Great Job at the Alligator Summer Splash   BSC Had an awesome meet at the Summer Splash at UIC. BSC won the meet by over 600points!   The Following Teammates had 100% Best Times Rhea Bannerjee, Jenica Baron, Judd Baron, Justin Benjamin, Matt Ben, Osman Cheng, Chris Chien, Sophie Dennison, Addisyn Donfris, Ayden Donfris, Becca Galovich, Lizzie Galovich, Ellie Graves, Dylan Guo, James Hoffeller, Colin Kerr, Catherine Kitzman, Daniel Langlois, Hewitt Li, Lily McHugh, Griffin O'Leary, Eric Pan, Jenny Tokarz,   The Following Teammates swam a Regional or Championship Time...

Are your turns getting faster?   5/12/2014     BY KATIE ARNOLD//HIGH PERFORMANCE CONSULTANT As you may have guessed, many of the articles that we write come from questions we are frequently asked by the coaches and athletes we work with.    We have written a number of articles about turn technique in which we discuss things to look for and ways to improve your turns. The one thing we haven’t talked about is how to measure improvement. It’s one thing for a turn to look better (or faster), but without...

5 Tips for Achieving Day-to-Day Excellence in the Pool 29. Apr You always hear swimmers talk about what they want to achieve, the fast times they want to post, the medals they want to win, the championships they want to rep. What we don’t always hear about is what those athletes are willing to do, consistently, on a day-in and day-out time frame, to make that awesome goal come to fruition. The goal isn’t enough. Not by a long shot. While important — we need the compass of a broader...

The Arena Grand Prix Series stopped in Mesa, Arizona this weekend. Teammates Kirsten Jacobsen is competing in an Elite field filled with the Nation's Best Swimmers many are Olympians! On the first day of competition Kirsten set a New Team Record in the 100Free placing 22nd Overall. In the 400Free she swam in the Consolation Final placing 14th Overall! You can follow the results on Meet Mobile--search for the Mesa Grand Prix or on the USA Swimming event page. GO BSC

Fix Late Breathing in Freestyle   4/14/2014 By Russell Mark // National Team High Performance Consultant By Scott Colby // Club Development Sport Performance Consultant Good breath timing. For two-time Olympian Chloe Sutton (@csutswim), returning the head quickly from the breath is a focus for her freestyle technique. 1 Breathing too late in freestyle is one of the most common and problematic issues in all of swimming. If you have no idea what it means to breathe late, then you’re probably guilty of it, too. A late breath is what’s...

Due to the BHS Home Water Polo Game Tonight there will be no 5PM Dryland for Sr. and Maverick Swimmers Wednesday April 16th

As we approach this Spring/Summer Long Course season I think it is important to take stock of where we are as teammates and dream a little bigger, work a little bigger, improve techincal ablitly a little bigger. We all have barriers that we think are "too fast" or "too hard" or "I could never do that". Just over three years ago if someone would have told us that BSC would be one of the premier teams in Illinois- maybe some of those words would have been uttered. BSC has broken...

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Great Article from USA Swimming! Enjoy and Share! Mike's Mailbag: Plateau at 14   3/31/2014     By Mike Gustafson//Correspondent Every Monday I answer questions from swimmers around the country. If you have a question please email me at [email protected] .   Dear Mike Gustafson, When I was 12, I was one of the fastest people in my age group. Now I'm 14, and everybody has passed me up. It just utterly amazes me that all my teammates and friends on other teams are dropping these huge amounts of time,...

Great Job This Past Season BSC Teammates had one of the BEST and most SUCCESSFUL Championships in Club history this past February and March. Here is a brief rundown of how we progressed in our pursuit of excellence. What amazing progress—56 New Team Records and 3 New State Records! There has never been a better time to be a BSC Teammate!! 70Teammates Participated at the Regional Level this season---in March of 2011 there were 43. There were 31 New Championship Time Standards achieved at this meet and 4 New Team...