for the fall season. We will be collecting any unpaid fees at the banquet.
 David Tatum and Matthew Blaszak at the Nassau County Aquatic Center, site of the NY State Swim Meet.
(3/8/09) DAVE AND MATT SWIM WELL AT STATE MEET!! This past weekend two Sharks boys travelled as West Seneca East Boys to Long Island for the NY State Swimming Championships. The Meet was held at the Nassau County Aquatic Center which is one of the best pools in the United States. It has hosted many national and international meets in the past years. Going into the meet Matt Blaszak, after making the meet in his last possible chance – the lead-off of the 400 free relay at Sectionals, was seeded 45th in the State in the 100 freestyle. Matt swam a great race going just .04 seconds over his best time with a 49.18 and moving up to place 31st overall and almost making the finals and just missing the Speedo Championship cut time. East’s breaststroker David Tatum was the other one making the trip and he was swimming the 100 Breaststroke. David was also seeded 45th going into the state meet. David swam a new lifetime best by .29 seconds, new school record and he was also just off the Speedo Championships cut time of 1:02.44. David’s time moved him from 45th to 35th in the State. "Both guys swam awesome. It was a great ending to their careers since both are seniors. It’s sad in a way but it’s just great that they were able to end with some solid swims and moving up 10 and 14 places in the state is amazing," States Coach Mike O'Connor. Matt and Dave will continue swimming now with the West Seneca Sharks club and hope to make plans to swim in college hopefully. They have not made their college choices yet.
(From 1/18/09 - updated 2/25/09) One of our past Shark swimmers and WEST Varsity Swimmer, Amanda Hansen passed away on Saturday morning from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. "She was a fun person, a great teammate and she will be missed greatly by all her teammates, friends and family." There will be a benefit on March 22nd at Vigilant Fire Hall from 2pm to 6pm. Tickets are on sael for $20 (contact Tina Dalka) The purpose of the benefit is to educate the public to the dangers of caron monoxide as well as raise funds for the Amanda J. Hansen Scholarship Fund. There will be a theme basket raffle, along with "larger items" raffled, multiple 50/50 raffles and door prizes.
(2/9/2009) STAR ABC Meet saw some great times especially from our group 1 and 2 kids. "Our backstrokers did amazing on sunday. It was great to watch," states Coach Mike. Our younger kids this year have been working hard and doing a very nice job at the meets. Look at Meet Results Page.
Jon Pilat's Backstroke start at the TWST Snowball meet! Great picture Mr. Pilat!
(2/1/2009) TWST SNOWBALL MEET HAD TONS OF BEST TIMES. We saw many of our swimmers do some great swims.
Kassidy Aiken, waiting for her relay teammate. (1/2009)
(1/25/09) Shark swimmers swim OK at Rochester Senior Championships. 6 girls and 4 boys attended the Senior Meet in Webster NY this past weekend and nice swims were swam by Jacob Hamberger, Matt Partacz, Matt Blaszak and Christopher Davis. Seeing that those are the four boys seems weird but they are in season so we always expect that. The girls that attended did well considering the practice attendance lately. Anne Gunn-Taylor, Taylor Randall, Taylor Whalen, Caitlin Caruana, Caitlin Lanigan and Rachel Webber were the girls that swam well considering. The highlight might have been the Saturday night Catch Phrase and Buzz Word tournament between the Parents (who beat the kids by a lot in buzz word) and the kids (and Coach Mire and Lauren). Mr. Lanigan is crazy smart in those games. Hanging out and watching a movie, ordering pizza is always a good time!! "We need to plan more away meets for all the swimmers in the future. It's a great bonding activity as well and a good way to see other very good swimmers," states Coach Mike. WSCS placed 13th overall at the meet out of 33 teams.
11/21/08 - Turkey Splash was very good for our swimmers!! We had some rough spots, some silly DQs but we're learnign and the kids are very excited for each and every practice still which is the goal. Great job everyone! Results A-L Results M-Z
11/15/08 -- Another great meet for our West Seneca West girls swim team. Write up
(11/1/08) EAST AURORA MEET WAS A VERY GOOD START! 36 of our Shark swimmers signed up for the East Aurora meet held this past wekeend and everyone attendinding swam very well. Many of our first year kids had a lot of fun and swam some great times. Results are posted under Meet results. With so many kids signed up for the meet it was really nice to have a lot of relays which makes it a lot of fun for our kids!!
10/30/08 -- WEST GIRLS 200 FREE RELAY MAKES STATES!! Today three of our shark swimmers (Alicia Wheeler, Caitlin Lanigan, Taylor Whalen (coach Tay)) along with STAR Swimming's Courntey Otto qualify for the State Meet (Nov. 21-22 @ ECC City) in the 200 free relay - it is the schools first ever relay to make states! Qualifying time was 1:43.65 and the girls swam to a new school record and qualifying time of 1:43.01. Sectionals will be November 14-15th at ECC City and we encourage any of you to come watch these two excitigng meets. If you need info on start time or anything just email Coach Mike.
Yeah the "REAL" Michael Phelps at Disneyworld after the Olympics. Nicole Miller was there when Phelps was there. Thanks for the great picture!!
Welcome to the new Website for the West Seneca Sharks Swim Team. We are in the process of getting everything organized and updated so bear with us for a little while here. If you ever have any questions feel free to e-mail Coach Mike.
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