New Year, New Club Swim!

Welcome to 23F! Obviously this site hadn’t been updated in a hot minute, but we are finally here to change that.

We are SO excited to get back in the water and welcome the 27s to the club swim family!

Our team allows you to choose your own level of commitment. Whether you have time to show up to practice 3 times per week or only once per term, we’d love to have you!

And without further ado, the practice schedule for 23F:

Tuesday: 7 – 8:30 pm
Thursday: 7 – 8:30 pm
Sunday: 3:30 – 5 pm

Want to know more about other fun things like meets and gear? Come to practice to find out!

If you have any questions about club swim, please reach out to dartmouthclubswimming@gmail.com

Club Swim Update (July 10, 2020)

It is a crazy time to be a swimmer at Dartmouth!

Since campus was first closed in March, Club Swim has been out of the pool, and hosting bi-weekly Zooms for our members to stay connected. In late June, Dartmouth announced its plans for the next academic year, and we are still determining what this means for Club Swim next year, and are figuring out how we’re going to train, grow our team, and have a fun year while being safe.

More recently, we found out about Dartmouth’s plans to close its Varsity Swim and Dive program. Our hearts go out to all the Varsity swimmers reacting to the news. We are still figuring out what this means for our organization, but, as always, all are welcome at Club Swim.

Swimmer Spotlight #2: Will Glovsky ’23

Name: Will Glovsky
Hometown: Hamilton, MA
Year: 2023
Age/Birthday? 19/Sept 19, 2000
Academic Interest(s): Economics and Psychology
Hobbies: Achieving my final form through the power of song and sarcasm
What are you looking forward to most about Dartmouth?
The beverages
What’s your Club Swim Goal?
Get my 100 down to 1:20!
If you had to listen to one genre for a week, what would it be?
Romantic Comedy
Favorite campus (or off-campus) dining spot?
Lou’s
B-Side Superpower?
Carrying a lot of bags

Swimmer Spotlight #1: Nate Roe ’23

Name: Nathaniel Roe

Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (S/O Che Esch!!!)

Year: ‘23

Age: 18

Academic Interest(s): Math, Engineering, Writing

Hobbies: Skiing, hiking, reading, recycling

What are you looking forward to most about Dartmouth?

The people and taking more amazing classes!

What’s your Club Swim Goal?

4 Trials Cuts & 5 Junior Nats Cuts…

Lol no!

To get to know the lovely people of Club Swim.

If you had to listen to one genre for a week, what would it be?

I don’t think this qualifies as a genre, but I would gladly listen to Frank Ocean’s music for a week.

Favorite campus (or off-campus) dining spot?

Foco Dark Side with Club Swim!

B-Side Superpower?

Tying shoelaces by snapping fingers

Club Swim 19F Update!!!

Hey everyone!  It’s your favorite webmasters here, Jason and Adele, and we’re so excited to tell you all about 19F and what a great time we all had in the pool together!

First and foremost, we were so excited to meet so many amazing ’23s this fall! We love having you on the team and we can’t wait to get to know you even better this winter! We also loved seeing so many familiar faces back again this season, and we’re so excited for the future of the club swim community.   Here’s our updated roster for the 19F season (with the names of our new members in bold):

Matt Bough ’19

Dimitar ’19

Che Esch ’20

Max Orman-Kollmar ’20

Libby Decker ’20

Teddy Einsidler ’20

Jack Burgess ’20

Isabella Burgess ’20

Margaret Hubble ’21

Cam Wright ’21

Themis Haris ’21

Malcolm Hanchet ’22

Connor Page ’22

Jason McFadden ’22

Adele Harshbarger ’22

Ray Crist ’22

Akash Seetohul ’22

Darren Colby ’22

Ethan Aulwes ’22

Dylan Davis ’22

Alexandra Bramsen ’22

Dante LaRocco ’22

Reva Dixit ’22

Victoria Xu ’22

Sade Francis ’23

Abbi Fischer ’23

Fiona Price ’23

Rae Docherty ’23

Tim Cui ’23

Will Glovsky ’23

Nate Roe ’23

Tate McDowell ’23

Avi Dixit ’23

Madison Davis ’23

Makayla Dixon ’23

Catriona Farquharson ’23

Katherine Lasonde ’23

Sarah McWhirtier ’23

Gretchen Carpenter ’23

Ali Safieddine ’23

Tara Pillai ’23

Deedee Hernandez ’23

Hannah Brookes ’23

Autumn Dinh ’23

Amanda Chen ’23

 

We had a great time at the 2019 Harvard Club Swim Invitational, where we placed 6th out of 9 teams!!!  Check the results section to see how everyone placed.  A couple of highlights included:

Nate Roe – 5th place, 100 Back

Fiona Price – 4th place, 100 Fly

Ethan Cai – 1st place, 100 Fly

Molly Rudman – 4th place, 50 Back

Connor Page – 3rd place, 50 Back

 

 

Thank you all for a great season!  We hope everyone enjoys their winterim, and we will see you all in January!

 

Love,

 

Jason ’22 and Adele ’22

The Best Webmasters Ever
Dartmouth Club Swimming

Swimmer of the Week! #15

Hi everyone! Sorry for the break in posts, but we’re back with a new swimmer of the week! This week’s SOTW is Cam, a ’21 and one of our captains – catch him giving out the workout ball after practice, attempting to solicit secrets from teammates at social events, and trying to break his 200 breast record at our home meet this weekend!

Name: Cam Wright
Major(s): Mathematical Data Science
Hometown: Belchertown, MA
Class year: 2021
Age and/or birthday: 3
Hobbies: Listening to music, watching sports, hanging out with club swim
Favorite movie: A Few Good Men
Favorite season (e.g. fall, spring, summer, winter): Spring obviously
If you had a million dollars, what would you do with it? Give enough to my parents to let them retire and then probably spend the rest irresponsibly (jet ski, things like that)
Favorite Dartmouth memory (thus far): Green Key last year
Favorite Club Swim memory: Ivies last year
Goal for this coming year: Get my 200 breast record to a respectable time

Blog Post #11: Passing the Torch

Hello to Club Swim, current and previous members, parents, alum, and all of our readers! Kimmy here! (A forewarning that this is going to be long, so sorry!)

I wasn’t sure how to start this blog post, so I’ll start off with our swim meet from this past weekend.

**drumroll**

We had Ivies!!!! Everyone did incredible, and we all had so much fun – both in the water, at the poolside cheering, and of course at the afterparty while socializing with the other club swim teams!

I want to give a shoutout to all of the current leadership that made Ivies happen, and to all of the drivers. And in particular, I want to give a few special shoutouts to Michael Sun (our new but already veteran head coach), Max Orman-Kollmar (master of the Airbnb situation and also my adopted little brother), Che Esch (my shuttling-people buddy and also mental support during the car rides), and Libby Decker (for our amazing suits and driving everyone)!

It’s honestly bittersweet and a little surreal, being in my senior spring, no longer being head coach or on “relevant leadership” (as Michael may say), and having finished my last meet of my college career (if I can call it that, haha).

I think all of the seniors on Saturday were thinking the same thing. We couldn’t believe we were done, even as we took a photo together commemorating the completion of our last Ivies. There were some tears, lots of hugging, and just overall disbelief. We’re all heading off to different places, and already currently are doing completely different things on campus – but Club Swim was where our friendships started.

I can feel the tears welling up a bit as I type this, mind and heart racing as well. Part of it is from a quiet sadness. Most people vaguely know that I have been head coach for Club Swim for a long time, particularly due to the close relationship that I have with our supervisors Heather and Joann. I think fewer know that I have been the coach since the end of my freshman year/my sophomore fall.

In my 4 years here, I have been involved with so many things on this campus, both academic and extracurricular. But throughout my entire college career, Club Swim has always meant the most to me. Even on days when I was about to cry from frustration, getting to the pool and seeing my team, coaching, and working with members somehow has always made me feel better. …Well except maybe on the day that Matt and Khoa whacked a bouncy ball towards my face. 😀

Perhaps it was the feeling of having a community to come back to, perhaps it was the smiles on members’ faces when they saw me and said hello – or perhaps it was seeing the emotions of delight and satisfaction when there was improvement for a team member. Perhaps it’s the fact that some of my craziest stories and lifetime’s closest friendships have come from Club Swim, and I trust these friends with all of my heart. I don’t think I’ll ever really be able to pinpoint the reason, but I do know that I will never forget this warm feeling of belonging.

People always tell me “Club Swim can’t do without you,” but I think, at least for the first few months after graduating, I won’t be able to do without Club Swim. Mixed amongst the sad tears are tears of pride and joy, because I am 120% sure that we are leaving the team in capable hands. I couldn’t be more excited about what Michael and the rest of leadership have planned for coming years. (And yes, I will be trying to visit next year when I can.)

Love and hugs to you all! Hopefully I don’t cry at end-of-season banquet…

Signing off officially as leadership,

Kimmy Ma

Swimmer of the Week! #14

Welcome back to 18S! The first SOTW this term is our vice president and Zumba leader, Che! He’s a smiling and gentle presence on our team, is the only person (besides Kimmy) willing to swim 500s, and you can always catch him eating Hop burger specials. Read on to get to know a little more about him!

Name: Che Esch

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Blog Post #10: O Captain! My Captain!

Hi team! This blog post is from our newly retired team captain Khoa Tran! It’s breaking away from the pattern thus far of full on prose, but enjoy! (He wrote this about something else; I promise it’s not implying anything about Club Swim!!!!)


Voyage into the Smoke

I stand here watching my daydreams,
Drain from my quartet around me,
My wooden neck and casting away my wings.
I thought I could fly and talk to God,
But God had determined me too small.
Or perhaps too large to march among the sky,
Leaving me to cry along with the clouds.
But even now, I don’t belong in the clouds
As they cast me out from heaven.

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Blog Post #9: from the retired social chair!

Hi Club Swim!

It’s me, your favorite retired social chair! For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Campbell, I’m an ’18, and I’ve been part of club swim since the first week of my freshman fall. It’s hard to believe I only have one more quarter left as an official member (but don’t worry, I’ll still be lurking in the groupme long after I’ve graduated), and as week 9 is wrapping up the nostalgia is definitely hitting hard. So join me as I procrastinate studying for finals with a trip down club swim memory lane! Continue reading

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