We had a great turnout at the Madison Mile which was swum in the warm (66.8 degree) waters off Madison on Saturday. Liz won in her age group as did Mike, John,Josh, Andy, and Jeff also placed in the top 3 in their age groups. Andy’s son Gannon also won in the [...]

There are 2 events this Saturday that are of interest. The first is practice at the Y at 10 AM. The second is the Madison Mile which is the State Championship Open Water Swim. It starts at 8:30. If you haven’t registered already, check it out to make sure you can [...]

Don’t forget to set up your TiVo or VCR to record the upcoming Olympic Trails coverage on NBC in July.

Friday, July 9th 8-9 p.m. ET LIVE NBC
Sunday, July 11th 8-9 p.m. ET LIVE NBC
Sunday, July 18th 1-3 p.m. ET NBC

We had 4 new faces at practice, for a total of 19, counting Andy who had to leave early and John who arrived late. New swimmers were Emily, Zoe, Amanda and Samantha. Welcome!

The following news was received today from Dave Benjamin:
At eight twelve pm on fathers day arrived Kyle (Cai) David Benjamin. He was late of course by two days adopting a Benjamin tradition of tardiness passed down through generations.
All toes and fingers present skin turned from purple to red to pink to flesh colored in the [...]

It’s nice to see swimming articles showing up in mainstream papers like the USA Today. Check out the two articles below about Michael Phelps.

Phelps expected to make big splash
Phelps has give-and-take with USA

Practice Saturday June 19th will be from 10:00-12:00 at the Westport YMCA.

The entry form for the 26th Annual Compo Beach Point to Point Swim on Saturday, July 17, 2004 is now available.

This weeks Speedo Tip of the Week comes from Connecticut’s Ben Michaelson on Becoming a great underwater kicker.

Ben is also the guest for 20 Question Tuesday at the USA Swimming website.

Ben Michaelson will either be front-page, headline news at the Olympic Trials, or you will see his name buried in your newspaper’s results and scores [...]