Last update 11/19/2008


Head Coach:
Barry J. Roffer

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

Web Master:
Peter Smit

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Sept 21, 28
Oct 5,12, 26
Nov 2, 9, 16
Nov 23, 30

Coach Gordon


Practice schedule 9/22/2008

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The November 15 tuition installment is now due, please log onto your account to make your payment.
If you have any questions or problems, please email Linda Burke at:  lindaburke2@gmail.com

Practice changes this week: Thursday Juniors from 4:30-6:00 PM - Friday Seniors from 4:30-6:30 PM

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Monday, November 24, TVSC Yearbook Picture Day Schedule
Hauppauge Swim Club IMX Challenge  entries  posted Nov-19 - entries close Dec-1
MLK Invitational final  entries  posted Nov-17
TVSC Mile  entries  updated Nov-17
Trident Holiday Classic final  entries  posted Nov-15
Condors NCAA Format Invitational  entries  posted Nov-6 - entries close Dec-15
Eight-Time Beijing Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps To Speak At Adelphi University

Michael Phelps Adelphi University is proud to host
Olympian Michael Phelps,
the day his book
"No Limits: The Will to Succeed"
goes on sale.

Where: Adelphi University
Center for Sports and Recreation
Garden City, NY 11530
Tuesday, December 9 at 7:00 PM
Tickets are $25
more information
November 16, 2008
2008 girls state qualifiers HS State Qualifiers: Kim (WM), Kelsey (MP), Kate (WM), Shannon (WM), Corinne (WM), Dana (SWR), Taylor (WM), Lauren (WM) and Megan (WM)
Girls Section XI High School State Qualifier Meet
TVSC Girls Break Five Ward Melville Team Records: 200 & 500 Free And All Three Relays
Kate Conard Wins 200 free, Shannon Lampe Wins 100 back

Meet results   Individual results


Sixteen TVSC girls competed at the Section XI (Suffolk County) High School State Qualifier meet this weekend and nine qualified for the 2008 New York State Girls Swimming and Diving Championships in Buffalo this coming Friday and Saturday.

Congratulations: Kate Conard 200 MR, 200 free, 500 free, 400 FR; Shannon Lampe 200 MR, 200 free, 200 FR, 100 back; Kim Carballeira 200 MR; Corinne Vairo 200 free, 100 free, 200 FR, 400 FR; Megan Mullaney 200 IM, 500 free, 200 FR, 400 FR; Dana Purdy 200 IM 100 Breast; Taylor DaSilva 200 MR, 50 free, 100 free, 400 FR; Lauren Ouzounian 100 back; Kelsey Buonaluto 50 free, 100 back.

Some highlights: 36 individual races 27 PBs or 75%. Many lifetime best relay splits in Ward Melville relays. 'AAAA' times for Kate in 200 & 500 free (and Ward Melville team records), Taylor in 50 & 100 free and Shannon in 100 back! Kate won 500 free in 5:01.8 and Shannon Lampe won 100 back and broke the 1 minute barrier for first time: 59.83. Megan improved her 500 free time this HS season by 32.6 sec: 5:11.3. Dana and Kelsey were only two independent swimmers qualifying this year. Dana dropped her PB in 200 IM by 6.7 seconds. Kelsey just missed breaking the 1 minute in 100 back. Best times by non State qualifiers: Lindsay Isaksen, Laurissa Coombs, Theresa Santoro, Li Yan Yao and Valerie Zeffiro

500 Free Time Trial Saturday November 15
Rachel Bertini (12)      6:19.82  BB   +1.97
Elizabeth Connolly (13)  6:42.10  B     --- 
Matt Darcy (13)          5:47.40  BB   -0.20
Ryan Fitzgerald (14)     6:23.16  B    -7.13
Jimmy Harasym (14)       5:43.51  BB   -6.85
David Hoffman (13)       5:41.00  BB  -22.41
Nick Pecoraro (14)       6:28.67  B     --- 
Eric Wang (12)           7:04.79  B   -33.39
Sandi Woodhead (13)      5:43.10  A   -17.89
Jonathan Yin (14)        5:37.44  A   -36.00
Video of  "runners"  at Air Force Academy
November 12, 2008
Freestyle Frenzy in Westport Connecticut
Meet results   Individual results
Pictures  from Saturday morning session by Sian's dad (pw: tvsc)

Fifty-eight swimmers and their families ventured off the Island to Westport (Martha Steward county) in Connecticut by Port Jeff ferry or by driving around for the annual Westport-YMCA Freestyle Frenzy. Several families even stayed in a hotel in the Westport area on Friday or Saturday night to avoid getting up early to travel to meet. For most "veteran" swimmers and their parents this has become one of their favorite meets of the season. For many TVSC 11-&-Overs it is their first time swimming the 500 free and they are all "scared to death". . . , but no first timers died, or did not finish. They all made it and found it was not as bad as they thought.

Some highlights
Of 206 races, 114 (60%) were personal best (PBs) times.

All best times by: Christine Occhiogrosso, David Hoffman, Destiny Marino, Dylan Ludecker, Elijah Sanders, Elisabeth Sundberg, Evan Nilsson, John Gavigan, Kate Stansbury, Kim Buffone, Kristen Pozmanter, Michael Carlin, Morganlee McGrath, Sarah Catterson, Sarah Chan and Sian Grosskopf.

First time 500 swimmers: Cathy Wang, Jessica Vairo, Alexa Stanco, Elijah Sanders, Devin Jackson, Michael Carlin and Noah Campanella.

Ryan Gao continued his great start of the 2008-2009 short course season by winning all his events and swimming PBs in 200 and 500 free.

As all TVSC swimmers have not swam the 500 free yet this season, the time drops were large: Joanna Stampelos -47.9, Mary Fleckenstein -41.1, Zach Gavigan -38.8, Isabella Sanders -37.1, Sarah Catterson -36.2, Zach Gavigan -38.8, Kristen Pozmanter -23.3, Christine Occhiogrosso -18.9, Sam Torrico -17.7 sec, Kaleigh Aiello -15.4, Kate Stansbury -15.1, Ryan Gao, -14.9, Zach Kaplan -13.7 and Evan Purdy -11.7.

New 'A+' times: Kate Stansbury 'AA' in 500 free; Ryan Gao 'AA' in 500 free; Alanna Carey 'AA' in 200 free; Sam Torrico 'AA' in 200 free; Rachael Bertini 'AA' in 200 free; Kim Buffone 'A' in 100 free; Rita Chen 'A' in 200 free; Kristen Pozmanter 'A' in 200 & 500 free; Evan Purdy 'A' in 500 free; Luis Romero 'A' time in 500 free; John Yin 'A' in 200 free;

No new Trident qualifiers but many qualifiers bettered their Trident entry times or got their short course yard cuts in events they had their short or long course meter cuts. The following swimmers added Trident cuts: John Yin 50 & 200 Free; Evan Nilsson 50 & 100 free; Dylan Ludecker 50 & 100 free; Brittany Coughlin 200 free.

The updated Trident entries, with new events and updated times from the meets last weekend, were emailed and accepted. The Trident meet is now full and most likely future meet entry updates will not be accepted.
November 11, 2008
Sachem Fall Meet
Meet results   Individual results

Sixty-two Three Village swimmers competed at the Sachem Swim Club Fall meet at Sachem North HS pool (with the flooding pool deck) this past weekend and 101 (57%) of the 176 races resulted in life time bests. Nice job!

Sixteen swimmers swam all best times: Adam Kalinousky, Alec Huner, Amanda Buehler, Bethany Ostrander, Charles Shemet, Christina Sourlis, Christopher Stange, Emily Bardak, Erin Burke, Karen Li, Lauren Wagner, Luka Zuric, Matthew Brennan, Nicole Chin, Piper Heide and Sarah Safranek.

In her last meet as a 12-year old, Liz Connolly won the 100 back in 1:11.33, a 'AA' time and was second in 100 free and 3rd in 50 fly. Silver medal for Alec Huner in 25 free. Bronze for: Emily Bardak 25 back; Dylan Champagne 25 free & 25 breast; Alec Huner 25 back & 25 fly.

Erin Burke, Nicole Chin and Karen Li swam their first Trident cuts in 50 back. Lauren Wagner swam Trident cuts in 50 free & 50 back.
November 10, 2008
Marlins 1,650 Meet in Mount Kisco
Hard Work Pays Off
Kate Conard Breaks Team Records in 1,000 and 1,650 Free

Meet results   Individual results

TVSC Athletes competed in five different meets this weekend. The HS girls had their Team Championships (Leagues) on Friday, a group of TVSC swimers competed at the Sachem Fall meet, another group of swimmers competed in Connecticut at the Freestyle Frenzy, Tom Luchsinger and Joey Selinger competed in the NYC Open on Sunday and 12 distance swimmers competed at the Marlins 1,650 meet in Mount Kisco.

Graduation Senior, Kate Conard, was a latecomer to the sport and has been swimming for only 4 1/2 years. She started on the accelerated Dolphin team group for "latecomers-to-swimming" in the summer of 2004 at the "old age" of 13 . After a two months in Novice A in the 2004-2005 season, she moved to the Junior team in November and one year later she was promoted to the Senior team. In 2004-2005 season she qualified only for Age Group Champs. However, with simple good old-fashioned hard work and never missing a practice, Kate moved up in the rankings and yesterday broke two TVSC Team Records in the same race -- 1,000 and 1,650 free for 17-18 girls.

Kate won the 1,650 for the girls in 17:26.63, a personal best by 18 seconds and a Sectional cut. Both the 1,000 and 1,650 were also 15-18 girls BGNBW Marlins pool records. We did not realize that Kate already broke the 1,000 team record two weeks ago at the the Chappy's meet, but she bettered it again yesterday by 1 1/2 seconds in her 1,000 split of the 1,650. She improved the 1,650 team record, held by 2006 TVSC Alumni Kandra Kane, by 10 seconds. Congratulations Kate!

In full training (unrested) the following swimmers swam also best times in the mile: Claudia Coccaro -7 sec, Jaclyn Ouzounian -30 sec, Matt Dutton -3 sec, Mark Quintana -124 sec, Dan Zhang -80 sec and Bryan Mullaney -31 sec. Valerie Zeffiro swam the mile for the first time and broke the 20 minute barier on the first try: 19:57.
October 28, 2008
Chappy's Big Race at the Nassau Aquatic Center
Meet results   Individual results
Pictures  from Saturday morning session by Sian's dad (pw: tvsc)

49 Swimmers competed this past weekend at the Nassau Aquatic Center and 50% of their races were in personal best times.

A incomplete list of highlights

New Trident cuts (Trident entries have been updated): by Jon Yin 100 free; Bryan Woodhead 200 fly; Niklas Hesse 100 breast; Sandi Woodhead 100 free & 200 fly; Nicole Shutowich 100 free; Nancy Shemet 100 back; Laurissa Coombs 200 breast; Alanna Carey 200 free.

All or mostly best times: Jon Yin, Derek & Bryan Woodhead, Charles Schnebel, Patrick Robertson, Evan Purdy, Kristen Purdy, Candice Ogiejko, Matt Muller, Morganlee McGrath, Dylan Ludecker, Daniel Infranco, Jim Huchthausen, Niklas Hesse, Ryan Gao, Mary Fleckenstein, Peter Crawford, Brittany Coughlin, Alanna & Eddy Carey.

First time 200 fly swimmers: Christina Bennet, Kelsey Buonaiuto, Matt Dutton, Michael Giordano, Anna Hogan, Phoebe McAuliffe, Chase McHugh and Christine Occhiogrosso.

"Barrier Breakers": Jon Yin 100 free (57.42 -6.48!); Sandi Woodhead 100 free; Bryan Woodhead 100 fly; Morganlee McGrath 50 free; Niklas Hesse 100 free.

Ryan Gao 'AAAA' time in 100 back & 'AAA' in 200 IM; Dan Infranco 'AA' in 50 back; Kristen Pozmanter 'AA' in 100 back & 1,000 free (63 sec drop); Derek Woodhead 'AA' in 100 fly; Bryan Woodhead 'AA' in 200 fly; Joe Zhu 'AA' 100 free.

October 11, 2008
College Swimming 101
Do You Want To Swim In College? - Where Do You Start?

Even for sophomore athletes in HS it is time to start looking at colleges. If you are a junior in HS and have not started, get going! If you are a senior in HS and have not started . . .

There are about 390 men's and 490 women's college swim team teams in NCAA Div I, II and III and more non-NCAA affiliated programs for just about every level swimmer.

Every year college coaches need to recruit up to 10 new swimmers for their team and this is a lot of work. If you are a swimmer at the level of Tom Luchsinger, the college coaches will contact you, starting July 1st before your senior year. However, if you are not at that level, you need to do your own homework, find colleges matching you academic interests and athletic skills and "sell yourself" to the coaches of these college swim programs, starting as early as your sophomore year.

For the HS States and Sectional level swimmers, it becomes very important how you perform at the big meets as a sophomore and junior in high school, as this may put you on the "radar screen" of a college coach. College coaches from northeast will attend the HS State meets, the big Holiday Classic meets, Sectionals and other big local meets to look for future recruits.

Here is a concise  article  in USA-Swimming web site about the recruiting process throughout high school. For HS juniors and their parents: if there is interest in learning more about the college recruiting process contact Coach Peter.
Coach Peter's Beijing  picture album


Hauppauge Fall meet
Hauppauge HS pool
November 23
Yearbook
Picture Day

Ward Melville HS pool
Monday November 24
Thanksgiving Invitational
Nassau Aquatic Center
November 29-30
13th Annual
Trident Holiday Classic

Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
December 12-14
Sachem Winter meet
Sachem North HS pool
January 9-10, 2009
8th Annual TVSC Mile
Ward Melville HS pool
January 11, 2009
MLK Invitational
Nassau Aquatic Center
January 17-18, 2009
Condors Invitational
Felix Festa MS, West Nyack, NY
January 31, 2009
IMX Challenge
Hauppauge HS pool
February 13-15, 2009




Sectional Qualifiers

Alyssa Brennan
Austin Brennan
Kim Carballeira
Kate Conard
Taylor DaSilva
Tom Luchsinger
Kristen Magliola
Megan Mullaney
Dana Purdy
Kristen Purdy
Kevin Smit
Corinne Vairo

Junior National Qualifiers

Kate Conard
Tom Luchsinger

Senior National 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



TVSC
Class of 2009



Austin Brennan

Jeff Capobianco

Kim Carballeira

Kate Conard
Marist College, NY

Mark Dowling

Emil Fine

Ali Harvazinski

Liz Huchthausen

Tom Luchsinger
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Kristen Magliola

Dana Purdy

Celine Rivera

Sean Robertson

Mirjam Scholz

Kevin Smit

Wayne Yu