The Elgin Blue Wave Master Swim Team is an enthusiastic and eclectic group of adults who swim together. Our current members range in age from their early twenties through their early eighties. All ages and abilities are welcome. Workouts are tailored to differing ability levels and take place at the Elgin Recreation Center. See more about us and look at our current workout schedule and our tri page for further detail. The Elgin Blue Wave is registered with US Masters Swimming as a Club under the Illinois LMSC and competes independently at local and National Events .We welcome triathletes. Why don't you take the plunge, get wet, and check us out? You’ll be glad you did!

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Save the date: June 10 (Sunday) starting at 1p.m. This year's party will be at Dave's home in Elgin, near the pool. Corinne will provide the address later on in May. Cost is free to Blue Wave members and if you are bringing someone it is 5 dollars. If you have kids, Corinne asks to help pay the cost of 2 dollars.

The area is large, and split for the adults and children. There is a hill where the adults can watch the kids while sitting on top of the hill. Dave will have the 2 water pools with slides for the kids, and something for the kids to bounce in. Food will be provided by white cottage again. Please let Corinne know if you are coming and how many adults and kids.

TRX was recently recommended for swimmers in the January/February 2012 issue of Swimmers Magazine and proved to improve race times when swimmers performed TRX dry land exercises along with their normal swim practice. Here's a message from team mate Jaynie Falduto.

I am certified to teach TRX and personally feel it has been a huge benefit to increasing my muscular endurance, along with core strength. Stacie, Karen, and Mia have taken the class regularly, and they probably can concur to some or all of the benefits mentioned.

If you are interested in trying a class, first class is free. No pressure, just wanted to throw it out to everyone on the team since it was in swimmers magazine last month. Classes are held in East Dundee, IL at the intersection of Penny Road and 68, by the big East Dundee water tower. 105 Prairie Lake Road, at a Sports Performance Center. Click here for TRX FLYER.pdf
See you soon in the pool!
Jaynie

Next session of the Water Yoga class starts on January 15th and runs until Feb. 19th, Classes are Sunday mornings immediately following the Blue Wave Team practice - 9:45am - 19:15am. Cost of the class will depend on the number of participants. 6 participants = $48/ea   , 7 participants =$42/ea, and 8 participants = $36.  Please contact Danae Molitor at getufit@comcast.net by Jan. 8th to register. Please plan to pay in full on first day of the class.

This update on the Park Ridge 1500 has been received from Barry Dayton. Please direct any questions to Barry.

"We now have a plan. Tentatively, pending approval by ILMSA, the meet will be held SUNDAY June 26 (next day) at Woodland Trails Pool in Mt. Prospect, near the intersection of Euclid (Lake) and Wolf Roads. This is a 6 lane 50 meter outdoor pool that, unlike our old pool, has been nicely maintained. Unfortunately there will not be starting blocks. There will be adequate warmup/cooldown space so we will use all 6 lanes and be down one lane. We will have to further restrict entries but not by so much. Of course all of you who have already entered are in. We know that some of you have already made other plans for Sunday so we will refund the full $30 if you cannot swim. We also will honor requests to change sessions. DO NOTHING NOW, we will let you know the procedure for requesting refunds when details have been worked out. We will also let you know when registration reopens so you can let your friends and teammates know. We have worked hard to once again allow you the unique opportunity of swimming a 1500 in an outdoor 50 meter pool. And we want to thank the River Trails Park District for helping us make this happen. And again to all of you who made suggestions, we did follow up on most of them."

Barry Dayton, Meet Director barrydayton@att.net 847-800-0984

Congratulations to Oz Osborne for winning the 200 Butterfly at the USMs Spring Nationals. Swimming a time of 3:20.93 Oz finished almost 14 seconds ahead of the second place finisher in his age group! We are proud of you Oz! See some Photos Here

Good Luck to Jim Campana, Jack Eggar, Richard Fox, Ken Meyer, Oz Osborne, Mark Schark, and Jill Schneeberger who will be representing the Elgin Blue Waves at the USMS 2011 Spring National Championships in Mesa, Arizona from April 28 - May 1, 2011.

The meet will have 206 Clubs and 1,817 swimmers competing including some former Olympians. All signs point to some great swims. Follow the Blue Waves swims here.

This years Illinois State Meet was held April 7 through April 10. Coach Corinne and the Elgin Blue Waves placed third in a field of 43 teams - behind only Evanston and Naperville. Fifty two Blue Wave swimmers scored a total of 1660.5 points. Krista Cimilluca and Ben Culver took the high point trophies in their age groups. Read full article

Mark your calendars and save the date. This year we encourage everyone to bring their children.

More info to come soon! .

Showing up in numbers and ready to swim, the Elgin Blue Waves were victorious at the St Charles SuperBowl Meet. Some super swims were recorded by many of the Blue Wave contingent. Click here for some great photos courtesy of Dave Kubicek. .

We are having a wine tasting party at the Red Bar Winery on Sunday Feb 27 from 2-5. Included will be over 10 plus wines including appetizers. Enjoy some nice wines and great company.
The cost is 30 dollars per person. Corinne will need to make reservations so please let her know if are interested and give her your payment as soon as possible.
The Red Bar Winery is down the street from the casino.

Red Bar Winery 74 S. Grove Ave. Elgin, IL, 847-695-1659

In their first meet of 2011, the Blue Waves placed first! Congratulations to Coach Corinne and everyone who swam. A great start for the year. Click here for photos. .

Kevin Lue has been a popular and well liked member of the Blue Waves for several years. Also a tri-athlete, Kevin was a picture of health and fitness. His friends and team mates were all surprised when Kevin began having health issues in January 2009 and shocked to later learn that Kevin would need a heart transplant. We are happy to say that Kevin is healthy and back in the pool again. Recently the Mayo Clinic published Kevin's amazing story in a newsletter which is excerpted here. Read more about Kevin.

Pre-Team practices are designed for swimmers that need to learn one or more of the four competitive strokes. Emphasis is on stroke technique and learning. Practices will be held every Tuesday and Thursday night from 6:30 - 7:30 pm. First practice is Thursday Oct 21, 2010. See the Workouts page for detailed schedule.

Blue Waves in the news! Ben Culver is featured in this article on the team's performance at the Illinois State Meet. For those that missed it take a look here - Courier News

Kudos to the Blue Wave Nationals swimmers - Jennie Quill, Jack Eggar, and Jim Campana for some great swims at short course nationals in Atlanta. Jennie Quill medalled twice, placing third in the 100 fly and third in the 200 Fly. All three Blue Waves posted some top ten finishes. Take a look at their times and all of the meet results on the USMS meet database. Be sure to ask Jim, Jack, and Jennie about Nationals. They have some great stories to tell!

In a true team effort, the Elgin Blue Waves edged the Chicago Smelts to take the third place trophy at the ILMSA State Championships by only 3.5 points!
State records fell to Jennie Quill in the 200 fly and Ben Culver in the 400 IM and 1000 free. Ben's 1000 free was the fastest time ever by an ILMSA swimmer in ANY age group.
  Twenty men and seventeen women scored points in individual events. We were happy to see many of our newest swimmers scoring points alongside long time stalwarts.
   Corinne once again did her magic with the relay line-ups, coming up with the right combinations to add valuable points to the team total. Results can be found at The Kishwaukee web site.