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Amazing Saturday!!!!!!

Going Back To State!!!

16 of 18 Lifetime Best Individual Swims
3 of 3 of Relay Times Season Best and All 12 Splits Lifetime Best.

Katie Landon qualifies for state in the 100 Fly with the 3rd fastest time in school history. Her time of 59.45 was an almost 3 second improvement.

But that was not the only great swim of the day.

Results:
200 Medley Relay 9th Place 1:53.76 3rd Fastest in school history
Lulu Champeny-Johns, Sydney Prowse, Katie Landon, Jayda Bessel (24.88 split)

200 I.M.
Katie Landon 12th Place 2:14.60 Varsity Record 2nd Fastest in School History, Behind the School Record of Faith Sill of 2:13.55

200 Free Relay 9th Place 1:44.24 4th Fastest in School History
Jayda Bessel, Prasia Jackson, McKenzie Jacobson, Bea Champeny-Johns

100 Back
Lulu Champeny-Johns 1:03..62 6th Fastest in School History

100 Breaststroke
Sydney Prowse 9th Place 1:12.70 New School Record

400 Free Relay 7th Place (Medalist) 3:45.37 New School Record
Bea Champeny-Johns, Lulu Champeny-Johns, Katie Landon, Jayda Bessel

The Knights next meet is Saturday at the UW-Madison Natatorium 3:00

If you are going go early to get tickets.

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Boys High School Apparel Store Web-Site

Here is the link for the online store. We use PayPal as our secure method of collecting funds. People ordering do not have to be a member of PayPal to check out.

Everything is ready to go they can personalize items on the individual page.

https://beloit-memorial-swimming.spiritsale.com

I will print/embroider everything Bagget up and get it to you so you can hand it out well before your first event.

Championship Season Time: Trust The Process!!!!!!! Olivier Leroy

Olivier Leroy <olivier@yourswimbook.com>	Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 7:06 AM
To: Coach Vogel <beloit.swimming@gmail.com>
If you are fed up with inconsistent performances and want to take your swimming to the next level, start by nailing your process. “Trust the process!” “Follow the process!” You’ve probably heard these from your coach or from former swimmers who blog and Tweet about this stuff on the interwebs. But maybe it’s time you sat down and considered how powerful a process-focused mindset can be for you in the water. Why focus on the process? The process takes something complicated, like swimming a race perfectly from beginning to end, and breaks it down into a series of controllable steps. It’s like a checklist that you steadily work your way through, methodically doing each step to the best of your ability Compare this to be being all about the outcome or results, where you are only looking at the end of the checklist, ignoring the successful completion of all those little steps that go into an epic swim. For the swimmer who obsesses over the goal, it adds uncertainty and anxiety to their preparation that makes performance crash (aka “choking”). A smarter and more enjoyable approach to achieving those big goals starts with being process-focused. What being process-focused looks like Let’s throw together an example of what a process-based swimmer’s mindset looks like on race day. Race day is where the pressure is on, expectations are running high, and swimmers either rise to the occasion or crumble under the nerves. A process-based swimmer is all about: Doing your designated meet warm-up properly. Not getting out halfway because the pool is too busy or getting in late because you are talking to your friends from another team. Nailing your pre-race routine. Instead of watching with awe as other swimmers put up clock-busting times, you methodically go through your stretches, visualization, etc. Use the right self-talk to keep yourself centered. As opposed to letting yourself get swept away by the pressure of the moment, you channel the nerves and anxiety to crush your race. Stick to your race strategy. Instead of basing your swim on how fast or slow other swimmers are going, you stick to a race strategy that puts you in the best position to be successful. For the results-oriented swimmer, who just wants to “win,” the process can seem silly. Counter-intuitive. But this is just one in a line of paradoxes of what it takes to swim at your best. You don’t swim fastest with brute strength alone, you do big things only by doing what others won’t, massive swims are a result of focusing on small details, and you produce your best performances when you don’t obsess over the result. Building a process that you can believe in Feeling intrigued by the process? Ready to start taking a more process-oriented approach to your swimming? Here are some keys for developing a process that you can believe in: Your process should be in your control. There is enough uncertainty as it is in the pool—you can’t control what other swimmers are going to do, you can’t predict slipping off a turn, and your crystal ball left out stubbing your finger on the lane line while warming up. Your process should only include things you can control. These include things like: effort, mindset, preparation, nutrition, sleep habits, focus. Get practice with it. Those in-season meets are a perfect time for mastering your race-day process. Just like practice is a series of opportunities to execute a stellar process. Being all about the process should infect your training and competition. The more often you do it, the more you can rely on it, and the less stress and frustration you are going to deal with in the water. Your process in practice should progress. One of the first things I ask swimmers when they email me to seek help for a plateau in the water is, “Are you progressing with your process?” Doing the same thing over and over in practice is just gonna get you the same results. Shave :05 off your intervals. Take one less stroke. Do one extra dolphin kick off each wall. Eat one extra healthy meal. Improvement requires continual adjustments to your process. Progress with your process for more, uh, progress. Be sneaky with doing the things in your process. The magic of a process is that you do it. Which means you shouldn’t be afraid to start small. If you decide that perfect attendance is going to be the big game changer, you might be tempted to make a process goal of, “Don’t miss a practice ever again!’ But this goal will soon overwhelm you, especially on the days where you are tired and beaten up. A better, and sneakier process-based goal would be something like—“Drive to the pool so that I am there 15 minutes before practice starts.” Make the things in your process so easy that you can’t say no to them. The next step What are some controllable things you can focus on each day at the water? Your process doesn’t need to be overly complicated. Pick a handful of things and nail them each day at the pool. When Mary T. Meagher was 13 years old, she decided that she was going to break a world record. Her process? Showing up to practice on time every day and doing each turn to the best of her ability. That’s it. Seriously. Two years later, she would put on one of the most legendary performances in history, smashing the world records in both the 100 and 200m butterfly. The beauty of a simple, controllable process is that excellence will organically spread from consistently making a couple decisions to the best of your ability. See ya in the water, Olivier

BIG8 JV Conference Meet

The Knights finished 6th at the BIG8 JV Conference meet scoring their highest score in recent memory 100 points. This was one of the BEST JV conference meets by the TIDE in years. The team scored in 6 of 11 events and winning 1st place in two events. Again the Knights show their strength in the skill events. We always teach our kids, learn to swim the events no one else wants to swim.

Faith Sill won the 200 IM and 100 Back with new school records. Faith re-broke her school record in the 200 IM 2:13.55 with a 1st place swim. She also broke the school record in the 100 Backstroke with a winning time of 57.28.

The team also placed 3 swimmers in the 100 Fly; scoring for the TIDE were Aurora Balliett, Faith Acres, and Kylie Sandmire.

The TIDE's other place winners came in the Relays, with all relays scoring points.

200 Medley Relay:
A' 10th place, Faith Sill (26.80 fastest in school history), Diana Sandoval, Faith Acres, Kylie Sandmire.

B' 14th place, Noa Levy, Karina Munoz, Syd Greenlee, Aurora Balliett

200 Free Relay:
A' 11th place, Kylie Sandmire, Faith Acres, Syd Greenlee, Diana Sandoval
B' 14th place, Audri Thomas, Lele Jackson, Alivia Diaz, Ellie Hyerdahl

400 Free Relay:
A' 11th place, Faith Sill (54.22 2nd Fastest in School History) Syd Greenlee, Noa Levy, Kylie Sandmire
B' 15th place, Katherine Kramer, Aurora Balliett, Faith Acres, Nettie Schoville

The Knights next meet is Saturday at Beloit Memorial for the BIG Varsity Conference Meet.

Meet Starts a 1:00pm, Tickets go on sale at the door at 10:00am.

Knights get by Janesville Parker

Beloit Lady Knights won the 400 Free Relay with a season best by 4 seconds to get by Parker on their Parent/Senior night.
The score was tied going into the last event, Final Score 86-84.
The Knights had their best team effort of the season, taking 1st place in all 3 relays and having balanced scoring in all individual events.
The Knights also took 1st place 3 individual events with 3 different women bringing home the big wins. The knights also survived 2 Dq's late in the meet.

The turning point in the meet came after the break with score tied at 31, the Knights went 1, 2, 4 in the 100 Fly and 1, 2 in the 100 free, forcing Parker to play catch-up in the rest of the meet. With a huge Dq in the 100 Breaststroke, Parker tied the meet, leading to a dramatic win by our 400 Free Relay of Bea Champeny-Johns, Katie Landon, Sydney Prowse , Jayda Bessel.

Notable Swims:

200 Medley Relay: 1st Place A Relay
Lulu Champeny-Johns, Sydney Prowse, Jayda Bessel, Bea Champeny-Johns

200 Free
2nd; McKenzie Jacobson, 4th Krissy Landon

200 IM
2nd: Katie Landon, 3rd; Noa Levy, 4th; McKenna Rooney

50 Free
1st; Jayda Bessel, 4th Prasia Jackson

100 Fly
1st Katie Landon, 2nd Lulu Champeny-Johns, 4th Prasia Jackson

100 Free
1st McKenzie Jacobson, 2nd Bea Champeny-Johns

500 Free
2nd; Sydney Prowse, 5th McKenna Rooney

200 Free Relay 1st Place A Relay, 3rd Place B Relay
A: Jayda Bessel, Prasia Jackson, McKenzie Jacobson, Bea Champeny-Johns
B: Katie Landon, Miller, Krissy Landon, Paige Kovac

100 Back
2nd Lulu Champeny-Johns, 4th Noa Levy, 5th Ellie Saladar

100 Breast
4th: Kassidy Thomas, 5th Diana Sandoval

400 Free Relay; 1st Place A Relay
Bea Champeny-Johns, Katie Landon, Sydney Prowse, Jayda Bessel

The Knights Next Meet:

J.V. is at Big 8 J.V. Conference Meet 

at Sun Prairie October 26th 2:00pm

Varsity is Home for Varsity Big 8 

November 2nd 1pm

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Verona and Beloit Invite Summary

Solid Weekend for the Knights.

Though the score does not reflect it, the Knights made Verona earn their win. There were many close races and very fast swims by the women of the Purple.

To start the Meet the J.V. 200 Medley Relay of Faith Sill, Karina Munoz, Faith Acres, Kylie Sandmire crushed the J.V. Record by 11 seconds, opening the meet with a surprise win.

Not to be out done the Varsity broke 3 school records:
Katie Landon with new record in the 100 Butterfly, breaking the old record by 2 seconds.
Faith Sill also crushed the 200 IM and 400 Free records. Breaking the IM record by 12 seconds and the 400 record by 13 seconds.

Beloit Fall Sprint Invite

The Knights finished 5th in the 14 team meet. Beloit gave a lot of their young kids and opportunity to swim in the meet and they took advantage of those opportunities. The team had many top 8 finishes and a very balanced meet.

200 Medley Relay
6th: Lulu Champeny-Johns, Sydney Prowse, Jayda Bessel, Bea Champeny-Johns 1:59.77

100 I.M.
5th Katie Landon, 7th Bessel

100 Free Relay
3rd Katie Landon, Prasia Jackson, Lulu Champeny-Johns, Sydney Prowse 51.53

100 Free
4th Bea Champeny-Johns,  6th McKenzie Jacobson

50 Breaststroke
8th McKenzie Jacobson

200 Free Relay
6th: Jayda Bessel, Bea Champeny-Johns, McKenzie Jacobson, Katie Landon 1:48.98

100 Fly
3rd Katie Landon

100 Back
8th Lulu Champeny-Johns

100 Breaststroke
6th Sydney Prowse

Sprint Relay
4th McKenzie Jacobson, Jayda Bessel, Bea Champeny-Johns

The Knights next meet is Friday at Janesville Parker 5:00pm

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Knights Swim Past Madison East

The Lady Knights had a great meet Friday at Madison East, winning both the Varsity and J.V. meets.
All Swimmers had great swims. The Knights came out with a lot of passion and emotion, they did not want to have a repeat of the week before. The Captains did a great job of getting the team mentally ready and keeping their team focused.

The Knights took 1st place in 8 of the 11 events and won 10 of the 11 Varsity races. The J.V. also had a dominating meet taking 1st place in 9 of 11 events and winning 10 of 11 events as well.

The Varsity was led by double winners; Jayda Bessel 50 Free and 100 Free, Sydney Prowse 200 Free and 100 Breaststroke. Other 1st places; Lulu Champeny-Johns 100 Back. 200 Medley Relay, 200 Free Relay and 400 Free Relay.

J.V. was lead by Double winner Sydney Greenlee 200 IM and 500 Free, Faith Sill 100 Fly and 100 Back. Other 1st places; Jazz Montiel 200 Free, Ellison Heyerdahl 100 Breaststroke, 200 Medley Relay, 200 Free Relay, and 400 Free Relay.

Final Scores:
Varsity 113 East 57
J.V. 113 East 52

Notable Swims:
Varsity 200 Medley Relay
1st A Relay: Lulu Champeny-Johns, Sydney Prowse, Katie Landon, McKenzie Jacobson
3rd B Relay: Noa Levy, Kassidy Thomas, Prasia Jackson, Krissy Landon

200 Free (Sweep)
1st Sydney Prowse
2nd Krissy Landon
3rd Kaelyn Miller

200 IM
2nd Katie Landon
4th Bea Champeny-Johns
5th Noa Levy

50 Free
1st Jayda Bessel
3rd Prasia Jackson

100 Fly
2nd Katie Landon
3rd Lulu Champeny Johns
4th Prasia Jackson

100 Free
1st Jayda Bessel
3rd Krissy Landon
5th Paige Kovac

500 Free
2nd McKenna Rooney
3rd Ellie Saladar
4th Kaelyn Miller

200 Free Relay (Sweep)
1st A  Bea Champeny-Johns, Praisa Jackson, Katie Landon, Jayda Bessel
2nd B McKenzie Jacobson, Kaelyn Miller, McKenna Rooney, Paige Kovac

100 Back (Sweep)
1st Lulu Champeny-Johns
2nd Noa Levy
3rd Ellie Saladar

100 Breast
1st Sydney Prowse
3rd Bea Champeny-Johns
4th Kassidy Thomas

400 Free Relay
1st A  Jayda Bessel, Lulu Champeny-Johns, Bea Champeny-Johns, Sydney Prowse
3rd B  Krissy Landon, McKenna Rooney, Noa Levy, Kaelyn Miller

The Knights Next Meet is Home vs. 3 time defending WIAA State Champion Middleton. Friday September 20th. 

Saturday September 21st at Sun Prairie Varsity/J.V. Invitational.

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Weekend Summary 9/6 & 9/7

It was a different week for the Knights.
1st our 6 year old pool decided to not work properly and we could not swim in it Tuesday or Wednesday. The Varsity Practice at the YMCA Wednesday and finally the whole team practice Thursday night. It was also the 1st week of two a days.

Madison LaFollette Dual Meet.
Lets just say Friday, a Win is a Win and I will take it. I truly believe we were tired and just out of sync. But we fought through the adversity and pulled out the win for both our Varsity and J.V. teams.

Our J.V. and #3 varsity swimmers really swam well and because we really train the kids to good all around swimmers, our depth and ability to swim well in the skill events made the difference. The ladies swept the 200 IM, out scored them in the 100 free, 500 Free,100 back 100 Breast, and 400 free relay. While we just hung on close enough in the other races so we could win the meet in the last event.

Final Scores:
Varsity 85.5 LaFollette 80.5
J.V. 84 LaFollette 76

Notable Swims:
J.V. 200 Medley Relay: Faith Sill, Ellison Heyerdahl, McKenna Rooney, Kaelyn Miller
New J.V. Team Record 2:11.45

1st Places Varsity:
200 IM Sweep: Katie Landon, 2nd Bea Champeny-Johns, 3rd Noa Levy
100 Free: Jayda Bessel
100 Breast: Sydney Prowse
400 Free Relay: Lulu Champeny-Johns, Katie Landon, Bea Champeny-Johns, Sydney Prowse


Elkhorn Invitational (25 meters)

180 degrees difference than the night before. Plus this is were our training really kicks in. 7:00am team meeting and meet that starts at 10:00am.
Team really came together and swam their hearts out finishing in 3rd place out of 8 teams.
There were many life-time bests and two Varsity records and all of our swimmers scored in the top 16 in at least one swimmer in the top 8 in 9 of the 11 events.

Final Scores:
McFarland 497
Milton       425      (Coached by Former Purple Knight: Lindsey Hassenfelt)
Beloit .      278
Janesville Parker 264
Elkhorn Area 263
Whitewater 228
Kenosha Tremper 135
Delavan-Darien/Wis.School for the Deaf  64  (Coached by Former Purple Knight: Lauren Gurholt)

Notable Swims (Top 8 Medal):
200 Medley Relay A 4th Place: Lulu Champeny-Johns, Sydney Prowse, Katie Landon, Jayda Bessel
200 Free 7th Sydney Prowse
200 IM 8th Katie Landon all 4 swimmers placed in the top 16
50 Free 5th McKenzie Jacobson
100 Fly 4th Katie Landon 1:12.08 New Varsity Record. All 3 swimmers placed in top 16
100 Free 3rd Jayda Bessel all 4 swimmers placed in the top 16
200 Free Relay 4th Jayda Bessel, Mckenzie Jacobson, Katie Landon, Bea Champeny-Johns
100 Back All 3 swimmers place in the top 16.
100 Breast 6th Sydney Prowse 1:25.34 New Varsity Record
400 Free Relay 5th Jayda Bessel, Bea Champeny-Johns, Lulu Champeny-Johns, Sydney Prowse

Meet videos are posted on team YouTube page.

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The Knights next meet is Friday at Madison East 5:00pm

Knights Open Season with Win over Craig

This past Friday the Purple Knight women open their 2019 season with a sweep of Janesville Craig's Varsity an J.V. swim teams.

TIDE J.V. 84 Craig 77
TIDE Varsity 95 Craig 75

The TIDE over came the Great Wall of Craig and swam one of their best opening meets in years.

The TIDE took 1st place in 8 of the 11 events, and also out scored Craig in 9 of the 11 events.

Meet Summary:

200 Medley Relay:
1st A Relay: Lulu Champeny-Johns, Sydney Prowse, Katie Landon, Jayda Bessel
3rd B Relay: Noa Levy, Kassidy Thomas, Prasia Jackson, Krissy Landon

200 Free:
1st Sydney Prowse, 3rd Bea Champeny-Johns

200 IM:
2nd Katie Landon, 4th Noa Levy

50 Free:
1st Jayda Bessel, 2nd McKenzie Jacobson, 4th Prasia Jackson

100 Fly:
1st Lulu Champeny-Johns, 4th Prasia Jackson

100 Free:
1st Jayda Bessel, 3rd McKenzie Jacobson, 5th Krissy Landon

500 Free:
2nd Katie Landon, 4th Bea Champeny-Johns

200 Free Relay:
1st A Relay: Jacobson, Kr.Landon, B.Champeny-Johns, Jackson

100 Back:
2nd Lulu Champeny-Johns, 3rd Noa Levy, 4th Caroline Santas

100 Breaststroke:
1st Sydney Prowse, 5th Kassidy Thomas

400 Free Relay:
1st A Relay Bea Champeny-Johns, Katie Landon, Lulu Champeny-Johns, Jayda Bessel
3rd B Relay McKenzie Jacobson, Krissy Landon, Noa Levy, Sydney Prowse

The Knights next meet, is our 1st home meet of the season. 

We will be hosting #1 Sun Prairie.

Warm-up at 4:00pm Meet 5:00pm

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