Notes from WSI Staff

Sending a special "Thank You" to Nancy Drabot, Amy Balducci, Amy DeGrace, Lexi Monty and Hanna DeGrace for all of the behind the scenes work they did to make the 2024 Annual Meeting Weekend, Awards Banquet and Athlete Clinic a success! Thank you to John Goggans for being our event photographer at the banquet.

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At the HOD meeting on April 20, 2024, Wisconsin Swimming, Inc. Policy 2.4.9 was ratified and the Meet Financial Report will now be due within 7 days of meet end. This change now aligns the schedule for all post meet reporting to the same time period.  

The LSC will be making this update effective with meets taking place on or after May 1, 2024.  

You are receiving this notice because you submitted a sanction or approval request to host a meet on or after May 1, 2024 and the previous post sanctioning requirements email you received conflicts with the updated policy.  Please be sure to update the due date for the Meet Financial Report for your spring/summer meet. As a reminder, announcements will also be included in the weekly LSC newsletter. If you are not the person who submits the Meet Financial, please forward this info to the proper personnel to ensure timely reporting.

If you have any questions or are unable to comply with the policy, please reach out to the LSC staff at meets@wisconsinswimming.org  

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Congratulations to the New WSI Board Members for 2024-2025

Their Term begins on 9/1/2024

Administrative Vice Chair

Brian Temke (SWAT)

Senior Chair

Melissa Springer (WYNS)

Coach Representative

Meghan Olson (OZ)

Technical Planning Co-Chairs

Jay Tomasiewicz (BAC)

Chris Wills (BAC)

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Chair

Katie Humitz (NBSC)

Junior Athletics Reps

Drew Gundrum (WBSC)

Abigail Warnke (WYNS)

Open Water Zones and Multicultural Zone Meet

The Registration is open for the Open Water Zone Meet and for the Multicultural meet.

Open Water Zone Meet:

Open Water Clinic---Thursday, June 13th, 2024

Central Zone Open Water Champs—Friday, June 14th, 2024

Location:

Lake Andrea Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin

Events:

10-Unders: 1.25K

11-12: 2.5K

13-14: 2.5K

Senior: 5K

Time Standards:

Boys' Time standards (must meet one of the following listed for event): 

10&U 200 mtr/yard free = 2:50.79/2:29.39; or 400/500= 5:59.49/6:37.39

11-12 200 mtr/yard free=2:32.19/2:12.49, 400/500 free=5:21.89/5:57.69, or 800/1000=11:18.59/12:27.89

13-14 400/500 free=4:59.19/5:31.39, 800/1000=10:22.19/11:26.69, or 1500/1650 = 19:48.39/19:07.59

Senior: 400/500=4:46.09/5:17.69, 800/1000=10:00.09/11:02.59, or 1500/1650 free=18:59.09/18:30.39

Girls' Time standards (must meet one of the following listed for event): 

10&U 200 mtr/yard free = 2:56.29/2:35.39; or 400/500= 6:05.39/6:44.29

11-12 200 mtr/yard free=2:36.19/2:17.49, 400/500 free=5:29.09/6:07.59, or 800/1000=11:29.29/12:41.19

13-14 400/500 free=5:14.39/5:49.59, 800/1000=10:47.99/12:01.69, or 1500/1650 = 20:39.79/20:02.99

Senior: 400/500=5:07.29/5:43.39, 800/1000=10:35.39/11:50.79, or 1500/1650 free=20:20.49/19:47.29

Registration:

Open Water Zone Meet Registration

Please Register through the Team Wisconsin TeamUnify Website (not through your club) Cost: $90.00

Registration will close on June 9, 2024

Cost includes: Event Fees, Clinic Fees, Team Wisconsin shirt, and Team Cap.

Estimate Pre-Meet Athlete Registration is at 6PM on Thursday, June 13th(after clinic concludes) athlete registration, nail check, body marking available. It is recommended for athletes to check-in after the clinic on Thursday.

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Central Zone Open Water Clinic

3:30 - approximately 6PM, Thursday, June 13, 2024

Coaching Staff

Head Coach: Conner Andrews LAKE

Jake Shackelford MAC

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2024 Central Zone Multicultural Meet

June 14-16, 2024

Facility: 

Center Grove High School Natatorium  

2717 S. Morgantown Rd. 

Greenwood, IN 46143

Meet Format:

Uniquely formatted to celebrate diversity in coordination with the 2024 USA Swimming Olympic Team Trials. This meet will be a 2.5 day format with one all ages session on both Friday Afternoon and Sunday Morning and two sessions on Saturday with a guest speaker in between. 

Our schedule will be somewhat flexible and subject to change based on entries.  We will have session capacity limits, so we reserve the right to change session times, and even potential age groups during sessions.

Schedule:

FRIDAY

• All Ages 
• Warm-Ups Start NOT BEFORE 4:00 PM 

●      Meet Starts NOT BEFORE 5:00 PM 

SATURDAY

• AM Session 
• 13 & Overs
• Warm-Ups Start Not Before 6:30 AM 
• Start Not Before 8:00 AM 
• Lunch and Speaker 
• Box Lunches provides to all athletes
• 11:00 - 12:30 PM
• Speaker: TBD
• PM Session 
• 12 & Under
• Warm-Ups Start NOT BEFORE 12:30 PM
• Meet Starts NOT BEFORE 1:30 PM
• Trials

○      All athletes will be provides with a ticket to watch Olympic Trial finals on Saturday night after the meet. 

SUNDAY 

• All Ages
• Warm-Ups Start Not Before 9:00 AM

●      Meet Starts Not Before 10:00 AM

Please note: All Times Are Eastern Daylight Savings Time. It will be the discretion of FRST to determine which age groups will be swum in what pool. The meet will NOT be slowed for swimmers who are swimming in multiple age group

Team Wisconsin Registration will Open the last week of April.

Team Wisconsin Fee: $125

Team Fee Includes: Athlete Entries, 2 T-shirts and 1 Silicone Cap