In late 2009, Hope "Mommie Bear" Walker returned to Sprint Triathlon competition after a 7 year retirement. Her success in her age group has been fabulous and she has qualified for and has become a member of the USAT Team USA for 2011 and will compete for the USA team at the 2011 Sprint Triathlon World Championships in Beijing China in September 2011. This blog is to chronicle her efforts and journey and to help raise donations to fund her trip to Beijing China to represent the USA Team and to chronicle the family's involvement in multisports competition.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Hope starts training with the Excel Aquatics Triathlon Team

To improve her swim times for next years triathlon season and her run-up to the 2011 Sprint World Championships, Hope has started swim training with the Excel Aquatics Triathletes group which is head coached by Ashley Whitney, a 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist in the frestyle relay and also was part of the University of Georgia's national champion's swim team.

This will give Hope access to great coaching, strucured workouts and acess to a 50 meter pool over the winter training season and then weekly open water sessions starting next summer.

http://www.excelaquatics.org
http://www.excelaquatics.org/adult/triathletes
http://exceltriathletes.blogspot.com/
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