Boilermaker Aquatics added a new competition opportunity to our team calendar for the 2025 Long Course season by participating in the Indiana Swimming Open Water State Championships for the first time! The team took 21 qualifying athletes down to Fishers, Indiana to race not inside a pool, but outside in the open water at Geist Waterfront park. Race organizers set up four large triangular buoys and several smaller orange buoys to mark the approximately 400 meter rectangular race course with athletes racing a variety of distances based on their age...

From Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin to Annapolis, Maryland and West Lafayette, Indiana in between – Boilermaker Aquatics put the everywhere in #LeadersEverywhere last week! Four BA athletes competed under the Team Indiana cap at Open Water Zones in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, while two BA athletes were selected to attend the Indiana Swimming Senior and Age Group Elite Development camps at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. INDIANA SWIMMING ELITE DEVELOPMENT CAMPS Senior Elite Development Camp Indiana Swimming’s Senior Elite Development camp was held June 7-11 in Annapolis, Maryland and the US...

Last week, USA Swimming announced the complete list of 2023-24 Scholastic All-America recipients. The list consists of 1,790 athletes in grades 9-12 who maintained a minimum 3.5 grade point average (GPA) and met any of the competition criteria* during the qualifying period of September 1, 2023 – August 31, 20 24. Pool swimmers must have swum an individual pool time equal to or faster than the 2023 Winter Junior National qualifying time in any individual event during the Scholastic All-America qualifying period with the qualifying times in SWIMS. Compared to...

TEAM, good afternoon! I want to briefly draw your attention to an opportunity for one of our athletes and one of our coaches this week. USA Swimming sponsors an annual Zone Select Camp for each of the 4 zones in the U.S. (attached graphic). This year, the Western and Central Zones were grouped together and the top-performing 56 athletes within the zone and between ages 13-15 were invited to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Our own Rocco Tajc accepted his invitation this year. USA Swimming also invited a...