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Dream Team Breaks Records at YMCA Swim Meet

With more than 150 years of competitive swimming between them, this Severna Park relay team keeps on chugging.

As the saying goes “Age is a state of mind” and never has that been more true than for the four members of the relay team from the Mid-Delmarva YMCA Swim Team who competed in the National YMCA Swim meet in Florida last month.           Coach Nancy Brown knew she had something special when she began pulling the relay team together.  Nancy’s Dream team consisted of Sarah Allnut, Chuck Eremchuk, Doris Russell and because she needed a fourth and he knew it, her own husband Geoff Revett.  “Nancy conned me into this swimming thing about 11  years ago,” Revett said. Revett, who had sailed competitively and won world wide championships in sailing, admits that he has come to enjoy his time in the pool but he doesn’t get a lot of joy out of the …

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A Master Stroke

With two Masters Swimming Programs in Severna Park, its time to take the plunge.

Almost eight years ago, after fracturing my tibia, I was forced to give up running and biking for six months.  As an alternative, my doctor suggested I take up swimming. Reluctantly, I did and was surprised to find I enjoyed it.  At first it was the challenge of learning a new sport and just being able to complete a workout.  But as I continued it became about perfecting my stroke and improving my times.  Unfortunately, when I first started swimming I was on my own to make these improvements. I bought books and DVDs.  I scoured the internet. I watched the faster swimmers at my local pool but it was really guess work and when something proved too hard, I would just give up and do it the way I was comfortable doing it. Because of this I have…

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