This weekend's swimming

First and foremost, the Winona Water Wizards are off to Woodbury in the Twin Cities for the
SEMS & Mutual of Omaha’s ABC Open. It will be a big meet, nearly 200 swimmers in the Am and 100 in the afternoons.

The 8 - 12 year old swimmers compete Sat & Sunday morning. The Wolner boys, Grant & Griffin are back in the pool after a weekend off. McKenzie Porter makes it 3 meets in 3 weekends coming off a great 400M FR swim in the Twinvite and breaking the B barrier in her 100IM in the Northfield Dip into Spring. Saturday AM she is doing the 50 BK and then taking a stab at the 200IM. On Sunday she'll swim the 100BK and be joined by Brianna Beseler swimming the 500FR along with the 100FR and 50 BR.

The 13 & over swimmers, McKenna Marg, Reese Galewski, Grace Ell and Mallory Porter all returning after a fun weekend at the Twinvite III at the U of M. They'll be swimming a mix of speed events with Reese, McKenna and Grace doing the 100FR, and work horse outings , with Reese and McKenna in the 200IM, Reese the 100FL, McKenna & Grace in the 200BK. Mallory is still on her Fly kick doing the 100FL on Sat and the 200 fly (again?) on Sunday.

I will post results when they are available.

GRAND PRIX SWIMMING IN CHARLOTTE

If by chance you have spare time this weekend, there is big time swimming on the Net. Many of the big Olympics names including Michael Phelps are competing in the Charlotte UltraSwim, the fifth stop on the 2008-2009 USA Swimming Grand Prix Series, (that started right here in MN last September) which will award the highest-scoring swimmer of the series with a $20,000 prize.

Competition footage from the Charlotte UltraSwim will be broadcast by both Universal Sports and Swimnetwork.com. Universal Sports will air footage from the finals Friday, May 15 through Sunday, May 17 on its digital cable channel. Swimnetwork.com will provide a live online stream of the Universal Sports broadcast. In addition, Swimnetwork.com will webcast the finals on Thursday, May 14, and the prelims from each day of competition. Swimnetwork.com will also feature on-demand footage of the Friday, Saturday and Sunday night finals as well as behind-the-scenes interviews from the pool deck.

You can watch Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps (Baltimore, Md.) and Olympic gold medalist Cullen Jones (New Brunswick, N.J.), Olympians Ryan Lochte (Daytona Beach, Fla.), Katie Hoff (Towson, Md.), Aaron Peirsol (Irvine, Calif.), Christine Magnuson (Tinley Park, Ill.), Peter Vanderkaay (Rochester, Mich.), Eric Shanteau (Lilburn, Ga.), Mark Gangloff (Akron, Ohio), and Julia Smit (Mt. Sinai, N.Y.), Ricky Berens (Charlotte, N.C), Kara Lynn Joyce (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Elizabeth Beisel (Saunderstown, R.I), Caroline Burckle (Louisville, Ky.), and Amanda Weir (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

Check out the complete article at http://www.usaswimming.org/usasweb/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?TabId=1205&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en&ItemId=2441&mid=4005

or better yet, the Psych Sheet at: http://www.charlotteultraswim.com/results09/Psych.htm to see what kind of seed times are being posted.