Friday, March 27, 2009

Team Ranked Nationally by NISCA

The National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association has ranked the Purple Tide and the Lady Tide National for Academics. As of March 22 the Lady Tide is Ranked 2nd and the Tide 5th. The Lady Tide has been rank in the top 15 Nationally the last 4 years. The last 5 years the Lady and Mens' programs have produced 15 Academic All-State Swimmers and 7 Academic All-Americans.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

School Board to Honor Swimmers

The School Board is going to honor the Purple Tide for it's academic achievements this past season on April 28th at the monthly board meeting. Try to make arraignments to be there. Academic All-State and All-Americans will be honored as well as the Varsity Girls and Boys Gold and Silver awards.
Board Meeting is at 7pm

Monday, March 23, 2009

PUPRLE KNIGHTS SWIMMING IN COLLEGE

Joe Gracalyn So. Loras College 50/100 Free
Max Maiken Jr. Beloit College 100 Fly/ 200/500 Free
Kendall Stauffacer So. Beloit College 100/Breaststrokes
Megan Roegner Fr. UW-Whitewater 100-1650 Free
Congradulations on your seasons. See you June 15th

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Rockford City Open

The Krueger Summer Team has been invited to the Rockford City Open. Sunday July 12th, this will be an all day event. Remember Summer Team Starts June 15th. Open Swim is still going on at BMHS 3:30-4:30 Monday - Thursday.

Friday, March 20, 2009

2009 Boys WIAA Middleton Sectional

Tenitive Big 8 Boys Schedule

A tenitive Big 8 Boys Schedule has been released pending approval of Athletic Directors.
The boys will swim a 6 meet schedule plus Conference Meet. Beloit will host two dual meets; one with Madison Memorial and Janesville Craig (Parnets Night). We will visit Madison East, and Middelton in dual meets. Triple Dual meets with Madison West, Madison LaFollette at LaFollette and a triple with Janesville Parker and Verona at Verona. All conference regular season meets will be on Friday Nights. This will open our schedule for more non-conference meets and invitationals.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

All State and All Americans Named

WISCA and NISCA have posted their Academic All-State and All-Americans as of March 18th. For the Girls Team; Keke Butz, Amanda Hayes and Morgan Hamilton and for the Boys Team; Mitch Fillbach, Austin Thomas, and Tom Whitcomb have been named Academic All-State. A cummulative GPA of 3.5 is nessasary for 7 semesters. Keke and Tom have also been named Academic All-American, a GPA of 3.75 is nessasary for 7 semesters. Seniors will announce their Colleges for next year at a later date. Follow blog for updates on their selections for College.

Monday, March 16, 2009

New Pool/Community Center

School Board Elections are comming up. Ask the canidates their opionions on this issue. We need this in Beloit. We want people to not just work in Beloit, But live in Beloit. We need to have the facilities to attract people to our GREAT city.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

More Pictures


Krueger Summer Swim Team Adds Meet

Place on your calendar. Triangle Meet with Platteville and Lancaster at Platteville. Saturday June 27th at 9:00am. More information to follow. Mr. DeKok time to get ready to swim. There will also be an open division for our college kids and adult swimmers.

Big 8 Swim Coaches Meeting Last Night

Big 8 swim coaches voted to end having week night meets. The coaches voted to have schedule two double duals, so that all meets can be on Friday nights. This would free up schedules to have more invitationals on team Lineups. Tide boys are looking at scheduling the Platteville Invitational, Janesville Cougar Relays, Parker Relays or Elkhorn Invitational, Oshkosh West Invitational, Rockford Auburn Relays, Rockford Boylan Pentathlon, and Madison Invitational as additional meets to regular Big 8 lineup. J.V. team is scheduling as additional meets the Madison Memorial Spartan Invite, Janesville Cougar Invite, and Rockford Boyland Dual.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Pool Open Again (Fixed?)

Heater is Fixed.
Open Pool will Start again Thursday.

Pool Heater Down

No Open Swim till further notice. Pool Heater is down.
Contact School Board and City Council about building community center and pool.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Purple Tide End of Season Awards

M.V.P. - Dan Luebke
Benji Klett Award - Mike McNulty
Iron Man Award - Nick Fillbach
Hardest Worker - Marco Chavez
Most Improved - Josh Werling
Rookie of Year - Cody Schober
Rock - Jesus Duran
Captains for 09-10 - Dan Luebke & Mike McNulty
Varsity Letter Winners: Ricky Cotter, Mitch Fillbach, Fritz Oldenburg, Austin Thomas, Tom Whitcomb, Jeremy Bishop, Marco Chavez, Chase Hankins, Cody Fick, Dan Luebke, Mike McNulty, Josh Werling, Ben Carper, Joe Mullvain, Nick Fillbach, and Cody Schober.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Pictures






Some Team Pictures

Middle Tide Girls WIN!!

Middle Tide Girls won the Dual City Conference meet at Janesville Marshall. This is the 1st time the Lady Tide won the conference after finishing second the last 6 years in a row. Now both Middle Tide boys and girls have won the Conference. The Boys won in 2005. Congratulations to Coach Butz, DeKok, and Prins.

National Gold Award

Our Girls High School Swim Team has won the National Academic Gold Award from the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association (NISCA) for the fourth year in a row. Their Varsity Team GPA was a 3.83. The Boys team won the National Silver Award with a Varsity Team GPA of 3.609. Overall Team GPA for the girls team was 3.3 and for the boys was a 3.1. Congradulations on your outstanding classroom record.

Swim Lessons

Our major fundrasier, learn to swim like the Purple Tide will be June 10-12. More info to follow

All Beloit Swimmers Check it out!

Open Swims from 3:30-4:30 Monday thru Thursday. Boys Swimmers Schedule individual meetings with me ASAP. Summer Swim Starts June 15th at 9:30am