US SCY nationals 2013

CCiST Swimmer: Daniel Kanorr

Coach/reporter: Kosuke Kojima

at University of Tennessee (Dec 5-7th)

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December 4th, Wednesday

Heading to University of Tennessee

Allan Jones Aquatic Center

We left Bloomington at 9am and drove 6 hours to get to Knoxville, TN.

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- Day 0 -

December 4th, Wednesday

While Daniel and I enjoyed seeing foggy but fantastic TN mountains, we safely arrived at Knoxville around 3pm. We got all directions (to our hotel, the parking place, and the pool) smoothly, but the registration process took a while (at the registration desk, one guy was manually checking in all swimmers..). However, we both got in our competition mode when we saw the pool. The pool was bright, big, and beautiful! There were many US and International Olympians. I was really amazed by the swimmers at the pool due to their size (huge + monstrous = humongous human beings!!). This made me think that I need to force my swimmers eat MORE! I was also surprised by Nathan Adrian and Matt Grevers having physically big heads; there must be NO mindless lap for their practice/training! Daniel glared at his rivals (Adrian and Grevers), and made me very excited to see his great performance tomorrow. Actually, Adrian kept glancing his big rival, Daniel Kanorr. They will swim next to each other tomorrow at 11am! Daniel had a great warm-up and was ready to shave his body (he has been in the bathroom for 90-min as of 9:45pm, yeah he is very long)! Be excited to see our shiny proud swimmer/coach Daniel!

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December 4th, Wednesday

Daniel waiting for registration

20 minutes later

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December 4th, Wednesday

Great to see the former CCST swimmer at Nationals!!
Scott Haeberle swims for University of CaliforniaBerkeley and will compete in medley relays (all 3 days: ThuSat) and 100-yard breaststroke (Friday). He will also do some time trials (100Br and 200Br). He is the 2nd fastest breaststroker on his team. Good luck Scott!!

Day 1

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December 5th, Thursday

Wheres Daniel?
We woke up at 5:50am, had Breakfast at 6:15 and warm-up at 7:45am. The pool was packed and very energetic as you can imagine. Here is a picture of the pool. This is warm-up side and the back is the competition pool. I was sitting under the score board. The right upside is the spectator sheets. Do you see Daniel in the picture?

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December 5th, Thursday

Daniel 50-yard Freestyle Prelim Heat 7 Lane 5

- Best photographer ever! - Daniel is wearing a white cap, CCST cap underneath and black/green suit. - Results: 19.71 sec (12th) - Not bad time with 2-month of training. We saw an improvement in the first 25-yd, but we will need to improve turn to finish during warmup and aim to his personal best (19.42 sec) at the B-finals tonight! - He will swim in B-finals tonight at 7.

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December 5th, Thursday

Scott Hs update..
Day 1 Prelim session
Overall, this is a fast meet. Olympians easily made A-finals. A 17-year-old girl went 21.89 in 50Fr who is in the same team as Katie Ledecky. IU swim team also looks good. Coach Daniel and I believe that CCST swimmers work hard tonight to be ready for BSC meet this weekend.

Picture - taken during his warm-up. 100-yd Breaststroke: 56.87 (26.36 1st 50) He will swim 400-yd Medley relay (Br) tonight!

But first, Coach Daniel will show what he can do at 7pm!

To be continued