Coakley’s Journey to the Olympics: A Presentation.

HAPPY NEW YEAR  EVERYONE!!!

That was a well deserved Holiday break right???

We are happy to be back online and blog-afresh all the updates, highlights & snapshots from last year, and more exciting events & adventures to come just for you. We already lined-up our entries but first let me tell you about what happened few months ago…

Berrr-months has always been busy for the country’s swimming community, especially on a SEA games year. Our friends who had a chance to compete and experience the Laos SEA games has got heart-racing adventure stories to share… One of them was Filipino-American multi-SEAGames-gold medal winner, fastest swimmer in all of South East Asia and two-time Sprint King:

Mr. Daniel Coakley

Coakleys’ Journey to the Olympics was a presentation held last December 19th 2009 at Ateneo de Manila. We are honored to have the Coakleys share with us their adventures and experience in Life with swimming. They gave us a peek of what a family with a strong mind and heart can do beyond imaginable…

Introducing our Speakers: (left t0 right)

Coach Jeffery Coakley, Mrs. Lani Eugenio, Kaiwiolaiamanakaipo “Kaiwi”  Coakley, and of course Daniel Coakley


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The Group Levitation

Strong mind = Strong body

“you can do pretty much anything you set your mind to…”

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Daniel demonstrating his new technique in freestyle…

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Your greatest opponent is not the person next to you, but rather the person within you.

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Aren’t we all inspired by this family’s passion for swimming and competing for the Filipinos?

Congratulations to Mr. Daniel Coakley and his Family! We are all proud of you!

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That’s it! CAL Swimming would like to thank everyone who participated and joined our presentation, We sure hope everyone had fun–We had a lot of fun having you all for our guest. Special Thanks to Coach Dong Gonzales for assisting with the presentation. See You all next time!

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Readers! check out the snapshots here!

Oh and, before I forget… PASA has got a busy schedule for this year and we are all excited. Good Day!

Coakleys’ Journey to the Olympics – A Presentation

Coakleys’ Journey to the Olympics – A Presentation

Dear Coaches, Swimmers, Team Owners, and Parents…

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CAL Swim School would like to invite you to a once in a lifetime presentation of the journey of Daniel Coakley (Southeast Asia Swim Sprint King) to the Beijing Olympics. With great family support, pride in his heritage, perseverance and determination, Daniel with his Family achieve their dream of representing their country to the Beijing Olympics.

Daniel with his dad and coach, Jeff overcame numerous obstacles to achieve their dream. These include training in an outdated swimming pool, no training partner, lack of high tech equipment/s, and others. We hope that with this presentation we can be convinced (Filipino Swimmers) that we can also achieve the Olympic Dream even with the lack of technological and system support available in the first world countries, and everything we need to succeed is already available to us.

Please find the general details of the seminar below. We will be limiting the participants to 200 as to assure the quality of the seminar. Sponsors and media partners have pledge their support for the event. All participants will be receiving an event shirt, meal, prizes, and other products from our sponsors.

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DATE: December 19, 2009. SATURDAY 9am – 12nn (8am assembly and registration time)

VENUE: Escaler Hall (air-conditioned auditorium), SEC Building, ADMU, Loyola Heights Q.C.;

Ateneo De Manila LS Pool (Semi-indoor 25m pool with bleachers)

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FEES: P300.00 for Swimmers, P400.00 for Coaches/ Parents and Supporters

* All Fees will include an event shirt, meal, and products from sponsors.

Please free to contact us through our email: coachalim@gmail.com.

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Download the Invitation and Registration forms here.

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SEE YOU THERE!