In an earlier blog article, Coach Leah described synchronized swimming figures for us – what they are, their overriding purpose, how they’re scored, and how she manages practicing them with her team. In this follow-up article, Coach Leah reveals her number one suggestion for improving figures: ANA Synchro Head […]
In Part 1 of this 2-part article on “Combo” routines, ANA Synchro Head Coach Leah Pinette described for us what a Combo routine is and the choreography challenges and opportunities it presents. She also gave us a glimpse of ANA’s Combined Combo this season with Cambridge Synchro and the North Shore YMCA […]
In Part 1 of this two-part series, ANA Synchro defined the terms used to describe our sport’s most basic moves. In this final part, we define competition and performance-related terms. Routine – a choreographed sequence of moves that a swimmer performs to music. Routines can feature one swimmer (solo), two swimmers (duet), three swimmers […]
The competition part of the season may have just ended, but ANA Synchro athletes will not be idle all summer! Head Coach Leah Pinette wants to share three options for keeping synchro-fit this summer, some combination of which should fit just about everybody’s vacation, camp, and simply hanging-out-in-the-summer plans: Do […]
Y’s across the world are developing and delivering their programs according to three common pillars of thought and action: Youth Development, Healthy Living, and Social Responsibility. In an earlier blogpost, Andover/North Andover Executive Director Alex Turek walked us through why our team should care that the Y is so focused […]
We think all our coaches are pretty awesome. Each brings their unique experience to the team. But that creates challenges too. Athletes need consistency in what they are being taught. So there needs to be some way for each coach to take advantage of the best techniques from the rest […]
Welcome to the ANA Synchro Blog – your resource for all things synchro and ANA Synchro-related! To kick off our new blog, we check in Leah Pinette, on her first 5 months on the job as ANA Synchro’s Head Coach… Leah Pinette Head Coach, ANA Synchro ANA […]
