Steph and Zach
Name: Steph Perkins
Hometown: Monmouth, ME
Year at Wheaton/Major: 2011/Biology
Club Team/High School Team: Twin Cities Swim Team
Best Events/Times: 100breast 1:09.3, 200breast 2:30.3
Favorite Food: Stuffing
Favorite Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean
Favorite Band/Artist:
Favorite Quote:
Thing you are looking forward to the most this season: NEWMAC's
Name: Zachary Fichman-Klein
Hometown: North Attleboro, MA
Year at Wheaton/Major: 2011/History
Club Team/High School Team: North Attleboro High School/Attleboro Tsunami Swim Team
Best Events/Times: 100fly 54.3, 100back 56.3, 200back 2:03.7
Favorite Food: Frontega Chicken
Favorite Movie: Garden State
Favorite Band/Artist: Third Eye Blind
Favorite Quote: "Just do it!"
Thing you are looking forward to the most this season: Swimming Fast!
The Honeymooners: Eddie and Sarah
Name: Eddie Gillie
Hometown: Haverhill, MA
Year at Wheaton/Major: Sophomore/Psychology
Club Team/High School Team: Magnus Aquatics Group/St. John's Prep
Best Events/Times: 100fly 53.92, 200fly 1:59.76, 400IM 4:21.06, 500free 4:52.86
Favorite Food: Nothing green!
Favorite Movie: Golden Eye
Favorite Band/Artist: Linkin Park
Favorite Quote: "I love, love, love chocolate milk" Sarah Houlihan
Thing you are looking forward to the most this season: Swimming Fast!
Name: Sarah Houlihan
Hometown: West Springfield, MA
Year at Wheaton/Major: Junior/Biology
Club Team/High School Team: West Springfield High School/Holyoke YMCA
Best Events/Times: 500free 5:16.13, 1000free 11:02.55, 1650free 18:19.22
Favorite Food: Cheese, chocolate, anything greek
Favorite Movie: Anchorman
Favorite Band/Artist: Brand New Bright Eyes
Favorite Quote: "Happiness is a choice."
Thing you are looking forward to the most this season: Having fun and swimming fast!
MEET THE CAPTAINS (L-R)
Name: Corey Best
Hometown: Nashville, TN
Year at Wheaton/Major: 2011
Club Team/High School Team: EXCEL Aquatics, Ravenwood HS
Best Events/Times: 200fly 2:00.70, 400IM 4:27.77, 100back 56.77
Favorite Food: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Favorite Movie: Seven, Top Gun
Favorite Band/Artist: Cross-Canadian Ragweed
Favorite Quote: "Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway."
Thing you are looking forward to the most this season: Swimming fast, getting a reputation and respect as a team.
Name: Caitlin Glover
Hometown: Durham, NH
Year at Wheaton/Major: 2009/Chemistry
Club Team/High School Team: Seacoast Swimming Association/Berwick Academy
Best Events/Times: 100back 1:01, 200back 2:14
Favorite Food: apple pie
Favorite Movie: Bridgett Jones' Diary
Favorite Band/Artist: Coldplay, Simon & Garfunkel
Favorite Quote:
Thing you are looking forward to the most this season: Bonding with the team.
Name: Kelly Grant
Hometown: South Salem, NY
Year at Wheaton/Major: 2009/Sociology
Club Team/High School Team: RAC & WYW
Best Events/Times: 100breast 1:14.98, 200breast 2:37.58
Favorite Food: all things chocolate
Favorite Movie: Under The Tuscan Sun & The Guardian
Favorite Band/Artist: Maroon 5
Favorite Quote: "Now and then it's good to puse in our pursuit of happinesss and just be happy."
Thing you are looking forward to the most this season: Having a great senior year, swim season and being a successful team.
Name: Sam Dean-Lee
Hometown: Middletown, CT
Year at Wheaton/Major: 2011/Economics
Club Team/High School Team: Xavier High School
Best Events/Times: 50free 22.0, 100free 49, 200free 1:49, 500free 4:54
Favorite Food: Steak
Favorite Movie: Snatch
Favorite Band/Artist: Slightly Stoopid
Favorite Quote: "H2O: Two parts heart, one part obsession." JP Gowdy
Thing you are looking forward to the most this season: NEWMAC Relays
Meet The Assistants
Diving Coach Katy Shoemaker - A former standout diver at Trinity College in Connecticut, Katy Shoemaker provides competitive and coaching experience in her second year with Wheaton. Shoemaker was a four-year member of the Bantams' swimming and diving team, and she set school records in the one-meter, six-dives category and in the three-meter, 11-dives discipline. During the 2005-06 school year, Shoemaker assisted divers at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, and also taught age-group diving at Trinity. Shoemaker was also a three-year coxswain for the Trinity men's crew team. She earned a bachelor's degree in sociology in May 2006.
Assistant Coach James Martin - Jim hails from Arlington, MA. He was a US Swimmer for eleven years. During his high school days he swam for the former Massachusetts Bay Marlins (now BOSS) where he was a champion breast stroker. He took his swimming to the University of New Hampshire where he was the top scoring freshman at America Easts Championships in 1999 (2nd, 200 breast/3rd, 100 breast/14th, 500 free). Since his college days, Jim has been teaching environmental education to children throughout New England. He also ran the waterfront program at Camp Cody in New Hampshire for four years until finally returning to Boston to coach the masters swim team at the University Club of Boston. Currently Jim is pursuing a Master's Degree in Education from Lesley University.
Assistant Coach Jen Peck - Jen joins the Wheaton College Men's and Women's swim team for the '08-'09 seaon as a volunteer coach. She has been competitively swimming since the age of 7 in Rochester, NY. She spent 11 years with her club team, Fairport Area Swim Team (FAST) and 3 years with her varsity high school team. Jen also swam for Ithaca College for 4 years. As captain of her junior and senior years, she helped lead the team to NYS DIII Champions (specialty in sprint freestyle and breaststroke). Jen received her Master's Degree in Physical Therapy (Ithaca College) and went on to earn her certification in Athletic Training (SUNY Brockport). She currently works at Marathon Physical Therapy and has interests in pilates-based core training and triathalons.
Assistant Coach James Martin - Jim hails from Arlington, MA. He was a US Swimmer for eleven years. During his high school days he swam for the former Massachusetts Bay Marlins (now BOSS) where he was a champion breast stroker. He took his swimming to the University of New Hampshire where he was the top scoring freshman at America Easts Championships in 1999 (2nd, 200 breast/3rd, 100 breast/14th, 500 free). Since his college days, Jim has been teaching environmental education to children throughout New England. He also ran the waterfront program at Camp Cody in New Hampshire for four years until finally returning to Boston to coach the masters swim team at the University Club of Boston. Currently Jim is pursuing a Master's Degree in Education from Lesley University.
Assistant Coach Jen Peck - Jen joins the Wheaton College Men's and Women's swim team for the '08-'09 seaon as a volunteer coach. She has been competitively swimming since the age of 7 in Rochester, NY. She spent 11 years with her club team, Fairport Area Swim Team (FAST) and 3 years with her varsity high school team. Jen also swam for Ithaca College for 4 years. As captain of her junior and senior years, she helped lead the team to NYS DIII Champions (specialty in sprint freestyle and breaststroke). Jen received her Master's Degree in Physical Therapy (Ithaca College) and went on to earn her certification in Athletic Training (SUNY Brockport). She currently works at Marathon Physical Therapy and has interests in pilates-based core training and triathalons.
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