Wisconsin USA Swimming State Meet

Jackson Prowse(11) and CeCe Cardenas(12) swam at the USA Swimming Wisconsin State 12 & Under meet.


Jackson and CeCe swim for the Beloit Aquatic Team.


Jackson swam life-time bests in the 50 free 30.32, 50 breast 37.04, 100 breast 1:19.41 (15th place), and the 200 breast 2:52.16 (15th place).


Still waiting on CeCe's results.


Great Job!!

Go TIDE!!

Mental Prep: Dr. G

LOSE YOUR MIND AND COME TO YOUR SENSES!!!!

Submitted by Dr. G on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 20:43.

If there's one thing that will mess up your performance faster than a speeding bullet, it's OVER-THINKING! Thinking about: your technique, timing, goals, potential for winning or losing, opponent, what's at stake, what people might think, etc. while you're trying to perform will tighten your muscles, steal your self-confidence and run away with your potential. In performance terms, thinking is seriously hazardous to both your competitive health and success. It's the great undoer of mental toughness and can be found in the core of all performance slumps, fears and blocks.  

As a general statement, athletes tend to have far too much of the wrong things on their minds whenever they step into the competitive arena. As a result, they distract themselves from the important task at hand, the performance as it unfolds in this moment. When your concentration drifts from what you are doing in the present moment to your thinking, regardless of what it is, you miss the subtle, but critically important cues which inform your body and muscle memory about how to seamlessly and smoothly perform.  No one, regardless of skill, age or experience can perform to their potential by thinking their way through their game, match or race.

Peak performance comes about when we are able to abandon thinking, put ourselves on automatic and SENSE,i.e. feel/react to the moment by moment cues that happen in the flow of the competition. Peak performance is aSENSE or FEEL kind of thing, NOT a THINKING kind of thing! It naturally occurs when a swimmer or runner focuses on the feel of their stroke/stride, when a golfer concentrates on the feel of his/her swing or putt, when a pitcher or hitter focuses on the rhythm/timing of his pitch/swing, when a soccer or lacrosse player concentrate on the feel of the ball. 

When you properly sense, which is an automatic, NON-THINKING process, you stay connected to your body and the unfolding of the action. When you think, you distract yourself from sensing and, as a result, end up leaving your body. The instant you leave your body, you end up losing that all-important feel of what you're doing!

When I talk about losing your mind and coming to your senses I'm referring to the process of keeping your pre- and during performance focus on the feel of what you're doing rather than on your thoughts about what you're doing. For obvious reasons this is a whole lot easier said than done. You can't just tell yourself "Don't think!" because the minute you do that you're thinking about "not thinking!"

Instead, you have to train yourself to keep your focus on feel, on what you are sensing in the moment (NOW) as you go through the performance. When a thought pops up you want to calmly notice it as just a thought and quickly return your focus back to the feel of what you're doing in the NOW. Learning to train yourself to do this sounds easy but isn't! It takes practice and discipline to recognize thinking, not engage or fight with it and quickly return your focus back to feel.  

Prowse & Cardenas

Tide Swimmers Jackson Prowse and CeCe Cardenas, swimming for the Beloit Aquatic Team each made a USA Wisconsin Swimming State Cut Saturday at Waterloo.


Jackson(11) qualified in the 50 Breast and CeCe(12) in the 50 Free. Jackson also won the 100 IM.

Go TIDE!!

Keep the DATE!! Beloit Triathlon

Sunday June 26th. 8am

Beloit Triathlon.
Funds will be used to upgrade Krueger Pool.
All Swimmers and Parents are being asked to Volunteer to help with this event.


Beloit used to have one of the best Tri's in the Midwest and we are bringing it back.
Monies raised will be used to help improve our City's Swimming Facilities.

Go TIDE!!! 

Save The Date Platteville Invite June 25

Save the Date!!


Krueger Summer Tide.


June 25th Platteville Invite, Age Group meet.

Quote of the Day

"Hard Work Wins over Talent, 

unless Talent Works Hard."

Jim Caldwell BMHS 1973, Head Coach NFL Indy Colts

High School Pool DOWN!!

AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pump is Burned OUT!!!
Swimmers and Lifeguards check with your teachers and coaches.


Call your School Board Members!!

Swim Network

Have added Swim Network to blog list.
Has Great Videos of major meets.
Awesome Underwater shots.

Bessels and Phon at Fondy Tri

Amya (9), Jayda(7), and Cherelle(17); Participated in the Fondulac YMCA Youth Triathlon. Amya and Jayda won their age groups and Cherelle finished 2nd.
Great Job Ladies.
GO TIDE!!!!

Time Trials Major Improvements

End of Season Time Trials were FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Almost every swim was a Life-Time BEST.
GREAT JOB!!!!!!
GO TIDE!!!
Some Notable Swims:
Madeline Franklin (15) first sub minute 100 free 59.4
Jackson Prowse (11) 2:34 200 free, 1:24 100 Breast.
Devon Denson (17) first sub minute 100 free 59.2
Christian Daniels (15) 100 Fly 1:02.8, 400 I.M. 4:47, 500 Free 5:30.
11-12 Girls: Perri Thompson, Becca Wriedt, Caroline Locke, Lexi Taylor Great I.M.'s 100 Fly's, 100 Breasts, and 500 Free's.
11-14 Boys: Prowse, Andrew DeKok, Spencer Burns, Jack Kolbucar, Andrew Wadle, Tommy Haney,Jason Schroeder, Morgan Poepping, and Joe Garetson Great I.M's, 100 Breasts, 100 Free's.
10&Unders: Some many Great Swims; Courtney Orr (10) 500 Free 9:52.

Last Week of Summer Swim Team

It's been a Great Summer!!!
Tuesday Timed 500 Swim
Wednesday bring running shoes
Thursday & Friday Time Trials
Make sure you got your T-Shirt.
BMHS Girls Swim starts Tuesday August 10th 9am at Krueger.
Have a GREAT SCHOOL YEAR!!

Daniels at USS State 13 & Over

Christian(15) Swam both the 100 and 200 Breaststrokes at the Wisconsin State USS meet this weekend.
Finished 15th in the 200 Breast and 16th in the 200 Breast. Both swims were life-time bests.
Great Job!!!

Girls High School Swimming Starts Tuesday August 10th

9am Krueger Pool.
Do you have your physical.
Have you prepared.
Krueger Swim team goes till August 6th.
Get in the water now. Prepare.

Bessell's at Monroe Youth Tri.

Cherrelle Phon (17), Jayda (7) and Amya (9) Bessell participated in the Green County YMCA Triathlon Saturday July 24th.
300 Swim, 5 mile bike, and 1.7 mile Run.
Cherrelle Finished 1st in the 15-17 age group.
Amya and Jayda Finished 1-2 in the 10 & Under age group.


Great Job!!!

Sill Family in Rockton Triathlon

Nathan Sill (9) did the swimming leg(300yds) of his families Relay at the Rockton Triathlon this past Saturday.
His Dad did the bike (15 miles) and his Mom the Run (3 miles).
As a Team the Sill's finished 6th in the Coed Team competition.
Great Job Sills way to represent the TIDE!!!

Jackson Prowes at State USS Meet

Jackson Prowse (11) swam at the Wisconsin USS LSC 12&U State Meet this past weekend. 
Swimming lifetime bests in both the 100 and 200 meter (LC) breaststrokes.
Jackson finished 21st in the 100 and 14th in the 200.
Great Job!!!

Stateline News

Great Article in the Stateline News (Sunday July 18) on the Krueger Swim Team.
Make sure you read it.
Also the results of the Rockford Open were in Fridays Daily News.

52 Compete in Rockford

52 Tide swimmers swam in the Greater Rockford Open Today.
The team swam very well, with most swimmers coming home with a medal.
1st Places:
Jackson Prowes 11-12 50 Breast.
Christian Daniels 15-18 100 Back and 200 I.M.
Andre DeKok 19 & Over 200 I.M.
Joe Gracalyn 19 & Over 50 Free.
Ben Saladar 8&Under 25 Fly
Niall Gillan 9-10 50 Fly
More Results to Come as received.

Greater Rockford Championships July 11th

46 Tide Swimmers Competing at Meet.
If you still want to enter. You can enter at the meet.
Warm-up 9am
Meet 10am
Coach will get there about 8:30am
GO TIDE!!!!!!!!!!

Greater Rockford Championships July 11th

Entry Due to Coach by July 7th, with Fee.
$13.