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plung into Olympic challenge
esun
E adding he doesn't ever "want to be Part of the school's charm is its
adl r a brief' few days, even a
s01 iSWimming through the wa-
ilab Jgically feels efibrtless
.47 s hke flying," Pat Penoyar
You can just go so fast and
n mcredzble feehng.
sensation only comes af-
ths of intense training.
,,irst month is hell becau.e
.do is just continuous aero-
' 't" " '
rag, whmh doesn t really
l " " "
1 se, he says. They just
/. basically hop in the water
" m as fast as we can for two
Ltioarld then they try to make
.,, for another half an hour
, , Y." He said it becomes like
4j Pulse, and something that
hake up in the morning and
Qt have to do," he adds.
jt for him, that one week out
ed;. Year makes all of the hard
l.' followed by a month of
g down to shorter work-
J i Worthwhile. "You feel like
C ,,
Cl:n, he says.
. ,T HAS BEEN in the pool
0mer, working on improving
coes on the Indiana Univer-
a team. Recently, he paid
" . .
]1 e into his senior year at
d:, where has a swimming
.thip. As he looks ahead to
' 1 year in college, however,
0t just going for a degree.
so striving for a chance at
glory.
/qPeting in the 100- and 200-
breaststroke events, he
d for the Olympic trials
ith a number of his team-
.m. Ironically, while he's the
these events on his team,
Yes he's virtually the slowest
r on the team in just about
Other event.
who has been swimming
is freshman year at Shelton
hool, has to finish in the top
the trials to qualify for the
lic Games, racing through a
:of preliminary, semi-final
al events. If you make the
heat, there's a chance of be-
n professional swimmer,
there's not much money in
aOtes.
rding to his current times,
Ys, he isn't even close to
:['lng for the Olympics. At the
tirae he points out optimis-
[Y that last year he "wasn't
[Close,, to the times he's post-
. "It's just a matter of'How
[lCan get faster."
SEASON he finished in
Place at the Big Ten cham-
:ips, which Pat says is pretty
aa international meet.
,transferred to Indiana from
iVersity of Washington as
0r. "It's so much better than
he says, describing the In-
,SWim team as very blue
r£ iri the sense that everyone
.rth an enormous amount of
re's very little politics," he
at compares this with the
rSity of Washington, where
s the swim coach seemed
t Oacerned with money and
than with swimming, an
a which wound up driving
rue of the best swimmers
am. As a result, Pat says,
ersity brought in a new
Rth better leadership and
is improving now.
aew team's dynamics and
, being smaller and more
than those at UW, remind
is Shelton Highclimber
calls the university's
g environment "incred-
:eOach, Ray Looze, swam on
8. Rational team and Pat
stuck in an office."
All in all, Pat, the son of Dr.
Chris and Becky Penoyar of Shel-
ton, says his college experience is
measuring up to everything he ex-
pected it to be. "It's involved a lot
of growing up and a lot more train-
ing," he says. Gone are the protec-
tive barriers of home. "There's no
going home. And you have to deal
with your choices, I guess. You
know, you just have to be real
smart about things and you actu-
ally have to do your homework."
HE SAYS HE'S "really happy
I'm where I am; no doubt. I'm re-
ally a lot happier at Indiana."
surrounding college-town-in-the-
middle-of-nowhere atmosphere, he
says. The climate stays arohnd 70
degrees most of the year there in
Southern Indiana. He remembers
the warm, sunny weather extend-
ing into November before tem-
peratures dove to freezing depths.
In fact, due to its pleasant, hot
climate, Indiana has earned the
nickname as the "Florida of the Big
10." It's situated right next door to
Kentucky. Pat says the two states
have similar weather patterns.
"It hurts to breathe for a week
out of the year, but then the rest of
the year it's 70 to 90," he says.
PREPARING FOR the Olympic trials is swimmer Pat Pe-
noyar, who is currently on the Indiana University Hoo-
siers' team.
credits him with lifting the team
to its current level of success. "He
believes in intense, long training."
Pat says, referring to the kind of
training where he and his team-
mates "wake up in the morning
and wish you weren't even alive."
RIGHT AFTER A swimmer
has had a really bad performance
at a competition, Coach Looze will
still sit the swimmer down and
start outlining a training strat-
egy to succeed next time. "Coach
- he's obnoxiously ambitious, re-
ally," Pat says affectionately. "He
doesn't stop thinking about swim-
ming fast and it really becomes
annoying. He just grabs you and
yanks you back in."
Pat said the coach's approach is
pushing the team to become "real
good, real fast." He believes one of
his teammates, Ben Hesen, has a
very good chance of winning the
National Collegiate Athletic As-
sociation championships in short-
course swimming, an event which
is only to be seen in America. "He's
been dominant in short course,"
Pat says proudly of his teammate.
Competing at the Olympic tri-
als has Pat really excited, since
this means a temporary pool will
be installed in the middle of a bas-
ketball arena seating 30,000 spec-
tators in Omaha, Nebraska. He
expects about 4,500 people to turn
out to watch this event.
For now, however, the national
championship event is his focus.
He doesn't even want to really
think about the Olympic trials un-
til after finishing the national col-
legiate championships. Ironically,
UW, his former team, will host the
collegiate nationals at the King
County Aquatic Center in Federal
Way. As soon as Olympic trials
follow in June, the team will start
training all over again, this time
on a shorter cycle.
IN THE FIRST half of the
year, the team puts in a total of six
hours of training in three different
workouts each day. "We train so
many more hours because it's not
physically abusive to our bodies,"
Pat explains. Without the pound-
ing impact on joints as in so many
other sports, the only real physical
limitation swimmers face is aero-
bic capacity and mental training.
His personal goal for the na-
tional collegiate meet is just to do
well, he says. Last year he swam
the 200-meter race in about 1 min-
ute and 56 seconds and he finished
] .... ,
the 100-meter event in 53.6 sec-
onds. The winner in both events
broke American records with his
times. "It was pretty fun. It was a
big meet," he says.
One of his favorite aspects of
this meet is when he can spot an
opponent from another country
sporting the Olympic rings tat-
too - a traditional sign of having
qualified for the Olympic Games.
Seeing this, he's thinking: "I can
take this guy."
Making the U.S. Olympic team
is usually much more competitive
than making the teams of other
countries, Pat says. This means
that times at the Olympic trials
are just about as fast as those
posted in the Olympic Games.
Since the 1970s, when the United
States started sweeping all of the
swimming events, now only the
top two finishers qualify for the
U.S. Olympic swim team, instead
of the top three.
A SUPERIOR, powerhouse
swim team wasn't the only lure for
Pat to trade in his Husky mascot
for a Hoosier. Indiana also boasts a
journalism program that is ranked
among the top 10 in the nation.
"The professors are awesome!" he
says. "There's actually a lot of Na-
tional Geographic or Life reporters
working as professors there."
These big-name instructors are
also very friendly, helpful and ac-
commodating. "They'll do every-
thing to help you out," he says.
Before he made the switch, Pat
had been working for the daily
newspaper at UW, but his tight
swimming schedule prevented him
from being too involved. Ultimate-
ly, his goal is to seek wild adven-
ture as a reporter for an outdoors
magazine, or possibly handle pub-
lic relations for a company such as
Patagonia. He's looking for some-
thing "where I get to be outside,"
Vets to reminisce
with 1950s event
Remember the "good ol' days '.
Folks at the 40 et 8 veterans' club
invite the public to a "blast from
the past 1950s dinner and dance."
The event will run from 5:30 to
7 p.m. on Saturday, September 15,
at 113 West Cota Street in Shel-
ton.
Rick Johns will cook for a 1950s
drive-in menu complete with
cheeseburgers, French fries, root
beer floats and more. Dancing will
begin at 7:30, featuring Fifties
music and karaoke.
There will also be door prizes,
dance and costume contests, hula
hoops and "old-fashioned fun."
00hank .00ou
James R. Hall
extendourheartfelttothe
Gary Esterly Fam00y
We were deeply touched by your kindness and
thoughtfulpresenceathisservice
God 00less 00?ou00lll
Nifty Thrifty
• Household * Clothing • Sporting Goods • Tools • Toys & Much More
B00RgAINS gALORE 00,,ocssd. fund the
Muon Senior Center
250,0 art COUPON""*"''-"
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2505 Olympic Hwy N Hours: Monday - Saturday 10-5 • Friday til 6
]atsway Shopping Center Donations accepted: Monday - Saturday 10-4
SeRwe Zso CouP'," RSmers THe se , OCAO Z9 S
where Money does grow on trees
Helping local businesseslrow for over 30 yrs
Holidays are just around the comer
year go by wtth missed profits
Affordable Rates
Full or Partial Accounting
, Payroll, Monthly & Quarterly Reports
Job Costing, Monthly Client Billing,
Customized to
Tax Prep for Individuals & Businesses
t
Remember !lFl'ax .time is fast
2523 Olympic Hwy N Shelton, WA 98584
(Next to the Royal Shanghai)
380.426.7400
small: acct.ntax@hct:c.€om
,.individual Tax retums start at $6500
LOOSE
DENTURES?
Can't eat?
We have the
MODERN
SOLUTION!
• Fast • Affordable • Easy
"These are no__t your
grandma and grandpa's
For a complimentary
consult, call...
(3.) 426-9711
dentures ..." William J. Busacca, DOS, PS
DOCS 1525 Olympic Hwy. North, Shelton,WA 98584
American Dental Association
Academy of General Dentistry
American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry T h e S m i l e E x p r e s s
Thursday, August 30, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 15
plung into Olympic challenge
esun
E adding he doesn't ever "want to be Part of the school's charm is its
adl r a brief' few days, even a
s01 iSWimming through the wa-
ilab Jgically feels efibrtless
.47 s hke flying," Pat Penoyar
You can just go so fast and
n mcredzble feehng.
sensation only comes af-
ths of intense training.
,,irst month is hell becau.e
.do is just continuous aero-
' 't" " '
rag, whmh doesnt really
l " " "
1 se, he says. They just
/. basically hop in the water
" m as fast as we can for two
Ltioarld then they try to make
.,, for another half an hour
, , Y." He said it becomes like
4j Pulse, and something that
hake up in the morning and
Qt have to do," he adds.
jt for him, that one week out
ed;. Year makes all of the hard
l.' followed by a month of
g down to shorter work-
J i Worthwhile. "You feel like
C ,,
Cl:n, he says.
. ,T HAS BEEN in the pool
0mer, working on improving
coes on the Indiana Univer-
a team. Recently, he paid
" . .
]1 e into his senior year at
d:, where has a swimming
.thip. As he looks ahead to
' 1 year in college, however,
0t just going for a degree.
so striving for a chance at
glory.
/qPeting in the 100- and 200-
breaststroke events, he
d for the Olympic trials
ith a number of his team-
.m. Ironically, while he's the
these events on his team,
Yes he's virtually the slowest
r on the team in just about
Other event.
who has been swimming
is freshman year at Shelton
hool, has to finish in the top
the trials to qualify for the
lic Games, racing through a
:of preliminary, semi-final
al events. If you make the
heat, there's a chance of be-
n professional swimmer,
there's not much money in
aOtes.
rding to his current times,
Ys, he isn't even close to
:['lng for the Olympics. At the
tirae he points out optimis-
[Y that last year he "wasn't
[Close,, to the times he's post-
. "It's just a matter of'How
[lCan get faster."
SEASON he finished in
Place at the Big Ten cham-
:ips, which Pat says is pretty
aa international meet.
,transferred to Indiana from
iVersity of Washington as
0r. "It's so much better than
he says, describing the In-
,SWim team as very blue
r£ iri the sense that everyone
.rth an enormous amount of
re's very little politics," he
at compares this with the
rSity of Washington, where
s the swim coach seemed
t Oacerned with money and
than with swimming, an
a which wound up driving
rue of the best swimmers
am. As a result, Pat says,
ersity brought in a new
Rth better leadership and
is improving now.
aew team's dynamics and
, being smaller and more
than those at UW, remind
is Shelton Highclimber
calls the university's
g environment "incred-
:eOach, Ray Looze, swam on
8. Rational team and Pat
stuck in an office."
All in all, Pat, the son of Dr.
Chris and Becky Penoyar of Shel-
ton, says his college experience is
measuring up to everything he ex-
pected it to be. "It's involved a lot
of growing up and a lot more train-
ing," he says. Gone are the protec-
tive barriers of home. "There's no
going home. And you have to deal
with your choices, I guess. You
know, you just have to be real
smart about things and you actu-
ally have to do your homework."
HE SAYS HE'S "really happy
I'm where I am; no doubt. I'm re-
ally a lot happier at Indiana."
surrounding college-town-in-the-
middle-of-nowhere atmosphere, he
says. The climate stays arohnd 70
degrees most of the year there in
Southern Indiana. He remembers
the warm, sunny weather extend-
ing into November before tem-
peratures dove to freezing depths.
In fact, due to its pleasant, hot
climate, Indiana has earned the
nickname as the "Florida of the Big
10." It's situated right next door to
Kentucky. Pat says the two states
have similar weather patterns.
"It hurts to breathe for a week
out of the year, but then the rest of
the year it's 70 to 90," he says.
PREPARING FOR the Olympic trials is swimmer Pat Pe-
noyar, who is currently on the Indiana University Hoo-
siers' team.
credits him with lifting the team
to its current level of success. "He
believes in intense, long training."
Pat says, referring to the kind of
training where he and his team-
mates "wake up in the morning
and wish you weren't even alive."
RIGHT AFTER A swimmer
has had a really bad performance
at a competition, Coach Looze will
still sit the swimmer down and
start outlining a training strat-
egy to succeed next time. "Coach
- he's obnoxiously ambitious, re-
ally," Pat says affectionately. "He
doesn't stop thinking about swim-
ming fast and it really becomes
annoying. He just grabs you and
yanks you back in."
Pat said the coach's approach is
pushing the team to become "real
good, real fast." He believes one of
his teammates, Ben Hesen, has a
very good chance of winning the
National Collegiate Athletic As-
sociation championships in short-
course swimming, an event which
is only to be seen in America. "He's
been dominant in short course,"
Pat says proudly of his teammate.
Competing at the Olympic tri-
als has Pat really excited, since
this means a temporary pool will
be installed in the middle of a bas-
ketball arena seating 30,000 spec-
tators in Omaha, Nebraska. He
expects about 4,500 people to turn
out to watch this event.
For now, however, the national
championship event is his focus.
He doesn't even want to really
think about the Olympic trials un-
til after finishing the national col-
legiate championships. Ironically,
UW, his former team, will host the
collegiate nationals at the King
County Aquatic Center in Federal
Way. As soon as Olympic trials
follow in June, the team will start
training all over again, this time
on a shorter cycle.
IN THE FIRST half of the
year, the team puts in a total of six
hours of training in three different
workouts each day. "We train so
many more hours because it's not
physically abusive to our bodies,"
Pat explains. Without the pound-
ing impact on joints as in so many
other sports, the only real physical
limitation swimmers face is aero-
bic capacity and mental training.
His personal goal for the na-
tional collegiate meet is just to do
well, he says. Last year he swam
the 200-meter race in about 1 min-
ute and 56 seconds and he finished
] .... ,
the 100-meter event in 53.6 sec-
onds. The winner in both events
broke American records with his
times. "It was pretty fun. It was a
big meet," he says.
One of his favorite aspects of
this meet is when he can spot an
opponent from another country
sporting the Olympic rings tat-
too - a traditional sign of having
qualified for the Olympic Games.
Seeing this, he's thinking: "I can
take this guy."
Making the U.S. Olympic team
is usually much more competitive
than making the teams of other
countries, Pat says. This means
that times at the Olympic trials
are just about as fast as those
posted in the Olympic Games.
Since the 1970s, when the United
States started sweeping all of the
swimming events, now only the
top two finishers qualify for the
U.S. Olympic swim team, instead
of the top three.
A SUPERIOR, powerhouse
swim team wasn't the only lure for
Pat to trade in his Husky mascot
for a Hoosier. Indiana also boasts a
journalism program that is ranked
among the top 10 in the nation.
"The professors are awesome!" he
says. "There's actually a lot of Na-
tional Geographic or Life reporters
working as professors there."
These big-name instructors are
also very friendly, helpful and ac-
commodating. "They'll do every-
thing to help you out," he says.
Before he made the switch, Pat
had been working for the daily
newspaper at UW, but his tight
swimming schedule prevented him
from being too involved. Ultimate-
ly, his goal is to seek wild adven-
ture as a reporter for an outdoors
magazine, or possibly handle pub-
lic relations for a company such as
Patagonia. He's looking for some-
thing "where I get to be outside,"
Vets to reminisce
with 1950s event
Remember the "good ol' days '.
Folks at the 40 et 8 veterans' club
invite the public to a "blast from
the past 1950s dinner and dance."
The event will run from 5:30 to
7 p.m. on Saturday, September 15,
at 113 West Cota Street in Shel-
ton.
Rick Johns will cook for a 1950s
drive-in menu complete with
cheeseburgers, French fries, root
beer floats and more. Dancing will
begin at 7:30, featuring Fifties
music and karaoke.
There will also be door prizes,
dance and costume contests, hula
hoops and "old-fashioned fun."
00hank .00ou
James R. Hall
extendourheartfelttothe
Gary Esterly Fam00y
We were deeply touched by your kindness and
thoughtfulpresenceathisservice
God 00less 00?ou00lll
Nifty Thrifty
• Household * Clothing • Sporting Goods • Tools • Toys & Much More
B00RgAINS gALORE 00,,ocssd. fund the
Muon Senior Center
250,0 art COUPON""*"''-"
Coupon value I/P0¢ • Expires 12/31/07 I
2505 Olympic Hwy N Hours: Monday - Saturday 10-5 • Friday til 6
]atsway Shopping Center Donations accepted: Monday - Saturday 10-4
SeRwe Zso CouP'," RSmers THe se , OCAO Z9 S
where Money does grow on trees
Helping local businesseslrow for over 30 yrs
Holidays are just around the comer
year go by wtth missed profits
Affordable Rates
Full or Partial Accounting
, Payroll, Monthly & Quarterly Reports
Job Costing, Monthly Client Billing,
Customized to
Tax Prep for Individuals & Businesses
t
Remember !lFl'ax .time is fast
2523 Olympic Hwy N Shelton, WA 98584
(Next to the Royal Shanghai)
380.426.7400
small: acct.ntax@hct:c.€om
,.individual Tax retums start at $6500
LOOSE
DENTURES?
Can't eat?
We have the
MODERN
SOLUTION!
• Fast • Affordable • Easy
"These are no__t your
grandma and grandpa's
For a complimentary
consult, call...
(3.) 426-9711
dentures ..." William J. Busacca, DOS, PS
DOCS 1525 Olympic Hwy. North, Shelton,WA 98584
American Dental Association
Academy of General Dentistry
American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry T h e S m i l e E x p r e s s
Thursday, August 30, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 15