Lady Tide Ranked in Coaches Poll

The Lady Tide are ranked 35th in the latest WISCA coaches poll for Division 1 schools.

This the first time the Lady Tide has ever been ranked in the coaches poll.

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Lady Tide Swim Well vs. West

The Lady Tide swam Madison West last night at the Beloit College Natatorium losing 119-51. Despite  the score the Tide swam very well. Madeline Franklin won the 100 (57.88 top 10 all time) and 200 Free.
Margo Grover won the 50 Free, 2nd 100 Breast (1:19.09 top 10 all time). The A 200 Free Relay finished 2nd (Grover, Ingolia-Brown, Oldenburg, Franklin) and the B relay finally broke 2:00.


The Lady Tide had many best times.

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Lady Tide Battles LaFollette

The Lady Tide lost a close meet with Madison LaFollette tonight 91-73. There were a lot of close races that went LaFollette's way. 


Margo Grover had Beloit's only individual 1st place winning the 100 Free in 57.80. 
The 400 Free Relay of Madeline Franklin, Kalie Oldenburg, Taylor Ingolia-Brown, and Grover won in 4:04.14


Other Top Places: Franklin 2nd in the 200 IM and 100 Fly; Grover 2nd 200 Free 2:08.07 (Top 10 All-Time); Diane Meason 3rd 200 IM, 2nd 100 Back; Maggie Locke 3rd 100 Back; Taylor Brown 2nd 500 Free.


The 200 Medley Relays A&B, 200 Free Relays A&B finish 2nd and 3rd. Also the B 400 Free Relay also finish 3rd. The Tide relays out scored the Lancers 22-20. Again the Tide showing great depth. 

We can Beat this team at Conference!!

Go TIDE!!

Franklin & Grover Shine at Boylan

Madeline Franklin                          Margo Grover




Madeline Franklin(11) won the Junior Class Division at the Hononegah Invite Saturday at Boylan High School.
Madeline scored 50 points beating Courtney Gray of Belvidere by two points. 
Margo Grover(12) finished 2nd in the Senior Division with 51 points, Rachel Johnson of Elkhorn Area finished 1st.


Madeline finished 2nd in the 100 Fly, 4th 100 Back, 2nd 50 Free, and 2nd 100 Free.


Margo finished 3rd 100 Fly, 2nd 50 Free, 2nd 100 Breast, and 2nd 100 Free.


The Tides next meet is at Madison LaFollette. We can get them, so keep your focus. You are working very hard you need to budget your time and get your sleep.

Go TIDE!!!

Lady Tide gets by East

In a Total Team Effort, the Lady Tide beat Madison East 86-84. If the Tide did not win the 1st place in the event they got 2nd and most of the time 3rd place. In most events all three Tide swimmers scored. 


Margo Grover and Madeline Franklin led the way with two 1st place swims; Margo winning the 100 Free and Madeline the 200 IM. The 200 Free Relay of Grover, Kallie Oldenburg, Gabby DeKok, and Franklin also finished 1st. 


2nd Places: Taylor Ingolia-Brown 200 & 500 Free, Grover 50 Free, Franklin 100 Fly, Diane Meason 100 Back, and Morgan Mackien 100 Breast. 


In both the 200 Medley Relay and 400 Free Relay, the Tides A & B Relays finish 2nd and 3rd, and the B 200 Free Relay also finished 3rd. The Tide Relays out scored East 22-20, which was the difference in the meet.


The efforts of our Summer Team and Middle School Team are starting to show up. We are developing both depth and talent in all strokes and distances. 

The Tide is Rising, BUT we are not done yet!

It is only mid September, we need to keep working hard and focused.

Our big Goals are yet to come, and we will reach them.

Keep working hard and Keep the Faith!!

Go TIDE!!

East Meet Thursday at College

Reminder the the Madison East Meet has been moved to Thursday at Beloit College. Meet still starts at 5pm.

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From Gold Minds for Coaches & Athletes

Recently I got an email from someone saying, “Hi Wayne. You seem to have a lot to say about what people are doing wrong in high performance sport. How about you “put your money where your mouth is” and post a list of things people can do to enhance the performance of their athletes, teams and programs.”
OK. I did.

1. Train harder;
2. Train smarter;
3. Train harder and smarter;
4. Improve your leadership skills;
5. Consistently out-prepare everyone in your competition;
6. Dream bigger;
7. Believe in yourself;
8. Back yourself;
9. Get up faster when you are knocked down or face adversity;
10. Get tougher mentally;
11. Never accept the first “no” from a sports administrator or bureaucrat - just fight harder;
12. Become outstanding at finding and retaining talented athletes;
13. Develop the most creative thinking skills in your sport: the best ideas win;
14. Be more passionate about success than anyone else in your sport;
15. Never become complacent: success is a moving target;
16. Enthusiasm, passion, desire and attitude are contagious diseases: are yours worth catching?
17. Use sports science intelligently, effectively and with intent;
18. Get to know your athletes better than they know themselves;
19. Collaborate with your athletes - don’t coach at them;
20. Listen;
21. Take care of your own health – physical, mental and spiritual;
22. Be committed to intelligent change and continuous improvement;
23. Make friends far more often than you make enemies;
24. Develop a network of coaches in other sports and speak with them regularly;
25. Leave your ego at the door - ego kills progress and limits creativity;
26. Read books by great leaders, great thinkers and great philosophers: there are lessons to be learnt everywhere;
27. Go back and read Number 1 on this list again – you have to work harder than anyone else;
28. There are no short cuts: anything promising double figure improvement (e.g. 10% or more) in high performance sport is more fictitious than Lord of the Rings and you aren’t a hobbit;
29. Develop a group of close friends outside of your sport and don’t talk to them about sport;
30. Sleep and eat well everyday;
31. Find a sports science network group who respect you, want to collaborate with you and will growwith you;
32. Adopt an integrated approach to identifying and developing talent: physical, mental, technical, tactical, cultural and genetic;
33. Teach one new lesson to every athlete every day;
34. Give and seek feedback often;
35. Hate losing – but learn from it, grow from it and improve as a consequence;
36. Take smart risks with your program, your ideas and your coaching;
37. See an athlete’s parents as partners in performance not as adversaries or just paying clients;
38. Create the culture you want to coach in: start with your own attitude then “infect” everyone around you;
39. Accelerate your learning faster than your opposition: from learning comes change, from change comes improvement, from improvement comes winning;
40. Take up another passion - i.e. other than your sport – to focus your mind and intelligence on;
41. Get to know the techniques, skills, rules and regulations of your sport better than anyone in the world;
42. Learn from the legend coaches of your sport - to see further than giants, you must stand upon their shoulders;
43. Keep records, refer back to them often and learn from them: those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them;
44. Find a mentor - someone whose skills, knowledge, experience, attitudes and philosophies arecomplimentary (i.e. different) to your own;
45. Find someone to mentor: nothing teaches like teaching;
46. Become a master of the Internet, social networking and all current forms of communication: communicate the way your athletes want to be communicated with;
47. Don’t think, speak or act in absolutes.…there is no such things as “always, “never”, “must” and “only” in high performance sport: challenge everything!
48. Learn enough about sports science, sports medicine, technology and strength and conditioning to look your staff in the eye and challenge them with a level of credibility and understanding;
49. Hire intelligently: hire on attitude and passion, then train the skills you need;
50. And number 50………an oldie but a goodie….never, ever give up. Persistence and perseverance usually beat talent, money, facilities and potential.

There you go.
What are your top 50? Let me know – let’s see if we can add another 500 to my list!

 

Wayne Goldsmith

Fast Weekend: Craig & Elkhorn Results

The Lady Tide had a good weekend. They are swimming fast and tired, which is where you want to be right now. 
The Tide gave Craig a good meet in their loss. Margo Grover(12) won the 50 and 100 free. Madeline Franklin(11) added the 200 free and lost a close 100 fly. Diane Meason(10) finished 3d in the 100 back.


Saturday the Tide finished 7th of 12 at the Elkhorn Invitational. The Tide swam to 6 school 25meter records. Highlights: Grover 4th in the 100 free 1:04.98, 5th 50 free 29.14(VR), Franklin 5th 200 free 2:21.50(VR), 100 Fly 1:15.14(VR). 200 Medley Relay 8th Meason, Taylor Brown(12), Franklin, Grover 2:23.77(VR) broke a 5year old record. 200 Free Relay 2:02.94(VR) Kallie Oldenburg(10), Franklin, Brown, Grover 6th Place. Other outstanding swims Brown 400 Free 5:35.32. Meason 100 Back 1:21.95 (VR, SoR).

Tide's next meet is at Beloit College vs. Madison East. We need to Pack the Pool. We can beat this East team and we need to Rock the Pool!!!! Meet is Thursday night at 5pm.

Go TIDE!!

Lady Tide WINS

The Start of the Varsity 50 Free

The Lady Tide beat Janesville Parker tonight 103 - 67.
The  J.V. won 127-29.


The Tide was led by Margo Grover and Madeline Franklin, with two individual wins. Margo winning the 50 and 100 Free. Madeline the 200 Free and 100 Fly.
Diane Meason won the 200 IM  and was 2nd in the 100 Back.


The ladies also won all three relays. The 200 Medley of Meason, Taylor Ingolia-Brown, Grover, and Kallie Oldenburg. Grover's fly split was a top 10 swim in school history. 200 Free Relay of Franklin, Oldenburg, Kyla Robson, and Grover. 400 Free Relay of Franklin, Gabby DeKok, Oldenburg, and Ingolia-Brown. Taylor had an outstanding anchor split and a lifetime best swim in the the 500 finishing 2nd. 


The Tide had many outstanding swims. Keep up the Great Work. You are swimming fast and no one is rested. 

Go TIDE!!

Now lets get CRAIG!!