Friday, February 26, 2010

12&Under State


Jackson Prowes finishes 6th in the 10 & Under 50 Breaststroke 39.6 and 22nd in the 500 Free 6:55.
GREAT JOB!!!
GO TIDE!!
Jackson swims in the 100 Breaststroke Saturday. Good Luck

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Polar Plunge




Rebecca Wentworth (Jr.) of the Lady Tide, participated in the Polar Plunge in Madison Sunday. Still waiting on Picture Becca. Great Job in Helping your Charity.
Updated. Thanks Becca!!

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Tide Swimmers at USS State Qualifier

Christian Daniels (14) Freshman and Jackson Prowes (10) 5th Grade Tide swimmers who swim for the BATS swam at the Wisconsin USS State Qualifying meet at Waukesha South H.S. this past weekend.

Christian swam in the 14u age group, Finished 2nd in the High Point standings.
Swam the 100 Free in 56.4, 100 Back 1:04, 200 Breast 2:33, 200 Back 2:20, 200 Free 2:09, and the 200 IM 2;15.

Jackson in the 10u age group. Swam the 100 free 1:12, 100 Breast 1:27, 50 Back 41.6.

Great Job Men. Go Tide!!!

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Open Swim Starts Monday March 1

3:30-4:15
Remember this is Lap Swimming Only!
No Starting Blocks

READ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dr.G

THE MUSIC IS INSIDE OF YOU!

FINA and USA Swimming recently banned all hi-tech swim suits that had contributed to the breaking of so many world records at the last Olympics. For a lot of athletes, this new ruling has sent them spiraling into a major crisis of confidence. No longer aided by their "fast" suits, they feel unable to compete the way that they used to.

This situation begs the question, "How much of that good game, match or race can be solely attributed to the equipment?" Sometimes athletes become too psychologically dependent upon the external trappings of their sport, i.e. a special racquet, glove, bat or suit. While the situation in swimming is very real and will definitely lower swimmers' overall times, the power of the psychological component to negatively affect your performance can not be underestimated.

The following is a story for all those athletes who have allowed themselves to become too emotionally dependent upon their "high performance" equipment:

Niccolo Paganini was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist and composer as well as one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time. A story is told of one of his more memorable performances.

Paganini takes the stage to a thunderous standing ovation that lasts a good 5 minutes. When the applause finally dies down, he gently puts his violin case on the ground and kneels down beside it to take out his concert violin, a priceless Stradivarius. However, as he opens the case, he is shocked to see that his concert violin is not in its' rightful case. An old practice violin is there in its' place. For some reason there had been a mix up at his home, and his priceless Stradivarius had been left behind. Paganini turns white as a ghost, puts down his practice violin and then inexplicably walks off the stage to the stunned silence of the crowd.

Five minutes later, the great musician returns, gently bends down and picks up his practice violin. Without explaining his mysterious departure from the stage, he begins to play. Within the very first few notes, those listening realize that they are being treated to one of the virtuosi's greatest performances ever. Paginini plays with a skill and sound like never before.

At the concert's end, he is greeted by an even longer standing ovation and deafening cheers of "BRAVO!!!!" that rock the concert hall. After everything has died down and Paganini is in his dressing room preparing to return home, there's a knock on the door and one of his closest friends enters. The friend congratulates Paganini on his wonderful performance and then inquires about what happened at the beginning of the concert when he inexplicably walked off the stage.

Paganini explained about the violin mixup and how his concert violin was accidentally left at home. Then he turned to his friend and said, "I learned a very valuable lesson tonight. I always thought that the music was in the violin. Tonight I learned that the music is inside of me!"

It's not the lucky socks, bat, club or glove that makes you great. It's YOU that makes you great! The music is alwaysinside of YOU!

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Dinner at Asia Buffet

Dave Luebke Jr. (01) will be taking the team to dinner Saturday 2/21 at 6pm.
Let Dan know if you are going.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

State Cuts

Division 1

Diving - 316.90

200 Medley Relay - 1:44.73

200 Freestyle - 1:49.10

200 Individual Medley - 2:02.36

50 Freestyle - 22.58

100 Butterfly - 54.98

100 Freestyle - 49.91

500 Freestyle - 5:02.33

200 Freestyle Relay - 1:32.52

100 Backstroke - 57.56

100 Breaststroke - 1:02.44

400 Freestyle Relay - 3:26.13


We may not of Qualified for the State Meet this year. But you can not take away the outstanding meet we had Saturday.

Great Job Tide!!


Awesome Sectional




The Tide had an Outstanding Meet!!!!!!!!!

Were to Begin:
100% Season Bests.
28 of 30 Life-Time Bests.

Every Swim was a Highlight.

Freshman Christian Daniels 13th place 100 Breaststroke 1:08.81, 200 I.M. 2:15.64, 50 Free 24.45, 50 Breast 30.56.
Senior Cody Fick 12th place 100 Breaststroke 1:08.19 50 Free 23.32.
Senior Mike McNulty 8th Place 200 Free 1:52.57, 500 Free 8th Place 5:12.97 8th All-Time Tide.
100 Free 51.80, 50 Free 23.57.
Senior Dan Luebke 50 Fly 25.7, 11th place 100 Fly 57.74, 50 Free 23.72, 100 Free 51.84.
Juniors: Nick Fillbach 50 Back 30.8, 100 Back 1:09.09, 100 Free 58.25.
Josh Werling 50 Free 25.70, 100 Free 55.86.
Sophs: Cody Schober 100 Fly 1:03.31, 100 Back 1:10.75
Matt McNulty 100 Back 1:19.68
Alec Shu 100 Free 57.90, 100 Breast 1:13.33
Nick White 200 Free 2:07.46
Senior Simon Rawet 100 Free 1:02.06
Chase Hankins 100 Breast 1:26. 43
200 Medley Relay 9th Place 1:50.43 5 sec. improvement
200 Free Relay 10th Place 1:35.38 4 sec Improvement
400 Free Relay 10th Place 3:38.37 12 sec Improvement

Mike McNulty also Joined the Purple Tide All-Iron Man Team
500 Free + 200 I.M. Life-Time added together.
7th All-Time 500 of 5:12.97 and 200 I.M. of 2:12.18.

Pictures to Come, as I receive them.
So send me your pictures.



Shave Down and Dinner








Team Shave Down and Dinner went Great. They eat all the pasta, pumpkin bars, salad, and anything else that was not nailed down. Will post pictures later tonight.
GO TIDE!!!!!!!!


Thursday, February 11, 2010

Sectionals

Team Meeting 9am
Bus Leaves 9:30am
Warm-up 11:30
Meet 1:00

Parent!!! Read!!!
Tickets go on sale at 10am. May only buy 4 tickets.

Need to get there early or you will not get in. This meet will be PACKED!!

Monday, February 8, 2010

READ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOW YOU HANDLE THE "DOWN" TIMES IS WHAT MAKES YOU A REAL CHAMPION

Anybody can feel confident and be positive when things are going great. It takes no special talent, discipline or grit to smile and feel motivated when you're on top.

However, the mark of a true champion lies in how you handle the down times. It's in those times when you feel discouraged, hopeless and unmotivated that the seeds of true greatness reside.

How you react to and manage your failures, disappointments, performance slumps and plateaus will ultimately determine whether you'll be a success or a failure in anything that you attempt, on or off the playing fields.

So let's start with some basics here:

Expect hardship, adversity and disappointment. They are an integral, NORMAL and important part of your athletic journey. No one embarks on the road from beginner to champion without encountering a ton of emotional and physical setbacks along the way. Whether it means getting cut from a squad that you desperately wanted to make, suffering a season ending injury/illness, falling into a major slump or simply being forced to ride the bench by your coach, the road to your dreams is going to be predictably bumpy. It's your job as an athlete to embracethese bumps as a normal part of the journey and then use them as a stepping stone to push yourself further along the road.

The failures and hardships that you encounter along the way are put there to make you smarter, mentally and physically stronger and ultimately more talented. They are meant to be learning opportunities. Your disappointments hold invaluable lessons for you. It's your job to sort through all of those very difficult emotions so that you can then find the important learnings within the setback and take advantage of them!

With the correct attitude, YOUR SETBACKS ARE MERELY TEMPORARY! Just because you failed last week, yesterday and today doesn't mean that you will fail tomorrow. Your past failures are not a predictor of future failures or ofpermanence, (i.e. "this always happens to me" ), unless you adopt this as an attitude. Your disappointments, regardless of how frequent, should be viewed as simply temporary occurrences. Learn from them and leave them behind you.

Get more motivated every time you fail. Failure is simply feedback and feedback is the breakfast of champions. Each setback provides you with important lessons that will help you take your game to the next level. As a result, you want to get yourself excited with each setback because, despite the "down" emotions, this actually puts you further down the road and closer to success. Can you imagine what would happen to your game if you adopted this attitude of getting more determined and motivated after each setback? That's right! You'd probably have to spend the rest of your life cursed by success!

Persistence and plain old-fashioned hard work will overcome almost any obstacle that life can throw in your path. Do not, under any circumstances ever stop working hard. Do not, ever quit! Sustained hard work in the face of failure, disappointment and frustration is the key to success and you want to use that key every day to unlock the doors that may be blocking your way.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Tide at Big 8

The Tide swam Saturday the Big 8 Conference Meet at Middleton High School.
The Tide had some good swims. Remember this was just the start of Greatness.
The Tide will be taking 12 swimmers to Sectionals next Saturday at Middleton again.

Swimmers of the meet; Christian Daniels, Cody Fick, Chase Hankins, Simon Rawet, Alec Shu, and Rio Griffen.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Middle Tide Wins Defends Title!!!

Middle Lady Tide wins again! By 5 points.
It was a real team effort, with only 2 1st places.
CeCe Cardinas(6th) 50 Free.
Kyle Robson(7th) 50 Breast.
Great Swims by all.
200 Free Relay finished 2nd with the 2nd best time in school history 2:04. B Relay swam 7th best with a 2:10 and 3rd place.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Lady Middle Tide Goes Undefeated!!

Tide beat Janesville Edison by 30 points last night to go Undefeated for the 1st time in the programs history.

The Tide swept (1,2,3) the 150 and 50 Free events and won all of the other free events as well as the 50 Breaststroke.

The Tide will defend its Conference Meet Title Friday at Marshall, meet starts at 4:30.

Get there early for a good seat.