Zone Team Update - 8.04 (post finals)

Hello Team Wisconsin!! 

What an AWESOME day one of competition!  We had a ton of best times, heat winners, and individual Zone Champions crowned today!  Make sure you’re keeping an eye on our Instagram for all the podium pics and some great and fun action shots as well!  

 For our 11-14 year old athletes, tomorrow is the day we have early warm-up, so arrive at the facility a little after 6:50 and be ready to hop in by 7:00.  Swimmers that are around but NOT competing tomorrow AM are encouraged to come a little later to cheer and to warm up.  

Tomorrow’s 11-14 year old relay is the 200 Medley – swum in finals.  We’ve had a few events already to potentially shake those up, and we’ll have the 50 Free tomorrow AM as well.  We’ll send out our final relay plans for the 11-12s and the 13-14s AFTER prelims. 

Final reminder for our 11-14 year olds… 

You probably noticed that a LOT of swimmers (not just Team Wisconsin, but the meet as a whole) were a little off seeds in prelims and then bounced back with stronger swims in the evening at finals.  That is SUPER common at meets like this.  Coaches often preach a ‘survive and advance’ mentality of putting up the best possible prelim swim, getting into finals, and then seeing what can happen at night!  

For our 10-under swimmers, we have the same 1:10 warm-up time, so please be on deck around 1:00.  The relay tomorrow is the 200 Free Relay, which is after the individual 50 Free.  We’ll plan to solidify relays on deck after that event.  PLEASE DON’T LET YOUR SWIMMER LEAVE THE DECK WITHOUT CHECKING WITH COACHES ABOUT RELAYS FIRST.  Apologies to not be able to lock it down any earlier. 

Team Gear- we only have youth small t-shirts left.  Out online gear store is still open https://elsmoreswim.com/teams/wisconsin/clubs/team-wisconsin.html This has some shorts, baseball hats and sweatpants available for order and shipped to your house.   We are stilling having a lot of requests for team t-shirts.  Please send an email to [email protected] if you are still interested in purchasing t-shirts.  If we have enough interest, we will be able to add those to the store.   

Awards for Thursday are at the Team WI table.  Please stop by on Friday to pick up the tags for 1-8 and the ribbons for 9-16. 

Finally, a reminder that our theme is “Top Gun” tomorrow and that swimmers should have their white cap, black shirt, and black jacket. 

Let us know if you have any questions, and LETS GO TEAM WISCONSIN!!