Congratulations to Will Powers on making a verbal commitment to Georgetown University!
Badger Swimmer Will Powers verbally commits to Georgetown University
Badger Swimmer Spencer LaFata Verbally Commits to Duke University
Congratulations to Spencer LaFata on making a verbal commitment to Duke University!
“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.
4 Badger Swimmers Achieve Scholastic All American Status
Congratulations to Spencer Lafata, Carly Cummings, Nathalie Eid, Anina Lund for achieving Scholastic All American (SAA) Status in 2015-2016 Season! View on Metro Swimming
2016 Badger Scholastic All Americans
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Badger Swimmer Carly Cummings Verbally Commits to Auburn University
Congratulations to Carly Cummings on making a verbal commitment to Auburn University!
“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.
Olympic Medalist Cody Miller is coming to Badger
Join Us in Celebrating Cody Miller’s Olympic Win!
On Fridy 9/30 and Saturday 10/1, recent Badger olympian, Cody Miller, will be coming to meet with Badger swimmers, visit local schools and participate in a Badger wide meet and greet. All are welcome to join in the celebrations! See the schedule below.
Schedule
FRIDAY 9/30/16
- 9:00am-11:00am Cody visits local schools.
- 11:00am-4:00pm Special filming event.
- 5:00pm-6:00pm Cody visits Badger Swim School at Hommocks.
- 6:00pm-7:00pm Cody meets with Competitive 8U, 10U & Junior Teams at Hommocks.
SATURDAY 10/1/16
- 7:00am-9:00am Cody visits Senior team.
- 2:00pm-4:00pm Meet & Greet at Badger with Badger Olympians Cody Miller, Lea Loveless-Maurer and others- All are welcome!
Bill Murray is a Badger too!
Fantastic Mr. Fox is Fox Searchlight, stop motion film based on the legendary story by Roald Dahl. Our favorite character is, of course, non other than Mr. Badger! Mr. Badger is played by the comedic talent, Bill Murray who can be seen in this clip showing his Badger pride!
Take a watch for a few Badger laughs to brighten this dreary Monday!
Badger Swim Club Featured in Larchmont Living Magazine
Larchmont Living featured Badger Swim Club in a full page article, written by Badger’s own Liz Remain.
Continue readingWyatt Collins named Assistant Coach of University of Texas Mens Swimming & Diving team
Badger congratulates Wyatt Collins on his new position as Assistant Coach of the University of Texas Mens Swimming & Diving team! Wyatt is now a third generation swim coach following in the esteemed footsteps of his grandfather, Jack Collins, and his father, John Collins. Good luck to Wyatt and the UT Longhorns this year as they aim to win the NCAA Championship a third year in a row.
Continue readingPatrick Conaton named Stanford University Co-Captain
Accomplished Badger swimmer, Patrick Conaton, is entering his junior year at Stanford University and was recently named co-captain of Stanford University’s Mens Swim Team, which is a tremendous honor for a junior to be named a captain.
Patrick is considered one of Badger’s most recent and current talents. He is an NCAA qualifier in the backstroke events and, most recently, represented Badger at the 2016 Olympic Trials in Omaha.
He is certain to be an integral member of the Stanford team as they kick off their 2016-17 season.
Badger wishes Patrick the best of luck this season!.
Badger’s Cody Miller wins Olympic gold on relay team
AS REPORTED BY THE LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Cody Miller finished his 2016 Rio Games as a part of Olympic history.
The Las Vegas resident and Palo Verde High School product won gold swimming the breaststroke leg of the United States’ 4×100 medley relay, in what might have been the final Olympic race of Michael Phelps’ storied career.
Miller, who won bronze in the 100-meter breaststroke earlier in Rio, helped the U.S. set an Olympic record with a time of 3:27.95.
He entered the water second for the Americans after Ryan Murphy began the race with a world-record 51.85 second split in the backstroke. Miller was in second by the time he handed the race to Phelps after a 59.03 split, though, because Adam Peaty of Great Britain swam a world-record 56.59 split in the breaststroke.
Phelps put the U.S. back ahead in the butterfly, and Nathan Adrian closed it out in the freestyle. It’s the first gold medal of Cody Miller’s career, but it was the 23rd for Phelps.