Last update 7/3/2009


Head Coach:
Barry J. Roffer

P.O. Box 224
East Setauket
NY 11733
Phone:
(631) 698-7351

Web Master:
Peter Smit

Coaching Staff





Dolphin Team
The next session starts in September

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Practice schedule 6/29-8/7/2009

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Open water practices at Cedar Beach:
Saturday July 4, 10:45 AM    Thursday July 9, 5:15 PM

First Open Water practice at Cedar Beach - 7/2/2009

7/2/2009 5:40 PM - After the cold spring and cold and rainy month of June, the first TVSC open water practice at Cedar Beach started appropriately with a rainbow  More pics


JO  entries  updated Jul-2
Super Sectionals  entries  posted Jul-1
Jr Mets #4 final  entries  posted Jul-1
Jr Mets #3 final  entries  posted Jun-27
Open Water Championships  entries  updated Jun-27
Sr Mets  entries  posted Jun-24 - entries close Jul-7

July 3, 2009

2009 Opeb Water Championships T-Shirt Logo

This is the design for the 2009 Open Water Championships T-Shirts for the 53 TVSC athletes competing in this event
The T-shirts were ordered this morning and will be handed out at event on Sunday, or if early, on Thursday night or Friday morning

Contest: guess who designed this T-Shirt (it was not Coach Peter). Email your answer to Coach Peter

July 2, 2009
Jr Mets #1 - 75% Best Times

Meet results   Individual results   pics  (pw tvsc)

67 TVSC swimmers competed at the first of four Jr Mets meets at the Nassau Aquatic center last night and 34 of them swam all best times. 75% of all races were personal best times.

Some Meet High Lights

Zone Cuts: John Yin 400 IM; Liyan Yao 400 IM

New Sr Mets cuts: Michael Giordano 200 fly (breathing every stroke)

New JO cuts: Emily Shutowich 100 free; Karen Li 50 back & 100 fly; Jessica Vairo 100 back & 100 fly; Nancy Shemet 100 back & 100 fly; Kristen Pozmanter 400 IM; Colleen Lampe 200 fly & 400 IM; Rachael Bertini 400 IM; Andrew Stange 100 free & 50 back & 100 fly; Ryan Kaplan 100 fly; Justin Bertini 100 fly; Patrick Robertson 50 free & 100 back; John Yin 200 free; David Hoffman 200 free & 200 fly & 400 IM; Mark Quintana 200 free & 400 IM; Evan Purdy 200 free & 400 IM; Michael Carlin 200 fly; Matt Darcy 400 IM; Michael Giordano 200 fly & 400 IM.

New 'AAA' time: John Yin 200 fly.

New 'AA' times: Dylan Ludecker in 50 breast; Mark Quintana 200 fly; Katie Wang 100 free & 100 back & 100 fly; Li Yan Yao 400 IM; John Yin 200 free & 400 IM.

New 'A' times: Christina Bennett 200 free; Rachael Bertini 200 free & 400 IM; Ryan Burke 100 back & 100 fly; David Hoffman 200 free & 400 IM; Devin Jackson 50 free; Kristen Pozmanter 400 IM; Mark Quintana 400 IM; Nancy Shemet 100 fly; Jessica Vairo 100 back; Colleen Lampe 400 IM.

First time 200 fly long course: Kim Buffone, Alanna Carey, Ryan Gao, Zach Gavigan, Phoebe McAuliffe and Candice Ogiejko.

All personal best times: Kayleigh Aiello, Christina Bennett, Justin Bertini, Rachael Bertini, Laurence Caradonna, Michael Carlin, Sarah Chan, Brittany Coughlin, Casey Gavigan, John Gavigan, Michael Giordano, Niklas Hesse, David Hoffman, Devin Jackson, Ryan Kaplan, Colleen Lampe, Karen Li, Dylan Ludecker, Destiny Marino, Christine Occhiogrosso, Evan Purdy, Patrick Robertson, Lara Sarubbi, Nancy Shemet, Emily Shutowich, Alexa Stanco, Andrew Stange, Jake Vincel, Allison Wallace, Katie Wang, Jonathan Yin and Angela Zhang.

First time 100 fly long course: Justin Bertini, Peter Crawford, Alec Huner, Devin Jackson, Ryan Kaplan, Karen Li, Dylan Ludecker, Destiny Marino, Evan Nilsson, Emily Shutowich, Andrew Stange, Jake Vincel, Lauren Wagner,

July 2, 2009
Barry to Coach Jason Lezak in Israel
Coach Barry Team USA men's Head Coach at 18th Maccabi Games

Each quadrennial, the year after the summer Olympic Games, the Jewish Olympics, or World Maccabi Games, are held in Israel. The 18th Maccabi World Games are from July 12 to 23 and for third consecutive Games, TVSC Head Coach Barry Roffer was selected as a coach for the Team USA swim team. This year he is the head men’s Coach and one of men’s team swimmers will be Jason Lezak, the US super hero in the Team USA 4 x 100 gold winning free relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Coach Barry left this morning on his trip to Israel and will return before Sr Mets.

While entries for most long course meets have been closed, entry changes and scratches for Sr Mets, Sectionals and JOs must be emailed to Coach Mary during Barry’s absence.

July 1, 2009
Swab Kevin Smit - US Coast Guard Academy R-day - 6/29/2009

6/29/2009 - Two days after graduating from HS, it is R-day for US Coast Guard Academy Class of 2013 "Swab" Smit (= reporting day for seven week boot camp)

June 22, 2009
News for SWIM PARENTS
"That's Not It!"

Another interesting and timely  article  for Swim Parents has been posted. A thought provoking: "Kids lives are too easy, too soft, too catered-for. Too many people carry them, make excuses for them, never allowing them to try to be heroic." What do you think?
June 15, 2009
Universal Sports Channel (Cablevision UNISP - 110)

Check out the  Universal Sports Channel.  This channel, now available on Cablevision, is broadcasting more swim meets. This past weekend the finals of the Santa Clara Grand Prix were broadcasted live! Check the broadcast schedule for this channel and you will find that the Santa Clara and Charlotte Grand Prix meets coverage is repeated several times.

June 8, 2009
Summer Classic Invitational at Nassau Aquatic Center
108 Swim All Best Times - Total Time Improvement 44 min and 64 sec

Individual results   Meet results   Pictures  by Sian's dad (pw tvsc)

For most of the 147 TVSC athletes, who competed this weekend at the Summer Classic, it was the first long course meet of the season (50 meter instead of a 25 yard course). Without any long course training, 108 swam all best times.

For many swimmers the time drops in their events compared to last long course season, were amazing: total time improvement was 2,678 seconds! TVSC athletes raced 641 times and 93 ot these races resulted in time drops of 10 seconds or more! In six races swimmers dropped 30 seconds of time or more and 83% of all races resulted in best times.

While these are great accomplisments, this is expected of "non-veteran" senior swimmers. Novice, Junior and "rookie" Senior swimmers have not competed in long course since July or August of last year and with 9+ months of training since last summer they should be much faster.

However, if "veteran" senior swimmers are swimming all best times, then there is something wrong with their training . . . . . Seniors are currently in their heaviest training cycle of the long course season, and they are tired (overtrained) and are not expected to swim best times (in their best events). Senior swimmers will be rested / tapered for their end-of-the season long course championships meets, like JOs, Sr Mets, Zones and/or Sectionals and they are expected to swim all best times at those meets. The goals for senior swimmers this part of the long course season are: (1) to swim faster than last year's Summer Classic, and (2) get as close to your best times as you can (+1 ~ 2 sec per 100). However, if you swam 5 seconds above your best time in a 100, simply means you did not try very hard. Seniors, great job if you were close to your best times at this meet and faster than last year after all the hard training over the last six weeks -- you are on your way to a great long course season!

The long course season is short and first 6 weeks have passed, only 8 more weeks to go. There is no long course Silver championship, so, your goals for this season should be (1) qualify for JOs, Sr Mets, Zone and/or Sectionals and (2) get a long course IMX score. For many the only long course meets left to qualify for JOs are the four Wednesday night Jr Mets meets.

Some Meet High Lights

Zone Cuts: John Yin 100 and 200 fly

New JO cuts: Katie Wang (10) 50 free, 100 breast; Erin Burke (10) 50 back; Rita Chen (11) 50 fly, 100 back; Karen Li (10) 100 back; Jessica Vairo (12) 50 free, 200 free, 200 back, 100 breast, 50 fly, 200 IM; Nancy Shemet (12) 50 free, 200 free, 200 back, 200 IM; Sam Torrico (12) 50 back; Kaleigh Aiello (12) 100 & 200 back; Casey Gavigan (11) 200 back; Devin Jackson (12) 50 fly; Kate Stansbury (13) 200 free, 200 back; Mary Fleckenstein (13) 200 free; Sandi Woodhead (13) 200 free; Kristen Pozmanter (13) 200 free, 200 IM; Liz Connolly (13) 100 back, 100 breast, 100 fly, 200 IM; Phoebe McAuliffe (13) 100 back, 200 back; Christina Bennett (14) 200 back; Colleen Lampe (14) 100 fly, 200 IM; Christine Occhiogrosso (13) 100 fly; Dylan Ludecker (10) 50 free, 100 free, 50 back, 100 back; Alec Huner (9) 50 free; Justin Bertini (10) 50 breast, 100 breast; Andre Stange (10) 50 fly, 100 back; Ryan Kaplan (9) 100 back; Ryan Burke (11) 50 free, 200 back; Patrick Robertson (12) 50 back, 200 back, 100 breast; Zach Gavigan (12) 200 back, 50 fly; Daniel Infranco (11) 200 back; Eric Wang (12) 100 breast; Zach Kaplan (12) 100 breast; Chase McHugh (13) 50 free, 100 free, 200 free. 100 breast, 200 IM; Mark Quintana (14) 200 free, 100 back, 200 back; Matt Darcy (13) 200 free, 200 breast, 400 IM; John Yin (14) 100 back; Michael Giordano (13) 100 breast, 100 fly, 200 fly; Niklas Hesse (14) 200 IM; Joe Buffone (16) 50 free, 100 free; Joe Zhu (17) 200 free.

All 108 swimmers swimming all personal best times: Yige Kong, Virginia Albinson, Stephen Torrico, Sian Grosskopf, Shane Torrico, Sarah Chan, Sarah Catterson, Sandi Woodhead, Sam Torrico, Samantha Hesse, Ryan Suslan, Ryan Kaplan, Ryan Fitzgerald, Ryan Burke, Rita Chen, Ray Yin, Ray Chen, Phoebe McAuliffe, Patrick Robertson, Niklas Hesse, Nicole Chin, Nick Pecoraro, Natalia Giunta, Naomi Park, Nancy Shemet, Molly Haggerty, Michelle Damiano, Michael Carlin, Meghan Friberg, Megan Haggerty, Matt Darcy, Mary Fleckenstein, Mark Quintana, Madeline Roberts, Laurence Caradonna, Lauren Wagner, Lauren Sciarrotto, Lara Sarubbi, Kristina Brindley, Kristen Pozmanter, Kevin Yao, Ken Gunasekera, Kayleigh Aiello, Katie Wang, Kathryn Forcone, Kate Stansbury, Karen Li, Julia Melucci, Julia Bogdanski, Joe Buffone, Jorehll Aguilar, Zach Gavigan, Joanna Stampelos, Jessica Vairo, Jeff Capobianco, Jared Stoller, James Catterson, Jake Vincel, Jacky Chen, Jack Huner, Henry Shemet, Hayley Adams, Georgina Stampelos, Evan Nilsson, Erin Burke, Eric Wang, Emily Shutowich, Emily Farquhar, Emily Crawford, Emily Bardak, Emily Anderson, Elizabeth Wang, Liz Connolly, Elisabeth Sundberg, Eddie Carey, Dylan Champagne, Donna Yu, Dominique Betterbed, Devin Jackson, Daniel Infranco, Corrine Bonneville, Christopher Balzano, Christine Occhiogrosso, Christina Bennett, Chase McHugh, Charlotte Broadbent, Charles Shemet, Charles Schnebel, Casey Gavigan, Candice Ogiejko, Cameron Kubik, Bryan Mullaney, Brittany Coughlin, Brian Kondracki, Bethany Ostrander, Benjamin Winston, Andrew Stange, Andre Rastegar, Andre Barle, Amanda Sarubbi, Amanda Buehler, Alyssa Bonneville, Ally Dombroski, Allison Wallace, Alexa Stanco, Alec Huner, Adam Kalinousky and Abigail Feinberg.
Class of 2009 - Earlier in their TVSC swimming careers . . .

Class of 2009
Picture collage - Year of picture taken: Kevin 2000; Kristen, Dana, Lizzy, Austin, Mark, Celine, Kim, Tom and Jeff from 2001; Mirjam and Kristen 2002; Sean 2004; Kate 2005; Ali 2008

2012 London Olympic Games


Jr Mets #2
Nassau Aquatic Center
Wednesday eve
July 8, 2009
Sachem Swim Club Holtsville meet
Holtsville pool
July 10-12, 2009
Open Water Champs
Huntington Bay, NY
Sunday
July 12, 2009
Jr Mets #3
Nassau Aquatic Center
Wednesday eve
July 15, 2009
Jr Mets #4
Nassau Aquatic Center
Wednesday eve
July 22, 2009
Sr Mets
Lehman College
Bronx, NY

July 23-August 26, 2009
JOs
Felix Festa MS
West Nyack, NY

July 31-August 2, 2009
Super Sectionals
ECCC Pool, Buffalo, NY
August 6-9, 2009





TVSC
Class of 2009



Austin Brennan
SUNY Geneseo, NY

Jeff Capobianco
Lehigh University, PA

Kim Carballeira
Bryant University, RI

Kate Conard
Marist College, NY

Mark Dowling
Suffolk County Community College, NY

Ali Harvazinski
SUNY New Paltz, NY

Liz Huchthausen
Canesius College, NY

Tom Luchsinger
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC

Kim Larson
University of Maryland, MD

Kristen Magliola
SUNY College at Oneonta, NY

Dana Purdy
Lafayette College, PA

Celine Rivera
Roger Williams University-School of Justice Studies, RI

Sean Robertson
St. Peter’s College, NJ

Mirjam Scholz
Suffolk County Community College, NY

Kevin Smit
U.S. Coast Guard Academy, CT



Summer Zone Qualifiers

Alyssa Brennan
Matt Dutton
Liyan Yao
Jonathan Yin

2008-2009 'AAAA' Achievers

Rachael Bertini
Matt Dutton
Ryan Gao
Tom Luchsinger
Kate Conard
Taylor DaSilva
Alex Hutzler
Shannon Lampe
Kristen Purdy

2009 Spring Sectional Qualifiers

Kelsey Buonaiuto
Kim Carballeira
Claudia Coccaro
Jeff Capobianco
Kate Conard
Taylor DaSilva
Brigitte Doughty
Mike Dutton
Kristin Muller
Shannon Lampe
Tom Luchsinger
Megan Mullaney
Lauren Ouzounian
Dana Purdy
Kristen Purdy
Joe Selinger
Kevin Smit
Corinne Vairo

2009 NCSA Qualifiers

Kate Conard
Shannon Lampe
Tom Luchsinger
Megan Mullaney
Kristen Purdy

2009 WCT Qualifier

Tom Luchsinger

2008 Olympic Trial Qualifiers

Tom Luchsinger

TVSC alumni:
Julia Smit
Mike Smit


2008 Olympic Team Member

TVSC alumni:
Julia Smit

2004 Olympic Trial Qualifiers

Julia Smit
Mark Hill


2000 Olympic Trial Qualifier

TVSC alumni:
Chris Helin