Alex saw her first action in Dubai.  Alex was chosen to swim on a mixed gender relay for Team USA in the prelims today.  She had a conservative start and the relay is the top seed going into tonight.  Alex will not race on the finals relay.  Her next race will be the women's 4 x 100 Free Relay on Friday.     Event 21 Mixed 4x100 LC Meter Freestyle Relay...

Gwen wins and is back to #1 in World! Gwen Jorgensen simply brilliant in Stockholm WTS win 1 1   1 By Merryn Sherwood on 24/08/13 at 12:36 pm 1 Gwen Jorgensen simply brilliant in Stockholm WTS The USA’s Gwen Jorgensen rediscovered her early season form in scintillating fashion in Stockholm on Saturday, making her third World Triathlon Series in 2013 win one of her best. In yet another stellar run leg, where Jorgensen pulled back almost 40 seconds in about 3km to take the lead from Andrea Hewitt, she...

    Two Wisconsin swimmers on U.S. roster for FINA World Junior Championships By Gary D’Amato of the Journal Sentinel Aug. 21, 2013 Thirty-six of the nation's top junior swimmers will represent the United States at the FINA World Junior Championships in Dubai starting Monday, and two of them are from Wisconsin. Alex Meyers, a senior at University School, and Katie Drabot, a sophomore at Cedarburg High School, both qualified for the U.S. team. "I've never competed internationally," said Meyers, who trains at the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center in Brown...

Alex raced to a new team record breaking her own freshly minted from prelims @ 26.09 good for 8th place. Nick went the same time as he did in prelims @ 23.76 competing his fourth final of the meet. Great racing, great meet and great season! (Don't forget Alex is slated to leave for Dubai on 8/22 to extend the summer)

  Schroeder had three good efforts tonight in the finals.  Alex and Ashlyn swam a bit slower and Nick went faster and nearly got under 58 seconds int he 100 M Back going 58.06.  Ashlyn's prelim swim was a new State and Team at 1:03.68.   Schroeder has three 50 chances tomorrow and hopefully some more swims in the evening.

Good swimming this morning for SSTY. Alex is 10th in the 200 and Ashlyn and Nick are in the C tonight in the 100 back. Gwen swam a nice 100 m breast at 1:14.2

It's no wonder why this guy is smiling... Nick had two great swims today in one of his favorite events. Nick broke through and swam a strong prelim of 55.20 and then found a way to get under and win the C final tonight in 54.97. Great swim! Speaking of great swimming Ashlyn really had a great fly also swimming to 1:03.33. All in all the group is performing very well.

On a perfect night for swimming Schroeder had a good evening of racing. Alex swam to a second place finish in the 100 M freestyle with a time of 56.06. Although the roster will not be made official until Friday when the meet concludes she's made the World Junior Championship Team which heads to Dubai, UAE in two weeks. Nick raced in the C Final of the men's 100 meter free. Got over coached and was out too ez and finished with a 52.2. Ashlyn swam to a new team...

Schroeder had a good morning in Irvine, CA.  Three swims and all three going back for finals tonight.  Alex raced the 100 and is in the A Final (her first time) 56.37, Nick was 51.72 and is back in the C final and Ashlyn raced to a new Team & State record 2:16.79 in the 200 M Back.   full results

Sunday was the final day of 13&Over state and SSTY swimmers continued to have great success in the pool. Highlights from Day 4: Mason Schoof finished 2nd in the 13-14 1500 meter free with a time of 17:16.19 Isaac Jiardini finished 3rd in the 13-14 1500 meter free with a time of 17:39.52 Joey Wenszell finished 4th in the 13-14 1500 meter free with a time of 17:54.48 Carolyn Jungers won the 15-16 200 meter IM with a time of 2:22.18 Katie Taylor finished 5th in the 15-16 200 meter...