After a good start on Day 1 at the USA Junior National Meet with Chris Meyers giving a strong effort in the 200 M Breast, Day 2 kept the ball rolling!  Julia Mikota dropped a second from her swim at Sectionals in the 100 M Free, Alex Meyers swam to a new best in the 100 M free also and a new team record recording a 58.11 and Carl went a best in the 200 M back swimming a 2:08.16.

Chris and Alex Meyers, Julia Mikota and Carl Newenhouse - 2010 Schroeder Junior Team

Schroeder is being represented by seven athletes at the Central Zone Championships in Pleasant Prairie, WI

Rachel Wenszell, Rebekah Wenszell, Cassie Jernberg, Isaac Jiardini, Kate Phillips, Bill Wong and Grace Gavoronski.

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Schroeder YMCA Swim Team Finishes in 12th Place at 2010 Conoco Phillips USA National Swimming Championships

8/8/2010 Irvine, CA - The Schroeder YMCA Swim Team finished 12th in Men's team scoring at the 2010 Conoco Philips USA National Swimming Championships in Irvine, CA.  This the highest place for the Schroeder YMCA Swim Team in its 30 year history in the USA National Swimming Championships.

Schroeder capped its week of racing with a 5th place finish in the 4 x 100 Meter Medley Relay.  The team of Adam Mania (Milwaukee), Ian Bakk (MacFarland), Kevin Baseheart (Milwaukee), and Steve Cebertowicz (Fox Point) recorded a time of 3:48.11.

On the first day of the meet, Schroeder won its first ever National title in the 4 x 100 Meter Freestyle Relay.

Men - Team Rankings - Through Event 32

1. Longhorn Aquatics               290.5   2. Tucson Ford Dealers Aquatics    288.5

3. SwimMAC Carolina               250.5   4. North Baltimore Aquatic Club      190

5. Ohio State University             164   6. Fast Swim Team                    130

7. Daytona Beach Speed            118 7. California Aquatics               118

9. Club Wolverine                     101   9. Wildcat Aquatic                   101

11. Minnesota Aquatics               77  12. Schroeder YMCA Swim Team           70

13. Indiana University                56  14. Nashville Aquatic Club             53

14. Auburn University Swim Team        53  16. Athens Bulldog Swim Club           47

17. Lake Forest Swim Club         41  18. Cincinnati Marlins                 35

18. Mission Viejo Nadadores            35  20. Boilermaker Aquatics               32

21. Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics        28  21. Delaware Swim Team                 28

23. Univ. Of Michigan Swim Team        26  24. New South Swimming                 25

24. Area Tallahassee Aquatic Club      25  24. Scenic City Aquatic Club           25

27. Indiana University Club Paradi     24  28. Snow Swimming                      23

29. Wildcat Aquatics                   22  29. Santa Clara Swim Club              22

Bakk, Baseheart, Mania, Cebertowicz

Four Schroeder athletes will travel to southern California this weekend to race and the USA Junior National Championships in Irvine, CA. The four are Julia Mikota, Alexandra and Chris Meyers and Carl Newenhouse.

8/3/2010 Irvine, California - USA National Championships

The Schroeder YMCA Swim Team raced to it's first ever national title tonight in Irvine, California on day 1 of the USA National Swimming Championships.  Schroeder won the final event of the evening the 4 x 100 Meter Freestyle Relay in a time of 3:22.86.

The four athletes who train at the renowned Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center in Brown Deer, WI are Kevin Baseheart  (Milwaukee), Adam Mania (Milwaukee) Mitchell Friedemann (Allenton) and Steve Cebertowicz (Fox Point)

Second place went to the Ohio State University (OH) and 3rd to Mecklenberg Aquatic Club (NC)

Splits:

Kevin 51.5

Adam 50.4

Mitchell 50.8

Steve 49.9

Brad at the finish and with Olympic Champion Janet Evans

Youths finish at front of line

click on the logo to go to USA Swimming's coverage. Nova site shows facility getting ready for the major events

SSTY finished 10th overall, 21st women and 6th on the men's side to complete another successful meet.  complete results.  The meet was highlighted by many great efforts that included a win in both the 100 and 200 M flys by Kevin Baseheart who is coming into top form going into the USA National Championships.  While many swimmers achieved great swims, Schroeder was just shy of moving four athletes on to the USA Junior Champs.  Combined, Chris Meyers, Chuckie Prestigiacomo, Casey Murphy and Abigail Raatz missed the junior standard by less than .05 sec collectively!  Great swims and nothing to feel bad about at all!  Alex Meyers shined brightly as she did make the Junior meet in the 100 free and established several new team records in the process.

After an uneventful travel day, the majority of the team is here and is resting after a brief swim and dinner.  The Vuvuzelas can be heard occasionally trumpeting in the hallways but otherwise things are quiet.

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video of Schroeder's favorite sprinter taking on IL!

Photos by Tom Michelson a.k.a Grandpa Thunder

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Schroeder enjoyed strong performances at home and away this past weekend.

At the Bird Bath in Appleton, WI great swimming until the meet was stormed out.  On today's Appleton Post-Crescent Sports Section front page is Milo Miller.  

At home Schroeder enjoyed very good results from athletes who were fully prepared for the meet and those who were unrested for the meet.  Alex Meyers set new team records in the 100 and 200 M Free - the second eclipsed a Shari Countryman record from 1984!

On the west coast, Adam, Kevin Baseheart and Mitchell all raced at the Los Angeles Grand Prix.  All three earned swims in the finals.  View video on swimnetwork of Kevin's B final of the 100 Fly, Mitchell C final of the 100 Back and Adam in the A final of the 100 back.

Pro Triathlete Gwen Jorgensen finished 3rd at the Pan American Cup in San Francisco.

Credit to Tom Michelson

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