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Welcome April Cheadle
We are excited to welcome our new head coach, April
Cheadle, for the Bainbridge Island Aquatic Masters Swim Team.
 April
Cheadle
April grew up on an apple orchard in Eastern Washington for the first
15 years of her life. She graduated from Eastmont High School. She started
competing in swimming at age 14 and competed all the way through college
for the University of Washington. Her specialty strokes were long distance
free style and the Individual Medley. In college she swam the 800 Free
Relay at the NCAA division I level.
April has been coaching for 10 years which has included club, high
school and college level. In addition to swimming and coaching,
April buys, sells and collects antiques.
She also has an M&M fetish.
We'd like to give special thanks to everyone who has helped in the
hiring process. This is includes John DeMeyer and Jamie Whitney
of Park and Rec., Rick Stafford, Julie Shryock and Allison Craig
of BAM swim team. Also a big thank you goes to our interim coaches
Rick Stafford, Kate Carr, Allan Thorpe, Tamara Tulou, John Keppeler,
and Barney Voegtlen for their hard work and dedication to providing
a smooth transition. Lynne Gallivan, Jay Stemmler, Allan Thorpe,
Rita Belserene and Kate Carr of the BAM Booster Club also deserve
a thank you for all their help and support during this time.
February Fitness Challenge Results
Congratulations to team BAM! We moved from third place to
second place this year. Thirty three BAM swimmers participated and we
posted a total of 2,0057,150 yards for an average of oveer 35 miles per
swimmer. Congratulations especially to Heather Adkins-Narte who topped
our team yards with 300,000 for the month!.
The official Results booklet is here: http://www.barracudas.org/pool/febfitness/2010/web2010Booklet.pdf
It includes lots of personal notes and stories in addition
to yardage details for all swimmers.
Thank you Lynn for all you've done!
You built an outstanding program and you will be missed.
Congratulations to Team No Limits!
On Saturday September 12, five members of "Team No
Limits" , comprised of members of the Bainbridge Aquatics Master's
Club, with coach Lynn Wells, swam 2 miles in Lake Washington to raise
funds for the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Team No Limits was recognized
as one of the 3 top fundraisers for the first Seattle area Swim Across
America event, raising $12,000. The team captain, Dr. Linda Warren, was
the top fund raiser for the event.
Linda Warren, a pediatrician with Bainbridge Pediatrics swam in memory
of her former patient Faith Laird. Faith was a member of the Bainbridge
Island Swim Club for most of her short life. She lost her struggle against
cancer last year at the age of 17. Beth Shipley,
Linda's sister, swam in honor of her childhood friend Ann MacEslin Stearns.
Jan Ringo, Julie Shyrock and Lynne Gallivan swam to honor their many friends
and family members who have had cancer, Jan Ringo swan especially for
her friend, Lynn Sinclair and in memory of her Mom, Bobbie Martin.
Check out their web site for more info on Team No Limits: You can link
to their individual pages from the Team Site by clicking on the name of
each team member.
http://www.swimacrossamerica.org/Page.aspx?pid=722&frtid=412
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