Thursday, March 31, 2011

Leadership

All Purple Tide Swimmers are Leaders. 
Become a Better Leader Today.

As you prepare yourself to become a better leader, use the following guidelines to help you grow:
1.
Let go of your ego
The truly great leaders are not in leadership for personal gain. They lead in order to serve other people. Perhaps that is why Lawrence D. Bell remarked, "Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things, and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."
2.
Become a good follower first
Rare is the effective leader who didn't learn to become a good follower first. That is why a leadership institution such as the United States Military Academy teaches its officers to become effective followers first - and why West Point has produced more leaders than the Harvard Business School.
3.
Build positive relationships
Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. That means it is by nature relational. Today's generation of leaders seem particularly aware of this because title and position mean so little to them. They know intuitively that people go along with people they get along with.
4.
Work with excellence
No one respects and follows mediocrity. Leaders who earn the right to lead give their all to what they do. They bring into play not only their skills and talents, but also great passion and hard work They perform on the highest level of which they are capable.
5.
Rely on discipline, not emotion
Leadership is often easy during the good times. It's when everything seems to be against you - when you're out of energy, and you don't want to lead - that you earn your place as a leader. During every season of life, leaders face crucial moments when they must choose between gearing up or giving up. To make it through those times, rely on the rock of discipline, not the shifting sand of emotion.
6.
Make adding value your goal
When you look at the leaders whose names are revered long after they have finished leading, you find that they were men and women who helped people to live better lives and reach their potential. That is the highest calling of leadership - and its highest value.
7.
Give your power away
One of the ironies of leadership is that you become a better leader by sharing whatever power you have, not by saving it all for yourself. You're meant to be a river, not a reservoir. If you use your power to empower others, your leadership will extend far beyond your grasp.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Are You The One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0XXD0gWctE&feature=player_embedded


This is Ryan Lockte Dryland Practice. I know we are going to try this a lot this summer and school year.


This is from Go Swim. This is a Great Web-Site. We have bought several of their videos.


Go TIDE!!!

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Open Swim After Break

Open Swim After Break

Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 6:30-7:20am
I get to the pool about 6:15am.


Take advantage of your opportunities.

Friday, March 18, 2011

TIDE Highlights or Talking Points

Four Tide Swimmers have made NISCA Academic All-American: Joe Mullvain, Josh Werling, Haleigh Thomas, and Maggie Ezdon. Two other Tide Swimmers have also made WISCA Academic All-State: Nick Fillbach and Cherrelle Phon.

All-American is a Cumulative GPA of 3.75 for 7 semesters and All-State is 3.5 for 7 Semesters.

Were are they going next year? Joe has been accepted to Minnesota and Wisconsin. Josh; Naval Academy or Coast Guard Academy. Nick; DePaul, Gustavs Adolphs and several others. Haleigh; Marquette University. Maggie Ezdon; UW-Whitewater. Cherrelle; Beloit College. Rebecca Wentworth; UW-Platteville. 



Varsity GPA for this school year 2010-2011. Lady Tide 3.76 NISCA National Gold Award 6th year in a row. Tide 3.73 Silver Award. Also number of athletes swimming Middle School thru High School is up again. Total Program 6th - 12th grade, boys and girls is over 100.


Middle School Boys have won their conference meet the last two seasons and a total of 3 times since 2002. The Middle School Girls have won the conference meet the last three seasons.



Thursday, March 17, 2011

Rumor, Rumor, Rumor!!!

Swimming is not being DROPPED!!!
I Repeat, Swimming is not being DROPPED!!!
This was never an issue.
I have confirmed this with both Mr. Johnson and Mr. Ferger.


This is one of the Great Programs that makes Beloit Great.
We have outstanding Participation and Academics, at all Levels.


So let your school board member know how you feel about our Great Program, before they do get any Ideas.

Go TIDE!!!!

Academic TIDE

Two Middle Tide swimmers from Aldrich Middle School Finished 1st and honorable Mention at the: 
7th grade Math 24 Regional championships.
WINNER 1st PlaceMaggie Gianvecchio
Andrew Wadle Honorable Mention

Great Job!!
Keeping our Academic Tradition Strong!
Go TIDE!!

Friday, March 11, 2011

New Blog to Follow

I have Added Wayne Goldsmiths blog to our blog. Please take some time to read, he is a leading sports psychologist. 

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

All Purple Tide Websites Updated

Thank You Mrs McNulty!!

All of the Purple Tide Web-sites; Boys, Girls and Middle School have been updated.
If you have any pictures to share please email to me and we will put on blog, web-site and Facebook.


Remember the Beloit Aquatic Team Starts April 4 and Summer Tide June 13.


Have a Great Break!!

Go TIDE!!

Monday, March 7, 2011

More Banquet Pictures

Joey Mullvain Comeback Award


Josh Werling MVP

Kevin Nyugen Most Improved

Nick White Hardest Worker

Christian Daniels Iron Man

Chance Murray Rock Award

Caleb Schober Rookie of the Year

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Some Banquet Pictures

Team Captains Josh Werling and Nick Fillback, Pin next seasons Captains Cody Schober and Christian Daniels.


2011 Academic All-Americans Joe Mullvain and Josh Werling.

The 3rd Day is always the Toughest

Jose finally got to swim. He swam a lift-time best in the 100 back 1:02.38, this is 1 second improvement over is life-time best from the WIAA sectional meet.
He also split a 57.1 in the 400 free relay.


Christian swam a 59.9 in the 100 back all though it is a little slower than his best it is his 3rd time under a minute. He also split a 53.9 on the 400 free relay. His 200 IM was .2 slower than his WIAA sectional time., but not bad for his 3rd full day of swimming.


It was a Great State Meet for all TIDE swimmers.


Remember BATs start practice April 4 at Beloit College. If we are going to make serious improvement in the next year, we need to be in the water. Summer TIDE starts June 13 at Krueger Pool.

Go TIDE!!

Saturday, March 5, 2011

CENTRAL ZONE CUT

Christian finished 14th in the 200 Breast 2:16.86 (1:07.00/1:09.86).
Three seconds faster than his life-time best prelim time.
His time is a 15-16 age group AAA time, which is a Central Zone Cut (Age Group Nationals).
Congratulations!!!

Go TIDE!!

Day Two USA Swimming Wisconsin State Meet

Day two was a very good day for Christian Daniels.
2nd leg of 200 Free Relay 23.60.


200 Back 2:07.98, 1 second improvement over his time from two weeks ago.


200 Breaststroke 2:19.34  8 second improvement over his life-time best. Qualified for the 'B' Final.


Back leg of the 400 Medley Relay 59.30.


Christian will swim tonight. Finals start at 5pm. Will keep you posted on Results.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Daniels Day One WI USA State

Christian swam the backstroke leg of the BAT 200 Medley Relay split a 27.39. Relay swam a 1:45.17.
In the 100 Breaststroke he split a 29.5 on his way to a 1:03.95, this was a huge improvement from his life-time best of 1:07.1.


400 I.M. will be swam in about an hour. Will post results ASAP.
He just got done Christian swam a 4:31.75, an 8 second improvement. Splits Fly 1:01.76, Back 1:09.59, Breast 1:16.13 and Free 1:04.27.
He finished 22 in the 100 breast and 17th in the 400 IM 15-16 age-group.
Christian swims 200 Back and Breast Saturday.
Go Luck!!
Go TIDE!!

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Good Luck!!

Good Luck to Christian Daniels(15) and Jose Cardenas(14) as they start swimming Friday in the Wisconsin USA Swimming State Championships. These Tide swimmers swim for the Beloit Aquatic Team. Christian is qualified in the 200 and 400 IM's, the 100 and  200 Backstrokes, the 100 and 200 Breaststrokes. Jose is swimming the 100 Backstroke and 100 Freestyle. 


The State Meet is at the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center in Brown Deer Wisconsin. The meet starts today with the 1650 Free and the 800 Free Relays.


The Owner and Head Coach of the Schroeder Center is Matt Miller Purple Tide Class of 1993. Matt was a All-State and All-American swimmer at Beloit Memorial. He went on to Kenyon College were he would win 13 NCAA Titles. 


Go LUCK!! 
GO TIDE!!