Monday, December 8, 2008

Grizzly Award

So we give out an award on a weekly basis throughout the season. I call it the grizzly award, which is based on the saying - "if you're going to be a bear - be a grizzly!" To me it means, be as big and strong as possible in whatever you do.

(And, yes, MHC's mascot is the Lyon's not bears, but I just like the saying!)

So recent winners include:

Amanda McGrosky
Isa Wismann-Horther
Morgan Herrell

This weeks winner though is senior and co-captain Natalia Sadaniantz. We host the Pioneer Valley Invitational. The meet is fun and un-scored. This allows the swimmers to swim as many events as they would like. Every year, there are a couple of people that swim all 19 events. Natalia has taken that one step farther and swam all 19 events for all 4 years! Pretty cool and definitely grizzly like!

Best,
DA

Mount Holyoke Alumnae Magazine

Here is the link to the Mount Holyoke Alumnae Association. Right in the middle of the page is the link for the most recent alum magazine. Always interesting articles and information.

Best,
DA

Monday, December 1, 2008

Lyon of the Week

Just a quick (and slightly delayed) update. Lindsay Schonborn was named "Lyon of the Week" for November 10-16th for her performance at the Regis Invitational. Lindsay tied two other swimmers from U. of New England for High Point Swimmer of the Meet with 2 first-place finishes and 1 second-place finish.

Here is the MHC story.

Best,
DA