High Boys Swim Team Meeting October 30th 6:00pm

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Women 2nd at Beloit Fall Sprint Invite Meet Summary

Amya Bessel let the Knights to a second place team finish of 11 teams. Amya defended her title in the 50 Fly, a great way to end your senior Homecoming. 

The Knights show there great developing depth by Medaling in 12 of the 16 events. Our freshman and sophomores are really starting to become very competitive and supporting their upper class swisters. 

Amya Bessel 50 Fly

Medalist:
200 Medley Relay: 
A Relay 3rd Place; Lulu Champeny-Johns, Sydney Prowse, Amya Bessel, Jayda Bessel
B Relay 8th Place; Noa Levy, Kate Gianvecchio, Prasia Jackson, Makenzie Jacobson

100 IM: 6th Jayda Bessel

100 Free Relay: 
A Relay 3rd Place; Jayda Bessel, Lulu Champeny-Johns, Bea Champeny-Johns, Amya Bessel

50 Fly: 1st Amya Bessel, 7th Prasia Jackson

Amya Bessel Homecoming Queen

200 IM: 4th Katie Landon

100 Medley Relay: 
A Relay; 4th Noa Levy, Sydney Prowse, Prasia Jackson, Kate Gianvecchio

50 Back: 5th Noa Levy

200 Free Relay:
A Relay 7th: Prasia Jackson, Sydney Prowse, Bea Champeny-Johns, Katie Landon.

100 Fly: 7th Katie Landon

100 Breast: 4th Sydney Prowse

150 Free Relay:
A Relay 4th Place; Lulu Champeny-Johns, Jayda Bessel, Amya Bessel

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Women Have Big Weekend!! Meet Summary

TIDE Women swim past Madison East; 

Both Varsity and J.V. win Big.

The Knights Varsity started their big weekend by beating Madison East 117-53 and the J.V. won 123-36.

The Varsity won 8 or 11 1st places and outscore East in all 11 events. Another plus for our program, our divers got to show off their stuff, diving for the first time in front of the home crowd, they did an amazing job. It was a total team victory as every varsity swimmer scored points.
Again our Relays out scored East 26 to 12, showing that our young team is developing the depth that we need to have to do well as a team at the end of the season.

The J.V. won took 1st place in every event and out scored East in every event.

The Knights are now have three wins and one loss on the season. This team is very young and is doing an outstanding job. A lot of our Freshman and sophomores are really stepping up and our Seniors and Juniors are showing great leadership.

Makenzie Flies the Dub

1st Places and Outstanding swims:

200 Medley Relay:
1st 'A' Noa Levy, Sydney Prowse, Praisa Jackson, Jayda Bessel 2:01.05
3rd 'B' Lulu Champeny-Johns, Kate Gianvecchio, Bea Champeny-Johns, Kristyn Landon 2:06.45

200 Free
1st Amya Bessel, 2nd Sydney Prowse, 5th Caroline Santas

200 I.M.
2nd Katie Landon, 3rd Bea Champeny-Johns, 4th MaKenzie Jacobson

50 Free
1st Jayda Bessel, 2nd Praisa Jackson, 4th Kristyn Landon

100 Fly
1st Amya Bessel, 3rd Praisa Jackson, 4th Lulu Champeny-Johns

100 Free
1st Jayda Bessel, 2nd Kate Gianvecchio, 3rd Noa Levy

500 Free
2nd Katie Landon, 3rd Bea Champeny-Johns, 4th Caroline Santas

200 Free Relay
1st 'A' Amya Bessel, Praisa Jackson, Bea Champeny-Johns, Jayda Bessel
2nd 'B' Kate Gianvecchio, Paige Kovac, McKenzie Jacobson, Katie Landon

100 Back
1st Lulu Champeny-Johns, 2nd Noa Levy, 3rd Makenzie Jacobson

100 Breast
2nd Sydney Prowse, 3rd Kate Gianvecchio, 4th Kassidy Thomas

400 Free Relay
1st "A' Amya Bessel, Katie Landon, Lulu Champeny-Johns, Sydney Prowse

Elkhorn Invitational 

The young Knights finished 3rd of 9 at the Elkhorn Invite. It was a total team effort with no First places but we podium in every event. Every swimmer had a least one swim that scored points.

Knights Varsity 3rd Place

Cool note: Four of the coaches in the meet today are Purple TIDE/Knight alumni. Beloit Memorial Head Coach Kim Waite and Assistant Brian Michels. Milton High School Head Coach Lindsey Hassenfelt. Delavan-Darin High School Assistant Lauren Gurholt.

Alumni now Coaches

Lindsey Hassenfelt, Lauren Gurholt, Kim (Orr) Waite, Brian Michels

Podium Swims:

200 Medley Relay
3rd: Lulu Champeny-Johns, Sydney Prowse, Amya Bessel, Jayda Bessel
8th: Noa Levy, McKenzie Jacobson, Praisa Jackson, Kristyn Landon

200 Free: 7th Bea Champeny-Johns

200 I.M.: 4th Katie Landon

50 Free: 6th Jayda Bessel

100 Fly: 4th Amya Bessel, 8th Katie Landon

100 Free: 8th Jayda Bessel

400 Free: 7th Sydney Prowse

200 Free Relay
2nd 'A' Amya Bessel, Katie Landon, Bea Champeny-Johns, Jayda Bessel

100 Back: 8th Lulu Champeny-Johns

100 Breast: 7th Sydney Prowse

400 Free Relay:
5th: Amya Bessel, Katie Landon, Lulu Champeny-Johns, Bea Champeny-Johns

The Knights next meet is Friday September 14th at Middleton 

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TIDE gets by LaFollette

The TIDE beat Madison LaFollette 99-71.

The TIDE Varsity 200 Medley Relay of Noa Levy, Sydney Prowse, Praisa Jackson, and Jayda Bessel set a new Sophomore record in winning the the event in 1:59.37.

The Knights took 1st place in 6 of 11 events, they also out scored the Lancers 26-14 in the relays. The close meet was broke open by the Knights in the 100 Back and 100 Breast as the they went 1st and 2nd in both events and then followed up with a 1-2 finish in the 400 Free Relay.

The TIDE is getting a lot of depth points from their up and coming under class-women. 

1st Places and Top Swims:
200 Individual Medley: Katie Landon, 2nd Noa Levy
100 Free: Jayda Bessel
100 Back: Lulu Champeny-Johns, 2nd Noa Levy
100 Breast: Sydney Prowse, 2nd Kate Gianvecchio
400 Free Relay: 'A' Amya Bessel, Katie Landon, Sydney Prowse, Lulu Champeny-Johns. 2nd 'B' McKenzie Jacobson, Caroline Santas, Noa Levy, Krissy Landon.

The TIDE JV won 106-62. Winning 7 of 11 events.

The TIDE's next meet is this Friday at TIDE home vs. Madison East at 5:00pm.

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10 Things Swimmers Can Do for Exceptional Team Culture; Olivier Leroy

10 Things Swimmers Can Do for Exceptional Team Culture

A swim team’s culture can boost your chances of success in the water just as easily as it can hold you back. Here’s how you, the elite-minded swimmer, can do your part to create exceptional team culture.

Great team culture is one of those things that everyone wants, is fun to lob around as a goal for the club, and yet, is hard to pin down or measure.

But you know it when you see it.

Great culture is unmistakable: success is sustained no matter who swims there. The team performs consistently well. Athletes are motivated to be there.

Bad culture is hilariously easy to spot as well: The bad group body language. The inconsistent performances. The low motivation and lack of direction.

Culture is easy to talk about in the abstract. We all want it, after all. But intentions are not good enough. Great team culture isn’t something you talk about, what you think or what you plan on doing. Great team culture is what you do.

Here are ten things swimmers can do to their part in creating a culture where they and the whole swim team are successful.

1. It starts with ownership.

It can be easy to look at the coach as the be-all and end-all for team culture, but at some point, athletes need to step up as well.

The reality is this: an environment that encourages risk-tolerance, is psychologically safe and promotes excellence benefits you just as much as it benefits anyone else.

Don’t wait for other swimmers to be the ones to step up. Yes, it can feel scary stepping up and taking the lead. It takes a lot to be the one to suggest to do one more rep above and beyond what is expected.

It can feel like you are the odd swimmer out by doing the workout properly and not complaining. This is okay—being excellent isn’t normal.

While your coach lays out the workouts and sets a standard for what is expected, it’s still on you to deliver on those expectations.

2. Embrace the newbies.

When a swimmer first joins your group or lane they are most receptive to the tone and attitude of the group. It’s your chance to make a great first impression and set the standard of what is expected.

Welcoming the new swimmers to the group also gives you a chance to remind yourself what kind of expectations you would like to have of the team and group.

3. Work with the younger swimmers. 

Many of my favorite memories as a young age grouper were when the older swimmers—who I idolized—took a few moments of their practice to ask how my workout was going, to give me a quick pointer, or to encourage me to try a harder interval.

You don’t need to be a world record holder to have a serious impact on other swimmers in the pool.

4. Struggle together.

Getting through it together matters. Some of my favorite memories from my age group days have nothing to do with personal best times or records. They stem from the times where as a lane or as a group we persevered through a set or a workout.

It felt like it was us against coach or us against the workout. We didn’t always win, but on the times we did it brought us together.

Struggling through stuff together encourages cohesion. There’s no faking the bond that comes from throwing down on Hell Week together and coming through mostly unscathed.

5. Put the backstroke flags away.

When practice ends do you scurry to the locker room or are you helping put the lane ropes away? The backstroke flags? The yard sale of equipment behind the blocks?

You shouldn’t have to wait for anyone to ask you to help with this stuff.

The New Zealand All-Black rugby team, arguably one of the most dominant teams on the planet, clean their own locker room after games. Not assistants, or a janitor, or stadium staff—these revered professional athletes take it upon themselves to “sweep the sheds.”

Stepping up and taking care of your training and competition environment isn’t a chore—it’s showing that you care enough about the culture and the environment to spend a sliver of your time looking after it.

When you care for your environment you develop team-building pride for your crew.

6. Stand for your teammates.

Here’s a simple goal statement for you and your group: On this team we cheer for each other like crazy.

Get your cold, water-logged shorts off those chilly metal bleachers and stand up for your teammates when they are on the block. We’ve all experienced the chills and goosebumps before a big race when your squad gets up and does a banger of a cheer for you right before the whistle.

Make that the standard for your team. Not only will you swim hilariously well, but you’ll have every other team looking over in envy.

7. Get on board with the buddy system.

Accountability can work from a host of different directions. Here are some of the examples you are most familiar with: your parents getting on your case about working hard, and your coach on your case for showing up to practice.

But accountability seems to take on a different shade when it’s coming from one of your peers. After all, you are in the chlorinated trenches together. So there’s a kinship and an understanding there.

Partner up with a teammate who has similar goals as you (maybe not the exact same event) and work together to be more consistent in training.

8. Address what’s hurting the team quickly and together.

Problems happen to every club, good or bad, tiny or super. It’s how quickly and in what manner they are addressed that makes all the difference.

Here are some ways to stay on top of adversity and use it to help propel the group further:

Team captains. Weekly team meetings can help keep the ship on course through the season. Captains also manage some of the intra-personal stuff that can bubble up into real problems. They can help mediate issues and provide an added layer of accountability within the team.

Evaluation. Where can we improve as a group? What are we doing that is totally working? Quick evaluations done regularly can help the group from drifting off mission and stay focused.

Peer help. How can you help someone else in the group to be successful? We don’t need to go this alone—when a group of swimmers gets together and supports each other some insanely awesome stuff starts to happen. Risk tolerance goes up (you feel more comfortable going all out on your goals when you know you have people behind you).

9. Effort is always louder than talk.

At the end of the day, all the rousing speeches, the pep talks and the fancy championship banners don’t matter a chlorinated lick if you aren’t leading by effort.

This point is particularly applicable to swimmers who aren’t naturally extroverts. Generally we view leaders in the pool as being really vocal: but words don’t mean much if they don’t match up to the effort that is being put forth in the water.

In fact, it’s your actions that are the true barometer of your leadership abilities. You can rah-rah your teammates until you’re blue in the face, and talk about having a high expectation of excellence, but without the matching effort it’s got the opposite intended effect.

Look, no one is perfect. No disputing that. You’re human, which means that you are indebted the same amount of off days as every other swimmer on the team. But if you are leading, and the expectation is that you want an all-in effort from other swimmers in the group, you better be bringing the noise in the pool as well.

10. Leadership is found in the quiet moments.

Listening to a teammate who is having a rough day or a bad practice. Giving another teammate a reassuring pat on the back after a bad race. Pushing a teammate to a breakthrough performance in training even though your workout isn’t going as great as you’d like.

Leadership is found just as much, if not more so, beyond the rah-rah speeches and the boisterous cheers. It’s in the countless little moments where success and failure happen on your way to championship season.

This is great news for the quiet swimmer who prefers to lead by example. You can be a world-class introvert and still lead like a champion.

Women Open with Win!! (Meet Summary)

TIDE Women opened the 2018 Season with a win over rival Janesville Craig 89-81. Weather forced the meet inside to TIDE Home at BMHS Natatorium. So the team swam it's meet without practicing inside yet this season. Being indoors invigorated the team, and help bring this young team together.

The Knights are very young this year with only 2 varsity seniors. It is exciting to see so many freshman, sophomores, and juniors stepping up. With most of our number 3 swimmers in each event scoring.
The team collected six 1st places, while winning 7 of the events and tying Craig in two. 

It was a very exciting meet with no more than 4 points separating the teams through out the meet, until Beloit went 1, 2, 5 in the 100 Back, breaking the meet open.  
Also the TIDE relays out scored Craig 26 -16. With all 3 'B' relays scoring. The 'A' 200 Medley Relay started the season with the 9th fastest time in school history.

Amya Bessel swimming Fly leg,  swims into her waiting sister Jayda

200 Medley team swam the 9th fastest in school history.
Photo Credit: Maria Jacobson

1st Places and other top Swims:

200 Medley Relay:
'A' 1st  Lulu Champeny-Johns, Sydney Prowse, Amya Bessel, Jayda Bessel.
       9th Fastest School History 1:58.81
'B' 3rd; Noa Levy, Kate Gianvecchio, Praisa Jackson, Makenzie Jacobson  2:02.48

200 Free: 1st Sydney Prowse 2:11.75, 3rd Amya Bessel, 5th Bea Champeny-Johns.

200 I.M.: 2nd Katie Landon 2:25.96

50 Free: 2nd Jayda Bessel 27.05, 3rd Praisa Jackson, 5th Kristyn Landon

100 Fly: 2nd Amya Bessel

100 Free: 1st Jayda Bessel 59.40

500 Free: 1st Katie Landon 5:58.94

200 Free Relay: 
'A' 1st Makenzie Jacobson, Sydney Prowse, Praisa Jackson, Katie Landon 1:53.11
'B' 3rd Bea Champeny-Johns, Kristyn Landon, Caroline Santas, Paige Kovac.

100 Back: 1st Lulu Champeny-Johns 1:06.88, 2nd Noa Levy 1:0742, 5th Kristyn Landon 1:14.91

100 Breast: 2nd Sydney Prowse 1;16.25

400 Free Relay:
'A' 2nd Amya Bessel, Bea Champeny-Johns, Katie Landon, Jayda Bessel 3:59.65
'B' 3rd Lulu Champeny-Johns, Noa Levy, Katie Gianvecchio, Caroline Santas

The Knights Next Meet is Friday August 24 at Sun Praire 

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35 Ways to Rule the Pool by Olivier Leroy

35 Ways to Rule the Pool

1. Streamline. When you push off and you are diving into the water you are moving at lightspeed. Pack your arms and elbows in and keep that speed going for as long as possible.

2. Pop out of your breakouts. Explode out of your streamline into your first couple strokes. Good training habits matter.

3. Do one thing better today. Excellence doesn’t happen in fell swoops; do one thing better today than you did yesterday. Repeat as necessary.

4. Forget best times. Develop a routine and a schedule that leaves no choice but success.

5. Sleep more. Yes, it’ll require managing your time. But it’s worth the recovery and rest. Among the things you can do to recover and swim faster sleeping more is the easiest.

6. Surround yourself with like-minded athletes. Fast swimmers create a big wake. You can either surf it and go along for the ride or let the wave swallow you.

7. Stay ahead of injuries. Getting hurt will happen. Swimmer’s shoulder, in particular. Stay ahead of them by implementing a fast and simple pre-hab routine.

8. Don’t complain. It serves nothing. It’s not fair for others too.

9. Count your strokes. Swimming fast requires swimming with efficiency. Step one is knowing how many strokes you are taking per lap.

10. Count your fly kicks too. How many underwater dolphin kicks are you doing off each wall? Two? Three? Set a minimum threshold and stick to it.

11. Maximize your time in the pool. You don’t necessarily need more workouts, you need to be more focused with what you already have.

12. Don’t worry about what other swimmers are doing. At the end of the day, it’s You vs. You. No one else.

13. Hammer your weaknesses. There are areas of your training you avoid because you “suck” at them. Punish them with consistent attention.

14. Challenge yourself. Break out of your comfort zone. Try that breathing pattern. Do an off-stroke for the main set. Reach a little further.

15. Be grateful. We get to swim. Remember that especially when times are tough.

16. Master the fundamentals. Whenever you are struggling, go back to basics. Technique, consistency, attitude.

17. Be the swimmer you want to be daily. Being that awesome swimmer doesn’t happen at the end of the season. It happens today with your attitude, preparation and habits.

18. You won’t always feel like it. Do what has to be done even when you don’t “feel like” doing it.

19. Train around injuries. One of the benefits of swimming? If your legs are out of commish, get some pull in. Shoulder down for the count? Strap on some fins and do some vertical kick.

20. Have a plan. When you have a plan for your swimming you are more likely to walk on deck with purpose and focus.

21. Be the influence you want to be. What’s your idea of a perfect teammate? There’s no reason you can’t embody those characteristics yourself. A rising tide raises all ships (and especially yours).

22. Learn from your mistakes. It’s human nature to trip up in recurring ways. When you break the pattern and crack the chains of your habitual missteps you create an environment for massive momentum.

23. Work hard. You can’t control talent. Or genetics. But you know what you have control over? Effort.

24. Tackle big things one small step at a time. Olympians aren’t built overnight. Aim for progression and improvement, not overnight results.

25. Track the things that are mission-critical. If it matters to your swimming, you should be logging and tracking it. Period.

26. Keep things as simple as possible. Instead of drawing up a laundry list of 100 things you want to improve start with one thing. Nail it. And then move on to the next thing. When we complicate things we get overwhelmed.

27. Perfection vs. Excellence. Greatness comes with blemishes, setbacks and disappointments. It’s okay for things not to go perfectly.

28. Ignore the naysayers. Challenging goals are hard enough, nevermind in the face of unqualified criticism. Block ’em out.

29. Go the extra mile. If you do the same as everyone else, you will get the same results as everyone else too. Don’t be afraid to push things a little further.

30. Train like you wanna race. Don’t wait until race day to swim with the tempo, technique and speed you want. These are things that are developed during practice.

31. Refuse to wait. Your goals will not wait for you. Tomorrow is already a day too late.

32. Do what you say you will do. Keep your commitments with your team, your coach, and yourself. When you keep your word it builds integrity, which powers the belief that you can achieve big things.

33. Be coachable. We don’t know it all. Be humble enough to know when you are coming up short. Listen to constructive criticism with an open mind.

34. Be the example. Actions will always have more impact than all the talk in the world.

35. Be deserving of success. Yes, you deserve it just as much as the next swimmer. So why not you?