Adding to Shawn's Floyd Landis story

Shawn's previous message:

I read an article this week about Floyd Landis, the 2006 Tour de France winner. Since the Tour ended last year, Landis has been fighting doping accusations and defending his good name. With the media swarming over the doping scandals, I almost always forget about one of the most interesting parts of his story. He trained for and competed in that race with a dead hip joint. Shortly after his victory, he had his hip joint replaced. Imagine the determination required to do that. Regardless of the doping scandal, I will always respect Floyd Landis for his incredible determination and will to succeed despite incredible odds.

While I am not sure of his guilt or innocence, I agree with Shawn that Floyd Landis had tremendous determination. With his determination, he fought through one of the hardest obstacles athletes have to face, ADVERSITY. You all will at some point this season have to face adversity. You can choose to face it head on, or you can choose to run away from it. How you choose to face it is what defines your character. Let's make sure we make the right choice, both individually and as a team.

ND beats Pekin 135-51

Hopefully, this wins stays on the permanent record...

Congrats to the girls for a super strong start to the season. Freshman Becky Stoughton started her high school career with a bang by setting two school records with 1:56.30 in the 200 free and 58.50 in the 100 fly. Incredibly, Taylor Streid went a 1:00.39 in the 100 fly which was also faster than the old school record.

If this is any indication, this is going to be a great season.

Get Inspired - Watch this

http://www.212movie.com/

Girls Team is Ranked 17th in the State

Just getting mentioned is an honor, but a ranking is a heck of a compliment.
Read for yourself at: http://www.pioneerlocal.com/glencoe/sports/521995,gl-youthrec-082307-s1.article

PND Girls Swimming: Here We Go !

Here We Go Lady Irish !

Girls Swim Season starts today(Tuesday, 8/28) with a Junior Varsity meet against Pontiac High School, 5pm.

Luke Adams "The Legend" before his 50 Free

Blogger just added some functionality to post video footage, so I thought that I would test it out with a classic video from the library. This is Luke Adams just before his 50 Free.

Remember Floyd Landis

I read an article this week about Floyd Landis, the 2006 Tour de France winner. Since the Tour ended last year, Landis has been fighting doping accusations and defending his good name. With the media swarming over the doping scandals, I almost always forget about one of the most interesting parts of his story. He trained for and competed in that race with a dead hip joint. Shortly after his victory, he had his hip joint replaced. Imagine the determination required to do that. Regardless of the doping scandal, I will always respect Floyd Landis for his incredible determination and will to succeed despite incredible odds.

2007 Girls Season Preview

Hollis is Home

Girls Swim Team Practice Change

Hollis pool is experiencing problems with their chemical levels. The pool will not be ready for swimming next week for the beginning of swim practice! Swim team practice will start on Monday, August 13 through Saturday 18th @ 6:30 am - 8:45 am at Wedgewood Swim Club (located on War Memorial Drive out by Willow Knolls shopping center). * Please note the time of practice!

Please let me know if you cannot make practice (due to work or driving situations) and we will see if we can work something out. Either call or email me if there are any problems. Sorry about the changes! See you on Monday, August 13th @ Wedgewood at 6:45 am.

Remember sports physical, overnight information packet, and goal sheet are due the first week of practice.