Head Coach Update 7/20-All City is almost here!!

Andrew Cotton

Hey Sharks! 

 
We have another jam-packed week ahead. Please see the information below. All City is 11 days away; please sign up or decline by Wednesday, July 23, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. Also, if you are 14 and up and able to volunteer with Badger Prairie Needs Network, go sign up on our website.
 
All-City Swim 2025
Here is the All-City 101 Guide. Please read it over as we get ready for All-City.  Remember that to participate, you need to have swum in three dual meets this summer. If your third dual meet has not taken place yet, but you plan on going, then go ahead and sign up anyway.   Below is more info to know. If you are unsure of what to swim, please talk with your coaches
 
Deadline to sign up: 7/23/25 at 11:59 pm
New this year!
  1. USA Swimming Observed Meet Sign-Up
    The 2025 All-City Championship Swim Meet has been approved as a USA Swimming Observed meet. What does this mean? USA Swimming members can elect, by completing a registration form and administrative payment, to have their swims “observed” under USA Swimming rules in addition to All-City rules. This means that if their swim is successful under USA Swimming rules, the times they achieve at All-City will be entered into the USA Swimming SWIMS database. Essentially, the swimmer would be judged under All-City rules for the purposes of this meet and would be separately judged under USA Swimming rules to make sure their time is legal for USA Swimming as well. The process to request observation can be found here: https://7xscoring.com/all-city/observation/. If interested, families can directly complete the registration form if they would like to register their swimmers. Athletes who choose observation will be seeded and entered as normal. All processes will occur behind the scenes.
 
 
Parkcrest Meet
Since the meet was cancelled, no meet results! Thanks for braving the weather!
 
High Point Invite!
Awesome job to our sharks! I am working on getting a PDF of the results and will upload it to the website results page when I get it. If you don’t want to wait, it is available on Meet Mobile. 
Awards: High Point should have dropped them off. They should be on top of the filing cabinet. If the awards are not at the pool, I will contact High Point. 
 
Nakoma Meet

  • Date of Meet: Saturday, 7/26/25

  • Deadline to sign up: Wednesday, 7/23/25 at 11:59 pm 

  • Location: Nakoma Pool- 4145 Country Club Rd, Madison, WI 53711

  • Meet Start: 8 am 

  • Warm-Ups: 

  • 8 and unders/Shark Bites: 7-7:15 am

  • 9-10's: 7:15-7:30 am 

  • 11-12's: 7:30-7:40 am

  • 13 and ups: 7:40-7:50 am 

Team Cheer: 7:50 am by the coaches

Theme: Country Club!

 
Schedule for the rest of the season!

This Week (7/20-7/26)

July 21st-27th Shark Wars- Shark Wars Rules

July 22nd,- 5:30-7:30pm 10U Swim and Dive Bowling Night, 10 Pin Alley – Waiver and Info

July 23rd- 7:30pm-10pm, Glow Night, Benefitting Second Harvest (11+ only, Wallet Ballet Performance before)-Please see Genna Zenner's Email for more info. 

13 & Up Breakfast- 13+ Practice

July 25th Dive Team Tie Dye- after practice 

July 25th- Home Dive Meet, 3pm warm ups, 5pm start time

July 26th- Swim Meet at Nakoma

 

All City Week (7/27-8/2)

Sunday July 27th – All City Warm Ups

               Swim (Hill Farm) 1-2pm

               Dive (Parkcrest) 11:30-12:30pm

July 27th- All City Kick Off Party hosted by Seminole Pool, 4pm under the tent at the pool, help the pool celebrate and pump up our swimmers and divers before All City week starts! 

July 28th-July 29th- All City Dive @ Parkcrest

July 28th- Swim Team Tie Dye (after practices)

July 29th- Swim Team Poster Painting (after practices)

July 30th- Shark War Winners Coach Painting (after winning groups practice, if dive wins it would be during dive practice time!)

July 30th- Hype Up Pasta Party, McKee Farms Park, 5:30pm

July 31st-August 2nd- Swim All City @ Hill Farm

August 2nd- Swim and Dive Team Banquet (Time TBD, will be after conclusion of All City Swim)

Go Sharks! 

Coach Andrew