"Swimmers, take your mark..."

Although this blogger has been a bit slow in getting in new entries, there has been a lot of wonderful athletic action occurring this winter season at Harrison!  

This weekend the boys' swim team in competing in sectional action at West Lafayette High School.  Raider swimmers and divers,  both the men and the women, have had a great season in the water.  Here, as those seasons, draw to a close, are a few highlights from the pool deck (to see a full collection of images taken throughout the season, simply double click on any of the below shots to view the entire set on Flickr.com OR to view them as a slideshow, go to www.thgphotography.com --enter site, click on client proofing and enter raiderswim09 as the password).

The Raider Boys Swim team under the terrific leadership of Coach Beth Brown

The Lady Raiders Swimmers & Divers and their outstanding Coach Kristen Trella

Pool Deck Renovations Underway

Michael Phelps isn't the only one tearing up the pool these days, we are doing a bit of that ourselves here at Harrison!  Although our 'tearing up' isn't in the water, but around it, the pool deck, to be precise.

Harrison's athletic program has partnered with the Harrison Athletic Booster Club and Boilermaker Aquatics to enlist local contractors to completely renovate the deck.  This was a project that was much needed as up until now the deck had carpeting on it which proved to be impractical and unsanitary.  

Step number 1 was simply to remove the carpeting.  Then the entire pool deck was shot blasted by the Rite Way Company of Wolcott under the close watch of owner Ron Deno.  Rite Way had come highly recommended to Harrison's coaches and their work proved the reputation to be deserved.  

Following the shot blasting, Americoat of Indiana came in to relayer, texture, tint and seal the deck.  They, too, have been "wonderfully helpful, professional and hardworking," according to Coach Beth Brown who is coordinating this project. As of this writing, the project is about 80% complete.  

When asked,  several members of the Harrison swim teams, including seniors Colton Withers and Allison Weilbaker, what they thought of the project they responded with optimistic smiles.  They then followed those wry grins up with, "we haven't even dared to peak yet.  We are waiting for the final reveal...and can't wait to see it then!"