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JO entries updated Jun-27 - entries close Jul-17
LIAC Invitational entries updated Jun-25 - entries close Jun-27 Pictures from recent meets and practices by Sian Grosskopf's dad (pw: tvsc)
Omaha, NE, July 3, 2008
After swimming 6th fastest time in the world thusfar in 2008 in 400 IM on Sunday and getting 3rd, not making the US Olympic Team,
Julia scratched the 200 IM yesterday to concentrate on 200 free in which she was also seeded 3rd.
Until the Janet Evans Invitational in early June, Julia's best time in 200 free was a 2:01.62.
This decision paid off last night when she finished 3rd in 200 free final in a personal best of 1:56.73 after Katie Hoff and Alison Schmidt.
Her 3rd place earns her a spot on the US 4 X 200 free relay.
3rd Place in 200 Free at the 2008 US Olympic Team Trials TVSC Alumni Julia Smit Punches Her Ticket To Beijing Five weeks till start of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games In the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne, Australia, the US swam to a World Record in 800 free relay in 7:50.4. After the fast 200 free performances at Trials yesterday the US 4 x 200 free relay team became the favorite for Beijing and could better the World Record by several seconds! Julia will finish Trials by competing in 100 free today and 200 back tomorrow.
July 1, 2008
Tom Luchsinger dropped 1.51 seconds of his best 200 fly time of last summer -- 2:00.99 (26.87, 30.11, 30.99, 33.02) -- and finished in 24th place.
In 2004 this time would be enough to make semifinals in 10th place!
Unfortunately for Tom the 2008 Olympic Trial swimming is a lot faster than previous years in all events.
As a consolation Tom's time did qualify him to become a member of the 2008-2009 Junior National team. Congratulations Tom!
Tom Qualifies for Junior National Team 2:00.99 Personal Best, 24th Place for Tom Luchsinger in OT 200 fly
June 29, 2008
All back home can see Tom's 200 Fly prelims race on Tuesday via webcast on Internet 2008 Olympic Team Trials - Swimming 
Swimming World coverage of Olympic TrialsMore Olympic Trials links on USA-Swimming.com Swimming World coverage of Olympic Trials Live results Omgega timing Semifinals/Finals Television schedule NBCOlympics.com webcast of prelims In a few hour the 2008 Olympic Trials will start. It has been a few eventful days for organizers, athletes and coaches. Friday's pre-meet warm-ups at the Qwest Center had to be cancelled due to severe thunderstorm and tornado watch. Swimmers and coaches in the complex had to go to the basement of the facility during the storm. The building was damaged by storm, but reopened yesterday. One comment of Mark Shubert - head coach USA-Swimming - after storm was that in the basement it looked like an age group meet (like the wrestling room at TVSC home meets) and USA's top athletes were chatting, playing cards and playing electronic games. Due to the bad weather in the area over last couple of days, many flights got cancelled and many team got re-routed and/or got stranded at airports all over central US. Every plane flying into Omaha was overbooked. Some flew to "closeby" airports 100 to 200 miles away, rented cars and drove to Omaha and on the drive to Omaha some got stuck in Thunderstorms again and even saw funnel clouds. What a way to start the meet. If you can handle this type of pre-meet stress, you are ready to compete in Trials!
June 26, 2008
Jr Mets #1 at Nassau Aquatic Center 57% Personal Best Times at Third Long Course Meet of Season Meet results Individual results At the third long course of meet of the season and still in heavy training, the 70 TVSC athletes achieved 57% lifetime personal bests at the first-of-four Jr Mets meets at the Nassau Aquatic Center. Unlike previous years, this first Wednesday night meet did not last till midnight -- the meet was over in less than four hours, which was good as most swimmers are still in school this week. Did you know that there are only three weeks left for non-JO qualifiers (last LC meet is Jr Mets #4 on July 16) and 5 to 6 weeks for JO and Zone qualifiers this long course season? Notice in that all that long course fly training at Holtsville is really starting to pay off. Incomplete list of highlights: All best times: Alanna Carey, Alexa Stanco, Alexandra Hutzler, Casey Gavigan, Chase McHugh, Christine Occhiogrosso, Claudia Coccaro, Crystal Gonzalez, Eddie Carey, Elisabeth Sundberg, Eric Wang, Erin Whelan, Jonathan Yin, Joseph Santoro, Julia Bassi, Kate Stansbury, Kira Shutowich, Kristen Pozmanter, Li Yan Yao, Lyndsay Isaksen, Matthew Pozmanter, Michael Giordano, Nancy Shemet, Philip Santoro, Rita Chen, Sarah Safranek and Tracy Wang. New long couse JO cuts: Alexa Stanco 100 fly; Rita Chen 100 free; Katie Wang 100 fly; Sarah Chen 100 fly; Alex Hutzler 50 free, 100 back; Rachel Bertini 50 free, 400 IM; Phoebe McAuliffe 50 free, 100 back; Kate Stansbury 100 back, 400 IM; Alanna Carey 100 fly; Li Yan Yao 200 fly; Sandi Woodhead 400 IM; Anna Hogen 400 IM; Daniel Infranco 100 fly; Joe Santoro 50 free; Zach Kaplan 50 free, 100 back; Chase McHugh 100 back; Evan Purdy 200 free; Mark Quintana 200 free; Phil Santoro 200 free. Li Yan Yao 'AA' times in 200 free and 400 IM and 'A' time in 200 fly; Sandi Woodhead in her last meet as a 12-year old an 'AAA' (5:54.61!) in 400 IM; Bryan Woodhead 'AA' time in 200 free and his attempt to drop 9 seconds in 400 IM by leaving 5 seconds before everyone else in his heat, did not work -- he was disqualified; Kate Stansbury 'AA' time in 50 free and 400 IM and 'A' time in 100 back; Alexa Stanco 'A' times in 100 free and 50 back; Joey Santoro 'A' times in 50 free and 100 back; Mark Quintana 'A' time in 200 free; Evan Purdy 'A' time in 200 free; Kristen Pozmanter 'AA' in 100 back; bro Matt Pozmanter 'AA' time in 50 free and 'A' times in 100 back and 100 fly; Christine Occhiogrosso 'A' time in 100 fly and JO cut; Phoebe McAuliffe 'AA' time in 50 free and 'A' time in 100 back; Lyndsay Isaksen 'A' times in 200 free and 200 fly; Alex Hutzler 'AA' time in 50 free and 'A' times in 100 back and 100 fly; Crystal Gonzales 'A' time in 100 fly; Michael Giordano 'AA' time in 100 fly and 'A' time in 50 free; Ryan Gao 'AA' time in 100 back; Claudia Coccaro 'AA' time in 200 free; Rachael Bertini 'AA' time in 50 free and 'A' time in 400 IM. First time 200 fly swimmers: Kelsey Buonaiuto,Phil Santoro and Valerie Zeffiro First time 400 IM swimmers: Kelsey Buonaiuto, Rachael Bertini, Jimmy Huchthausen, Lyndsay Isaksen, Thomas Muller, Sarah Safranek, Phil Santoro, Kate Stansbury,Sandi Woodhead and Jonathan Yin. First time 100 fly swimmers: Eddie Carey, Sarah Chen, Brittany Coughlin (related to world record holder in 100 back Natalie?), Tracy Wang, Eric Wang and Erin Whelan. Major time drops: Ryamond Yin 10.5 sec in 100 back; Li Yan Yao 10.7 sec in 200 fly; Tracy Wang 10.2 sec in 100 back; Eric Wang 13.5 sec in 100 back; Kira Shutowich 15.6 sec in 100 fly; Evan Purdy 16.3 sec in 400 IM; Kristen Pozmanter 14.7 sec in 100 fly; Chase McHugh 10.6 sec in 100 back; Colleen Lampe 11.3 sec in 400 IM; Michael Giardano 11.6 sec in 100 back; Mary Fleckenstein 16,3 sec in 100 back; Ray Chen 19.5 sec in 100 back; Eddie Carey 17.6 sec in 100 back; Alanna Carey 19.2 sec in 100 fly.
June 22, 2008
When Peer Pressure Is Good Last week 21, this week 32 open water swimmers showed up for second open water practice of the summer at Cedar Beach. Last week's "veteran" open water swimmers could not wait to start racing and the water was not much warmer than a week ago. What is the matter with these kids? Are they crazy? Are we the only team on Long Island or US who is doing open water practices? The twelve "rookie" open water swimmers, who showed up this week were not so sure. Most of them were scared, some even cried, but peer pressure prevailed .... they all got in and swam more than a 1,000 yards. Many swam it the hard way -- head above the water freestyle, breast stroke or even back stroke -- because that green glow when looking through the googles when putting your head in the water does not look at all like the Holtsville or Ward Melville pool bottom. We lost nobody and everyone still had a smile for the camera when they were done. Some came out of the water and said that the water tasted weird: hello ....., we live on Long Island and that is how the water surrounding Long Island taste -- salty! Due to the success of this open water swimming, we will allow all TVSC swimmers to participate. Advanced Novice swimmers and 10 & Unders swim down and back in the close-to-shore course, which is about 1,000 yards and takes 10 to 15 minutes. The less advanced Novice swimmers will swim from east end to west end of Cedar Beach East, which is about 500 yards and takes 15 to 20 minutes. The Junior and Senior team swimmers swim around the far buoys and this time they do three lenghts, which is about 2,000 yards and takes about 30 minutes to complete.
June 15, 2008
Long Island section Empire State Games Swimming Trials All TVSC swimmers who tried out made team. Congratulations TVSC Qualifiers: Kristin Muller - 1st 800, 1500 - 2nd 400 - 3rd 200 back; Evan Purdy - 1 st 800; Megan Mullaney - 1st 100 breast, 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 Breast; Shannon Lampe - 2nd 100 breast, 100 back, 3rd 100 fly; Cole Fleming - 1st 100 breast, 200 breast, 3rd 100 fly (Cole was too tired to swim the 100 free on Sunday!); Joe Zhu - 2nd 100 breast, 200 breast, 100 back; Taylor DaSilva - 2nd 200 free, 1st 50 free, 100 free; Corinne Vairo - 2nd 200 free, 100 fly, 3rd 100 free, 1st 200 fly; Kristen Purdy - 1st 100 fly, 200 back, 200 fly, 2nd 400 IM; Matt Muller - 2nd 100 fly, 100 back, 200 back 1st - 200 fly; Joe Selinger - 2nd - 100 fly, 400 IM, 3rd 100 back, 1st 200 fly; Dan Zhang - 3rd 200 IM, 2nd 400 free, 4th 200 back; Lauren Ouzounian - 1st 100 back, 2nd 200 back, 3rd 200 fly
April 7, 2008
Congratulations Phil TVSC Alumnus & Loyola College Freshman Phil Scholz Makes 2008 U.S. Paralympic Games Swim Team Article on Loyola College web site |
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200 Free Award Ceremony with Alison Schmidt (2nd), Julia Smit (3rd) and Caroline Burckle (4th) - Katie Hoff (1st) was not there yet as she just finished 200 IM in a new American Record
Tom right before his 200 fly race in lane 1
The singing of the National Anthem at the first finals session at the Qwest Center of the Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska with 12,500 in attendance
Cedar Beach open water practice course for 10 & Unders and Novice swimmers in yellow
