Author: Badger Swim Club

Congratulations to Coach John Collin’s first cousin and first assistant Badger coach, Eddie Collins, on celebrating 50 years of coaching swimming!

Coach Ed celebrated this special occasion with his current swim club in Cape Coral, Florida where they honored him by officially naming the pool on the Cape High campus The Ed Collins Aquatic Center– an incredible honor!

The Collins’ are deep rooted in the world of swim coaching and it all started with John’s father, Jack.  Jack, the first of a long line of Collins’ who would become coaches, was a major influence on his son, John, and nephews, Ed and Tim Collins, who all followed in his footsteps to become swim coaches at one time in their life, or another. Today, Eddie and John remain active, successful swim coaches, while the next generation of coaching continues with Wyatt Collins, who is currently the assistant coach at University of Texas.

Read more about Coach Ed Collins!

The USA Swimming College Challenge is an event where select swimmers make up the USA National team and compete against the top level swimmers from the Big Ten. This year, the event took place on Saturday, Nov 12 – Sunday, Nov 13, 2016 at Indiana University and the rosters were certainly stacked.

2 Badger representatives were on the National team, Cody Miller and Zane Grothe, who both had impressive swims.

Zane Grothe placed first in the 500 free with a time of 4:15.87, first in the 100o yard free with a time of 8:46.22,  second in the 200 yard free with a time of 1:34.83 and also joined the 400 free relay team which placed fourth.

Cody Miller placed second in the 200 yard breast with a time of 1:54.12, second in the 100 yard breast with a time of 52.04, and 5th in the 200 yard IM.

View Meet Results here.

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View Day 1 recap on SwimSwam

View Day 2 recap on SwimSwam

In the September/October issue of Splash Magazine, Cody Miller talks about Keys to Success. Splash Magazine is issued to swimmers registered with USA Swimming and published bi-monthly.

Great article, Cody!

 

 

 

 

 

As Swim Swam Reports:

“Full rosters have now been announced for the USA College Challenge, the highly anticipated duel featuring members of the USA Swimming National Team and stars from the Big Ten Conference. With the stacked fields now slated to compete, there will be no lack of talent for the event, scheduled for November 12-13th at the famed Indiana University Natatorium on the IUPUI campus.” Read More and see full National and Big Ten Rosters.

Congratulations to Cody Miller and Zane Grothe!

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The Lehman College Foundation will be honoring Coach John Collins with recognition at their Leadership Awards Dinner.

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Congratulations to Will Powers on making a verbal commitment to Georgetown University!

Congratulations to Spencer LaFata on making a verbal commitment to Duke University!

As SwimSwam Reports:

“Spencer LaFata, a 2016 Olympic Trials qualifier and product of the Badger Swim Club in New York, has verbally committed to the Duke Blue Devils.

Duke historically hasn’t had much success in men’s distance swimming, but they did make a lot of progress last season when then-sophomore Matt Johnson (15:08.84) and then-freshman Riley Hickman (15:09.94) moved into the top two spots of all-time in program history. Before Johnson arrived, the fastest time ever record by a Duke miler was a 15:23 from 2011.

With LaFata’s addition, though, the three fastest milers in program history will all be training together for the 2017-2018 season.”Read more.

Congratulations to Carly Cummings on making a verbal commitment to Auburn University!

As SwimSwam Reports:

“The Auburn Tigers have reeled in another verbal commit, this time from NCSA All-Star Team captain Carly Cummings of the Badger Swim Club. Cummings was the team captain for the NCSA’s All-Star squad that traveled to compete at the 2015 Irish Open Championships.

Cummings, a 2-time Scholastic All-American, qualified to swim 4 events at this summer’s U.S. Olympic Trials: The 200 IM, 400 IM, 100 breast, and 200 fly. Her highest finish came in the 200 IM, where she placed 29th overall in a time of 2:17.19. She also swam that event at the 2016 U.S. Open, where she earned a 13th place finish.” Read More.