Wednesday, December 5, 2012
BeachwoodBison.org rounds up Tuesday's meet against Walsh Jesuit
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Editor's Note: This post was submitted to Beachwood Patch by BeachwoodBison.org. Visit their website for more on the Bison. Walsh Jesuit earned road victories over Beachwood on Tuesday in both boys and girls swimming. The Warriors’ boys, who finished among the top 25 teams in the state last season, defeated the Bison, 139-36, and the Walsh Jesuit girls, 27th in the state last season, won 132-46. “It is always hard swimming your first meet outnumbered 2-to-1, but I am proud of the racing of my swimmers,” Beachwood coach Brad Burget said. “They continue to become more competitive and their training started to show in the first meet.” Burget was especially pleased with Beachwood’s freestyle events and relays. Those squads continue to develop …
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Swimmers will open season at home Tuesday afternoon
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Editor's Note: This post was submitted to Beachwood Patch by BeachwoodBison.org. Visit their website for more on the Bison. When Beachwood athletic director Ryan Peters recruited Brad Burget from New Albany to coach the Bison swim team, the expectation was that Burget would build a program from the bottom of the pool and up. Burget has delivered. “That’s why we came up here,” said Burget, who enters his third year at the helm of the Bison swimming program. “I had the opportunity to start the club team, and we have that going with about 120 kids; most of them are in fifth grade or down. The lessons program is starting to feed the club team, which is feeding the middle school and high school team. We have to have that foundation. That’s the …
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Coach sees big possibilities with Bison
Beachwood High School head swimming coach Brad Burget sometimes divides his gaze between the school’s top-notch pool facilities and the small school record board perched high above the water and can’t help being struck by a fundamental contradiction. Despite all the advantages in the world, the school hasn’t been particularly successful in the sport. Laura Tramer, who graduated last year and now attends Georgetown, is arguably school’s greatest swimmer with four individual school records and three relay records on that board. Nonetheless, she managed an 11th-place finish in the 200 freestyle at state last year. Still, Burget considers Tramer a step in the right direction towards filling out that board and taking the program to highest …
Anonymous
7:23 pm on Thursday, December 15, 2011
Lindsay Guth is not a captain. Elizabeth Morris and Harley Schoen are the girl's team captains. more ›