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Over the weekend, Schroeder raced at the annual Western Great Lakes Open held at WSAC! This meet has always provided some great competition and been a favorite of many athletes. There were some great performances and team support! Overall, Schroeder took 2nd to NASA from Illinois. Congratulations to our first time qualifiers: Briggs Borchardt (Zones) Avery Bradley (Zones) Miles Burke (Zones) Luke Butters (Zones) Parker Hicks (Zones) Chase Komassa (Zones) Amanda Lotz (YMCA Nationals) Peyton Pascal (Zones) Owen Smith (Zones) AND the relay team of Brody LePine, Jach Paull, John...
Sam Lorenz was up first for the Schroeder team. He raced the 100 M Back on Sunday and he did very well. Good execution and he lowered his best time in the process to 55.2 - Sam was born in 2006 and is eligible to be selected to represent Team USA at the Jr Pan Pcific Championships later this summer in Australia. Selections will be announced later this month but he was the second fastest 2006 or younger in the meet by just .1 ! Alana went second on Monday...
Day 1 Greetings from the Olympic Training Center! I wanted to give a quick recap of what we discussed today because it pertains a lot to what we talk about not only with AG1/JR1, but with the whole Schroeder program. The first talk was from the national team director regarding his observations with national team athletes. The best way to describe it, in my opinion, is: they experience everything 11-14 athletes go through, but they are just bigger haha! I offered to share our “To Be my Best” sheet with...
High School Aged Schroeder athletes are making commitments to their future college programs across all three divisions. Below are athletes who have made decisions - Congrats!! Evan Harrison - Swimming - Senior - Kenyon College Nadia Switalski - Swimming - Senior - UW-Milwaukee Anna Miler - Swimming - Senior- Johns Hopkins Olivia Small - Swimming - Senior - St Olaf Wylde Chupich - Diving - Senior - University of Nevada - Las Vegas Trevor Graham - Swimming - Senior - St. Cloud State Paige Seehawer - Swimming- Senior - Univeristy...
Last weekend Maggie Dickinson was at the Zone Select Camp hosted by USA Swimming at the Olympic Training Center. 50 athletes from the Central/Western Zone are invited based on their previous summer's Long Course performances. There were four total practices, several talks, and lots of new friends made! We are looking forward to hearing her share her experiences with the team! Way to go Maggie!
Ziyad Saleem won the first Gold Medal for Sudan at an African Championships. The competition is in Angola and the water is very warm at 89 degrees. Ziyad has the 50 and 100 back events remaining. The 50 Back should be around 1:30 PM CST today, Thursday, May 2 link to a live stream
New lane lines are on order and should arrive in the late spring. Two groups have funded nearly 100% of the cost of replacement: Mike Kass has donated $25,000 and Wi Swimming through its facilities grant program added $10,000 to the aquisiton of new lane lines for the Schroeder pool. Huge thanks to both the Kass family and to WSI! In 2015 Stan Kass, pictured with his son Mike, donated the last set of lane lines for both LCM and SCY. Those lane lines have had a good life over...
Welcome Back College Athletes to Summer Swimming Cost for Summer Swim: $425.00 - make a check out to: WSAC If you are NEW to SSTY - you must register on / in the new TeamUnify website. this is going to take some time - you can do it! and it’s how you sign up for meets. If you are RETURNING - just let us know and your account will be turned back on. As you plan to return please contact either Chandler at RAC or Dave at WSAC See you...
After two days, Schroeder is in a fist fight with a fine team from NJ again this year. Schroeder is trailing in combined by a handful of points, leading in men's and trailing in womens's both by similar small margins. On Day 1 - Schroeder lead the way in both men's and women's 2 MR qualifying, scored 2 boys in the 1000 and finished 2nd and 3rd in the 800 free relay. On Day 2 - We finished the session with two blistering performances in the short relays and won...
