Michigan Swimming News & Updates

Message from GC

First, what better way to cool off this summer than with a refreshing jump in the lake!

Thanks again, coaches, for offering our swimmers a safe environment to explore the great outdoors! Chris Thompson recently posted the OW opps that he’ll offer through the rest of the summer: We look forward to offering more OW opportunities next summer, including local OW racing.

Michigan Select Camp: Invitations have been sent; register on/before August 8

Elite-level swimmers and coaches, mark your calendars for August 22-23, 2026. Letters have been sent to all head coaches of Michigan Swimming athletes achieving USA Swimming Winter Junior National qualifying times. The main goals of the weekend include building a strong Michigan Swimming community of elite-level racers and their coaches, providing leading edge information on nutrition, physical activation, mental preparation and mind wellness. In water sessions include body awareness, race analysis and video review of racing skills. Head coaches are encouraged to invite associated high school head coaches to participate in this event. For more information, please review camp outline: Camp Info

Upcoming Championship Meets

Best wishes to all our Michigan Swimming athletes participating in championship meets over the next month. Congratulations to all of our Sectional athletes at OSU and 14 & U athletes racing at MAGS. Performances indicateTeam Michigan will be sending a very strong team to Evansville for the CZ 14 & U meet. TYR Futures, Nationals and Junior Nationals are next on the horizon.

Tell Your Friends about your club team!

Swimming is an excellent team sport with fantastic lifelong skills for all ages. Your local team offers your community an excellent environment in which to improve your fitness, make new friends, and have fun learning about this great athletic challenge. Tell your friends about your team and encourage them to be a part of your swim community.

Enjoy the heat of the racing this summer!

Vince Gallant, MISI General Chair

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2026 Central Zone Championship Meet

The 2026 Central Zone Championships is quickly approaching! The 14 & Under Zone Team swimmers from Michigan will be competing July 30-August 2 in Evansville, Indiana against the fastest 14 & Under swimmers from Indiana, Ohio, Okhahoma, Ozark, and Missouri Valley.

To qualify for the Michigan Zone Team, swimmers must achieve a AAA time standard or faster in one or more individual events in the 10 & under age group, the 11-12 age group, or the 13-14 age group.

We are excited to have over 140 athletes from Michigan already signed up for the 2026 Central Zone Championships. Michigan is bringing a powerful team to Indiana. We’re ready to have another really fun and competitive meet. Swimmers that represent Michigan at zone championship meets have tons of fun, make new friends, and put together inspired swim performances every time.

This is also a special year for Michigan in Central Zone Swimming. Starting next year, our zone championship meets will be scaled down to just three teams. So we get one more chance to swim against 5 other LSCs in a central zone championship meet this summer.

If your child has achieved a AAA time standard this year in their current age group (10 & Under, 11-12, 13-14) and they want to experience a special event, there is still a small window to sign up. Sign up by July 26!

You can find AAA time standards by event here.

You can sign up for the 2026 Central Zone Championship Meet here.

Jamal Roberts

Team Michigan Head Coach

Open Water Opportunities

I wanted to update the plan for OW swimming for the remainder of the summer.

I intend on running the current schedule of Tuesday and Thursday swims from 6-7:30 PM at Silver lake as we've been doing. These dates will be: July 28,30 and August 4,6,11,13.

If there is interest, I was considering opening up another day. I was leaning towards a Wednesday or Friday swim or a weekend option, we can discuss this week at OW.

For those interested in trying out OW swimming, or just staying in swimming shape these are good opportunities to do so.

There are a couple upcoming OW races for those interested.

The first is August 8th in Battle Creek. Early registration closes tomorrow.

https://runsignup.com/Race/MI/BattleCreek/ThAnnualGoguacLakeSwim

If people want to swim here, I may sign up and head over as well.

Of course, the primary event is Swim to the Moon on Sunday, August 16th.

https://runsignup.com/Race/MI/Gregory/SwimTotheMoon?remMeAttempt=

If you need any further information please feel free to contact me.

Thank you,

Chris Thompson

clt113078@gmail.com

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2026-2027 Short Course Schedule

The 2026-2027 Short Course schedule is published on the Michigan Swimming website. As meets are sanctioned, the information will be posted on the events page. Below is a link to that page,

Certification Reminder

In order for Coaches and officials certifications to be updated and show in good standing, all certification documents must be sent to certifications@miswim.org. Certification documents cannot be shown to Meet Directors or Meet Referees the day of the meet. They are not able to update certifications or allow you access to the pool deck if your membership card is not in good standing.