Update -- January 21, 2008

Dear Divers, Parents, and Supporters,  

Thank you for getting registered!  That makes me sleep easier at night (whew).  Now that most everyone is registered, what happened this Sunday afternoon?  It was BEEYOOTIFUL weather for diving!  Well, Ashley and I enjoyed a greast workout...I guess everyone else enjoyed the great weather elsewhere :)  I know Sundays are difficult as a rule, but it's what we have to deal with until High School Season is over (mid-February we can go back to Saturdays).

Dryland Stuffs 

Thank you to those of you coming prepared with athletic shoes.  We may be doing some more plyometric jumping during upcoming workouts, and I really want everyone's joints safe, so continue to bring them :)  Remember, if ya no have, ya no participate :(

January 19 Meet Highlights

Congratulations to Kai, Mark, and Malena for a great OIA Relay meet.  Malena made her debut, pairing up with Cecilia from Pearl City High School, and learned a lot as she dived in her first event.  She competed 5 dives for the relay, and did another 6 exhibition dives to help keep the field going.  She showed great promise, earning many scores of 5s and better -- and earned 6s on her 202C!  Kai did his frst competitive 104C of the season, and with his score and his difficulty, earned his way to States.  Mark did an outstanding job, earning a personal best despite having a fail dive called.  When he competes next time, his personal best will jump even more.  

Ashley and Khoral ably represented the TLDT at the ILH meet, where they each debuted some new dives.  Khoral did her 402C for 5s, and hit her 5211A even better this time out than her debut, earning 5-5.5s.  Ashley threw her 403B and her 203C, both big spinning dives, each for 4.5s en route to a third-in-a-row personal best. 

January 26 Meet

The interscholastic crowd has a meet this coming Saturday at Punahou.  Warmups are at 12:30 PM, start time is 2:30 PM.  Look for the TLDT gang to dazzle as Beau re-emerges from his long-festering ear infection, Mark debuts his 403C, Kai shows off his improving control and strength (and might debut a 203C...), Malena and Daniel make their JV debuts, Ashley does her 401A and possibly her 204C, and Khoral definitely uses her just-learned 103C.

For the most up-to-date High School Season Info, please see the High School Diving Section.

TLDT 2008 Competitive Schedule

Seems that we may have a smaller contingent of TLDT Team members going to Spring Regionals than I had hoped...I will communicate individually with everyone regarding their plans for this early part of the season so we can make best strategic plans regarding the Tucson Regionals in April, or possibly going to Portland, Oregon in early March.  I looked at flights and hotels (OK, well, Motel 6 -- I am pake) as well as rental car prices, and it seems both are equally affordable (flights around $380-400 taxes included, cars around $15 per day with taxes a bit more in AZ, Motel 6 rooms for about $42 per night).  We'll discuss further.

We will attend the Summer Regionals in either  Tucson, AZ on June 13-15 or Santa Clara, CA, June 20-22 (depends on affordability and how we are feeling with school having just gotten out :)  Those who place in the top 15 will move on the the Zone Championships in Los Angeles, CA, July 10-13 and those who place in the top 12 at the Zones will move on to Nationals in Rockville, MD, August 12-15.

For a look at the complete schedule for 2008, please see the HDA Calendar of Events.

Oh, and by the way, in order to be eligible to go to the Regional level, TLDT Divers must have a complete Junior List in the events they plan to compete.  For the 12-13, 14-15, and 16-18 age groups, this includes doing optional dives that have an average degree of difficulty of 2.0 or higher, which basically translates to front doubles, 1 1/2s in every other direction, and twisters with at least 1 1/2 somersaults or 1 1/2 twists.  So, if you are interested in getting to this level, let's take advantage of all the trampoline and dryland work we will do over the next few months to get us ready!  New Info:  13U boys and girls and 14-15 girls need only 3 optionals,  14-15 boys and 16-18 girls need 4 optionals.

REST OF JANUARY WORKOUT SCHEDULE

Tues, Jan. 22,  3:30 - 6:00 PM at Schofield 

Wed, Jan. 23, 3:00-5:00 PM at Kaiser High 

Thurs, Jan. 24,  3:30 - 6:00 PM at Schofield 

Fri, Jan. 25, 3:00-5:00 PM at Kaiser High

Sat, Jan 26, 10 AM - noon -- OIA JV Championships @ Kaiser will be moved to Friday, so we will have a contact-coach Jeff workout -- if no one contacts me, we won;t have a workout!!)

Sat, Jan 26, 12:30 PM - 4:30 PM -- Sandra Serai Invite at Punahou, start time 2:30 PM

Sun, Jan. 27, 3:30 - 6:00 PM at Schofield

Mon, Jan. 28, 3:00-5:00 PM at Kaiser High 

Tues, Jan. 29,  3:30 - 6:00 PM at Schofield 

Wed, Jan. 30, 3:00-5:00 PM at Kaiser High 

Thurs, Jan. 31,  3:30 - 6:00 PM at Schofield 

ASL CORNER

As always, this reference is here so you all can learn to communicate with our deaf diver/s: check out the ASL Corner,  do the lessons as you want to, ask me for help as you need.

Okies, That's all for now! 

Jeff