What's New at Wisconsin Swimming, Inc.?

What was news in 2002?  Check the News Archive for 2002!

December 26, 2003 -- Meet information is now available for the 2004 Wisconsin Short Course State Championship Meets.  
December 10, 2003 -- Based on an online poll of Wisconsin Swimming clubs, who voted 20 to 12 in favor, the Board of Directors approved a $25,000 donation, spread over five years, to the Waukesha Community Aquatic Center Building Campaign to help complete a $2.3 million renovation of the Waukesha South H.S. pool into a competition quality pool with seating for 2000.  Two of the questions that were raised by many of the clubs voting for and against the proposal, the lack of an architectural diagram and clarification of the fee waiver for a number of state meets, will be addressed by the time the first part of the donation is made.  For more information about this project, you can view the original proposal and accompanying materials by linking to the General Chair's Intro to WEST Proposal page.  On Wednesday night, December 10, the Waukesha Board of Education approved the enhanced pool project with an expected completion date of the end of 2004.
November 17, 2003 -- At the request of the Wisconsin Swimming Board of Directors and House of Delegates, a special meeting of the Finance Committee was held on Thursday, November 13.  The meeting was requested by the House of Delegates in order to review a request from Waukesha Express Swim Team (WEST) for a donation to complete a pool construction project.  The committee was directed to review the proposal, disseminate information to the entire LSC and solicit input from all clubs.

All of the materials related to the proposal can be accessed through this link:

Please review the information carefully, and have your LSC House of Delegates representative respond with your club's recommendation.

Thanks,
Dale Nickels
General Chair

November 13, 2003 -- The next meeting of the Age Group / Senior Committee will be Wednesday, November 19, at 10:00 at Schroeder YMCA.
November 12, 2003 -- New Wisconsin Records have been posted. Check out the Top Times Page. Congratulations to new recordholders: Taylor Andrews, Andrew Braeger, Kyle Thompson, Andrea Boritzke, and Kyle Bubolz.

Please contact Dave Joyce if you are aware of a record that is not listed.

November 12, 2003 -- This is a reminder for Meet Directors.  You MUST be a USA Swimming registered non-athlete member. If you change listed meet directors between the time the meet was bid and the actual meet, be sure that the new person gets registered!
November 10, 2003 -- There will be a special meeting of the Finance Committee on Thursday, November 13 at 7:30 PM.  The meeting will be conducted in two locations and linked by telephone. The locations are: Brookfield, at Jim Mohr's office, and in Madison at Dale Nickels' office.  Contact Jim or Dale for directions.

The meeting was requested by the House of Delegates in order to review a request from Waukesha Express Swim Team (WEST) for a donation to complete a pool construction project, and for any other requests presented.  Any other teams wishing to submit proposals should conact Dale Nickels.

October 21, 2003 -- New e-mail address for Susan Zblewski, Officials Chair:  
October 10, 2003 -- Congratulations to the Wisconsin swimmers named to the USA Swimming 2002-03 Scholastic All-America Team: Caitlin Digney (MGM*), Bridget Fargen (MGM*), Brett Grunert (MFSC), Heather Hall (SEAY), Katie Imhoff-Smith (WEST), Gwen Jorgensen (WEST), Melissa Klotz (J-HK), Adam Lewno (SEAY), John Lipor (SEAY), Amanda Mueller (OZ), and Dustin Schneider (J-HK).

Nationaly, more than 700 swimmers were named to the team for combining athletic and academic success. 479 women and 274 men made the team. Swimmers had to achieve at least a 3.50 GPA as a high school sophomore, junior or senior and competed in an individual event at one of the Sectional or National meets.

October 7, 2003 -- Draft time standards for the 2004 Short Course State Championships have been approved by the Age Group Committee. The only change from 2003 standards is the addition of 800/1000 Free for the 11-12 age group. The standards will become official after approval at the October LSC meeting. Or see the Time Standards Page.
October 6, 2003 -- Officials certification and re-certification clinics are going on this month and next.

Remaining date for New Officials Certification:

November 9, 2003 (Sunday) Edgewood High School, Madison
Dates for Officials Re-Certification:
November 4th (Tuesday) & November 13th (Thursday) - Middleton, Middleton High School
November 6th (Thursday) & November 10th (Monday) - Waukesha, UW Center
November 18th (Tuesday) - Appleton, YMCA
See the Officials Page for more info.
October 1, 2003 -- Wisconsin Swimming gears up for a new short course season.  Just a few short weeks ago, the Schroeder pool was drained for periodic maintenance.  Ever wonder how long it takes to fill a 50 meter pool with water?  Here are some resources as we begin the new year.  

September 19, 2003 -- Age Group committee met on September 17th. CLICK HERE for minutes.
September 4, 2003 -- Tuesday, September 9 is the date meet reservations may be postmarked for Fall/Winter 2003-2004 meets. Meet directors MUST NOT ACCEPT any reservations before that date.
August 25, 2003 -- Jennifer Gelden, 17, from Kenosha Barracudas, swam at the Speedo Sectional Championships recently at Minneapolis, Minnesota and won the 100 Meter butterfly in a time of 1:02.37.
The time was not only a meet record but qualified her as the first BST swimmer in high school to achieve a Senior National Time standard in the history of Kenosha!
To make this accomplish even more impressive is the time she swam also qualifies her for the 2004 Olympic Trials to be held in Long Beach, California next year.

Congratulations Jenny!

August 19, 2003 -- Age Group committee will be meeting on September 17th at 10:00 AM at Schroeder.
August 18, 2003 -- New e-mail address for Cris Lewis, Administrative Chair:  
August 14, 2003 -- Central Zone Championship results can be found at: http://www.centralzones.org/zonemeetpage.htm.
August 13, 2003 -- Meet results are available for the Senior Long Course Championship. All files have been revised as of August 14. Meet results are available for the 14 & Under Long Course Championship.  All files have been revised as of July 30.  
August 6, 2003 -- Dates for the fall officials clinics have been set: You can find more information and registration forms at the OFFICIALS PAGE.
August 1, 2003 -- This is the final update for Team Wisconsin Zone Entries. Please review final entries, contact Brian Beardsley, D4stswim@aol.com or 608 206 3722 before 4pm Monday August 4th with any corrections.
July 31, 2003 -- Proof of time reports will again be provided at the Senior Long Course Championship meets. The list of included meets as well as the report itself are here. Coaches: please verify times for your swimmers and bring printed proofs for any meets or times not listed. Parents and coaches: please do not report erroneous times as they cannot be edited at this time.
The Proof Of Time report does NOT include times from the recent 14 & Under State Meet.  
July 22, 2003 -- The Psych Sheet is now available for the Senior Long Course Championship meet.  
July 28, 2003 -- Meet results are available for the 14 & Under Long Course Championship.  All files have been revised as of July 30.  
July 28, 2003 -- The Fall/Winter 2003-2004 Meet Schedule is now available for download. Be sure to read the "Things You Need To Know" page at the end of the schedule. A schedule "at-a-glance" page will be available soon.
July 28, 2003 -- Nominations are needed for the Wisconsin Swimming Athlete Representative to the Board of Directors. Please submit nominations to Dave Anderson, danderson.sa@ymcamke.org.
July 22, 2003 -- The Psych Sheet is now available for the 14 & Under Long Course Championship meet. Coaches are encouraged to verify times for correct data entry. Updated 7/23 to correct data entry errors.  

The Psych Sheet is now available for the Senior Long Course Championship meet.

 
July 21, 2003 -- Proof of time reports will again be provided at the 14 & Under and Senior Long Course Championship meets. The list of included meets as well as the report itself are here. The eligibility report includes time standards achieved at any meet on the list as well as meets that were entered into the database prior to 4/15/03. This report is the exact report that will be used at the meet. Coaches: please verify times for your swimmers and bring printed proofs for any meets or times not listed. Parents and coaches: please do not report erroneous times as they cannot be edited at this time. The following is a list of meets found on the Official Meet Schedule which are not included in the database because the results were not received electronically or didn't import successfully. WARNINGS--
#1- For events #29 & #30- The cuts for 11-12 were entered for the 800's (because there is no way to enter different cuts for different age classes). Therefore, several 13-14 swimmers are listed as eligible even though they only have the 11-12 cut and not the 13-14 cut. This will be verified manually at the Proof of Times Table. BEST TIMES are indicated on the eligibility report, so this should be cross-refereced with the actual 13-14 cuts.
#2- There is some erroneous data still in the database. Most errors are in the form of unusually fast times from relay lead-offs. Coaches should be prepared with printed proofs for times that are obviously wrong (like 50 Back in 5 seconds).
#3- SCM cuts were not included in the report, as they were not listed in the meet info. All swimmers qualifying only in that course MUST BRING PRINTED PROOF as they will not be listed on the Eligibility Report (Sorry VAC).

Dave Joyce
Times Database Coordinator

July 17, 2003 -- Meet information is now available for the 2003 Long Course 14 & Under State Championship and the 2003 Long Course Senior Championship. The 14&U meet info was updated to correct qualifying times for events 11 & 54, and also to change the 11-12 200 Back, Breast and Fly to be timed finals with top 8 in the evening session.

For anyone qualifying between July 15th 2003 and July 21st 2003, entries for the 14 & Under meet will be accepted by e-mail at swimswat@wi.rr.com, or by FAX at (262) 971-1658. This is only for new events, not for updating times

July 10, 2003 -- Effective immediately, please send all correspondence for the treasurer to: Pat's email address is: lewno@execpc.com.

Meet Directors: Please send a meet backup to Pat in addition to the normal hard-copy post meet reports.

June 25, 2003 -- New Wisconsin Records have been posted. Check out the Top Times Page. Congratulations to new recordholders: Kyle Bubolz for a new 15-16 200 Free record, Mike Hruska for a new 17-18 100 Breast record, and to the 15-16 Girls relay team from LAKE for a new 400 Medley record.
June 20, 2003 -- Neil Wright of SEAY handed out a pool rent survey at the last LSC meeting. He has tallied the results and published this Report (PDF).
June 20, 2003 -- USA Swimming will be changing the registration system between July 5th and 15th. This will affect any new registrations, athlete changes, coach changes or team changes that you send to Carol Graham. Anything received by Carol after July 5, will not be processed until the new system is up on the 15th. Please plan accordingly!
June 20, 2003 -- The Wisconsin Swimming House of Delegates Meeting will be Tuesday, June 24, 2003 at 7:15 PM at UW-Waukesha, room N133. This is an important meeting. We will be approving the Fall/Winter 2003-04 meet schedule, and electing officers for the coming year. You can find the agenda minutes of previous meetings at the LSC Meetings page.
June 9, 2003 -- Information and early registration forms are available for the 2003 Central Zone Championship Meet to be held August 6-10 at Indiana University Natatorium, Indianapolis, Indiana. Early registration deadline is July 16th. You will be able to add events and update times through July 28th For registration forms and information, look on the ZONES PAGE.
-- Don't Forget!!!
Meet bids for the Fall/Winter 2003-04 Short Course season are due June 10, 2003. Send meet bid forms to: Meet bid forms can be found on the FORMS PAGE. The date for "Meet reservations postmarked no earlier than" is September 9, 2003.
May 21, 2003 -- Attention Meet Directors!
New rules were passed at the LSC meeting for the required distance events in any meet. The changes affect the required events for 11-12 swimmers in order to include the new longer stroke events offered at the state meets. Cris Lewis has written a one-page guide for meet directors that explains the requirement. CLICK HERE to download.
May 21, 2003 -- Attention Meet Directors!
New rules were passed at the LSC meeting for the required distance events in any meet. The changes affect the required events for 11-12 swimmers in order to include the new longer stroke events offered at the state meets. Cris Lewis has written a one-page guide for meet directors that explains the requirement. CLICK HERE to download.
May 19, 2003 -- There will be an Age Group Committee meeting May 21st at 10:00 at the Schroeder pool. Contact Matt Miller for additional information.
May 19, 2003 -- Meet bids for the Fall/Winter 2003-04 Short Course season are due June 10, 2003. Send meet bid forms to: Meet bid forms can be found on the FORMS PAGE. The date for "Meet reservations postmarked no earlier than" is September 9, 2003.
May 8, 2003 -- USA Swimming has issued a new resource index for Swimmers, Coaches, Parents, Clubs, and LSC's. Most of the resources listed are available through the USA Swimming website, USA-SWIMMING.ORG. Each resource also lists a contact staffer at Colorado Springs. CLICK HERE for a version of the index you can link directly through to the desired resource. Or you can DOWNLOAD a PDF version suitable for printing.
April 14, 2003 -- There is a new Email address for Carol Graham, LSC Registration Chair:
   cagraham@wi.rr.com.
Please use this email for all registration questions. Carol will be checking the old email address as well through this fall.
April 14, 2003 -- The Wisconsin Swimming House of Delegates will meet on Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 7:15 PM at UW Waukesha, ROOM N055.
April 12, 2003 -- Responding to the United States Olympic Committee's management dysfunction, a task force of the committee proposed drastic restructuring of the organization, shrinking the U.S.O.C.'s board of directors from 125 seats to 9, eliminating its executive committee. Read the article by Richard Sandomir of the NY Times.
April 9, 2003 -- The Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool will be broadcast on NBC this weekend. The meet will be shown over two days, Saturday, April 12 at 2:00-3:30 PM (Central Time) and Sunday, April 13, 12:30-2:00 PM.
April 4, 2003 -- New Wisconsin Records and Top-10 Times have been posted. Check out the Top Times Page. Congratulations to new recordholders: Hailey Schneider, Jenna Lennertz, Ellen Stoehr, Jimmy Graves, Mark Johnson, James Wike, Mitchell Stoehr, Mitchell Friedmann, Stephanie Fisher, Maggie Zblewski, Andrea Boritzke and Kyle Bubolz, and relay teams from: SSTY and LAKE.
April, 3, 2003 -- The Wisconsin Swimming 2003 Spring/Summer Meet schedule was approved at the January LSC meeting. CLICK HERE to download a printable copy. The following changes have been announced:
The Official Meet Schedule for the Fall/Winter 2002-2003 season is now posted. CLICK HERE or press the Meet Schedule button at the left.

Results available for:

March 18, 2003 -- Results from the Zone Sectional (Speedo Champions Series) meet, March 13-16, 2003, in Minneapolis are available on the Central Zone Website
March 17, 2003 -- The Watertown Aquatic team is holding a swimming clinic with some of Wisconsin's finest High School swimmers. The clinic will be held on March 22, 2003. CLICK HERE for information and registration form.
March 13, 2003 -- State Meet results for the 13 & Over Championship: The 15-16 and Senior age groups were swum together, but scored separately. Due to software limitations this will cause some things in the results to look different than normal.

The scoring in the meet was done by hand and the standard reports in the software will not necessarily produce the correct scores.

Individual and team scoring has been completed. The meet management team apologizes for the delay and any inconvenience this may have caused your team. The scoring that was required of this meet was not supported by the Hytek software. This was not known until after the meet had been completed, so some awards where given to the wrong swimmer or team. Scoring had to be tabulated by hand which required additional time to ensure that incorrect results were not released a second time. We believe that these point values are correct, however, if you would like to dispute any score, please contact one of the meet directors or the entry chair listed below by 3/20/03. If no disputes are received by that date, we will distribute the remaining awards and assist the teams and swimmers that received incorrect awards obtain their proper award. Thank you for your patience and cooperation.
Tom DeVroy- Entry Chair TDeVroy@wennsoft.com
Jeff Daoust- Meet Director jdaoust92@wi.rr.com
Lin Sanders- Meet Director linsanders@hotmail.com

State Meet results for the 12 & Under Championship:

March 12, 2003 -- Age Group Committee met today to discuss 2003 Long Course and 2004 Short Course Championships. Time standards for the Long Course meets were approved, and dates for the 2004 Short Course meets were selected.
    2003 Long Course State Championships
    (PDF) 14 & Under Time Standards
        Wisconsin 14 & Under Long Course Championship
        July 25-27, 2003 @ Schroeder Aquatic Center
    (PDF) Senior Time Standards
        Wisconsin Senior Long Course Championship
        August 1-3, 2003 @ Schroeder Aquatic Center

    WIAA H.S. State - February 20-21, 2004
    Wisconsin Sectional Meets - February 20-22, 2004
    Wisconsin 12 & Under Short Course Championship - February 27-29, 2004
    Wisconsin 13 & Over Short Course Championship - March 4-7, 2004
    Speedo Sectional Championship - March 11-14, 2004
Complete minutes from the Age Group meeting can be found on the Wisconsin Swimming Meetings Page.
March 10, 2003 -- Meet reservations may be sent beginning March 11. Postmarks earlier than March 11 cannot be accepted. Here are some meet schedule updates/corrections:
  • VAC meet May 5 indicates both single age and age group (10&U, 11-12, etc), it is NOT single age.
  • GSSC meet May 17-18 indicated $4.00 event fees on web, but $4.50 in printed copy, it is $4.00.
  • SEAY Open Water meet June 28 is CANCELED
March 10, 2003 -- The Rules Committee will meet on Monday, March 17 at 7:00 PM at UW Waukesha, room A100. The agenda includes:
    1) Wisconsin Scratch Rule
    2) Distance Events
    3) Travel reimbursement deadlines
    4) House Keeping issues
    5) Proof of time proposasl
March 10, 2003 -- State Meet results for the 12 & Under Championship are here!
March 3, 2003 -- State Meet results for the 13 & Over Championship are here! Explanation on Scoring:

The 13 and Over meet permitted swimmers to swim in open events as well as swim age group events. Meet Management was provided a ruling for high point accrual that is not supported as a standard feature in HyTEK. Consequently, the standard high point individual reports are incorrect, and perhaps the high point team totals. They need to be manually calculated, and submitted after this process is complete. All other data in the meet backup files and reports is official.

Updated March 3, 2003 -- Check out the list of all meets currently in the Wisconsin Times database. There are now 95 meets in the database. All times done at any of these meets should be reflected in the proof reports supplied to the state meet hosts. The proof of time people will first check the reports and only call for printed proof when they cannot prove the time with the database generated reports. Proof reports are in all courses (SCY, SCM, & LCM). Below is the list of meets that are on the LSC schedule, but from which no results have been received. These meets are NOT INCLUDED in the database. The meets are indicated by START DATE & HOST CLUB.
    10/19/02- FRST/WBSC
    12/7/02- MGM
    12/13/02- Carthage
    1/11/03- GBSC
    1/11/03- FRST
    1/18/03- WAT
    1/19/03- TOSA
    2/14/03- FCYM/OSHY
    2/15/03- FAST

Wisconsin 12 & Under State Championship Meet files:

ATTENTION OFFICIALS - Please consider volunteering to work a session at the 2003 Wisconsin State 12 & Under Championship to be held March 7-9 at the UW Natatorium. If interested please call or email Rich Hubbard (608-836-5663, 608-358-9088 or hubbard1@chorus.net) to indicate your session preference.
February 18, 2003 -- Wisconsin Swimming presents its 2003 Spring new officials training clinics, May 3 in Appleton, May 10 in Madison, and May 17 in Hartland.  Encourage your swim families to participate in swimming by becoming officials.  No experience is necessary to train as a Stroke & Turn Judge.  Go to the OFFICIALS PAGE to find information and registration form.
February 10, 2003 -- Speedo athletes Nate Dusing and Neil Walker, 2000 Olympians and USA National Team member Rachel Komisarz were the most accomplished athletes at this year's meet. The meet historically attracts some of the best USA Swimming teams in the Central Zone and beyond and serves as an important test before the USA Spring Nationals, Speedo Sectionals and many LSC Championships. The Senior and Age Group meet, which was initiated 23 years ago, had 67 USA Swimming teams and 1003 member-athletes in attendance.

The Speedo sponsored USA National Team Members thrilled the other athletes and spectators with their performances and by tirelessly signing autographs and mugging with anxious young swimmers.

One American Record, three National Age Group records and seven other meet records were established this year.

Lake Country Swim Team's Mitchell Friedemann, age 10, went 28.64 in the 50 back and then helped his team break a meet record 10 & Under 200 Medley Relay with a 2:08.84 (Mitchell Friedemann 10, Theodore Leclere 10, Derek Landisch 9, and Aiden Kohnhorst 10). New Trier Swim Club's 11/12 girls established a new meet record with a 4:13.26 in the 400 Medley Relay (Betsy Webb 12, Alisa Finn 11, Alexandra Davitt 12, Elizabeth Clarke 12). Southwest Aquatic Team of Wisconsin's, Jenna Lennertz age 12, went 1:02.51 in the 100 IM and Wisconsin Aquatic's James Wike, age 19 swam the 400 IM 3:59.95.

Schroeder YMCA Swim Team's Alex Dionne, 12, set a new American Record in the Men's 100 yard Butterfly with a 1:19.90. Alex is a disabled athlete and is classified as an S7 as he is a double amputee.

Schroeder's Mitchell Stoehr age 10, was clearly the meet's outstanding performer. Mitch shattered the National Age Group Records in the 200 Free with a 1:57.94 and the 500 Free with a 5:17.58 He also established meet records in the 50 Free with a 25.29, 100 Free with a 56.01 and in the 100 IM a 1:06.11.

Schroeder YMCA Swim Team's Co-Head Coach, Dave Anderson, now in his eighth year, expressed his gratitude to the hundreds of volunteers and officials in USA Swimming's family as well as to meet sponsor Speedo who helped make this year's meet a success. Anderson also notes that none of this would be possible were it not for the generous gift from Milwaukee's Walter Schroeder Foundation in 1979 that enabled the construction and maintenance of the renowned Schroeder YMCA Aquatic Center.

For complete results and team scores: www.ssty.org

February 6, 2003 -- Meet Information for the 13 & Over Wisconsin State Short Course Championship is here!  
February 6, 2003 -- The Wisconsin State 12 & Under Short Course Championship Meet Information is now available. ATTENTION OFFICIALS - Please consider volunteering to work a session at the 2003 Wisconsin State 12 & Under Championship to be held March 7-9 at the UW Natatorium. If interested please call or email Rich Hubbard (608-836-5663, 608-358-9088 or hubbard1@chorus.net) to indicate your session preference.
February 5, 2003 -- Attention Coaches: It is time again to send in your votes for Swimmer Of The Year and Coach Of The Year. Walter's Swim Supplies is again sponsoring this award. Wisconsin Swimming's Coach Reprsentative, Dave Westfahl, will be accepting ballots by mail or e-mail, or by phone, between now and April 28. Awards will be presented at the WCSS "Sweet 16" meet on May 31 at UW-Milwaukee. CLICK HERE for a printable ballot. Vote for one male and one female, age-group and senior swimmer and for one age-group and one senior coach.

Dave is also accepting nominations for the new Coach Representative to Wisconsin Swimming Board of Directors. You can e-mail nominations to Dave at davewestfahl@wi.rr.com. February 3, 2003 -- The Schroeder YMCA's A+ Swim Meet is the region's most competitive swim meet of the winter with a field of 1000 athletes who will be representing 66 teams.

Olympians Nate Dusing and Neil Walker and USA National Team member Rachel Komisarz are the most accomplished athletes at this year's meet, which is presented by Speedo.

Walker, 26, is a Verona, Wisconsin native who lives in Austin, Texas. He was a silver medalist on the 400 free relay and competed in back and freestyle events individually at the 2000 Olympics. He is the current World Record Holder in the 50 and 100m backstrokes. Walker also set the Wisconsin High School State record in the 100 yard backstroke swimming for Verona in 1994.

Dusing, 24, is a graduate of the University of Texas and is a Silver Medalist from the 2000 Sydney Olympics as a member of the 800 meter freestyle relay. He also holds five American Records and was the fastest American in the 200 meter freestyle in 2002.

Komisarz, 26, finished the 2001 year as the 14th fastest in the world in the 100 meter Butterfly and represented the USA at the 2002 World Championships where she helped set a new American Record on the 800 meter free relay.
February 7 - 9, Schedule of Events:
 session startsession end
Friday (finals)5:35 PM8:30 PM
Saturday (prelims)8:05 AM11:00 AM
Saturday (finals)6:05 PM9:00 PM
Sunday (finals)1:15 PM5:00 PM
More Information: David Anderson - 414 354 9622 x 133 or view: http://ssty.org/swim-meet-information.htm

INDIANAPOLIS -- The 2003 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming Spring National Championships will attract the top talent in American swimming to the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis during the first week of April.

"We have been alerted by USA Swimming that every non-collegiate member of the USA National Team, except one, will compete at this meet," said meet spokesman David Dawson. "For the spring nationals meet, this will mean unusually intense competition and fast times."

The National Team members include Olympic stars such as Lenny Krayzelburg, Lindsay Benko, Michael Phelps, Jenny Thompson, Ed Moses and Amanda Beard. Only those National Team members who will be competing at the NCAA championships in late March may be absent, as well as Tom Malchow, who also will not participate.

"There are two main reasons we see for this extremely fast field at the spring nationals," Dawson said. "First, the IU Natatorium is favorite pool in the world for many swimmers. It’s fast, it’s comfortable and Indianapolis is a safe, friendly host for world-class athletes. Second, these swimmers will be preparing for the Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool against the Australian team at the IU Natatorium the day after spring nationals ends. They’ll be here, they’ll be pumped up and they’ll put on a great show."

The 2003 Conoco Phillips Spring Nationals starts Tuesday, April 1 at 4 p.m. (EST) with timed finals of the 800-meter freestyle event. Preliminaries of other events will start at 9 a.m. Wednesday, April 2 through Saturday, April 5. Finals of each day’s events will begin at 6 p.m.

Ticket information is available at the Indiana Swimming website (www.inswimming.org) or at the IU Natatorium (317) 274-6786.

January 30, 2003 -- New Wisconsin Records and Top-10 Times have been posted. Check out the Top Times Page. Congratulations to new recordholders: Mitchell Stoehr, Mitchell Friedmann, Matt Engle, Victor LeClere, Nicki Wex, Stephanie Fisher, Maggie Zblewski, Andrea Boritzke and Kyle Bubolz, and relay teams from: SSTY and BAC.
January 29, 2003 -- Age Group / Senior Committee will meet Wednesday, March 12, at 10:00 AM at Schroeder YMCA. All are welcome to attend. On the docket:
January 29, 2003 -- The Wisconsin Swimming 2003 Spring/Summer Meet schedule was approved at the LSC meeting last night. CLICK HERE to download a printable copy.
January 29, 2003 -- Because of contractual obligations with the Schroeder facility, State Championship sweatshirts cannot be sold at the 13 & Over meet. The only way you can get them is to order online! CLICK HERE for information.  To place an order, go to: www.bellascustomdesign.com/.
January 29, 2003 -- The winner of the two tickets to the USA Swimming Duel in the Pool is Kathy Larson. Congratulations, Kathy!
January 28, 2003 -- The Wisconsin Swimming House of Delegates meeting will be Tuesday, January 28 at 7:15, at University of Wisconsin, Waukesha, ROOM N055 (Note the Room Change!)  This meeting will include approval of the 2003 Spring/Summer meet schedule. It is important that a representative of each team with a meet bid for this season attend in case of questions about your bid.  Here's another important reason to attend:

The LSC has received a donation of two tickets to the USA Swimming, Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool.  This exciting Dual Meet (Duel - Dual! Get it?) between the top US and Australian swimmers will be held April 6 in Indianapolis.  This event sold out very quickly back in August and tickets are hard to come by.  A drawing for the pair of tickets will be held at the LSC meeting. Any Wisconsin Swimming athlete, coach, official, parent, LSC representative or officer may enter, but you MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN.

January 28, 2003 -- Over the last 2 weeks, Mitchell Stoehr of the Schroeder Swim Team has been on a record setting binge. On Saturday night, Stoehr posted a 400 meter free of 4:41.92 eclipsing the old national record mark of 4:50.00. The weekend before, he set multiple new state records in the 50 free (25.57), 100 free (56.03), 200 free (2:00.73), and the 50 fly (28.42). He also led his teammates Kasmir Bohannon, Carl Newenhouse, and Jason Castillo to a new state record in the 200 Free Relay (1:55.07). The old record of 1:55.98 was the oldest state record and had been set in 1980.
January 23, 2003 -- I promised you an update on the state meet situation. If this is the first you've heard, you can read about it HERE.

We expect to be able to run the state meets as they are currently scheduled with no change in dates, pool, or time standards. There will be a small modification to the 12 & Under state meet info to accommodate swimmers who age up from 12 to 13 between the dates of February 28 and March 6.

This solution was accepted by the Age Group committee at their meeting on January 22. It is being submitted to USA Swimming for approval, and indications are that it will be accepted there as well.

Once approved, it will be presented to the LSC meeting on Tuesday, January 28, and it will be incorporated into the 12 & Under State Meet Info.

Thank you your patience as we worked this through.  As soon as the proposal has been approved by USA Swimming and presented to the LSC, we will publish both state meet info documents with full details. In the mean time, please drop me an e-mail if you have specific questions.

Dale Nickels
General Chair

January 17, 2003 -- Rumors are beginning to fly about the apparent demise of the 2003 Wisconsin State Championship meets. In order to keep everybody fully informed, I would like to provide the facts surrounding the issue and the current state of the process:

On December 20th, the practice by Wisconsin Swimming of scheduling the 13 & Over State Meet before the 12 & Under State Meet was challenged on behalf of a swimmer who, by their birth date was ineligible to swim in either meet. Over the subsequent weeks the issue was escalated up to the USA Swimming Rules and Regulations Committee.

On this past Wednesday, January 15th, Wisconsin Swimming was notified that USA Swimming has ruled that the two meets, although sanctioned separately, are considered a single meet for the purpose of the requirement for a single short course Age Group Championship in Wisconsin, and thus Wisconsin is in violation of USA Swimming rule 205.2.3 which states: "When an Age Group Meet is scheduled over two weekends the younger age group must compete on the first weekend." Wisconsin Swimming was directed to make such changes as are necessary to come into conformance with the rule.

Many possible changes are being considered, the most drastic of which would mean moving dates and/or pools for the two meets. Also possible are changes in the time standards for all age groups. Knowing that many families have begun planning for the meets, not to mention meet hosts, officials and volunteers, we are making every effort to come to a resolution which has the least impact on our swimmers and their families. Conversations are continuing here and at the national level to determine a compromise solution.

At the Age Group Committee meeting, which was already scheduled for Wednesday, January 22nd, all of the options will be presented, and the committee will recommend a solution to present to the LSC at the meeting on Tuesday, January 28th. The results of the committee meeting will be posted here on the website.

I ask for your patience as we continue to gather the information necessary to make an informed decision. I will inform you as soon as we know anything.

Dale Nickels
General Chair

January 14, 2003 -- The Wisconsin Swimming House of Delegates meeting will be Tuesday, January 28 at 7:15, at University of Wisconsin, Waukesha, ROOM N055 (Note the Room Change!)  This meeting will include approval of the 2003 Spring/Summer meet schedule. It is important that a representative of each team with a meet bid for this season attend in case of questions about your bid.  Here's another important reason to attend:

The LSC has received a donation of two tickets to the USA Swimming, Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool.  This exciting Dual Meet (Duel - Dual! Get it?) between the top US and Australian swimmers will be held April 6 in Indianapolis.  This event sold out very quickly back in August and tickets are hard to come by.  A drawing for the pair of tickets will be held at the LSC meeting. Any Wisconsin Swimming athlete, coach, official, parent, LSC representative or officer may enter, but you MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN.

January 11, 2003 -- This just in... Mark Johnson of Lake Country (LAKE) is also on the National Junior Team.  Both Mark and Kyle are in Australia now swimming for Team USA.

Kyle Bubolz of Waukesha Express Swim Team (WEST) has been named to the USA Swimming 2002-2003 National Junior Team. Thirty-two athletes from across the country were invited to train at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo in October. These athletes spent time in the Flume, training in the pool and learning about nutrition, doping control, race analysis and interview training. These athletes will be representing the USA in January at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney.

Kyle also set the 15-16 national age group record in the 50m free with a time of 23.15 at the U.S. Open in December. Congratulations, Kyle! Good Luck, Kyle and Mark!

January 3, 2003 -- There will be an age group meeting on Wednesday, January 22nd @ 10:00AM at Schroeder down by the Wharf. Please enter at the front and tell the front desk why you are here.

 

 

What was news in 2002?  Check the News Archive for 2002