Last Week of Summer Swim Team ):

I am Happy and Sad at the same time.

I get like this at the end of every season, since my coaching career start summer of 1975 and the summer of 1981 when I started coaching in Beloit. 

This season ending is different, our team is now going to the next level.

Coach DeKok and I had a Dream in the late 1990s of a program that would benefit our kids, swimming, and community in a greater way. We are now one program with many teams. We offer swim lessons, Middle School Swimming Team, High School Swimming, and now summer team becoming a Year-Round Team.

YES, This fall we will becoming a USA Swimming Program. 

There will be lots more information coming.

Almost all of our coaches, swim lesson instructors, swimmers, lifeguards, and parents have grown up with this program. It makes me happy that almost everything swimming in Beloit has its roots with Beloit TIDE. 

So they end of the summer swim season is also the birth of a new fall season. 

Reminder we will be having a Team Gathering at BMHS Natatorium Wednesday August 20th at 6:00pm, with Movie at 7:00pm. More info to come this week. 

Lets Celebrate this summer and the great things that are to come.

Yours in Swimming and BELOIT PROUD!!

Coach Vogel and the TIDE Staff