Badger Swim Club was named a Top 100 club in the United States yet again! The USA Swimming Club Excellence Program is a program that identifies and recognizes USA Swimming member clubs for its commitment to performance excellence. The Silver Medal nomination recognizes the top 100 clubs in the United States based on performances over the 2023 Long Course Season. Congratulations to all of the Badger Swimmers who helped earn this achievement!

Join us in congratulating our graduating Badger swimmers as they announce their college decisions! This years class has 9 seniors who will be attending some of the best academic and athletic universities in the country. We are very proud of all they have accomplished and look forward to seeing their success continue in and out of the pool.

The Class of 2023 will be attending the following schools:

Kate Anderson – Virginia Tech
Julia Bazinet – SMU
Daria Chtokolov – NYU
Christian Lee – Yale
Alex McMillan – Holy Cross
Zach Pestrikov – Cal Tech
Alexa Reyna – Arizona State
Will Rupp – NYU
Keala Schubert – Colorado College

GO BADGER!

We are excited to announce that Badger Swim Club has partnered with Beine Wellness Building to provide the best nutrition and recovery guidance for our athletes and families. Erica Beine, the founder of Beine Wellness, has built an amazing reputation within the swimming world as a key resource for some of the top swimmers across the world. Some of her clients include Caeleb Dressel, Lydia Jacoby, Leon Marchand, Carson Foster, Sandpipers of Nevada, as well as a significant number of Olympians, National Team members, NCAA athletes and club swimmers. 

Erica and her team will be working with the athletes, coaches and parents throughout the partnership to offer Nutrition Workshops, Genetic Testing, Food Sensitivity Testing and Travel Nutrition Guidance.

As reported by Swimming World Magazine:

Less than 48 hours after the University of Texas men’s team secured its 15th national championship, coach Eddie Reese announced his retirement after 43 years. The news came as a surprise to the swimming community, and even those in Reese’s near orbit did not know until days before. Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte said Monday that Reese called him from Greensboro, a few hours before the Longhorns secured their national championship, and it was during that meet that Reese told his assistant coach, Wyatt Collins.

“Eddie told me at NCAAs. He pulled me aside during the meet, and we had a conversation,” Collins said. “Despite my best attempts to throw some Eddie-isms at him or get him to reconsider or to postpone, at least, for a couple days or a couple weeks and think about it some more, he was pretty adamant about it. He told me that he and (his wife) Elinor had spoken on and off for a few weeks. He felt like it was time.

“At that point, I broke down crying, as I think a lot of people in that situation would have done. He has meant a heck of a lot to me. I wouldn’t be where I am in life without him.”

The Texas swimmers learned of Reese’s decision in a 3 p.m. meeting on Monday that also included postgraduate swimmers training in Austin, support staff and former Texas assistant coach Kris Kubik. “It was emotional,” Collins said. “It was extremely emotional. A lot of tears were shed. Kris Kubik was there, and he opened things up and talked about their time together. It was a powerful meeting. Eddie said a lot of great things in a way that only Eddie can. I don’t know if there was a dry eye in the room. It was a lot to comprehend.”

Collins swam one year for Texas after transferring from Boston University, and he became the volunteer assistant coach for the team in 2013. After three seasons in that role, he was promoted to assistant coach when Kris Kubik retired after the 2016 Olympic Trials. Texas’ press release on Monday announced that Collins would become interim head coach following this year’s Olympic Trials, but until then, nothing about the day-to-day operation of the program will change. In particular, Collins has led the Longhorns’ recruiting efforts for the last five years, and he will continue to direct that area.

Read the whole article on Swimming World Magazine

As reported by Swim Swam:

Ryan Maierle of Fordham Preparatory School and Badger Swim Club in Larchmont, New York, has delivered his verbal commitment to attend and swim for Binghamton University for the fall of 2019. A versatile freestyler that can swim all distances, Maierle will bring career-best times in the 200-500-1650 yard freestyles that would have ranked him within the top 4 of the America East Conference for the 2018-2019 season and the fastest contested time for the Bearcats last season.

View Full article here: https://swimswam.com/all-around-freestyle-talent-ryan-maierle-commits-to-binghamton-university/

Each fall, USA Swimming brings 96 of the top USA Swimming member athletes in the nation for a once-in-a-lifetime camp experience. Swimmers are selected from the SWIMS database of top times. During the camp, these swimmers will learn about post race recovery, drug and supplement rules, psychological training skills, nutrition, race strategy and more.

Badger Swim Club would like to congratulate Noelle Kaufmann and Hunter Kim for being selected to the 2018 USA Swimming National Select Camp.