Bantams Complete 7th Annual Ted Mullin Hour of Power

Final leg of the 60 minute sprint relay. PERFECT!!

Last night our team (missing a few to injury / illness), participated in the 7th Annual Ted Mullin Hour of Power.  Ted was a swimmer at Carleton College, who lost his battle with sarcoma.  The Hour of Power was Ted's favorite set at practices.  It is a grueling 60 minutes of all out sprinting relay-style, with the goal of keeping all lanes within a body length of one another throughout the entire hour.  This requires not only the physical commitment to the task, but also teamwork as swimmers rotate through the various lanes to catch lanes up to the others should they fall behind.  As a tribute to Ted, his family and teammates at Carleton created the Hour of Power event to include as many other teams across the country as they could, while his family started the Ted Mullin Fund for sarcoma research.  Now, over 160 college, high school, club, and masters teams across the country participate on the same day and at the same time (regardless of time zone) as a way for the swimming community to come together and promote awareness for and raise funds toward cancer research.

The Bantams did a great job in coordinating, with first years to seniors helping to organize and rotate swimmers throughout the hour.  It's safe to say that everyone was exhausted, but the smiling faces tell the story.  Our team was happy to participate in such a great event.  These are the times that make me most proud to be coaching such a wonderful group of athletes.  GO BANTAMS!!!

And on the alumni front, our very own Carol Ann Goldberg '80, has now involved her Masters team!  Carol checks in below:

"On behalf of the AQUA Masters swim team at Asphalt Green in New York City and the coaches of our Masters and Age Group teams (Glenn Mills, Rachel Stratton-Mills, Kelly Peloquin, Jamie Manser, David Rodriguez, Brad Green and Jonas Altman-Kuroski who all swam this evening!)  we are thrilled to report that we "Left it in the Pool" from 7:52 to 8:52 PM!!  

We had the honor of having Evan Mullin and some of the TED REPS (Jeanne Loftus, Katie Magoon, Chelsea Heneghan and Carmen Mandac) with us swimming as well!  Evan gave a beautiful speech to our team before we started, telling us of the amazing grants received by the fund and details of the research at U Chicago. 

Many of us on the team have had family members touched by cancer, or are themselves cancer survivors, so it was great for us all to swim in their memories/honor with the hope of a cure just down the lane ...

All the best and "see" you all next year!

Carol Ann Goldberg - Trinity Class of 1980

Agua Masters - "Noon" - Lane #2"