New Blocks!

Our new starting blocks have arrived and just in time for our season!

Senior Kelley Holmes approves!!!

Swim season is just around the corner!!

Hello Everyone! I hope that you are all enjoying what is left of summer. Not too much happening right now but we did get new blocks today! Hopefully they will have them in soon, I hear the construction going on in the pool all the time while I am at the desk so that's promising right? We will have a team meeting the first day of classes with team information and captains practices too. I look forward to seeing everyone soon!!

-Kelley

A Huge Success!!

The Relay for Life event held this last weekend was a great success! Our team raised about $765 and all the teams raised a total of over $27,000!! Wow!!

We want to say a big thank you to all who supported our team. We certainly would not have been as successful without your support towards such a wonderful cause!

The event had to be held inside due to weather, but it was still a lot of fun as well as a very powerful experience. It was great to see our team come together and support not only the American Cancer Society but also each other. We all had different reasons for supporting such a cause and to see the encouragement of all the girls together was very rewarding for myself, as I'm sure it was for the other girls involved.

Swim for Hope. It's what our bandannas said and is what we walked for at the Relay. Maybe someday the battle over cancer will be won; for now though, there's hope.

Fighting for a Cure!

Last Year's Relay for Life Team!

As we jump into the busy final weeks of school a few of us from the team are participating in the Relay for Life walk again. Taking place on Friday April 30th till Saturday May 1st teams from both St. Kate's and St. Thomas will join together to support the fight against cancer.

It's an event that is fun but also humbling. The event recognizes all those who have been affected by cancer with either a victory lap for those who have survived, a supporting lap for those who are fighting it now, and a lap where luminaria are lit up to remember the loved ones lost. It's an event where students from both campuses fundraise to see how much they can raise for the American Cancer Society. As a team last year we raised just over $1,200! This year we're trying to break it, but need some help. Our members have been asking family and friends, and we are selling the luminaria bags during our free time between classes to get the campus community involved. If anyone would like to support us with a donation I’ve added a link, or you can come support us at the event.

It’s being held this year here at St. Kate’s in the quad from 7pm Friday to 7am Saturday. Stop by and say hello. We would love to see you!

Here's the link if you would like to support us!!

Thank you!

http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pg=team&fr_id=22874&team_id=662733

Year End Banquet and Team Awards

Today the team reunited for our annual banquet and the presentation of team awards. It is always a great way to end our season and to get together with our families that offer us so much support every year. Thank you to all of you for another great season and I can't wait for next year!

Team Awards Given

• MIAC Sportsmanship Award: Sarah Vrudny

• All Conference: Sarah Moody for 1-Meter Diving

• Team Academic Award (those with a GPA of 3.5 or higher) Reba Bisciglia, Marissa Donatelle, Elizabeth Fosse, Kelley Holmes, Kaitlyn McClay, Laura Oberg-Hauser, Christina Paetzel, Bridget Perkins, Sarah Vrudny, Mary Walters, and Alli Witt

• Most Improved: Kaitlyn McClay

• Most Inspirational: Sarah Vrudny

• Most Dedicated: Mary Walters

• Most Valuable: Sarah Moody

Wildcat Academic Team (minus Christina)

Most Valuable: Sarah Moody, Most Inspirational: Sarah Vrudny,
Most Dedicated: Mary Walters, and Most Improved: Kaitlyn McClay

Team Captains for 2010-2011 Season

Melanie Maas, Kelley Holmes, and Sarah Vrudny

A MIAC Champ and Seven School Records!

Congrats, Sarah!

Sophomore Sarah Moody won the 1-meter diving competition on Saturday night with an NCAA qualifying score and a new St. Kate's school record. She is the first St. Kate's MIAC champion since 1992! She finds out next week if she will be competing at the NCAA Championship meet.

This quartet broke four school relay records!

The entire team swam tremendously, swimming many personal and season bests. Seven school records were broken (three individual and four relay) and the team placed its highest (6th) in many, many years. Great job, Wildcats!

MIAC Championships 2010

The team is tapering, fine-tuning and getting excited for this week's MIAC Championship meet at the University of Minnesota! The meet is three days long, and runs Thursday through Saturday with prelims in the morning and finals in the evening.

Here is the event order:
Thursday, Feb. 18th
Prelims 10:30am
Women's 3-Meter/Men's 1-Meter Diving (concurrently with swimming events)
Women's/Men's 500 Free
Women's/Men's 200 IM
Women's/Men's 50 Free

Thursday, Feb. 18th
Finals 6:30pm
Men's 1-Meter Diving
Women's/Men's 200 Free Relay
Women's/Men's 500 Free
Women's/Men's 200 IM
Women's/Men's 50 Free
20-minute break
Women's/Men's 400 Medley Relay

Friday, Feb. 19th
Prelims 10:30am
Women's 3-Meter Diving (concurrently with swimming events)
Women's/Men's 400 IM
Women's/Men's 100 Fly
Women's/Men's 200 Free
Women's/Men's 100 Breast
Women's/Men's 100 Back

Friday, Feb. 19th
Finals 6:30pm
Women's 3-Meter Diving
Women's/Men's 200 Medley Relay
Women's/Men's 400 IM
Women's/Men's 100 Fly
Women's/Men's 200 Free
Women's/Men's 100 Breast
Women's/Men's 100 Back
20-minute break
Women's/Men's 800 Free Relay

Saturday, Feb. 20th
Prelims 10:30am
Women's 1-Meter/Men's 3-Meter Diving (concurrently with swimming events)
Women's/Men's 200 Back
Women's/Men's 100 Free
Women's/Men's 200 Breast
Women's/Men's 200 Fly
Women's 1-Meter/Men's 3-Meter Diving (will begin at 3:45pm)
Women's/Men's 1650 Free (beginning in the afternoon, and completed by 5:30pm)

Saturday, Feb. 20th
Finals 6:30pm
Women's 1-Meter Diving (concurrently with first two heats of 1650 Free)
Women's/Men's 1650 Free (final heat only)
Women's/Men's 200 Back
Women's/Men's 100 Free
Women's/Men's 200 Breast
Women's/Men's 200 Fly
Women's 1-Meter Diving
Women's/Men's 400 Free Relay

For more meet information, including ticket sales, visit the official MIAC website.

Go Wildcats!