Okay, so I must confess…Weymouth you won me over!  It really doesn’t take much to impress me but when Coach Mike Riley showed up in a brand new Mercedes-Benz …I knew it was going to be an awesome day.  Thanks to the kindness of a local dealership Aaron and I were being escorted like kings!

The swimmers in Boston were excited for two reasons. 1). The Boston Red Sox were on their way to sweeping the World Series and 2). They had four hours of instruction with World-Record Holder Aaron Peirsol!  After demonstrating his amazing technique, Aaron raced everyone in the free or back…how cool is it to be able to say you raced a WORLD-RECORD HOLDER!  Well, you all at Weymouth can wear your shirts proud. You raced more than just a Gold Medalist.

I’m so excited you had a chance to meet my friend Aaron.  He is one of the hardest workers I know.  I miss training with him and it’s always nice to connect and watch a “super-star” swimmer be so laid back and kind to everyone.

I know you guys are known for your tennis but you also have some awesome swimmers.  As a whole you had great streamlines.  Congratulations to Kaitlin and Pat our “Streamline” winners.  The spirit award went to Al and Christine…keep up the great attitude!

Again a big thanks to Lisa Judge and Mike Riley for helping Weymouth swimmers BREAKout!  -Josh

Three weeks ago, Kate Ziegler and I did a clinic in Easton, MD with TCY Swimming and Coach George Higley.  During our awesome clinic, we raced all 80 kids.  I don’t think it was a coincidence that Kate went on, a week later, to break 2 world records in one race! Unbelievable!!

How cool is that, to break the 800 record on the way to breaking the 1500m record!  Kate commented recently that inspiring kids has actually inspired her.  So imagine how fast Kate is going to go after today’s clinic in
Morristown, NJ.  And on top of that I got to workout with Kate before our clinic.  We did a descending 2500 meter set and she kicked my rear!  It was awesome!  I’ve never been beaten by a girl like that before.  As she was passing me on the last lap of each 100 I was so proud of her!  We finally got our 100m times down to about a minute and she went :59 on the last one.  She is definitely in great shape! (more…)