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Lake Forest Meet Results 5/21/12
Congratulations to all swimmers who competed at this weekend's Lake Forest Meet at UIC. Wheaton swimmers had many best times and picked up many new regional and state qualifying times! Special congrats Ethan Chuang, Sophia Harvard, Laurynn Harvard, Logan Sims, Garret Sims, and Cavan Smith, who finished in the Top 3 point scorers in their age groups. Full results and team results are now posted on the Meet Results page. A few photos are also posted on our Facebook page!
PAC and MAVS Meet Registrations Now Open! 5/17/12
Online meet registrations are now open for the PAC "Ozzie Fest" Meet (July 6-8 at Stevenson HS) and the Mavericks Open Water Swim (July 1 at Naperville's Centennial Beach). The PAC Meet is an important meet for ALL SWIMMERS. For many swimmers is it the final meet of the season. For others, it is the "last chance" meet to either achieve championship meet qualifying times, or get in one last meet prior to championship meets. The Mavericks Open Water Swim will feature a 500m, 1000m, and a 1500m open water swim for swimmers 9 and over. While swimmers in any group may participate, we recommend this meet for swimmers in bronze, silver, gold, senior, Junior National, and National. Note that National swimmers must get permission from Bob to attend, due to the taper schedule around that time of the season. We hope to make a great showing at this meet! Please visit the Meet Info page first to get full details on both meets, and then use our Online Meet Registration system to sign up! The deadline to register for BOTH of these meets is May 31, 2012 at 11:59 p.m.
Important Lake Forest Meet Updates 5/15/12
We hope everyone is looking forward to this weekend’s swim meet at UIC hosted by the Lake Forest Swim Club. Remember that there are no practices on Saturday due to the meet. A few very important reminders 1) Allow extra time to get to the meet this weekend, due to the NATO summit being held in Chicago. It looks like the best bet is to take the Eisenhower to Racine and to avoid I-55 and I-90. However, please take some time to see a Chicago Tribune article for maps and closures, and make the best decision on your own. 2)
We have been asked to provide 2 timers for each session of the meet. Timers receive FREE ADMISSION so email the coaching staff today if you can time! First come first serve! 3)
Don’t forget all Wheaton Swimmers are expected to be on deck checked in 20 minutes prior to the start of warm-ups. Note that AM warm-ups are at 7:30 and PM warm-ups are at 12:45. Be there is all your Wheaton apparel! Good luck to all swimmers!
Silicone Cap Deadline Reminder 5/15/12
Today is the deadline to submit any changes to this summer’s Silicone Cap Order. Any changes received after today will be added to next fall’s order. Please review our Summer Cap Order and email us immediately if you would like to change or add and order! Note that the minimum number of caps is two.
National Team Deadline Reminder 5/15/12
National Team don’t forget today is the deadline to register for the 2012 LC Sectional Meet! Even if you do not have a cut yet, you must indicate online by today that you will attend. Deposits are refundable until June 15. Feel free to contact us with any questions!
Team Banquet Recap 5/15/12
Thanks to everyone who attended our annual banquet last night! It was a great time of honoring swimmers of all ages, and sharing some time together away from the pool! We hope you all had a great time. Below are some special honorees from last night - also please check out our updated Special Awards page, and download last night's banquet program!
Graduating Seniors
Abby Duke (Conant / UW Milwaukee), Cristina Favia (Benet / Miami of Ohio), Connie Hsu (Glenbard South / Harvard), Taylor Johns (Lake Park / Denison), Taylor Ostrowski (Northern Iowa), Spencer Phillips (Addison Trail / Rose Hulman), Nick Pulgine (Matea Valley / Wheaton College), Sarah Schaffer (Wheaton Warrenville South / Washington & Lee)
Special Awards
Sportsmanship Award - Noah Brunner and John King
Spirit Award - Tyler Mandrell and Gage Mandrell
Ten and Under of the Year - Liam Hutchinson
Age Groupers of the Year - Matt Mielke and Lindsay Mathys
Female Swimmer of the Year - Taylor Ostrowski
Male Swimmer of the Year - Nick Pulgine
Olympic Trial Qualifier - Connie Hsu
Team Record Breakers
Megan Bomicino, Trevor Carter, Emily Chuang, Ethan Chuang, Jeff Depew, Kirstin Erickson, Cristina Favia, Kamryn Gallowich, Laurynn Harvard, Sophia Harvard, Bryant Honsa, Connie Hsu, Liam Hutchinson, Anton Hutchinson, Alex Laleian, Gage Mandrell, Linsday Mathys, JP McAveeney, Matt Mielke, Nick Phillips, Keith Piper, Gage Ridinger, Sarah Schaffer, Delaney Smith, Paige Smith, Connie Zhang, Nick Zillier, Olivia Zillier, Michaela Ziman
Illinois Top Ten Ranked Athletes
Erin Bagley*, Tori Bertschy, Taylor Campbell, Emily Chuang+, Abigail Duke, Cristina Favia, Mary Floren, Kamryn Gallowich, Sophia Harvard, Laurynn Harvard*, Connie Hsu*, Taylor Johns+, Taylor Lifka, Linsday Mathys+, Gabrielle Mathys, Taylor Ostrowski, Kelsey Ostrowski, Rachel Slowinski, PaigeSmith, SaraTaege, ConnieZhang, Jeffrey Depew+, Jake Hasenberg, Collin Hogan, Brendan Howley, Liam Hutchinson+, Alexander Laleian+, Daniel Long, Gage Mandrell, Matthew Mielke*, Martin Pozniak+, Nick Pulgine+, Gage Ridinger, Zachary Shaver, Cavan Smith, Hanway Wang, Nicholas Zillier
+Ranked Top 3 in at least one event
*Ranked #1 in at least one event
State Record Breakers
Laurynn Harvard (11-12 50 breast – 30.02), 11-12 Girls 400 med relay – 4:05.44
(Linsday Mathys, Emily Chuang, Connie Zhang, Laurynn Harvard), 11-12 Girls 400 free relay – 3:41.29 (Connie Zhang, Laurynn Harvard, Emily Chuang, Lindsay Mathys)
National Top 10 Swimmers
Laurynn Harvard – Age 11 (400 Y I.M. – 10th,
100 Y I.M. – NATIONAL CHAMPION,
200 Y Breast – NATIONAL CHAMPION,
100 Y Breast – NATIONAL RUNNER UP,
50 Y Breast – NATIONAL RUNNER UP,
50 Y Free – 6th, Laurynn Harvard – Age 12,
100 M Breast – 10,
Emily Chuang – Age 11, 100 Y Back – 5th,
200 Y Back – 9th,
100 Y Fly – NATIONAL RUNNER UP,
100 Y I.M. – 3rd Place,
200 Y I.M. – 6th, 400 Y I.M. – 7th
Summer Fundraising Information Posted! 5/11/12
Check out our Fundraising page for newly updated summer fundraising information. This summer we will offer four ways for families to fulfill their commitments: Scrips, Swimathon, Advertisements, and the Action Accents Swim Locker. We will place two Scrip orders - one in May (due date is 5/16) and one in June. Full details on the swim-a-thon and the Swim Locker can be found on our Fundraising page. Full details about advertising can be found there as well, but note that our upcoming Father's Day Meet is a great opportunity to place an ad!
New Swim Meet Added! 5/11/12
We are pleased to announce that a new swim meet has been added to the schedule. We will be entering the first annual Mavericks Open Water Swim which will be held at Centennial Beach in Naperville! The event will be held July 1 and will feature a 500m, 1000m, and a 1500m open water swim for swimmers 9 and over. While swimmers in any group may participate, we recommend this meet for swimmers in bronze, silver, gold, senior, Junior National, and National. Note that National swimmers must get permission from Bob to attend, due to the taper schedule around that time of the season. We hope to make a great showing at this meet! Details are now posted on the Meet Info page, and online registration will open shortly.
Important Home Meet Entry Update 5/10/12
A list of participating swimmers in our Home Meet (June 15-17, 2012) is now posted on the Meet Info page (or you can link to it directly here). IMPORTANT: Tomorrow morning, we will begin accepting entries from other teams. We use the list of participants from our team to calculate how many visiting teams can be accepted. This meet traditionally fills very quickly, so after tomorrow, we may or may not be able to add more swimmers, even from our own team. Remember that, although all session 3 swimmers will be billed for this meet, only those swimmers who sign up will be entered. If you would like to be added to the meet, please email us by the end of the day today!
St Charles Meet Results Now Posted 5/9/12
Congratulations to all Wheaton Swimmers who competed this weekend at the St Charles Pentathlon! It was a great way to start the season, with many swimmers achieving life time bests, and many swimmers finishing in the top 6 in their age groups in the over-all pentathlon category. Special congrats to Lindsay Mathys who set a new team record in the 11-12 girls LC 50 free (29.11). Special congrats also to those swimmers who finished "in the trophies" (top 6) in overall pentathlon time: Andrew Oltmanns, JT Nielson, Delaney Smith, Todd Hutchinson, Gage Ridinger, Lindsay Mathys, JP McAveeney, Emily Chuang, Michael Hsu, Connie Hsu, and Brendan Howley. Team results, full results, and record breakers are now posted on our Meet Results page!
Welcome to Session Two! 5/7/12
The second session of our spring/summer season begins today! Please remember to check the Team Calendar for all practices. (The schedule for session two is modified a bit from session one). If you are new beginning today, we look forward to meeting you! New parents and swimmers please introduce yourselves to the coaching staff! Please remember you must be registered online using our Online Team Registration system before you can begin practicing. This includes orange group (competitive lessons) swimmers who may be doing another session of Orange, or else moving up to Blue. Let us know if you have any questions!
Car Decals Are Here! 5/1/12
Please note that if you ordered Wheaton Swim Club car decals when you registered for the team they are now available in the team office! If you did not order one but would still like one, please swing by the office as well! Note that instead of stickers we ordered magnets (by popular demand). This makes them easily transferrable from one car to another and will not ruin a pain job or block your view out the window!
Apparel and Silicone Cap Update 5/1/12
We now have a large enough number of silicone cap requests to place a summer order this year! If you ordered your cap through our online team registration, your name has been added to the Order List. (Go to our Team Caps page for full details). If not, you can email the coaches to be added to the list. Please note that everyone on the order list should review the quanity of caps requested (minimum two) and the name you would like on the cap. If we do not hear from you, then the name on the cap will be the family last name as it appears on this document. The deadline to submit changes is May 15. At that time we will place the order. Don't forget that Wheaton Swim Club apparel is available online year round on our Team Apparel page!
Important Practice Updates 4/30/12
As many of you know, Wheaton College will be undergoing some renovations beginning next week. Improvements will be made to the filtration system, locker rooms, underground plumbing, acoustics, timing system wiring, and more! We are excited for the renovations are looking forward to seeing the completed work! Most of our practices this spring and summer will be accommodated by the pool at COD. However, the coaches have been working hard to secure extra pool time which will maximize our swimmers’ practice time this spring and summer. We are pleased to announce that we will be renting the Downers Grove South High School Pool for our National Team a few dates this spring. This will allow the Junior National team to add a day of practice per week in session 2. The Gold and Senior groups will also have some slight modifications made to their session 2 schedules due to this switch. These changes are now posted on our online Team Calendar. The basic schedule posted on the Practice Info page has also now been updated. If you have any questions about these changes, feel free to email the coaches. Our Maps and Directions page has now been updated with directions to DGS. We will also be sending out some specific usage guidelines for parents and swimmers (such as where to park, where to change, etc). We are looking forward to using this great facility! SPECIAL NOTE: All families have been emailed a more legthy description of our basic plans for this summer and next fall / winter. Please check your inboxes and take some time to read it. As always, let us know if you have any questions!
Alligator Meet Entries Posted 4/26/12
Preliminary meet entries for the Alligator Meet (June 2-3, 2012 at UIC, Chicago) are now posted on the Meet Info page. We must submit entries to the meet hosts first thing in the morning on Tuesday, May 1; please review these entries and let us know immediately of any discrepancies.
Summer Sectional Meet Information 4/19/12
Once again this summer, our team will attend the Speedo Sectional Meet in Iowa City, Iowa (July 18-22). This is one of the penultimate events for swimmers on our team to attend, and we hope each swimmer in the national group has the goal to attend this meet. Last year we had a FANTASTIC sectional meet – Wheaton Swim Club was the only non-college team to finish in the top 3 in any division (our women were third, and we were seventh overall as a team!) The Meet Info page has now been updated with the qualifying times for this summer’s meet. You can follow the Central Zones page to see when new information becomes available, and we will update our own website as well. Additionally, each national team family has been sent an email with full details on how to register for this meet, including payment details and payment plan options. Let us know what questions you have. Read more details on the email sent to your accounts, and then go to our special Sectional Meet Sign Up page to sign up today! The deadline to register for this meet is May 15. Note that you must have 80% attendance to attend. Also note that you MUST indicate online by May 15 that you will attend, even if you do not yet have cuts.
Team Banquet Details! 4/19/12
The coaches are once again looking forward to our annual team banquet! The banquet will be held Monday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m. at Wheaton North HS. Each swimmer who attends will receive an award, and parents, family members, and friends are welcome to attend! If you are new to the team this spring, you are also welcome to attend! Pizza, pop, and cake will be served, and we will presend our annual Special Awards and honor our graduating seniors as well. Visit our Team Banquet page for full details and to sign up. Registration is now open, and the deadline to register is May 10.
Wheaton Meet Now Open for Registration 4/19/12
Online Registration for the Wheaton Father's Day Team Challenge is now open! The meet will be held June 15-17, 2012 at UIC Chicago. This is our ONLY hosted meet this season, and we would like all swimmers in all groups to participate. As a reminder, all eligible athletes will be billed for this meet per team policy, although we will only enter you if you sign up. Visit our Home Meets page to read the complete meet packet first, then use our online meet registration system to register. The deadline to register is May 8. SPECIAL NOTES: this year we have modified the events to offer time trials in the "new events" for 12&U's which will be held at regionals and state: 11-12 200 fly, 200 back, 200 breast, and 10&U 400 free. You can register for these events at this time also. We have also added relays to the meet, which will be conducted as time allows. Finally, note that ALL families are asked to volunteer 2 sessions of the meet (or 2 people for 1 session). An online volunteer sign up will be posted soon. Thanks in advance!!
Meet and Practice Schedule Posted! 3/27/12
Please note that this season's Meet Schedule is now online on the Meet Info page. Especially note that the first meet deadline is April 4, and online entry is NOW OPEN! The first meet is the St Charles Pentathlon (May 5-6 at St Charles East HS). 10&U will swim Sat a.m. only; 11-12's will swim Sat afternoon only; 13-14 will swim Sun a.m. only; 15&O will swim Sun p.m. only. Meet start times will be posted as soon as they are received from the host team, but we anticipate a 7:00 warm-up for the a.m. sessions, and 12:00 warm-ups for the PM sessions. Use our Online Meet Sign Up to register! (Note you must be registered for the upcoming season to sign up). Please also note that the Team Calendar has been updated for the first several weeks of practice. Please read each day carefully, since we will be starting some groups out slowly with shortened practice times, and also working around the upcoming Good Friday and Easter holidays. Let us know if you have any questions - we are looking forward to seeing everyone back in the water next week!
Congrats NCSA Juniors Swimmers! 3/27/12
Congratulations to the four Wheaton Swimmers who traveled to Orlando, FL last week to compete in the NCSA Junior National Championships - Erin Bagley, Cristina Favia, Karmyn Gallowich, and Brendan Howley. All four swimmers had great life time best swims. Special congrats to Brendan (14th, 50 breast) and Cristina (26th, 500 free) who qualified for Finals in one of the fastest meets in the country! Also, special congrats to team record breakers - Kamryn (13-14 100 back, 57.95 and 13-14 200 back 2:04.59) and Kristina (15&O 500 free, 4:56.43). Results are now posted on the Meet Results page! NOTE: team records from this entire season are now all updated on the Team Info page!
Summer Swim Lessons Info 3/21/12
Once again, the Wheaton Swim Club will offer children’s swimming and diving lessons in the summer! Full details are now posted on our Swim Lessons page, and online registration will ARE NOW OPEN! Pass the word on to your friend and neighbors! National Team swimmers please contact coach Bob if you are interested in applying to be a teacher again!
Congratulations Age Group Champs Swimmers! 3/12/12
Congratulations to all swimmers who competed in this past weekend's Age Group State Championships! Overall, the team finished THIRD in the state, and all swimmers who competed this weekend should be proud of their contribution to this great accomplishment! Overall, Wheaton swimmers stood out as some of the best performances of all teams - other teams and coaches defnitely took notice. You can check out full results, records, and more on our Meet Results page, and below are some special notes from the weekend!
- Congrats to INDIVIDUAL STATE CHAMPIONS Lauryn Harvard (200 IM, 50 breast, 100 breast, 100 IM, 100 free, 50 back), Matt Mielke (100 breast, 200 breast), and Emily Chuang (100 fly)!
- Congrats to RELAY STATE CHAMPIONS Connie Zhang, Laurynn Harvard, Emily Chuang, and Lindsay Mathys. This relay also set a NEW STATE RECORD of 4:05.44!
- Congrats to Laurynn Harvard who set a NEW STATE RECORD in the 11-12 50 breast with a time of 30.19!
- Congrats to Kamryn Gallowich (200 back) and Laurynn Harvard (100 breast) who picked up new NCSA Junior National cuts!
- Congrats to TEAM RECORD BREAKERS Laurynn Harvard (11-12 50 free, 100 free, 50 breast, 100 breast, 100 IM, 200 IM, 50 back), Lindsay Mathys (11-12 200 free), Emily Chuang (11-12 50 fly), Kamryn Gallowich (13-14 100 back, 200 back), Liam Hutchinson (10&U 50 free, 100 free, 200 free, 50 breast), JP McAveeney (11-12 50 breast, 100 breast), and Matt Mielke (13-14 200 breast)!
- Congrats to TEAM RELAY RECORD BREAKERS - the 10&U boys 200 free relay (Gage Mandrell, Gage Ridinger, Nick Phillips, and Liam Hutchinson) - 1:56.27; the 10&U boys 200 medley relay (Gage Ridinger, Liam Hutchinson, Ethan Chuang, and Gage Mandrell) - 2:10.71; and the 11-12 girls 400 medley Connie Zhang, Laurynn Harvard, Emily Chuang, and Lindsay Mathys.
- Congrats to INDIVIDUAL HIGH POINT WINNER Laurynn Harvard and HIGH POINT RUNNER UP Emily Chuang (11-12 girls) and to additional Wheaton Swimmers who finished in the top 10 in their age group - Sophia Harvard (8th), Liam Hutchinson (9th), and Lindsay Mathys (4th).
- Congratulations to AGE GROUP HIGH POINT winners from our team who were the 10&U Boys (with a total of 203 point over 2nd place St Charles with 186), and the 11-12 girls (with a total of 414.5 points over 2nd place Bloomington with 239)
- Additional Wheaton Swimmers who finished in the TOP 3 in their events were Gage Ridinger, Liam Hutchinson, Ethan Chuang, Gage Mandrell, Lindsay Mathys, Cavan Smith, Jeffrey Leu, Michael Hsu, and Tyler Mandrell! Addtional Wheaton Swimemrs finishing in the TOP 16 were Sophia Harvard, JP McAveeney, Kamryn Gallowich, Connie Zhang, Kelsey Ostrowski, Nick Phillips, Noah Brunner, Heather Rady, and Gabby Mathys. (Let us know if we missed anyone!)
- SOMETHING SPECIAL, 1-2-3: Congrats to our 11-12 girls 200 IM er's Laurynn Harvard, Lindsay Mathys, and Emily Chuang who finished first, second, and third in the 200 IM!
What a weekend! Congrats again to everyone on a great weekend, many best times, and some very special accomplishments!
Congratulations Senior Champs Swimmers! 3/5/12
Congratulations to all Wheaton swimmers who participated in this past weekend's Senior State Championships! The team finished FOURTH over all with the women's team also finishing FOURTH! Special congrats to Connie Hsu who was STATE CHAMP in the 200 fly and 400 IM and to Alex Laleian who was STATE RUNNER UP in the 1650 free. Special congrats to team record breakers Laurynn Harvard (11-12 100 breast - 1:07.33), Kamryn Gallowich (13-14 100 back - 58.11) and Alex Laleian (Sr 1650 free - 16:10.18). Kamryn and Alex also picked up their first NCSA Junior National cuts! Finally, congrats to all our top 24 finalists - Taylor Campbell, Cristina Favia, Mary Floren, Kamryn Gallowich, Laurynn Harvard, Brendan Howley, Connie Hsu, Taylor Johns, Alex Laleian, Taylor Lifka, Taylor Ostrowski, Martin Pozniak, Nick Pulgine, Tommy Reminger, and Rachel Slowinski. Full results, team results, and record breakers are now posted on the Meet Results page.
Regionals Meet Results 2/27/12
Congratulations to all swimmers who competed in the 2012 Illinois Swimming Regional Meet this past weekend! Wheaton swimmers all made a great showing, with many huge time drops, including 18 new Championship times!! Special congrats to REGIONAL CHAMPIONS Sophia Harvard, Connie Zhang, Tyler Mandrell, Laurynn Harvard, Caroline Fry, Marina Schroeder, Liam Hutchinson, Ethan Chuang, Jeffrey Leu, Matt Mielke, and Spencer Phillips! Special congrats also to team record breakers Anton Hutchinson (11-12 200 back - 2:24.44), Liam Hutchinson (10 & U boys 500 free - 5:40.78), and Laurynn Harvard (11-12 200 back - 2:14.11). Full resutls, team results, and record breakers are now posted on the Meet Results page.
Good Luck HS Boys! 2/23/12
Good luck to the high school boys competing in this weekend's IHSA State Championships. Although tickets are hard to come by, you can follow along in the IHSA's live webcast at ihsa.tv which will be live during the meet. Friday's diving prelims are at 9:00 a.m. (Wheaton Co-op has 2 divers); Friday's swimming preliminaries are at 3:30 p.m. Saturday's swimming and diving Finals are at 1:00 p.m. Cheer on Martin Pozniak, Patrick Schrauth, Tommy Reminger, Brendan Howley, and Nick Pulgine! You can also get full results on the IHSA website.
State Record Breakers! 2/6/12
Congratulations to the 11-12 girls 400 free relay who established a new a ILLINOIS STATE RECORD on Saturday. Their time of 3:41.29 eclipsed the old record of 3:42.41 set in 1998! The relay swimmers were Linsday Mathys, Emily Chuang, Connie Zhang, and Laurynn Harvard. Additionally,. Lindsay Mathys led off the relay with a team record of 53.98!
Spring/Summer Registration Now Open! 2/2/12
The coaches are pleased to announce the official opening of Online Registration for the upcoming Spring/Summer season! We are looking forward to another great season, and hope to see all our current members participate in at least one of our three spring/summer sessions. Session 1 will run April 3 through May 5. Session 2 will run May 6 through June 6. Session 3 will run June 7 through July 28. We know that many of you, especially our younger swimmers, participate in your local neighborhood or park district swim teams, and we want to encourage you do keep doing so! When your friends see how much you have improved from last summer, that is just great advertising for us! That is why we have a) designed our practice schedule to conflict as little as possible with these events (many swimmers do both teams in the summer) and b) designed the 3-session format (many swimmers also do a combination of sessions 1,2, and 3, or the discounted Full Season). There are many updates this season which we would like to inform you about. Please check your inboxes for a detailed email about registration, and email the coaches if you have ANY questions at all. Ready to register? Click "Join the Team" above and select "Spring/Summer 2012." The process will be very quick for returning members, since most of the information will be stored already from last season!
Spring / Summer Registration Information 1/26/12
As usual, we will be posting our Spring / Summer Registration information near the end of January. We are looking forward to another great season, and hope you all will join us for the upcoming sessions. One great thing about our Spring/Summer is that we offer three sessions - Spring I (April), Spring II (May), and Summer (June/July). These dates are coordinated around the release of school, and spring and summer sports, and are designed to accommodate your busy schedules, and swimmers can register for any combination of the three sessions (with a discount for registering for all three). Many Wheaton Swimmers (especially orange, blue, bronze, silver, and gold groups) participate in both their park district teams, and the Wheaton Swim Club each summer! We hope that tradition continues. As always, many swimmers will be moving to a new group between seasons. We will be contacting those swimmers soon! However, because swimmers continue to improve throughout the season, you may wish to register for the upcoming season prior to us making a final determination. If this is the case, simply register for the group you are currently in, and we will adjust your account later. Watch your inboxes and the website for practice schedules and full registration details!!!
Welcome College Swimmers 12/22/11
Welcome home to all of our Wheaton Swim Club Alumni Swimmers we have enjoyed having the following swimmers back to join us for another year of holiday training. This year we have had over 20 college swimmers training with the team this Christmas with more on the way next week. Welcome home and good luck with the rest of your college seasons! – Keith Piper – University of Connecticut, Chris Depew – University of Redlands, Jeff Depew – University of Redlands, Carl Sveen - Wheaton College, Emily Wilkinson – University of Illinois, Meredith Sweeney – Dartmouth, Danielle Herrmann – University of Kansas (alumni), Taylor Del Galdo – Rutgers University, Matt Obrien – Emory, Meghan Bagley – Dennison, Kara Field – Fordham, Megan Bomicino – University of Ohio, Dan Long – University of Illinois, Amy Bonistalli – Seaton Hall University, Will Schaffer – Princeton University (alumni, Jon Leu – Illinois, Taylor Hutton – Carthage, Sara Taege – Washington University, Danielle Reminger – Navy. Colin Kirincich – ISU. Cat Cortesio - Navy. Colin Hogan - Iowa, Meghan Bomicino - Bowling Green.
IHSA State Meet Results 11/22/11
Congratulations to all swimmers who competed in the IHSA Girls High School State Meet this past weekend! Fifteen Wheaton girls competed overall. Special congrats to Connie Hsu who was RUNNER UP in the 100 fly (54.66) and fourth place in the 200 free (1:51.22). Both of these times are new team records. Additional congrats to Cristina Favia who finished 7th in the 500 free in a new Junior Nationals time time of 4:59.01. Additional Wheaton Swimmers in the top 16 were Sarah Schaffer (50 free - new team record of 24.51), Erin Bagley (200 IM - new Junior National Cut), Tori Bertschy (400 free relay), and Taylor Campell (200 medley relay), and Joy Xue (200 medley relay). Additionally, Sarah Schaffer's 50 free was a new team record (24.51). Way to go girls! We are looking forward to seeing you all back in the water! Please check out our High School Swimming or Meet Results page for more.
Scholastic All-Americans! 10/26/11
Congratulations to Wheaton Swimmers Tori Bertschy and Connie Hsu who were once again named 2010-11 Academic All-Americans by USA Swimming! The Scholastic All-America Team is made up of high school student-athletes who have a grade point average of 3.5 or higher and who have achieved the required time standard in a single event. Read More
Connie Hsu Competes in Japan! 9/23/11
Wheaton swimmer Connie Hsu is currently in Japan competing for and representing the Junior National All-American Team! Follow along by linking to Full Results! For those of you whose browsers may not translate the Japanese characters, Connie finished FOURTH in the 200 fly and EIGHTH in the 200 IM! She will also compete in the 200 free and 100 fly. UPDATE: Connie finished SEVENTH in the 100 fly and 11th in the 200 free!!!
Banquet Recap - Graduating Seniors 5/23/11
Congrats to the seniors who attended the banquet. We wish all the best to Meghan Bagley (Denison), Jeff Depew (Redlands), Taylor Hutton (Carthage), Collin Hogan (Iowa), Dan Long (Illinois), and Sara Taege (Wash U). You can now download the e full banquet program from last night, which includes senior bios!
Meet Tips For New Swimmers 10/14/10
Swimming in your first meet this weekend? Check out Tips of the Trade for new swimmers! Feel free to contact the coaches with any questions you may have.
Connie Hsu Qualifies for Olympic Trials! 9/7/10
USA Swimming has now officially released the 2012 Olympic Trials qualifying times! Wheaton swimmer Connie Hsu has qualified in the 200 fly with a time of 2:14.06. This time ranks her 33rd in the USA. The top 2 swimmers at the Olympic Trials will represent the US Olympic Team in the 2012 London Games! Connie is one of only 9 Illinois females (and only 3 high school aged girls - the rest are college swimmers) to qualify so far. Way to go Connie! Check out more on the USA Swimming site!
Team History Page Updated 8/23/10
Did you know? The Wheaton Swim Club was formed in the fall of 2004. Check out our team's history and accomplishments by clicking the Team Info link above or visiting our updated Team History page! Let us know if we are missing any facts!!
Wheaton Boys Featured as USA Swimming's Race of the Week 3/8/10
Check out USA Swimming's home page or link directly to their Race of the Week. Representing Naperville Central High School, WHTN swimmers Keith Piper and Matt O'Brien's 400 free relay is featured from start to finish as a YouTube video! Naperville Central is in Lane 4 and needed to win this final relay to win the meet! You can also see it to the left, or on our Team Webcasts page.
Spectator Reminders11/2/09
Parents and swimmers please review the Specator Guidlines (on the Practice Info page) for the pools we use. Specifically, Wheaton College asks that we not block the windows on the track, or the north or west sides. These spaces are shared with the college and community and they are to be kept clear. We welcome parents to observe practice from the pool balconies at any time. We also encourage families to join the Sports and Rec Center at Wheaton College, so you can take advantage of the weight room and track.
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