Lane Lines - Week 6

DIVE

Friday, 7/13

3:00 PM Warm-ups

5:00 PM Start

at Home vs Nakoma

SWIM

Saturday, 7/14

7:00 AM Warm-ups

8:00 AM Start

at Home vs West Side and Goodman

Sign your swimmer/diver up for the meet by Wednesday, 7/11!

Dive: Well Worthy

Another great night to be a MO Magician Diver! Monona outnumbered and outscored Maple Bluff, 81-18 on Friday night and won 7 of the 8 events! Our Champions were  Mikayla McQueeny & Mason Mabie  for the 10 & unders,  Karsyn Nelson & Gavin Larso n for the 11-12’s,  Mati Mabie  for 13-14 girls, and  Trinity McNall & Steven Blew  for the 15-18’s. Also placing in the top 3 for their respective age groups were  Grace Braund  (2 ^nd ),  Josette Rossing  (3 ^rd ),  Preston Rossing  (2 ^nd ),  Benny Brezinski  (3 ^rd ),  Abby Bykowski  (2 ^nd ),  Maya Forcier  (3 ^rd ),  Tiesto Nuon  (2 ^nd ),  Katherine Roberts  (2 ^nd ),  Laila Howe  (3 ^rd ),  Ben Willem  (2 ^nd ), and  Will Blew  (2 ^nd ).

Other standouts include  Adeline Connelly  for competing in her first diving meet and doing a great job on all 5 of her dives and earning 85.05 points. Several divers competed new dives for the first time including  Belle Bennett  who performed an inward dive and improved her score by 39.15 points from last week,  Breleigh Ganshert  doing a reverse dive and having her best score by 10 points, and  Kendyl Mabie  also doing a reverse dive! A bby Bykowski  has improved her score by 52 points since the start of the season with a best score of 172 this past week. Also having a huge improvement since the beginning of the season are  Addie Wurth  who has gained 54.6 points on her dive score and  Izzy Zahn  who has improved 39.72 points and continues to improve each week.

This week we face Nakoma who is head coached by none other than our very own  Nikki Benedict . This should be a fun meet and our last home meet of the season, so please plan to come out and support both teams and coaches! Warm ups will be at 3pm for Monona and then the meet will start at 5pm, so plan to grab some dinner after you warm up to prepare for the meet. 

Thank you to the  Moureau family  for the wonderful medley of fruit supplies on Friday for the team! We have 2 more Fresh Fruit Fridays and will enjoy treats from the  Wurth and   Treml families  to finish our season these last 2 Friday before All City! Thank you families for making this new tradition so sweet!

The All-City Swim App Is Here! Don't Miss Your Chance to Try It at This Week's Home Meet!

We said All-City 2018 would be a magical, Zero Waste event, and we meant it! This year's event will go where no other All-City event has gone before: there will be no paper program. Instead, this year at All City 2018 MO will debut the All City App! 

The app will allow you to quickly access important event information as well as be the electronic forum for heat sheets, event staging, up to the minute event info and so much more. By downloading the app you will have all the event info you could need right at your fingertips. 

MO families have the opportunity to experience a sneak peak of the app in action at this Saturday's home meet from 8-9 AM only! You will be able to identify races you want to be notified about, including when clerk of course is staging the event and when the event is actually in the water. Go to your iPhone or Android app store, search “All City”, and download today. 

We can't wait to experience this first with all of you!

Ground Graphics Are Here!

What an awesome way to recognize and encourage your swimmer(s)!

Create an exciting and lasting memory with these durable ground signs/stickers placed on the walkway into tent city. Text includes your Club Name and your swimmer’s name. After the meet is over, you can remove these and take them home.

Cost is $35.00.

Deadline for ordering is July 21. Don’t delay!

Event Sponsorship Available - Act Fast!

We are making this information available to Monona Swim and Dive families first, as this sponsorship opportunity fills quickly!

Sponsor an event for additional recognition of your business and/or your swimmer. Sponsor Name is listed on the heat sheet and MCs announce sponsor and/or swimmer recognition at the event start.  Each event sponsorship INCLUDES one reserved parking spot on the same day as the race.

Cost ranges from $95-$125.

ACT fast since this opportunity to recognize your swimmer and have a parking spot will go quickly and there are limited numbers!

Purchase Parking Passes

Daily reserved lot parking passes are available for purchase now.

Click here to view the map of paid parking lots. There will be also be street and free lot parking available. See the map for details.

Save The Date: All-City Kickoff Ice Cream Social 7/21

The Monona Community Pool is officially turned over to Monona Swim and Dive to begin All-City Swim preparation at 7:00 PM on Saturday, July 21 .

What better way to celebrate the start of All-City week than by eating ice cream cones and getting the pool deck ready for bleachers and Warm-up Sunday?

Come on out and join us! See you there!

All-City Week Swim Practice Schedule

The Monona Pool will be closed to practice July 23-25 in preparation for All-City Swim Meet; therefore, all swim practices will be held indoors at the Monona Grove High School Pool.

The schedule is as follows:

AM PRACTICES

July 23 & July 25

6-7 AM 15-18

7-8 AM 13-14

8-9 AM 11-12 and Group 1 9-10's

9-10AM 8 & unders and Group 2 9-10's

July 24

6:30-7:30 AM 15-18

7:30-8:30 AM 13-14

8-9 AM 11-12

9-9:45 AM 9-10

9:45-10:30 AM 8& unders

PM PRACTICES

July 23-25

4:30-5:30 PM 10 & unders

Second Harvest Saturday

Don't miss out on your opportunity to contribute to our Second Harvest Food Drive at this week's home swim meet!

We will have a barrel set up on the pool deck for you to drop your nonperishable food items. Please give generously on Saturday or click here to donate online.

Monona is not even in the top five teams for donations. Let's show the other teams our giving spirit and donate!

Don't forget to take a picture and post #givebackAC2018

Volunteers Needed!

Let's make All-City Swim 2018 the best All-City ever!! Additional volunteer shifts need to be filled!

Click the link below to sign-up today!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080f4aafa823a20-allcity4

Last Chance for All-City Clothing Pre-orders!

Deadline for the jackets is July 11th . 

Link to pre-order is here. Click now!

http://www.simplyswimming.net/allcity

Clothing/Accessory Sneak Peak!!

Don't forget to purchase your reusable water bottle at Warm-up Sunday, 7/22, at both Monona and West Side pools. They will also be availble for purchase throughout the swim meet in Monona.

These water bottles will be perfect to refill at our water filling station!

Just another way we're making All-City 2018 magical!

Zero Waste - How Did We Do?

This week our Zero Waste team was on deck again for our swim meet against Shorewood Hills. At the end of the meet, volunteers reported less than one bag of trash, in total, between both ZW stations. 

We kept roughly 5 times that much material out of our landfill by recycling 4 heaping bags of plastic and paper waste, and composting about 1/2 a bag of food waste that was taken to the Winnequah School Children's garden where it's turning into rich garden soil.  

Thanks to everyone for bringing your items to our ZW stations, and thank you to our ZW volunteers for organizing and maintaining them! This would not be possible without you.  

Website

Our Monona All City Swim website continues to be updated regularly. Visit the website at https://swim.moallcity.com/ and share with all your friends and family!

Also, don't forget to check out our social media platforms for the big event!

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/allcityswim/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/2018AllCitySwim

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allcityswimdive/