Beloit Memorial Athletic Code Meeting Dates READ!!!

June 27

10:00 a.m.

2:00 p.m.

July 10

2:00 p.m.

5:30 p.m.

TIDE Men and Women NISCA Gold Award for Academics

The TIDE has an Outstanding History of winning the NISCA Academic Award.

This is the 12th year in a row that our Ladies have won the Gold Award, having only ever won the Gold.

Our Men for the 1st time ever have won the Gold Award, having won Silver or Bronze the other 12 years. 

Also note that our Ladies were National Champions for Academics in 2015.

Congratulations to all of our swimmers for keeping such a proud tradition of Excellence.

Tough in the Pool

Tough in the Classroom

Beloit Strong

Beloit Proud

Hononegah and Rockford Boylan Added to Boys Schedule for 2017-18

We are excited to announce that we have add Rockford Boylan and Hononegah to our meet line up for next season.

With Madison West not hosting the Madison Invite at the UW Natatorium next year, this left an open date for our three teams.

We will be hosting a triangle meet at the Beloit Memorial Natatorium on Saturday January 27, 2018.
8:30am warm-up and 10:00am meet.

We are hoping that this will become an annual tradition of the three Stateline powers.

We want this to be a fun and fast meet. This will be the last meet on our schedule before the championship season.

Beloit Proud!!!!

Beloit Strong!!!!

Beloit Gets Boys WIAA Sectional 2018

Just Posted by the WIAA

Sectional #3 Saturday February 10, 2018

AT HOME!!!!!!!!!

BELOIT PROUD!!!!!

BELOIT STRONG!!!!

Olivier Leroy on Failing

There’s a fundamental thing swimmers all experience in practice…

Fear.

Yup.

It’s not the crippling anxiety (or “choking”) and fear we experience behind the blocks at those big meets…

(Although that is plenty stinky on its own.)

It’s much more subtle.

It’s the kind that shows up daily in your swimming practices…

And keeping you from improving faster in the water.

It’s the fear of working hard and not swimming as fast as you’d like.

It’s the fear of “dying” during a hard set.

It’s the fear of being beaten by a teammate.

It’s the fear of going out too fast on the main set.

It’s… in the words of an Olympic coach I spoke to recently… the willingness to be vulnerable in practice.

Look…

It’s natural to not wanna risk it all in practice.

To lay it all on the line with no guarantee that you will see the results you want or hope for.

And admitting the fact that we aren’t maybe giving our all in practice is another issue.

Don’t be so scared to fail in practice.

I get it…

And I am just as guilty as anyone…

Admitting that maybe we aren’t trying as hard as we thought is a kick to the pride.

So is realizing that you have been actively avoiding the harder sets and workouts…even though deep down you know how beneficial they would be for you and your swimming.

Go to practice to fail.

Choose to fail.

Be willing to push yourself to failure more often.

Completely forget about pacing a few times and go out on the higher intensity reps with zero regard for “saving” something.

You’ll surprise yourself.

When you are actively seeking moments where you might fail a heap of awesome stuff is happening…

Your self-imposed limits get adjusted.

Repeatedly.

All sorts of progression begins to happen in a flurry.

And your confidence goes through the roof.

The next step…

Spend 10% of your practice failing today.

Doing one extra dolphin kick off each wall.

Burying your head into the wall.

Not holding anything back on the high intensity efforts.

See you in the water,

Olivier

P.S. Failing is a critical part of getting better in the water.

Unavoidable, actually.