SHS Swimmers Carefully Prepare for their Meets
Written by Amanda Pearson, Former Student on Tuesday, January 13, 2015
SHS and GPHS swimmers are always hard working, no matter what the task. There are a few steps to being a great swimmer. The most important thing is the swimmers have to practice, practice, and practice! The pool may be fun, but it’s also a challenge.
These teams practice at the Snohomish Aquatic Center. They have a cycle that they go through each day. First, they eat, and then they get in their suits. The next thing they do is stretch, because stretching is extremely important.
“Especially arm stretches, hamstring stretches and touching your toes,” said SHS Freshman, Emma Chonzena. This stretches out the most used muscles in your body.
They start out each practice with a warm up and then work on techniques.
Their practice schedule is all up to their coach Rob Serviss. He is the boys' and girls' swim coach for SHS. The intensity of the practice varies day-to-day, but all practices have a hard part to them. Sometimes they do long sets and other times they practice mostly on techniques. For technique, they practice with DPS (Distance Per Stroke). That is where they swim a certain amount of meters, but they count their strokes. They do this very often since it helps with their techniques.
They have a lot of time to hang out and socialize with their friends on their team before and after the practice starts. Sometimes they have time during practice to chat. “We socialize a lot,” Chonzena says.
All of the swimmers have a stroke that they are best at. In most swimmer's cases it's free style. “I mostly practice free style. We do other strokes, but that’s up to the coach,” says Chonzena. Freshman, Kaitlyn Gore, also favors this stroke; “I only really do free style, but our coach makes us do all of the strokes.”
Snohomish High School is always prepared to live up to any challenges that Serviss sets them up to.
