Aug 31, 2010 To get to all the forms: Click on More Information link on front page of website, click on Documents/Forms tab and all available forms are listed. I have changed over all forms to pdf files as many o... Aug 31, 2010 The revised 2011 USA Swimming registration form has now been posted. Please fill out and put it in the meet director folder by September 17th. The swim team code is: BEST Thank you. Aug 30, 2010 Meet information is now posted and sign up for this meet is open. The deadline for signing up for this meet is WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH. No exceptions as the coaches and meet director need to g... Aug 30, 2010 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm at the Bartlett Park District Indoor Pool Aug 30, 2010 Dryland forms now posted under Documents/Forms tab within the More Information link on team website. Aug 23, 2010 The team suit and equipment order form is now posted under the more information link on the front page of the team website. Aug 16, 2010 Be sure to register this week to secure a spot for the upcoming short course season!! Aug 10, 2010 Reminder that deadline to sign up for the Awards Luncheon is tomorrow, Thursday, (8/11/10). Aug 9, 2010 The Fitter and Faster Tour is coming to Chicago, Illinois September 4th, 2010 at UIC downtown. Please check the events page for more information as the flyer for this event is posted there. Severa... Aug 7, 2010 Due to the Tri-County Tea party being scheduled at the white gazebo by the log cabin at the same time as our event, we are moving our event location to the Jensen Pavilion located at the Bartlett Park... Aug 2, 2010 Good luck to the following swimmers who will be competing at Zones this coming weekend: Giovanni Damigella, Sarah Hanning, Danielle Homere, Frankie Niziolek, Emily Ryan and Sydney Skibinski. Aug 2, 2010 BEST has made quite the impact at the Regional, Senior Championship, Sectional and Age Group Championship meets. Numerous personal BEST times were achieved at these meets as well as many top 10 finis... Jul 27, 2010 New this year!!! New swimmer evaluations will take place on August 15th at the Bartlett Park District indoor pool from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. Jul 27, 2010 Online registration will open August 17, 2010 for returning families. New families will be able to register starting August 23rd. All registration is being done online this year as we have 3 payment... Jul 19, 2010 The Long Course Awards Luncheon will be held on August 14th, 2010 at the Log Cabin located in downtown Bartlett. It will be 11:30 am - 2:30 pm. Jul 14, 2010 Lots of personal best times, championship meet qualifiers, as well as some team records were achieved this past weekend. Great job!! Jul 13, 2010 Congrats to all those who participated in the Hinsdale Meet this past weekend. There were a lot of personal best times achieved, regional and champ times achieved. Keep up the great work as we head ... Jul 13, 2010 Team entries now posted for Gold Conference. Jul 13, 2010 Good luck to the following swimmers who will be participating in the Senior Championship Meet this upcoming weekend in Evanston: Shana Alvi, Kaitlyn Campbell, Nick Hasemann, Nina Hasemann, Andrew Home... Jul 6, 2010 Today is the last day to sign up for the Conference Meet, Tuesday, July 20th at West Chicago High School. This meet is open to all swimmers who participated at any point during the long course season... Jul 5, 2010 Due to a power outage at the park district, there is no chlorine in either of the pools. Coaches will lead a dryland practice instead. Come dressed to run and do outdoor dryland, but bring suits jus... Jul 2, 2010 There will be practice on Saturday, July 3rd from 8:00 am - 10:00 am at the outdoor pool. Jun 29, 2010 There will be practice this Saturday, July 3rd, 8:00 am - 10:00 am at the Bartlett outdoor pool. Jun 28, 2010 Great job to all those who competed this past weekend at the West Chicago Meet. Lot of great time drops and new regional and champ times achieved. Updated entry times have been posted to the Hinsdal... Jun 24, 2010 There are a couple of practice updates: There will be practice this Friday, June 25th, 9 am - 11 am at the outdoor pool. Next Friday's morning practice time was changed to 8 am - 10 am due to life g... Jun 23, 2010 This Text Editor DOES NOT SAVE YOUR WORK AUTOMATICALLY and there is a RISK OF LOSING YOUR WORK. [Do not spend more than 10 minutes creating or editing content. If you do, use Microsoft Word or li... Jun 18, 2010 The indoor pool has been fixed, so practice is still on for later today. Thanks! Jun 17, 2010 PLEASE MEET COACH MARCELO IN THE LOBBY OF THE BARTLETT PARK DISTRICT AT 5 PM FOR DRYLAND. INDOOR POOL IS CLOSED TODAY. THX Jun 14, 2010 Congrats to all those who participated in this past weekend's meet. It was a long weekend and a lot of swims. The coaches were very pleased with everyone's performances. We had a lot of personal BE... Jun 14, 2010 Updated entries have been posted for West Chicago Summer Splash. All times shown for the entries reflect most current times for the swimmers, including this past weekend's meet. Jun 8, 2010 Outdoor practices will still be held in the rain. If practices are canceled due to inclement weather, announcements will be posted to the News section and emailed out to families. Thanks Jun 6, 2010 Team entries now posted for St. Charles, West Chicago and Hinsdale Meets. May 27, 2010 Today is the last day to sign up for the Hinsdale Meet. May 27, 2010 Session 1 swimmers are able to participate in practices and meets through June 13th. Session 2 swimmers begin Monday, June 14th. Remember: If your swimmer participates in first or second half sessio... May 26, 2010 Please note there is a change to the practice calendar. This Friday, May 28th, we are inside for practice. Thanks! May 25, 2010 Great job this past weekend to all those who participated. The team achieved a lot of top place finishes, Regional and Champ times, and lots of personal best times. Keep up the great work!! May 24, 2010 Please make sure to check the practice calendar on a regular basis. Especially over the next couple of weeks as the Bartlett Barracudas start their practices this week so there will be a few changes... May 22, 2010 Due to the host team's meet file being inacurate for the 11 - 12 boys and girls backstroke race on Saturday (it should have been 100 back instead of 50 back) entries and meet file is being adjusted to... May 18, 2010 Great job this past weekend. Results are under the St. Charles Pentathlon tab under the archived events tab. Thanks May 17, 2010 Congratulations to all the swimmers who competed this past weekend! From our youngest swimmers up through our oldest swimmers, everyone had a great first meet. BEST also had several top 6 Trophy win... May 7, 2010 Today is the last day to sign up for the St. Charles Summer Classic and West Chicago Meets. Due to the competitve nature of getting into summer meets, no exceptions to the cutt off date. Thanks for... May 5, 2010 Revised entries are now posted to the events tab. Entries were revised as follows: NTs (no time) entries were given a converted/best guest time; any swimmer with 4 events in a session were dropped d... May 3, 2010 Due to the size of the meet, we are being asked to revise entries for this meet. This affects any swimmer entered in more than 3 events in any session and any swimmer not making top 40 for the distan... Apr 30, 2010 Entries are now posted. Please note as per the request of the host team, entries were submitted with short course yard times. The host team will be converting them over to long course times prior to... Apr 30, 2010 Entries are now posted. The times listed for each swimmer are true long course times this year, we did not convert over anyone's times. (NT = no time) Apr 8, 2010 St. Charles swim team just posted their packets to the ISI website with a date change for their pentathlon. It is now May 15th & 16th. Thanks! Apr 6, 2010 ST. Charles Pentathlon and Dan Jaekel sign ups are due this Friday, April 9th. Mar 25, 2010 The summer meet schedule has now been posted. It is still very early in the process, so we are still waiting for meet information from host teams for most of the meets. The schedule is subject to ... Mar 15, 2010 Registration is now open for all returning swimmers for our 2010 Long Course Season. You may register online or download all necessary forms to mail in. More information can be found on our team... Mar 15, 2010 Lots of time drops and great swims! Congrats to Nick Hasemann, Frankie Niziolek, and Emily Ryan as they placed in the top 8 in some of their events. Special Congrats to Nick Hasemann for achieving Ju... Mar 11, 2010 This Text Editor DOES NOT SAVE YOUR WORK AUTOMATICALLY and there is a RISK OF LOSING YOUR WORK. [Do not spend more than 10 minutes creating or editing content. If you do, use Microsoft Word or li... Mar 7, 2010 The information sheet is being mailed with Awards Banquet sign up sheets and is posted under the Membership Information section of the team website. Please note the dates for Long Course Registrati... Mar 5, 2010 You can follow our swimmers with live WebCast!! Go to http://www.ilswim.org/webcast/ ....... You will also be able to follow our Age Group Champ Swimmers next weekend as well. Mar 1, 2010 We had a lot of top 8 finishers, personal best times and State Cuts achieved! For those who had swimmers achieve a champ cut this past weekend, I have already added them to the entry lists for each ... Feb 25, 2010 They will be competing tomorrow at the ISHA Boys State High School Swim Meet. Feb 22, 2010 Tuesday morning practices and dryland are now done for the season. Feb 21, 2010 Nick Hasemann and Tyler Hill will be moving on to the High School Boys State Championship Meet next weekend. Good luck!!! Feb 17, 2010 Entry list now posted. Only additions to the list will be if anyone achieves a new event at A Conference or Boys High School Sectional meets this weekend. CHANGES TO EVENTS CANNOT BE MADE AT THIS ... Feb 16, 2010 Only those that get a regional cut in a new event at A Conference may be entered at this point. Once I get confirmation from ISI that our entries have been accepted, I will post the entries. Thanks... Feb 16, 2010 Information now posted under the events page regarding the contest. Feb 15, 2010 Great job today!!! Most of the kids swam 2 - 3 days this past weekend at the meets and there were still a bunch of personal BEST times achieved!! Results are now posted. Feb 15, 2010 In the previous email sent out with the attachment for the order form for Champ team t-shirts and caps, I am using the latest version of Office. As a result, some of you may not be able to open the... Feb 15, 2010 As of this past weekend ~~ Regionals: 47 swimmers; Age Group Champs: 11 swimmers; Senior Champs: 4 swimmers. Keep up the great swims!!! Feb 14, 2010 For those who have qualified for Regionals, Age Group Champs and Senior Champs ~ order forms are now available to order championship team shirt and cap. Feb 12, 2010 For those that have swimmers who have qualified for Age Group Champs, hotel information and events schedule have been posted that meet's information page. Remember: **PLEASE NOTE ? DAYLIGHT SAVIN... Feb 12, 2010 Senior Champs hotel information has also been posted along with events schedule. Thanks Feb 11, 2010 A new tab was created today under the "Event and Meet Info" tab called "Meet Location". It will give you the addresses for the pools where we attend meets. This page is a work in progress and will... Feb 10, 2010 Information has been posted with details for the All Team Pasta Party, Saturday, February 20th. Please make sure to sign up if you are planning to attend. Feb 10, 2010 Current qualifiers through 2/10/10 have been posted to each of the events pages. Swimmers looking to achieve regional qualifying times have through A Conference Meet to achieve these. Feb 9, 2010 As of right now, the pool repair at the Bartlett Park District is on pace to be completed in time for practice tonight. Unless otherwise noted, there will still be practice tonight for red/blue gro... Feb 9, 2010 Since there no guarantee that the pool will be open by 4:00 pm tonight and in light of the weather, practice is canceled tonight for Red/Blue Groups. Barring weather issues tomorrow, all groups wil... Feb 9, 2010 DRYLAND IS CANCELED TODAY, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH. Feb 8, 2010 Bronze/Silver/Gold Tuesday early morning practice (Feb. 9th) has been canceled as well. We will update the website and email out updates for the afternoon practices. Feb 8, 2010 DUE TO AN ISSUE WITH THE POOL, WHITE/RED/BLUE GROUPS WILL NOT HAVE PRACTICE TONIGHT, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH. Feb 8, 2010 Entry lists are now posted for the A & B Conference Meets. These are now finalized and cannot be changed. Thanks! Feb 3, 2010 Preliminary line ups are now posted. Please check to see which meet/events your swimmer has been entered. If you are NOT planning on participating in the Conference Meets, please let Jen Johnson k... Feb 3, 2010 For those attending the Schroeder A+ Meet this weekend, please go to the host team's website for heat sheets, meet information, et al.... Please make sure to print off heat sheets prior to going. ... Feb 1, 2010 Great job everyone!! BEST placed 3rd out of 13 teams this past weekend! Lots of personal BEST times, Regional and State Cuts were achieved. Keep up the great work! Results will be posted later tod... Jan 20, 2010 All Team Pasta Party -- Saturday, February 20th, 6 pm - 8 pm at the Streamwood Park District Year-end Awards Banquet -- Saturday, April 10th - 11:00 am - 3:30 pm at The Seville on Barrington Stree... Jan 14, 2010 Congrats to all our swimmers who participated in the Irish Aquatics Meet this past weekend. Top three team scores: 1st ~ BEST, 3,696.5 ; 2nd ~ Irish Aquatics, 2,398; 3rd ~ TOPS YMCA, 2,357.5 Jan 7, 2010 Due to U46 Cancelling all after school activities, the pool is also closed. There will be no Bronze practice tonight. Jan 5, 2010 Please check the events page for directions to the luncheon on Saturday. Thanks! Jan 4, 2010 Please make sure to look under the events tab for Notre Dame Meet to see if you are signed up for timing this coming weekend. Thank you Jan 4, 2010 BEST will now be competing at Barrington High School for the B Conference Meet. Please check the events page as warm up and start times have changed. Thank you. Dec 24, 2009 The Duathlon is still on for this morning. However, we are asking everyone who is planning on coming to please take your time driving in and be careful in the Streamwood Parking Lot. They are open... Dec 23, 2009 With keeping with traditions, the Annual BEST Duathlon WILL take place tomorrow!!! Bronze/Silver/Gold swimmers make sure to bring tennis shoes, shorts, t-shirts for the run portion. Please check th... Dec 23, 2009 Due to deteriorating weather conditions and concerns for everyone's safe travels, all practices will be cancelled tonight. As of right now, practice tomorrow will still be on barring icy roads. C... Dec 16, 2009 Information is now posted within that event's tab for this meet. Dec 10, 2009 Please sign up for the Team Luncheon for Notre Dame. Since the afternoon session is now an evening session, we have moved the dinner to a lunch so that all families can participate. Thank you!!! Dec 2, 2009 Informational Meeting: Bartlett Aquatic Center Pool Wednesday, December 2nd at 5:00PM Contact: Nora Smith 630.736.9868 or jeffnorasmith@comcast.net Dec 2, 2009 Timing assignments now posted for Westmont and St. Charles 8 & Under meets this weekend under their event tabs. Thanks Nov 25, 2009 Entries have been updated to include best times from November meets. Thanks Nov 25, 2009 Please see the events tab for The BEST Holiday Party information and sign up. Please sign up online. Each family will be billed out for this event. Thank you. Nov 13, 2009 Good luck to all of our high school girl swimmers this weekend at their sectional meet!!! Nov 10, 2009 Congratulations to all of our swimmers this past weekend. BEST Swimmers not only had great swims this past weekend, but there were several meet records set over the weekend by BEST. The following... Nov 7, 2009 Information posted under events tab. Thank you. Nov 1, 2009 Timing Assignments have now been posted for St. Charles and West Chicago under their event tabs information section. Thank you. Nov 1, 2009 Hotel information and all team dinner information has now been posted to the Notre Dame Road Trip event tab. Meet information will be forthcoming once we receive it. Thank you! Oct 29, 2009 Revised Glenbrook Meet Results have now been posted. Oct 26, 2009 BEST places 3rd overall out of 18 + teams. Congrats to all our swimmers!!! What a great way to start the season. Across the board there were time drops and some excellent first time swims. Full ... Oct 23, 2009 The 2009 Annual Athlete Recognition Banquet was held on Sunday, Oct 11. The banquet which was a tribute to US Paralympians, honored the top three Illinois Swimming athletes in combined age groups... Oct 21, 2009 New time standards for Regionals, Age Group Champs, and Senior Champs have now been posted on the Illinois Swimming, Inc. website. Please click on the links tab under My BEST and following the link... Oct 19, 2009 Team T-shirts will be available for pick up at practices this week on Mondays - Thursday at each of the pools. Oct 17, 2009 Please check the Events Tab as there has been a change in the meet schedule. Due to the way the Elmhurst Meet was set up, we are now going to attend the Wheaton Team Challenge Meet that is the same... Oct 16, 2009 Please get all football mania stubs, tickets, monies and buyout monies turned in today. Thank you!!! Oct 15, 2009 Please see the events tab regarding upcoming team pictures and CiCi's dinner night. Also, swimmers need to check their file folders at the pools for information and order forms for team pictures. ... Oct 14, 2009 Congratulations to our BEST Swimmers who registered Top 10 Long Course Meter Times in Illinois this year!!! Sarah Hanning (11-12) 6 th - 100 Back - 1:17:35 (11) Nick Hasemann (13-14) 8 th ? 100 ... Oct 6, 2009 Full meet results are now posted under the archived events tab for the dual meet. Sorry for the delay in posting, computer issues!! Thanks! Oct 1, 2009 Qualifying standards are now posted under this events information tab. Thanks. Sep 27, 2009 Entries have now been posted to the events page for Mundelein Dual Meet. Please note there are a lot of NT (no time) listed for this meet as this is a short course meter pool and many of the swimme... Sep 23, 2009 Meet information has now been posted and updated for the West Chicago Meet. (As well as the St. Charles Fall Fest and 8&Under Meet) You can now choose the sessions that you will be attending for th... Sep 22, 2009 Please see the Calendar page of the team website. This Friday, September 25th, Bronze is at Streamwood, 6 - 8 pm and Silver/Gold will now be at Bartlett High School, 6 - 8 pm. Thx Sep 22, 2009 When signing up for meets, please make sure to put in the note section of the sign up for each meet, what days your swimmer will be attending. If you do not specify which days, your swimmer will be... Sep 16, 2009 This event will be on Sunday's session. Thx Sep 16, 2009 The 2009-2010 Dryland Registration forms are now available under the Membership Information tab, under forms. Thanks! Jen Sep 16, 2009 Meet information regarding events has been posted. Also please note ~~ the host team has an error on their meet packet as well as the event file regarding the 8 & Under 25 Breaststroke races. It i... Sep 10, 2009 Parent Meeting tomorrow night at the Streamwood Park District party room, 6 - 8 pm. All team practice will be held during this time. All families are encouraged to come. Sep 3, 2009 Meet events have been posted to the events page for our first meet of the season. This meet is for all swimmers and coaches are encouraging everyone to attend this practice meet. Please note: Th... Sep 2, 2009 Due to swim lessons starting today, all returning BEST swimmers will practice at the outdoor pool from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm. Sep 2, 2009 PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK THE CALENDARS TAB OFTEN AS THERE ARE CHANGES BEING MADE TO THE PRACTICE CALENDAR. THE FOLLOWING PRACTICES HAVE BEEN MADE: Sunday, September 6th, Bronze/Silver/Gold Groups p... Aug 20, 2009 Please see the Calendar tab for changes for the upcoming Stroke and Turn Clinic. Monday -- both groups times will remain the same as advertised. Tuesday/Thursday -- New Swimmers -- 4:15 - 5:15 ... Aug 19, 2009 The TENTATIVE practices have been posted to the Calendar section on the team website. This is subject to change but this will give you a general idea of when/where practices will be located. Aug 17, 2009 Just friendly reminder that registration (both online and in person/mail-in) is open now through the last day of the Stroke and Turn Clinic. Stroke Clinic runs August 31 - September 4. Please chec... Aug 12, 2009 Good evening everyone~~ As many of you know, BEST has made some major changes in regards to the registration process for the upcoming 2009-2010 Short Course Season. We will be implementing an on-l... Aug 3, 2009 Congratulations to all of our swimmers who competed at the Age Group Championship Meet held this past weekend. The meet saw several of our swimmers place in the top 8, new team records set, personal ... Aug 3, 2009 Information is now posted to the events website as well as emailed out to all long course families. This event is an online sign up event. Please make sure to put into the notes section of the sig... Aug 3, 2009 Good luck to the following swimmers who have qualified for Central Zones ~~ Brianna Cichon, Nick Hasemann, Katie Lottermoser, and Frankie Niziolek!!!! Jul 27, 2009 Please look in the Events section for information on the upcoming Stroke and Turn Clinic that kicks off the 2009 - 2010 Short Course Swim Season. 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