March 2012 Newsletter

ASPHALT GREEN MASTERS MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
MARCH 2012
The Water Log
D
OMINIC LATELLA will be joining the team as head coach on March 12. He has
spent the last seven years coaching masters swimmers in
the Bahamas and in the Washington, D.C. area, most
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recently at the Curl-Burke Masters program. A middle-distance
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freestyle and backstroke specialist, he helped to start the swim team
at the Savannah College of Art and Design before shoulder surgery
Aquapalooza
cut his collegiate swimming career short.
After graduating in 2005, he spent two years coaching a small, dedicated group of masters swimmers in the Bahamas.
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“Those two years in the Bahamas really developed a lot
of my joy of coaching,” he said. “It made me love working with masters swimmers.”
He followed that with coaching jobs at Fort Belvoir Masters in Alexandria, Va., and Curl-Burke Masters in the
D.C. area.
His primary goal at AGUA is to create a more unifed
team through regular social events — like once-a-month
Thirsty Thursdays, bagel breakfasts after Saturday
morning workouts and post-open water swim barbecues
— and increased participation at local and travel meets.
Dominic Latella
His second goal, he said, is to host masters swim meets
at Asphalt Green, ideally a short course meet in the fall
or winter and a long course meet next summer.
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Jeremy Tillman, who has helmed the team as interim
head coach since Craig's departure, was a six-time Massachusetts state champion in high school before heading
off to swim for Princeton University. A sprint freestyle
and breaststroke specialist, Jeremy was a four-year letter
winner at Princeton and was twice named to the All-Ivy
Team. After graduating in 2005, Jeremy moved to
northern California and swam for Palo Alto Stanford
Aquatics while completing a masters degree in civil and
environmental engineering. In 2009, Jeremy was the
USMS National Champion in the 100 freestyle for the
25-to-29 age group.
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Jeremy Tillman
jtillman@asphaltgreen.org
He has been coaching swimming since 2003, when he
served as assistant head coach for the Campo Cabana
Club Swim Team in California. In 2006, he also worked as head coach of the Palo Alto Junior
Varsity Swim Team.
Jeremy began his career outside of the pool with a stint
as a structural engineer in Los Angeles. In 2010, he returned to the East Coast to work as a project manager
and director of coach operations for CareerCore, an online career services company. He is currently a founder
and CEO of NexReel, a startup peer-to-peer promotional platform that helps individuals and businesses aggregate their social media content for marketing purposes.
Glenn Mills
Glenn Mills brings almost three decades of coaching
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experience to AGUA Masters, where he will continue
coaching the noon workouts. A standout swimmer in
high school in Cleveland, Ohio, Glenn set the 100-yard
breaststroke national high school record in 1980. Later that year, he won the 200-meter breaststroke at the Olympic Trials but did not get to compete at the Olympics when the U.S. boycotted the Moscow games.
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He continued his swimming career at the University of Alabama, where he was the NCAA
champion in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1983. He currently holds the masters world record in
the men's 45-49 200 SCM breaststroke.
He began his coaching career in 1985 as a volunteer assistant coach at Cleveland State Univer sity. Since then, he's held coaching positions at Cleveland Heights High School, the University
of Maryland and the U.S. Naval Academy. In 2002, Glenn founded Go Swim Productions,
through which he has produced 35 instructional DVDs. His website, goswim.tv, features instructional videos, drills, and sample workouts.
Aquapalooza
Join your teammates as we take the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Aquatic Complex by storm
at the Aquapalooza SCM meet Saturday, March 10. Mail-in entries must be received by 6 p.m.
on Monday, March 5; the online registration deadline is midnight on Thursday, March 8. For
more information on the meet and to register, visit the Team New York Aquatics site at
www.tnya.org. Once registered, please email Jeremy at jtillman@asphaltgreen.org to organize
travel arrangements.
The Big Swim
We would like for you to join us as a volunteer at our 17th Annual Big Swim on Saturday,
April 28. The Big Swim is a free competitive swim meet for New York youngsters aged 6 to 12.
Each child stands on a diving block, hears the starting gun, and swims a 25-yard lap, racing to
the fnish with the roar of the crowd urging them on. Every child experiences the fun, ca maraderie, and sense of accomplishment that swimming in a meet provides.
Last year participation was one of the highest ever and we hope to have another record-breaking Big Swim this year where every child leaves a winner and is awarded a medal. This year’s
Olympians and elite athletes will include Rowdy Gaines, Canadian Olympian Nikki Dryden,
US Olympic Diver Chris Colwill, members from the USA Diving National Team, and many
more.
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Volunteers are needed in all areas — including registration, timing, distributing T-shirts, and
handing out medals — and are all led by a friendly Asphalt Green staff member. Volunteers
should arrive no later than 9:30 a.m. for check-in and can expect to fnish the day by 4:30 p.m.
Every volunteer will get a Big Swim T-shirt, lunch and a chance to bring a smile to a child’s face
as they Swim Big!
To participate, visit www.asphaltgreen.org/bigswim and fll out the volunteer form online. We
hope you will be able to volunteer this year. We’re looking forward to another great Big Swim
with your assistance.
Contact Aquatics Director Bryan Beary at bbeary@asphaltgreen.org should you have any questions.
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