Congratulations to all of the competitors at US Open!

Hi everybody!
Today was a very exciting day in Indianapolis! In addition to our training, we got to go downtown to the USA Synchro National Office for a delicious lunch. There we met some important individuals who help promote, organize, and support US Synchronized Swimming - Terry, Janice, Jennifer, Taylor, Jordan, Elizabeth, Kevin, and Will The Intern. They bought us a very delicious, healthy lunch and we all sat in a conference room where we got to know one another a little bit. We talked about the exciting plans for Worlds as well.
After practice tomorrow, most of us are heading home for the weekend to see our families and friends, and to recharge for our last three weeks here together. So far Indianapolis has been a blast and we are looking forward to seeing you all at Worlds! Thanks again for all your support!!

Dinner!!

We are now staying in a hotel in Indy, and since we no longer have the campus cafeteria food that we had in San Antonio, we are making our own food! Our wonderful coaches have been giving us cooking lessons and we've made some pretty great meals! And we thought we'd share some with you!

Last night we made stewed chicken with:
- 1 can of stewed tomatoes
- 1 can of black beans
- 1 can of kidney beans
- chicken breast
Cook the chicken in a skillet and add the can of stewed tomatoes. Mix the two cans of beans in a pan and heat over medium heat. When the chicken is cooked, add the beans and enjoy a yummy meal! (we ate it over some brown rice).

We have had so much fun cooking ourselves! We also made tilapia and sweet potatoes tonight! Not only are we learning a lot in the pool, we're learning in the kitchen too! =)

US Open!!

It has certainly been a fantastic past few days! We survived the 100+ degree Texas weather and made a great showing at US Open! We took gold in the Junior Solo, Duet, and Team competitions and silver in Combo to China's National Team I.

It was a great honor to have support from our Senior Team I and to be able to watch them and cheer for them as well. It was also awesome to see and get to know the three Canadian club teams that came out to Texas. One of the highlights of the meet was watching the Chinese National Team's Combo to Alice in Wonderland! It was truly incredible!!

We had an early flight this morning and are now settling down in Indianapolis for the second half of our summer. We're half way done with our journey, but the best is yet to come! Congrats at Opens USA! We're going to keep this momentum moving forward through the end!

As day 2 of US Opens comes to a close, let's give a huge shout out for Alexa!! She competed her solo today - both prelims and finals - and swept away all the competition! What a great way to start off the meet! Yesterday, we all competed in figures and showed a great improvement since trials, just a month and a half ago. We are all excited to see such progress because we're only half way through our journey together!

We have started off having a great meet, and will continue tomorrow with the duet and combo! Aly and Alexa will no doubt represent tomorrow and we will continue that momentum through the end of the day when we compete our combo for the first time, to represent the United States of America.

Let's go get 'em! USA USA U - S - A!!!!

Here we go!

We're all packed up and ready to head off to Irving in the morning! We had a mini exhibition this morning and we preformed all our routines as if it were competition and we are psyched to compete them for real!

We're packing up three minivans and caravaning 5 hours to Irving tomorrow morning. It is going to be a bitter sweet departure because we have had such a great time here in San Antonio, but we are so excited to turn the page, and start up a new chapter in our journey together!

Good bye San Antonio! Thank you to all the wonderful staff of UIW, including Emily V! We'll miss you!

Hi everyone!

This weekend we've been packing for Irving and enjoying our last few days in San Antonio. We are super excited to compete in our first meet as the United States Junior National Team!!

Our VP for marketing contacted us this week to see if we were interested in being part of the Ellen Degeneres Show. Now we are putting together pictures of our team with Ellen's face to send to her. We hope to be on her show to gain as much support as possible for USA Synchro.

We are also going to help with Michael's Blankets for Cancer. This is a blanket drive that Katie's younger brother started as he was fighting Burkitts Lymphoma, a type of cancer. His goal is to collect 1,000 blankets. We hope to help him reach his goal by collecting blankets in partnership with St. Vincent's in Indianapolis.

All in all, we have had an amazing time in San Antonio, Texas, but can't wait to begin our second half of training in Indianapolis, Indiana!

Now, as we head to US Opens on Tuesday, we thank you again for your support. Yeah USA!

Happy (belated) Fourth of July from all of us here in San Antonio!!

Whew! Can you believe we're already starting on our 5th week of training?! The time has flown by ...

As US Opens is quickly approaching, we are continuing to work hard on our routines and figures and are getting very excited to show them off at the meet next week!

Last week, we battled it out against the weather as Hurricane Alex swept up to the coast. As the hurricane turned into a tropical storm, we were hit pretty hard with some stormy weather! When the storm passed, after practicing in oddly cold Texas weather, the Texas heat and humidity returned, giving us some nice color (tan for some, but red for others!)

Though we've been training hard, we still took time to celebrate the 4th of July! We all went over to Kim's house for a delicious dinner, hilarious team games and, of course, some fireworks! Nicole also took us to the River Walk in downtown San Antonio where we had a nice team dinner.

Three days into our 5th week training together, we're all doing well, in great spirits, and gearing up to show everyone what we've got! Thanks for your continual support, we couldn't be here without you! GO USA!!

Jr Team Pushups

Check out our Jr team cross training!

Hey from the Junior National Team! First and foremost, this has been one of our hardest weeks...HELL WEEK! We are working on endurance, patterns and precision. Today was a pretty epic for our team! We arrived at a pool and we couldn't see the bottom, we stayed in until the staff told us it was unsafe, because the PH and chlorine were unstable. We made the most of it by spending the time landrilling our routines. We found another pool we could practice at... so across the campus,over the highway bridge and to another campus we went. In that outdoor pool we battled bugs and crickets, but ended up having a very productive practice! Did I mention it was raining the whole day? (our coaches got soaked)

Nothing will stop our team from getting the job done!! We'll show you what we got in 12 days at US Opens, hope to see you there!