The University of Texas won the Men’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship’s this past weekend and Badger Alum and Asst. Coach at Texas Wyatt Collins shared in the celebration .

In kicking off the start of spring Badger was excited to announce a weekend of clinics with  one of the sport’s most accomplished swimmers and coaches and a Badger alumni.

The weekends clinics run for the 11 and overs out of New Rochelle and a 10 and under clinic run the following day at Manhattanville were  a huge success.

The clinics focused on body positioning for the four strokes, emphasis on turns for the four strokes as well as starts.

The swimmers in attendance were treated to a very in depth look at how to use their bodies to maximize their performances in the pool.  Badger coaches look forward to reinforcing the lessons taught at the clinics and seeing the results in the future.

Look out for future clinics with Lea Loveless-Mauer and a continuation of the Badger Pro-Series Clinics.

Just coming off the college conference championships, the NCAA just released the Preliminary Psyche Sheets (pre-scratches) and the list of swimmers invited to the 2016 Men’s Division 1 Swimming and Diving Championships that will be held March 23-26 at Georgia Tech.

The NCAA selected 29 swimmers per event, with a total of 235 swimmers in total invited to the meet.  Swimmers invited are then allowed to swim additional events that they have qualifying time standards in.

Brian Hogan a senior at Yale was invited for the 1650 Freestyle with a time of 14:55.44 being seeded 23rd overall.  Brian will also swim the 500 Freestyle seeded 40th with a time of 4:19.54 and the 400 IM seeded 38th with a time of 3:51.30.

Patrick Conaton a sophomore at Stanford just coming off the teams Pac-12 Conference Championship win was selected in the 200 Backstroke seeded 13th with a time of 1:40.85.  Patrick will also swim the 50 Freestyle seeded 43rd with a time of 19.83 and the 100 Backstroke seeded 38th with a time of 47.16.

Both Swimmers represented Badger as  age-group swimmers through their years with the senior team along with summers that they were home.   Brian and Patrick are also 2016 Olympic Trial Qualifiers.

The group of Scottie Berridge, Carly Cummings, Kim Jogis, Natlaie Eid, Jalen Ramjohn, Alexa Lantin and Anya Pabby traveled to Austin Texas this past weekend for the American Short Course Championships at the Univeristy of Texas Pool.

The meet was a 4 day competition with the first two days being Long Course followed by two days of Short Course. The completion was fast with many Olympic Trial Cuts being made the first two days and an American Short Course Record in the 50 freestyle being set the second half of the meet.

The swimmers who attended the meet saw second swims each night and returned home with  personal bests and a great experience in Austin.

Over the past weekend, Badger Swim Club was represented at the New York State Swimming and Diving Federation and Public High School Championships in Buffalo NY.  Badger swimmers represented Fordham Prep, Scarsdale High School, and Rye High School.

Highlights from the weekend were the top 24 place finishes from the Badger swimmers that participated in the meet.

Individual scorers in the meet consisted of Spencer LaFata of Fordham Prep 2^nd place in the 200 Freestyle (1:40.52) and Josh Hendell of Scarsdale coming in 10^th (1:43.14).

In the 200 IM Scarsdale’s David Bravo was 13^th with a time of 1:58.57.

Christian Huber representing Rye took 12^th in the 50 Freestyle with a time of 21.68.

In the 100 Butterfly Aristides Speres of Fordham Prep took 11^th place with a time of 51.45.

Huber came back with a 10^th place finish in the 100 freestyle with a time of 47.50.

In the 500 Freestyle Badger was represented by Spencer Lafata who was 1^st overall with a time of Automatic All American time of 4:27.02, Josh Hendell taking third with a time of 4:33.52 and John ( Jack) Loveless 4:42.74.

Badger swimmers along with a strong showing in the individual events, played a big part in the relay events of the meet.

The start of the meet, Aristedes swam the Butterfly leg of the 5^th place Fordham Prep 200 Medley Relay, Hendell also aided his school swimming the Breaststroke leg of Scarsdales 12^th place Medley Relay.

The 200 Freestyle Relay was another showing for Fordham Prep with Speres and LaFata teaming up to come in 4^th overall while Huber swimming on the Rye Relay came in 17^th overall.

In the In the 400 Freestyle Relay the final event of the meet the team of Haofenj Liu, Bravo, and Hendell aided Scarsdale in playing 9^th overall while the pair of Aristides Speres and Spencer Lafata made up 2 parts of the winning 400 Freestyle Relay capping off a great weekend for swimming.

Congratulations to all the Badger Swimmers who swam and return to training this week.

With a strong showing at the 2016 Senior Metropolitan Winter Championships last weekend, Badger swimmers continued their journey on the Road to Rio and the 2016 US Olympic Swimming Trials which are scheduled to take place on June 26 – July 3rd in Omaha, Nebraska.

The meet was a important step in the training and preparation for the professional swimmers Zane Grothe, Ryan Feeley, Cody Miller, Lindsay Vrooman and James Wells along with all the Olympic Trial Qualifiers swimming for Badger Swim Club.

The meet was a challenging due to the new scoring format of the meet, making all swims valuable in the evening finals as the A-B-C-D finals all scored.

On the Men’s side, Badger was able to take the team title with great swims by all its members with some highlighted swims by the professionals and Christian Huber, David Bravo, Spencer Lafata, Ian Bidwell, Josh Hendell, Haofeng Lui, and Jack Loveless. The men swam well in the morning going Short Course and coming back each night and rising to the occasion to swim Long Course Finals.

With limited number of swimmers on the women’s side, the scoring format was even more challenging. Our womens team, lead by Lindsay Vrooman with 4 Individual event wins, paired with Anina Lund and Natalie Eid and the up and coming youth of the Badger Women’s Team fought each night for points. In the end, the womens team was overpowered in numbers and came in second to a LIAC team, which was filled with depth and numbers.

The team swam well with personal bests in both SC and LC and many of the swims qualified for future events that Badger will be training and focusing on. Upcoming meets to watch for fast swimming will be the Arena Pro Swim Series with stops in Orlando Fl., Mesa Az., and Charlotte NC. along with the Texas American Short Course Championships, Metro Junior Olympics and ASCA Single Age Group Championships.

4 x winner
Lindsay Vrooman – Women’s 200/400/800/1500 freestyles

2 x winners
Ryan Feeley 800 Free / 200 Butterfly
Zane Grothe 200/400 Freestyles
Cody Miller 100 Breasstroke / 200 Individual Medley
James Wells 100 / 200 Backstrokes

1 x winners
Spencer Lafata

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