Summary 1st Meets of the Season

Heartland Arrowhead Scrimmage

This was the 1st scrimmage in several years for our team. It was nice to have and we worked out a lot of bugs, with a lot of new swimmers. Graduating 12 seniors from last years team we have a lot of holes to fill. After watching our young team, I'm very impressed by our talent, we just need to grow up. The future of TIDE swimming stays very bright. The Intermediate school program and our BTIDE USA program is paying off great dividends. We no longer have to totally rebuild, we just need to wait for them to grow up... This will be a great year by the time we get to February.

Tuesday night we won all three varsity relays and two individual events. I was also impressed with our talent skill level of our skilled events (IM, Fly, Back, and Breast). Our only true weakness is the 500 free and veteran depth in the freestyle depth.

We also saw our 1st divers for the 1st time in 5 years. They are all freshman and show great promise.

Notable Swims/Diving

200 Medley Relay: 1st Place 1:43.80
Anthony Jacobson, Ben Levy, Ben Saladar, Nathan Sill

50 Free: 1st Place, Nathan Sill 22.80  3rd Max Saladar 24.80

Nathan Sill

Diving: 2nd Place, Eli Miller 154.80 pts.  3rd  Ben Johnson 124.00 pts.

100 Fly: 1st Place, Ben Saladar 55.40  3rd Kana Wong 1:01.09

100 Free: 2nd Place Ben Levy 53.80

200 Free Relay: 1st Place 1:34.08
Ben Saladar, Max Saladar, Anthony Jacobson, Nathan Sill

100 Breast: 2nd Ben Levy 1:08  3rd Place Max Saladar 1:11.09

400 Free Relay: 1st Place 3:30.55
Ben Saladar, C.J. Light, Anthony Jacobson, Nathan Sill

Sun Prairie Dual Meet

Though we we are a young team, I was very happy with our overall passion that we swam with. The score does not show how well we swam overall. Again I'm impressed with our skill events, out scoring the Cardinals in the Fly, Back and Breast. We also had very strong I.M. swims. I do believe when we meet up in the conference meet in 3 months the outcome will be different.

Notable Swims/Diving:

200 Medley Relay: 2nd Place 1:43.60
Anthony Jacobson, Ben Levy, Ben Saladar, Nathan Sill

Diving: 1st Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson

100 Fly: 1st Ben Saladar 54.79  3rd Kana Wong 59.76 (Kana's time joins TIDE all-time list).

200 Free Relay: 2nd 1:40.50
C.J. Light, Ben Levy, Kana Wong, Max Saladar

100  Back: 1st Ben Saladar 57.52 (New Sophomore Record)

100 Breast: 2nd Ben Levy 1:07.70  3rd Max Saladar 1;09.88