Swimming

Erin Popovich is a swimmer on the Butte Tarpons Swim Team which I coach along with Coach Bill Sever. Erin just set two world records last weekend in Butte, MT. One is class S6 100 m, fly (short course) and one in class SB5 100 breast (short course meters). Erin`s story is truely phenomenal. Her mother, Barbara Popovich has just written a summary of Erin`s swimming career, and is willing to share it with people.

Jennifer Hoover is a swimmer that will be 23 on JAN 26] of West Lafayette IN, aquatics with Special Olympics Tippecanoe County Indiana.
Jennifer first became involved with Gail Dummer and a DSO organization with the 1996 Paralympic swim trials in Indianapolis. She ended up being named an alternate on the US Paralympic Swim Team for 1996. She did not go to Atlanta, but was thrilled with the opportunity and experience. Jennifer participated in a DSO swim camp at US Olympics headquarters in Colorado around this time.
She has been swimming since pre-school years and started with Special Olympics at the age of 10. Jennifer was awarded the opportunity to compete in the Special Olympics World Games just this past summer (1999) in North Carolina. She brought home a silver and a bronze medal. Jennifer has been a USS member on a local age-group swim team (for 5-6 years) and is now a US Masters team member swimming at a local YMCA and competing. She hopes to participate in the 2000 Paralympic Swim Trials again in Indianapolis this June.

Jason Wening, USA
I am a distance swimmer. Which is really too bad because the longest event available at the Paralympics happens to be the shortest event in my competitive range, the 400m freestyle. I've made a career of successfully defending my title and world record in the 400m Freestyle. I've held the world record essentially since the summer of 1991. Aside from the 400m freestyle, I currently hold world records in the 800m free, 1500m free and the 400m IM. I also just recently set the world records in the short course 800m and 1500m freestyles. Recently I have discovered that my forte is open water swimming. I am much more competitive amongst able-bodied swimmers in the open water. I am capable of consistently posted sub 1 hour 5k swims.
I am a bilateral below knee amputee (missing both legs just above the ankles). I also have a partially formed left hand and arm. Swimming-wise that means that I have half the propulsive surface area on my left hand that I do on my right. Thus, my classification is s8.
My goal is to once again lower the world marks in the 800 and 1500m freestyles, and win the 400m freestyle in world record time at the Sydney games. I have been swimming for 15 years. I train with the Ann Arbor Swim Club-y under Shawn Kornoejle in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. I train 9 times per week for a total of about 16.5 hours of water time per week, and 5 hours of dryland training per week. I average approxiamtely 65,000 meters per week. I am generally in the water 50 weeks per year.
I am also a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, working in the Orthopaedic Research Lab, studying Biomechanics. My primary interest is in the mechanics of the human shoulder. I would like to combine my knowledge of swimming and shoulder mechanics to study the kinematic patterns of swimming in an attempt to understand the specific rmotion of the humerus relative to the scapula I would like to study this relationship in able-bodied as well as disabled swimmers, to understand the mechanics and time course of shoulder injuries due to repetitive loading in these populations.

Table of significant results. This only includes Major international, and other major events.

2nd USA-Swimming Disability Championships,
University of Minnesota,Minneapolis, MN 6/11-13/99 1st- 800m Free 9:48.88 WR
1st- 1500m Free 18:48.65 WR

2nd IPC World Swimming Championships;
Christchursh, New Zealand; 10/8-18/98 1st- 400m Free 4:48.14 WR
8th- Combined 1500m Free 18:59.34

1996 Paralympic Games; 8/15-25/96;
Atlanta, Georgia 1st- 400m freestyle 4:49.87
8th- 100 freestyle 1:08.03
5th- 4x100 free relay 1:07.00 100m split

1996 World Disabled Championships;
Malta; November, 1994 1st- 400 free, 4:57
3rd- 200 IM, 100 free

9th Paralympic Summer Games;
Barcelona, Spain; 1st- 400 free, 4:52.46; 200 IM, 2:43.; 4x100 free relay
3rd- 4x100 medley relay
4th- 100 free, 1:07.77
5th- 50 free
6th- 100 breast, 1:36.87

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Jason Wening, USA I am a distance swimmer. Which is really too bad because the longest event available at the Paralympics happens to be the shortest event in my competitive range, the 400m freestyle. I've made a career of successfully defending my title and world record in the 400m Freestyle. I've held the world record essentially since the summer of 1991. Aside from the 400m freestyle, I currently hold world records in the 800m free, 1500m free and the 400m IM. I also just recently set the world records in the short course 800m and 1500m freestyles. Recently I have discovered that my forte is open water swimming. I am much more competitive amongst able-bodied swimmers in the open water. I am capable of consistently posted sub 1 hour 5k swims. I am a bilateral below knee amputee (missing both legs just above the ankles). I also have a partially formed left hand and arm. Swimming-wise that means that I have half the propulsive surface area on my left hand that I do on my right. Thus, my classification is s8. My goal is to once again lower the world marks in the 800 and 1500m freestyles, and win the 400m freestyle in world record time at the Sydney games. I have been swimming for 15 years. I train with the Ann Arbor Swim Club-y under Shawn Kornoejle in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. I train 9 times per week for a total of about 16.5 hours of water time per week, and 5 hours of dryland training per week. I average approxiamtely 65,000 meters per week. I am generally in the water 50 weeks per year. I am also a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, working in the Orthopaedic Research Lab, studying Biomechanics. My primary interest is in the mechanics of the human shoulder. I would like to combine my knowledge of swimming and shoulder mechanics to study the kinematic patterns of swimming in an attempt to understand the specific rmotion of the humerus relative to the scapula I would like to study this relationship in able-bodied as well as disabled swimmers, to understand the mechanics and time course of shoulder injuries due to repetitive loading in these populations.
Table of significant results. This only includes Major international, and other major events.
2nd USA-Swimming Disability Championships, University of Minnesota,Minneapolis, MN 6/11-13/99	1st- 800m Free 9:48.88 WR 1st- 1500m Free 18:48.65 WR
2nd IPC World Swimming Championships; Christchursh, New Zealand; 10/8-18/98	1st- 400m Free 4:48.14 WR 8th- Combined 1500m Free 18:59.34
1996 Paralympic Games; 8/15-25/96; Atlanta, Georgia	1st- 400m freestyle 4:49.87 8th- 100 freestyle 1:08.03 5th- 4x100 free relay 1:07.00 100m split
1996 World Disabled Championships; Malta; November, 1994	1st- 400 free, 4:57 3rd- 200 IM, 100 free
9th Paralympic Summer Games; Barcelona, Spain;	1st- 400 free, 4:52.46; 200 IM, 2:43.; 4x100 free relay 3rd- 4x100 medley relay 4th- 100 free, 1:07.77 5th- 50 free 6th- 100 breast, 1:36.87