Lady TIDE 6th at BIG8 Meet

The TIDE finished 6th at the BIG 8 Conference meet this past weekend at Beloit Memorial High School Natatorium. The 18th ranked TIDE women swam a very strong meet against the best teams in the state. The Big 8 traditionally the Best Conference in the WIAA, with the Top 5 teams in the conference ranked in the top 7 in the current WISCA Coaches Poll.
#1 Middleton women easily out distance #3 Sun Prairie, with #5 Madison Memorial just getting by #4 Verona and #7 Madison West finishing 5th.

The TIDE was lead by Heaven Wells finishing 4th in the 100 backstroke and the 200 Free Relay also medaling with an 8th place finish. The 200 Free Relay swam the 2nd fastest time in school history with a 1:42.80. The team was made up of Wells, Amya Bessel, Jayda Bessel, Clare Santas. It was the first time in 26 years that the TIDE Women medaled a relay at the BIG 8 conference meet.

Other scoring and top swims:
200 Medley Relay:
10th Place; A Relay Heaven Wells, Sydney Prowse, Amya Bessel, Clare Santas 1:55.22 2nd Fastest School History.
14th Place; B Relay Lulu Champeny-Johns, Kate Gianvecchio, Prasia Jackson, Makenzie Phelps 2:02.72

200 IM:
11th Place; Heaven Wells 2:16.55 2nd Fastest school history
Katie Landon 2:21.51 6th Fastest school history

500 Free:
Sydney Prowse 5:47.81 10th fastest school history

200 Free Relay:
14th Place B Relay; Makenzie Phelps, Prasia Jackson, Noa Levy, Katie Landon 1:49.59

100 Breaststroke:
Sydney Prowse 1:16.02 6th fastest school history

400 Free Relay:
9th Place; A Relay Amya Bessel, Jayda Bessel, Katie Landon, Clare Santas 3:52.97 8th Fastest School History
14th Place; B Relay Bea Champeny-Johns, Lulu Champeny-Johns, Noa Levy, Kate Gianvecchio 4:12.04

The TIDE's next meet is Saturday at Middleton high school for the WIAA Division 1 Sectional Meet. Meet starts at 1:00. More information on tickets to be released soon.

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Beloit Strong

Heaven Wells Commits to UW-Milwaukee

Senior Heaven Wells has committed to go to school and swim at UW-Milwaukee starting school year 2018-19.

Heaven started swimming as a member of the TIDE program summer of 2010 after she was discovered taking the deep water test at Krueger Natatorium. She joined the team that summer and the rest is history.

Heaven is already a two time WIAA State Qualifier, WISCA All-State Swimmer as a junior and last year qualified for NCSA Junior Nationals in 4 events. She also holds school records in the 100 Backstroke, 100 Freestyle and is a member of the 200 Medley Relay and 200 Free Relay team records. Heaven is currently ranked 2nd in the school history in the 200 IM and 100 fly. 

This season Heaven is a one of our TIDE team captains, she should make Academic All-State and we are looking for a return to the WIAA State Meet, with  a lot of her swimming sisters. Heaven also swims for our BTIDE USA swim team. 

As with any development with our program, no one gets there by themselves:
Heaven's coaches in her development:
Middle TIDE Coaches
Andre DeKok (Krueger, Middle)
Jacob Truby
Lisa Moore (Krueger, USA, Middle)
Katie Kincaid
Jayme Thompson
High School Coaches
Kim Waite
Brian Michels (Krueger, High School)
Abby Vogel (USA, Krueger, High School)
Dick Vogel (USA, Krueger, High School)
TIDE USA Swim Coaches
Kathy Landon
Benji Klett (USA, Middle School)
Taylor Brown (USA, Krueger)
Lindsey Hassenfelt (USA, Krueger, Middle School)
Daryl Saladar (USA Strength Coach)
Margo Grover (Krueger)
Christian Daniels

More information on her signing to come. Signing Day is in November, after state meet.

Beloit Strong!!

Beloit Proud!!

Week of October 9, 2017 Review

Week in Review:

1st Sorry about getting this out late.

2nd. Tuesday Beat Madison East 112-58, JV won 108-62.

In the Varsity Meet the TIDE won 8 of 11 events and swept several 1, 2, 3.

Big story two swimmers won their first ever varsity individual races;
Jayda Bessel 100 Free
Lulu Champeny-Johns 100 Back.

Other 1st Places;
200 Medley Relay; Heaven Wells, Sydney Prowse, Katie Landon, Clare Santas
200 Free; Amya Bessel
50 Free; Heaven Wells
100 Fly; Katie Landon
200 Free Relay; Katie Landon, Clare Santas, Amya Bessel, Kate Gianvecchio
400 Free Relay; Lulu, Bea Champeny-Johns, Amya Bessel, Heaven Wells

Friday; The team swam #5 Madison Memorial. Knowing we could swim them straight up and make a close meet of it. We decided to find out what else we could do, so we moved the swimmers around. All swimmers did a fine job, really learned to challenge themselves.

The TIDEs next meet is Tuesday October 17th at #6 Madison West.

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Beloit Proud!!

Women Win Beloit Invite

It may of taken 50 years, but the TIDE women won their 1st ever invitational in program history, winning the 4th annual Beloit Fall Sprint Invite. The TIDE did it in a very dominating way, defeating defending champion Lake Geneva Badger by 150.5 points. With every TIDE swimmer scoring at least one point. The Women won 6 of the 15 events, with all team member scoring points. The TIDE medaled in all 15 events, with 16 of the 18 team members medaling. Making this a total team effort.

Leading the way were the relays with the ladies winning 3 of the 4 events and finishing 2nd in the other. Plus all B Relays also medaled. The 200 Free Relay of Heaven Wells, Kate Gianvecchio, Amya Bessel, Clare Santas set a new meet record 1:45.87. 

Other 1st Place Relays:
200 Medley Relay; Wells, Sydney Prowse, A. Bessel, Gianvecchio 1:57. 93
100 Free Relay: Makenzie Phelps, Noa Levy, Prowse, Jayda Bessel 50.93

Individual 1st Places:
Heaven Wells 200 Individual Medley 2:16.72 2nd Fastest in school history, 100 Back 59.77
Amya Bessel 50 Butterfly 28.04

Other Medalist:
Lulu Champeny-Johns
Bea Champeny-Johns
Praisa Jackson
Caroline Santas
Marissa Miller
Ellie Kramer
Nelli Conover-Crockett
Ansley Burnett
Kylie Wessels-Woodcock

The Women's next meet is Tuesday October 10th at Madison East.

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Beloit Strong

7 Years with an Amazing Group of Women

This years senior class of women's swimmers is one of the best in team history. It also happens to be the Best Team in our programs history. Most of them have been together since the 6th grade. 

Last night the ladies down Janesville Parker 113-57, making them the best team in Rock County. Having previously beaten Janesville Craig and Milton high schools this year.  They are the 1st group to have never lost to Janesville in their tenure swimming for Beloit. If they keep up the pace they are at; they should qualify the most women swimmers for state in our history, and possible break most of our varsity records.

Lady TIDE Seniors (Class of 2018):
Ansley Burnett
Eleanor Conover-Crockett
Montserrat Cruz-Gonzalez
Ashley Hassenfelt
Mikayla Hoey
Elinor Kraemer
Marissa Miller (Captain)
Makenzie Phelps
Clare Santas (Captain)
Nicole Sprayberry
Heaven Wells (Captain)
Kylie Wessell-Woodcock

You will be missed, but not forgotten.

The TIDE's next meets:
Tomorrow Saturday; Middleton Relays 10:00am
Friday October 6: #1 Middleton Dual
Saturday October 7: Beloit TIDE Sprint Meet 11:00am

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Beloit Strong

Elkhorn Invite Video

Video of Todays Meet at Elkhorn

Good Job Today

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Weekend Summary TIDE Women

Thursday 8/31/2017

TIDE downs  Madison LaFollette
Varsity 112 - 58
J.V. 111-54

1st Places: 
200 Medley Relay: Heaven Wells, Sydney Prowse, Amya Bessell, Jayda Bessel
200 Free: Clare Santas
200 IM: Amya Bessel
50 Free: Heaven Wells
100 Free: Clare Santas
200 Free Relay: Makenzie Phelps, Jayda Bessel, Katie Landon, Clare Santas
100 Back: Heaven Wells
400 Free Relay: Heaven Wells, Katie Landon, Amya Bessel, Clare Santas
Many 2nd places, all swimmers scored points contributing to the wins.
Varsity 100 Back was swept by Wells, Lulu Champeny-Johns, and Jayda Bessel.

Saturday 9/2/2017

Janesville Parker Relays 2nd Place
Four Team Records
   200 Medley Relay Fr/So, 300 IM Relay, 300 Back Relay, 200 Breast/Fly    

Two 1st Places
      200 Medley Relay: Heaven Wells, Sydney Prowse, Amya Bessel, Clare Santas 2nd Fastest in School History
      200 Free Relay (Fr/So): Jayda Bessel, Prasia Jackson, Noa Levy, Katie Landon

Five 2nd Places
      200 Medley Relay(FR/So): Lulu Champeny-Johns, Sydney Prowse, Noa, Levy, Katie Landon
      200 Free Relay: Heaven Wells,  Jayda Bessel, Amya Bessel, Clare Santas 2nd Fastest in school History
      300 IM Relay Heaven Wells, Amya Bessel, Clare Santas
      300 Back Relay: Jayda Bessel, Lulu Champeny-Johns, Noa, Levy, Heaven Wells
      500 Cresendo Free: Makenzie Phelps, Jayda Bessel, Katie Landon, Clare Santas
   
One 3rd Places
      200 Breast/Fly Relay: Sydney Prowse, Katie Landon, Noa Levy, Amya Bessel

Next weekend the TIDE is at Madison East on Friday and Saturday at the Elkhorn Invite.

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Beloit Strong

National Junior Cuts 2018

There are quite a few of you that can make these cuts.

It would be great to take a large team.

Becoming Beloit Strong

Beloit Proud

Ladies: Practice today will be at BMHS 8am-11am with strength training to follow.

8/10/17

New High School Swim Team Standards

Due to the popularity of swimming in Beloit. Girls and Boys swimming numbers could be between 50-60 swimmers for each team this season.

We have decided to set a minimum standard to be on the Girls and Boys High School swim teams this school year.

The Test for this will be given on the 1st day of practice.

New Standards:

3 x 100 Free on 2:00 with flip turns.

2 competitive strokes for 50 yards 

with proper turn.

Proper dive from the starting block (safely).

Tread water for 2 minutes.