Buffalo Boy's Blog

Mark Gangloff who is introduced in the first ten or so, was coached by one of the coaches of the Stingrays Swim Club, the club I currently coach for. Dave Finger has been a long time swim coach in the Niagara District coaching for 27 years. Most coaches could coach their entire lives and never coach an olympian or anyone that ever becomes an Olympian. Dave, our head coach, not only coached Gangloff, he is the only current coach in the Niagara Swim District who can say he coached an olympian. This will be Gangloff's second Olympics, his first was in 2004 and he won gold one of the relays.  

I don't know about anyone else, but I think thats something to be pretty damn proud about and to me, it shows the caliber of coaches that we have on the Stingrays coaching staff. If your kids are interested, feel free to bring them by one of our practices. We do learn to swim all they way to elite level competition. (theres my shameless plug).

Anyway, that was my interesting aside, the biggest thing was introducing the 2008 team. They are going to be pretty damn good, probably the best we have seen since Matt Biondi and Janet Evans swam.