Purple Tide Weekend

3 Meets in 3 Days.

It was a very tough and very physically demanding weekend.
It was a very good weekend.

Thursday the Tide finished 3rd at The Rock County Championships. (Read 1/5/11 Post)

Middleton, Janesville Craig Triple Dual

Friday the Tide swam a Triple Dual at the Middleton Cross Plains  Community Pool with Janesville Craig and Middleton. Holding true to Coach Vogel's philosophy of training through meets at this point in the season. The Tide changed up its line up from the night before to find out what the team could do in other events. The challenge proved to be very productive, as the Tide swam very well, this gave the a lot of the swimmers 6 different events to swim this weekend. The swim of the night was the J.V. 400 Free Relay set a new school J.V. record of 4:04.97. Relay team members were Londel Bland, Justin Stanton, Tyler Garetson, Kevin Nguyen. The old record was set in 1992.

Stoughton College Events Meet

Saturday the Tide finished 2nd at the Stoughton College Events Meet, behind defending Division 2 State Champions McFarland. Even though it was their 3rd meet in 3 days the Tide had an outstanding day.

400 Medley Relay: 5th Christian Daniels, Caleb Schober, Cody Schober, Alec Shu 4:05. 39
                              8th Jose Cardenas, Morgan Poepping, Joe Garetson, Chance Murray 4:22. 91

1000 Free: 8th Nick White 12:28.89

200 Free: 3rd Chance Murray 2:00.56, 6th Alec Shu 2:02.95

100 Back: 3rd Jose Cardenas 1:02.93 8th Christian Schober 1:13.12

100 Breast: 3rd Caleb Schober 1:08.53

200 Fly: 4th Tyler Dirksen 2:47.88, 5th Cody Schober 2:56.70, 7th Kevin Nguyen 3:09.67

400 I.M.: 3rd Christian Daniels 4:44.47, 7th Joe Gareston 5:13.58

100 Free: 5th Alec Shu 52.71

200 Back: 3rd Christian Daniels 2:13.75,  8th Jose Cardenas 2:26.13

200 Breast: 7th Caleb Schober 2:37.63

500 Free: 2nd Chance Murray 5:31.19

200 I.M. 8th Joe Garetson 2:26.07

400 Free Relay: 6th Shu, Murray, Cardenas, Daniels 3:41.97
                          8th Garetson, White, Caleb Schober, Poepping 3:54.33

The Tide's next meet is Home at Beloit College Natatorium Friday January 13 5pm.

Go TIDE!!