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Jeff

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As many of you know, the big star at the Olympics in swimming was the Speedo LZR Racer suit, otherwise known as the Lazor.  Well, back at the US Olympic Trials, Lara broke the existing 50 meter free American record in prelims, wearing the Blue Seventy suit.  I never heard of them either!  Apparently, they are an Australian company that usually makes wetsuits and suits for triathelon athletes.  They came out with the Blue Seventy competitive suit for pool meets about one year ago, and don’t you think that they were thrilled when Lara was the first swimmer to break a record in the pool, wearing their suit!
Well, Keith looked them up on the web and found a short article with Lara’s picture on their site.  Check it out at blueseventy.com
Click on news and scroll down and you’ll find it.  Pretty cool!

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Well, summer is gone and school is back into full swing.  Lara is still a little sad about how things turned out for her with the Olympic Trials and the way the team for Beijing was selected.  But time is healing her wounds and right now she is fired up for her senior year at Arizona.  “Fired up”, those were her exact words.  And I am glad for her.  Lara has such a big year ahead of her.  Lara is excited about being co-captain along with her teammate, Taylor.  She’s excited about her senior level classes in equine industry/animal science.  Yes, Lara is an Aggie!  And she gets to be inducted into the University of Arizona Hall of Fame, as a team member of the Arizona Women’s Swimming and Diving Team that won NCAA’s in March 2008!  Keith and I will be traveling to Tucson for the Induction on Friday, October 24, 2008 at the Hall of Fame on campus.  There’ll be some festivities and get-to-gethers with the other families.  Then Keith and I will return the following week to watch their first dual meet of the season against Wisconsin, on Friday, October 31, 2008. 
Keith and I will get to as many of the meets that we can to watch and support Lara during her final senior year of eligibility.  There’s the Texas Invitational in Austin, Texas at UT, December 4-6, 2008.  PAC 10 Championships will be in Federal Way, Washington February 25-28, 2009.  Then we look forward to NCAA’s in College Station, right here in Texas, March 19-21, 2009.  For the complete schedule, look up on Arizona’s website under athletics. 
Now Lara will not be graduating yet in 2009.  As alot of the student athletes, she will need an extra year to get all of her credits for graduation.  But she wants to continue to train in Tucson with Ford Aquatics and compete as a “pro”.  Next summer, Nationals will be in the beginning of July in Indianapolis.  The World team will be selected from Nationals, for World Championships in Rome, Italy, end of July  So that’s the big goal!  Keep on training and continue preparing so that in four years Lara will be a contender in several events for the Olympics in 2012 in London.
I will keep you posted as her senior year progresses.  Drop me comments when you can.  Let me know that you are still supporting our girl!   And go Cats!

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