2011 GRIN All Americans Announced

The following listing is for the 2011 All Americans from GRIN – congratulations to all! SHORT COURSE YARDS – POOL : Age group Name Team Event Time 35-39 Ben Christoffel INDY 100 Free 47.28 Adam Dawkins SWIN 500 Free 4:49.56 9:55:68 60-64 Peter DeWitt DLMA 100 Free 53.53 70-74 David Costill INDY 200 Back 2:39.31 [...]

Butternuts are in the News!

Check out this story on the USMS site – thanks Laura Jones!

NASTI Announces the 2011 Noblesville Brewfest

Forest Park Aquatic Center and the NASTI Masters (Noblesville Adult Swim Team Inc.) have announced the 2011 Noblesville Brewfest as a fundraiser for the Forest Park Pool. The event will  once again be held at the Moose Lodge, 950 Field Drive in Noblesville, IN, on September 24 from 3:00-7:00 PM.  Last year’s inaugural event drew [...]

GRIN State Meet

The 2011 GRIN State Championships were held over the weekend and here are the preliminary results. The slate of officers was approved by the membership present and voting affirmatively.  Randy gave his usual, succinct financial report.  Ivan Chalfie received the Emeritus award, while Jeff Halbert and Susie Shuck shared the Strong Swimmer award.  And we [...]

2009 GRIN All Americans

Quite a few Indy SwimFit and DOC members made the All American list for 2009 - see the list here. Congrats to all of you!

Fireman fights cancer with water, not fire

Fireman Mike Young is used to fighting fires with water, but this year, on his 42nd birthday, this fireman fought cancer with water.  He waged his battle by swimming a long distance swim fundraiser and named it the Aquathon.

Like daughter, like father?

By Byron Haflich Five summers years ago, I was informed by my wife that our family was to contribute about 12 volunteer hours to help time at an out door swim meet in Noblesville.  My first question was, “Why?” and she answered that our then 10-year-old daughter, Holly, was swimming in the meet.  My second [...]

Indiana swimmers cross the sound

by Kevin Sherman Last August five swimmers from the Indianapolis area (Victoria Rian, Jan Johnson, Tina Oaks, Jim Barber and Kevin Sherman) participated in the 22nd annual Swim Across The Sound 25K held in Bridgeport, CT. The annual swim sponsored by St. Vincent’s Foundation rose over $350,000 dollars. Proceeds of the event help the under [...]

Butternuts are at it again

We’ve added more to the growing list of Butternuts!  If you’d like to see what everyone has done so far just click on the link in the left hand column of this page.  Here’s the latest submission and a note from the newest Butternut:

Welklin will be missed

By Dan Welklin
My dad, Bob Welklin, 84, passed away this fall after several months battling pancreatic cancer. He was a respected member of the NASTI swim team and received Grin’s Life Member Emeritus award in 2006. He loved the NASTI team and looked forward to the Indiana USMS state meet each year from which he returned most times with a cache of gold hardware. His friends and family in Fort Wayne, Indiana were very familiar with our annual event as his stories of competing and socializing were told and retold with righteous pride.