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Alli Koch
- Apr 7, 2020
- 2 min
April Athlete Spotlight - Meet Şerife
Meet our April Athlete Spotlight, Şerife Tekin. Şerife is a cheerful member of Team Paragon, and she joined us at the start of 2019. She did her first triathlon last fall, and she was our first female finisher at the Texas Tough Duathlon 5K! We also celebrate that she recently bought a house and got engaged! Şerife is originally from Turkey—check out an article she wrote about moving around and training. We're glad she moved to San Antonio to teach at UTSA! Age: 39 Occupation
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Alli Koch
- Mar 9, 2020
- 2 min
Variety is the Spice of Endurance Life
Paragon Training athletes had a lot going on this past weekend. From donut dashes, to half marathons, to track meets, cycling races, and trail runs, our athletes are involved in an array of events. We love to see the variety that endurance sports brings to life! Racing the Krispy Kreme Alamo 6.2 Donut Dash were Diana Ruderman and Raul Correa. Next up, Sanaa Cody, Elvia Rodriguez and Jose Vaquedano raced the Alamo 13.1. Jose won his age group! Sprinting around the track in Dal
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Alli Koch
- Mar 5, 2020
- 2 min
March Athlete Spotlight - Meet Paul
Meet our March Athlete Spotlight, Paul Wilson. Paul is part of Team Paragon now for the third year, and he has regularly pushed himself at our evening adult swimming practices. Paul is on his way to his first full IRONMAN event at IRONMAN Wisconsin in September 2020! He lives and trains by the mantra, "I Will Not Quit." Age: 57 Occupation: Pastor, Life Coach How long have you been swimming, cycling, running, or doing triathlons? I embarked on my triathlon journey six years ag
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Alli Koch
- Mar 2, 2020
- 2 min
Suffering, Faster
Ten Paragon Training runners raced the Diploma Dash 5K on Saturday. We had a men's team and a women's team competing. The men's team placed 2nd overall with combined times, and the women's team was right behind in 3rd! And we had a long list of teammates earning new 5K PRs, including Alfonso Campa, Emi Nix, Kelsey Kohler, Sarah Rasco, Jessica De Los Campos, and Jose Vaquedano. On the women's team, all five members were in different age groups... and each won their age group!
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Alli Koch
- Feb 18, 2020
- 1 min
National Qualifiers
Four UTSA Tri Club and Paragon athletes raced at the Need for Speed Masters Swim meet this past weekend. Coach Annie Schawe swam the 1650 in a time of 22:09 and qualified for Nationals! Isabella Beltri, Andrew Logsdon, and Octavio Viramontes competed in various events, and Logsdon and Viramontes also qualified for Nationals. The Masters National Championship is right here in San Antonio, and it is the U.S. Masters Swimming's 50th anniversary. More than 2,000 swimmers are exp
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Alli Koch
- Feb 10, 2020
- 1 min
New Team Record, Multiple 1st Overall Finishes
Our Paragon Swim Team had a great championship meet at Junior STAGS. Fourteen athletes raced over the weekend, and many of them dropped time in their events. Emma earned herself another STAGS cut and Caden won the 500 Free! A special congratulations goes out to Caleb Manifold, who achieved STAGS cuts in four events, broke a team record in the 100 Butterfly, and won the 50 Free, 100 Free, and 100 Fly overall! Team Paragon athletes racing on Sunday were Andrew Joy, Thomas Willm
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Alli Koch
- Feb 4, 2020
- 2 min
A Weekend of Long Rides
Paragon Training hosted their annual Hill Country Training Camp this past weekend near Dripping Springs. We had about 20 athletes practicing bike handling skills, building endurance on the bike and run, and learning helpful techniques for open water swimming. We had a few athletes even do their first century ride! Some also did their longest run! Of course, we built performance recovery in too, with foam rollers, the Hypervolt, Air Relax boots, and lots of food. Thanks to *Pi
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