Southside Pride

Rails Heading to State!

February 10, 2015

The 2014-15 season continued as planned this past Saturday as the Lincoln Rails are heading back to the state meet for the 7th consecutive season! The team had a day full of great swims, time drops, and podium finishers, adding to that multiple top 5 All Time swims in Lincoln swimming history. Here are a few of the highlights from the district meet at Roosevelt...[Read More] READ MORE

Rails Championship Season Underway!

January 20, 2015

The 2014-15 boys swim season is starting to come to a close, with the conference championship taper swimmers ending this coming weekend, and the district taper swimmers looking at qualifying to the state meet at districts on 2/7. To kick off taper season the team got together and did their annual Mo-hawk and bleaching dinner party after practice on 1/19!...[Read More] READ MORE

Rails Heading to CR

January 14, 2015

The Rails are making the trip to Cedar Rapids to attend the Jim Voss Invite hosted by Coach Weber's alma mater, Cedar Rapids Washington High School. This meet is an exciting one for the team! They get the chance to swim against several eastern Iowa schools they don’t normally face...[Read More] READ MORE

Rails Win Thriller over Indianola

January 13, 2015

A back and forth meet through out the evening at the Lincoln High School Pool meant a final relay event where the only place that mattered was first. With Lincoln up with one event left, it was a winner take all relay for both teams, and the Lincoln Rails came away with a one second win in the 400 freestyle relay to ensure the win! [Read More] READ MORE

Men’s Team 3-0!

December 16, 2014

The Rails continued their winning streak the last two weeks with wins over conference foes Ottumwa and Hoover-North. Though both meets were decided by less than 6 points each a year ago, the Rails were able to out swim both metro teams by over 40 points in 2014...[Read More] READ MORE

MS Girls take 48% of Top Spots!

December 7, 2014

The middle school girls team had their end-of-season City Meet at East on Tuesday (12/2). The conference-wide meet had swimmers from 5 teams – Lincoln, East, Hoover, North and Roosevelt. The Rails has more girls there than every other team combined! The team swam great! While they didn’t have any first place finishes, the young Rails squad...[Read More] READ MORE

Men’s Team Starts Season with a Win!

November 30, 2014

The Lincoln men’s team had their first meet of the season Tuesday (11/25) at home against Carroll. It proved to be an exciting one too. The meet had four lead changes, including a tie at one point! Heading into the 400 Free Relay, the teams were in a “winner take all” situation. The Rails prevailed...[Read More] READ MORE

Men’s Season Getting Underway

November 18, 2014

The 2014-15 Lincoln Men's swim season is in full swing following the first official week of practices and a time trials meet held at Lincoln on Saturday, 11/15. The 2014-15 squad is the largest in over a decade at Lincoln, boasting 27 members on the team, many of which are rookies or second year swimmers...[Read More] READ MORE