Midwestern Awards Banquet:
   Hold the date - October 10, 2010
   Field Club, Omaha
   4:30 pm Social
   5:00 pm Dinner
   Awards to Follow
   Midwestern Top 8, MW Record Breakers, MW Top 10 awards, Swimmer of the Year Awards, MW Hall of Fame
   More information and reservation form to follow.
   Plan to be there!

Men's Swimming:
   All across the country the Men's Swimming programs at major universities are in jeopardy. Minnesota State is just the latest. Here is a link to the online petition to try to help save the Minnesota State men's program. Please sign this petition and comment to help save Minnesota State Men's Swimming. The team would appreciate you also passing it on to everyone who might have an interest.
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?MSUswim

14 & U Central Zone Meet:
   Congratulations to MW for best finish ever - 3rd place! Great swimming, swimmers. High point trophy winners include Caroline Theil, 3rd 10 & U girls; Michael Ayars, 1st 10 & U boys; Brennan Balogh, 3rd 13-14 boys. Quincy Markham took the Gold medal for 11-12 boys Open Water, and Brennan Balogh won the Gold medal for the 13-14 boys Open Water. Many thanks to the host teams, GNST, HLA, LSS and NA for their diligent hard work in hosting a great meet. Thanks to all sponsors and the Nebraska Sports Council for their support of Midwestern's efforts in hosting this meet. Job well done!
   See all results on the Central Zone Zone Meet Page.

Midwestern Records:
   Twenty seven MW records were set by MW swimmers at the MW Long Course Meet and the Central Zone meet and a total of 35 MW records were set for Long Course 2010. What a FANTASTIC long course season! Congratulations to all record breakers.

MW Coaches Honored:
    Senior Coach of the Year - Erik Wiken - HLA
    Age Group Coach - John Ebito - GNST
    Coach Representative - Bruce Schomburg - CBSC

Midwestern Long Course Championships:
    Fantastically FAST meet!
    More MW records than any meet in recent history!
    More zone qualifiers than any meet in recent history!
    Congratulations to Lincoln Select as top team scorer and to Greater Omaha in 2nd place and Greater Nebraska in 3rd place. Congratulations to ALL high point winners! Congratulations to all swimmers who achieved best times, set new MW records, and achieved their own very best.
    Complete Meet Results
   Team Scores
   Individual High Point scores
   MW Records set at meet
   Results for Team Manager
   Back-up of meet
    Real Time Results
 

New! Archived MW Records:
   Midwestern Records by year from 1989 through short course 2010 - all in one place. If you have any names (particularly first names) on some of the older records please email the MW Office.

Midwestern Executive Secretary:
    Betty Kooy was featured in an article in the Hastings Tribune written by Shay Burke on July 13, 2010.
 See the article here.

Diversity Camp
    Thoughts from athlete Brianna McCullough
    Thoughts from athlete Colleen Bernal
   USA Swimming, along with Midwestern Swimming, Indiana Swimming and Illinois Swimming hosted the first national Diversity Select Camp. The camp  was aimed at developing fast swimmers and future leaders in an effort to diversify our great sport.  We are excited to announce that the Central Zone was chosen to pilot this Diversity Zone Select Camp in 2010.  We are proud to announce that Colleen Bernal from  GOAL, and Brianna McCullough from MONARCH were selected to represent MWS at this Camp.  The goal of the camp was to have athletes set goals for themselves to help move forward with Diversity in the Sport of Swimming in their own LSCs.  Colleen and Brianna spent many hours in the pool training, along with numerous classrooms hours, networking with 28 other swimmers from the Central Zone.   You will hopefully see more of both of these ladies as they get the word out about our great Sport.

Athlete Protection Safeguards -
    Letter from USA Swimming:
   To All Athletes, Coaches, Members of MWS: In light of the recent media coverage, USA Swimming has distributed some information on Athlete Protection Safeguards. Please review and make sure that every member of your club has been informed. It is imperative that we all take this issue seriously. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to contact me.      Mary Losee , General Chair/MWS

Fall/Winter Meets:
   Meets will be posted as they are sanctioned.

MW Elections/HOD Meeting:
   The Midwestern House of Delegates elected new members to the Board of Directors at the annual meeting on May 1, 2010. Elected were the following: Brian Schaenzer, General Chair; Mary Losee, Administrative Vice Chair; Dawn Bowen, Secretary; Lynn Weaver, Senior Vice-Chair; Robb Pantano, Finance chair; Gretchen Lindner and Greg Rorris, Delegates at Large; Miles Hector and Kari Mettenbrink, Athlete Members to Board of Review. Congratulations to all.

MW Top 8:
   MW preliminary Top 8 lists for the Short Course season have been posted. Please inform the MW Office of any errors.

MW Championships:
Combined Team Points
12 & U Meet
Championship Meet Apparel still available!
Meet Results
Team Scores
Hi Points
12 & Under Real Time Results

13 & O Meet:
Meet Results
Team Scores
Hi Points

Zone Select Camp:
   Mary Kate Luddy of GOAL and Jacob Molacek of LSS have been selected for the USA Swimming Zone Select Camp based on their IMX scores. Congratulations to Mary Kate and Jacob and their coaches for achieving this honor!

All Star Information:
    Congratulations, MW All Star Team in Lawrence! Fantastic Swimming!
    All Star Results
    MW All Star Summary Results
   MW swimmers placed 3rd overall with 1150 points. Brennan Balogh earned the 11-12 boys High Point award and set three meet records in the 50 back, 100 back and 100 IM. Ashley Pales set a 10 & U girls meet record in the 100 breast. The 11-12 boys 200 free relay and 200 medley relay set two meet records (Brennan Balogh, Sean Tate, David Ikezu, and Ryan Tate) and the 10 & U boys set a meet record in the 200 free relay (Michael Ayars, Jackson Allmon, Logan Kreizel, and Masen Louviere). 87.5% of MW's relays were best times; 74% of MW's individual swims were best times for the current short course season. CONGRATULATIONS!

Midwestern Awards Banquet
   Congratulations to all award winners! Special congrats to the newly inducted MW Hall of Famers - Michael Hayhurst, Wendell Groth, Robert Rutford, Barb Harris, Jeff Evans, and Chuck Sharpe. Bios are posted for these special awardees. See all 2009 award winners. Be sure to put in your nominations for the 2010 Hall of Fame inductees by July 15, 2010 to Mary Losee.

Registration:
   Club packets and individual registration forms for 2011 will be sent by August 16. New cards will be sent when registration is complete! Who is on this year's athlete card? (08/09/10)
 

Contact the MW Office

Contact the
     MW General Chair

 

Central Zone Champs - Lincoln NE
August 6-9, 2010

Go to Central Zone

MW's TMOnline
Times since 09/01/08

Office Notes:
   November 2009

US Paralympics
US Paralympic Open
 

Parents Information
When you are attending a meet without your coach, you should understand MW policy.

1. Only USA Swimming registered coaches are to appear on deck in a coaching capacity or sign in on the Coach's Sign-In Sheet.

2. Upon arriving at the swim meet the athlete or the adult accompanying the athlete must report to the meet referee. The referee is to be informed that the athlete is entered in the meet and is without benefit of a coach. The referee will then see that the athlete is assigned a coach for the meet. The accompanying adult should leave the deck immediately.

Congratulations!

Congratulations: Midwestern Scholastic All American Team members - 2010 members will be recognized after the USAS Convention in September.
 

Congratulations: Midwestern Record Breakers for 2009-2010. Short Course:  Ashley Pales, LSS, 10 & U 50 Breast; Alexis Altmaier, HLA, 11-12 200 Fly, 400 IM; Shannon Guy, MAC, 17-18 and Senior 100 Fly; GOAL 17-18 (Fee, Lindholm, Colombo, Raynor) 200 Free Relay; GOAL 17-18 (Raynor, Lindholm, Colombo, Fee) 400 Free Relay; Brennan Balogh, LSS, 11-12 500 Free, 1000 Free, 50 Back, 100 Back, 200 Back, 200 Breast, 50 Fly, 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 100 IM, 200 IM, 400 IM; Bob Glover, MAC, 13-14 100 Back, 200 IM; Ryan Bubb, HLA 17-18 100 Fly.
     2010 Long Course:  Caroline Theil, GNST 10 & U 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 200 IM; Jessica Storer LSS 11-12 800 Free; Ashley Pales, LSS 11-12 200 Breast; LSS 11-12 200 Free Relay (Appleget, Graul, Pales, Storer; GNST 11-12 200 Med Relay (Ebito, Kreizel, Lunzmann, Dilsaver; LSS 11-12 400 Med Relay (Storer, Pales, Appleget, Graul); SO 15-16 400 Med Relay (Kunkel, Ditter, Lincoln, Babbe); GOAL 17-18 400 Free Relay (Lindholm, Raynor, Colombo, Fee); LSS 8 & U 200 Free Relay (Goins, Balogh, Marmie, Pales); Masen Louviere GNST 10 & U 50 Free; GNST 10 & U 200 Fr Relay (Kreizel, McKelvey, Petty, Louviere); GNST 10 & U Med Relay (Kreizel, Petty, Louviere, McKelvey); Brennan Balogh LSS 13-14 100 Back, 200 Back, 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 200 IM; LSS 13-14 200 Free Relay (Balogh, Pales, Day, Molacek); LSS 13-14 400 Free Relay (Balogh, Pales, Day, Molacek); LSS 13-14 800 Free Relay (Balogh, Pales, Day, Molacek) LSS 200 Med Relay (Balogh, Molacek, Day, Pales); Will Raynor  GOAL 15-16 100 Back, 200 Back; GNST 17-18 200 Free Relay (Nelson, Ebito, O'Connell, Lopez); GNST 17-18 200 Med Relay (Nelson, O'Connell, Ebito, Lopez); GOAL Senior 200 Free Relay (Miksch, Schuermann, Vernon, Gasnick); GOAL Senior 800 Free Relay (Schuermann, Raynor, Jacobsen, Gasnick)  Congratulations to ALL!
      The list is LONG! If we inadvertently miss anyone, PLEASE let us know. (We'll update list after USA Junior Championships results are available if necessary).
 

Congratulations: Midwestern 2010 Long Course High Points