High School

from Coach Evan Shanley One characteristic leaders have is the ability to be in tune with how your teammates are feeling. That seems to be a strength for Amara. Her coach Evan Shanley told us “Amara can sense when someone is upset or bothered. “ What’s more impressive, is that this is Amara’s first year on […]

from Coach Evan Shanley If you follow the Vibe at all, you know we love seniors! They represent growth and development for us coaches as we watch them go from 7th and 8th grade kids to young men and women. They become leaders, teachers, and find their own identities in the world. Watching this process

from Coaches Mackenzie Menden and Nicole Hedman Two things coaches love to see in their swimmers it effort and attitude. Talent will only take you so far and in swimming. The ability to put in the work and have the right mindset are cornerstones to success. Anoka junior Nora Sloth is a leader in both.

from Coach Heather Mayfield Sophomore Bella Imholte broke our 24 year old school record at the first dual meet of the season on Tuesday night. The record was previously held by Britta Veitenheimer from 1999, we have had many athletes come close to breaking this record but Bella crushed it last night with a time

from Coach JJ McBride McKenna, who is known around the team as Kenna, moved to Int’l Falls last year and joined the swim team. This is her second year and we recently started putting her in the 200 Free and 500 Free. She works hard in practice and will take anything the coaches tell her and

from Coach JJ McBride Kieren, now a junior, joined her 9th grade year. International Falls did not have a consistent diving coach her first year. With the help of other teammates she was able to get her 11 dives to dive at sections. With having a diving coach the past two years, Kieren consistently gets better on the

from Coach Todd Fritze Minnesota Swim and Vibe loves recognition and one of the things we are able to do is take a coach’s recognition of their student-athletes and broadcast it across the state for the swimming community to applaud.  We sent some feelers out to Section 8A and 8AA to see if there were

What’s better than competing against a neighboring school? Working together with them to support an awesome cause!! That’s exactly what the ladies from Rochester Century and Rochester Mayo did on August 26th. Each team of girls provided volunteers to run a water station for the Healthy Human Race event in Rochester that day. According to

Winning a high school state meet is tough.  Winning it with only four swimmers is near impossible…. but in 1990, it happened.  Now before we get into the details, there’s a few things that were a bit different in Minnesota High School swimming at the time. First, there was no Class A and Class AA.