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LAC Families, What a successful clinic this weekend!! We were so lucky to have Miranda Tucker share some of her experiences with the kids. Our kids were able to hold her medals from the Olympic Trials, World Championships, and two gold medals from the BIG10 Championship! She conducted a one hour video session to start off the clinic and then a one hour in-water session where she got in the water with the kids to help them with their breaststroke. It was awesome to see the kids so engaged! We...
What an amazing end to February!! I don't know about you, but on days like today, I start thinking about summer activities!! Before long, our kids will be swimming in outdoor pools, waterparks, lakes, and rivers. The Cereal City Swimming School has become a very popular way to introduce swimming skills and promote safety in and around water to our Battle Creek children. We are so excited to see this program grow into what it is today! With that being said, I don't want anyone to miss out on the...
LAC Family, Lakeview Aquatic Club traveled to the Michigan Open this weekend at Oakland University. This was a very large and fast meet where we, once again, made strides on improving our swimmers! Our senior group saw some Olympic hopefuls and we learned from swimming against the some of best in our area of the country. Our Junior swimmers had a great time, as we saw them scoring in the top heats across many of their events (including record setting performances)! Major Baumann, Reagan Magnus, Avery Russell, Christian Hancock, and...
What a fun weekend in Zeeland!! Lakeview Aquatic Club took 16 athletes to Zeeland this past weekend to participate in the annual Boo Bash. We came away with a ton of personal best times and even more great experiences! For the majority of our kids, we saw them swim a "marathon" of events. Danny Borozan, Major Bauman, Hugo Carsky, all swam 11 events over the two days while Christian Hancock and Lavell Marshall swam 10. Coaches feel this workload provides the kids with experience in preparation for the championship season...
If you haven't heard...our new swimming school has been a huge success! We are so excited to see our community embrace such an important program. We have some of the most experienced swimming instructors in Southwest Michigan teaching our youth safety around water, and the community has recognized the importance of this program. We had approximately 280 registrations this summer, and another 140 so far this fall!! The program is teaching water safety (level 1) and stroke development (level 2). It is truely amazing to see how fast the kids...
Thanks to all of the LAC families who helped to make this weekend a huge success!! Not only did we have great swims, but we upheld our reputation as one of the top pools to run a statewide competition. We had 10 teams from all over the state attend, and we would love for this to grow to 15-20 next year. If you were not able to volunteer this weekend, we would love to have you for our next home meet (October 28th). This meet has a "Theme" of a...
Club Contact: Brant Kirkham, [email protected], (269) 420-4340 Lakeview Aquatic Club (LAC) Names Kyle Lott as New Head Coach Battle Creek, MI – Beginning with the Spring 2023 club season, Lakeview Aquatic Club has named Kyle Lott as its new head coach. Coach Lott brings with him 30+ years of coaching experience, most recently as the head coach of Lakeview High School until he retired from the school district in 2021. As a multiple MISCA “Coach of the Year” winner, 2021-22 Matt Mann Award Winner (Michigan’s highest award received by a...
After this year's conference meet, Cameron Lott was named Lakeview Ford Athlete of the Week. At the SMAC meet, Cameron led off the Medley Relay which broke the varsity and SMAC record with a time of 1:35.63. Cameron also won the 100 backstroke with a SMAC record time of 53.13. Congratulations Cameron! Best of luck at Milwaukee!
Congratulations Gracie Hudson for being named Lakeview Ford Athlete of the Week for her incredible performance at the DII State Championships held at Oakland University! Gracie broke the school record in the 200 free with an All-State time of 1:53.58 and lowered her own school record in the 500 free with another All-State time of 5:04.91. The 200 free record was held for 37 years by Shelly Russell ('84).
