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This is a Blue Dolfins results podcast for the Flags Championships in Ocala. Great swims all around by Ian Heysen, Agatha Amaral, Jacob Tindall, Isaac Tindall, Emmy Maguire, Cole Dedekind, Ben Rines, Will Rines, Po Hemmasart, Gavin Mellet, and Karen Hoefler. This team in Winter Park and Greater Orlando is really coming together. Blue Dolfins Swim Team has been the best aquatics program for the Greater Orlando area since 1972.
The Blue Dolfins had a strong championship season to end short course training. Great times, team titles, and even a new Americas Record!
Congrats to the Blue Dolfins for their recent accomplishments: Olympic Trials, European Championship, and National Meet Qualifiers. Plus a new American Record! 💪 🐬
Three years after returning to Cady Way and Winter Park High School, the Blue Dolfins (Winter Park branch) have experienced great success. Now it is time for the next step: building a 50m pool at Winter Park High School.
BDWP sees a high point champion and is part of a new state relay record.
Training club and high school swimmers in Winter Park since 1972.
High school swimming in the state of Florida features some of the best athletes in the nation, already at the top of their sport. If the high school football team was the same, they’d be going up against NFL players.
So as the end of this meet was drawing near and relay time was at hand, we looked around the pool deck and only teammate Brian Donahue and I were standing there ready to swim.
We were trying to figure out how we were going to get two more relay swimmers to join our relay.
A coach has to take his athletes to the breaking point without actually breaking them, and all the while keep his athletes enthused, excited, and positive about training day in and day out, mile after mile, 300 sit ups after 300 sit ups.
When I was 12 years old and an age group swimmer for the Blue Dolfins at Rollins College, Dr. Keith Bell, a famed sports psychologist, came and taught us a little lesson about consistency that many kids really don’t see too often today. Dr. Bell held up a huge pickle jar full of uncooked popcorn. Each kernel represented the practices of a swimmer.