NewsWave July 23

Josh Saylor

Good Luck – After getting off to a hot start last weekend (see below), the WTSC “Championship Season” continues this weekend with swimmers in action at the ISI Age Group State Championships at IU Indianapolis and the USA Swimming Futures Championships in Madison, WI. If your swimmers are participating in these events, please speak with your group coach if you have questions. And good luck to our swimmers competing this weekend.

 

Senior State Recap – WTSC swimmers opened the “Championship Season” over the weekend against the best high school and college swimmers in Indiana at the Senior State Championships. WTSC finished 21st overall and was led by several impressive relay performances. Our top finish was turned in by the quartet of Katie Countryman, Sarah McPherson, Kayley Spicer and Lillian Tabor, who brought home some hardware with their eighth-place finish in the 200 Medley Relay. Just missing the podium, Spicer, Tabor, Annie Wolfe and Lily Wolfe finished ninth in the 400 Medley Relay and the Wolfe sisters, Maddie Bumps and Leah Kiefer finished ninth in the 800 Freestyle Relay. Countryman, McPherson, Spicer and Annie Wolfe finished 15th in the 400 Freestyle Relay, and McPherson, Spicer, Tabor and Annie Wolfe finished 17th in the 200 Freestyle Relay. The WTSC boys quartet of Jack Campbell, Sebastian Granados, Aksel Swenson and Sam Wolfe had a top relay finish of 27th in the 200 Medley Relay. Individually, the following WTSC swimmers picked up scoring swims in their respective events:

 

  • Spicer finished 14th, 18th and 24th respectively in the 50, 200 and 100 Breaststroke and 20th in the 400 IM.
  • Tabor finished 21st in the 50 Backstroke.
  • Annie Wolfe finished 23rd in the 200 Backstroke.
  • Lily Wolfe finished 13th in the 200 Butterfly and 14th in the 800 Freestyle.
  • Sam Wolfe finished 15th in the 100 Freestyle and 24th in the 50 & 100 Backstroke.

 

Divisionals – Our final meet of the long course season will be the summer Divisional Championships (August 1-3 @ Crawfordsville HS). This meet is identical to the traditional March Divisional meet and is appropriate for all WTSC swimmers who have met the qualifying times. Our commitment deadline for this event is this Friday (July 25). Please speak with your group coach if you have questions about this event and additional information will be available closer to the event.

 

Practice Schedule Changes – There have been a few changes to the practice schedule for this week including the addition of Silver & Bronze practice on Saturday and some changes to the Senior schedule. These changes have been added to the document on the “Practice Schedule” tab of our website. Please speak with your group coach if you have any questions.

 

Last Practice & First Practice – Our last practice of the summer will be Thursday, July 31. As is our custom, we will take August off so our swimmers can get their school year off to a good start and everyone can get some hard-earned rest. We will begin the 2025-26 short course season on Tuesday, September 2. More information about our short course season will be available as our startup date gets closer.

 

Thank You – WTSC would like to thank our team sponsors for their support and generosity. Platinum Sponsors: Arni’s; Jagger’s; Rigney Law LLC. Gold Sponsors: Elsmore Swim Shop. Bronze Sponsors: Ball Dentistry; Capability Farm; Emswiller, Williams, Noland & Clarke LLC; the Tabor Family; Valeo Financial Advisors. If you are interested in sponsoring our team or have questions about sponsorships, please speak with WTSC Business Manager J’nai Cochran or WTSC Board Member Rob Vrabel.

 

WTSC Social Media – Please help promote our team and stay connected to everything that we have going on by following us on Facebook at Washington Township Swim Club and Instagram @washingtontownshipswimclub. When you or your swimmers post anything about the team, be sure to use the hashtag #swimWTSC and tag the club account on the picture.