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Peter Smit

In the last Silver Champs qualifying meet of the short course season, 55 TVSC swimmers raced 249 times at the Sachem February Freeze meet in Sachem East HS and swam 148 best times -- 59%. Total time improvement 293 seconds, or more than 4 minutes. New time standards: 5 'AA' times, 14 'A' times, 14 'BB' times, and 8 'B' times. New qualification times: 1 Senior Mets cuts, 5 Eastern Zone Age Group Champs cuts, 6 JO cuts, and 22 Silver cuts. More Highlights New Team Record: Arwen Dassen broke...

Peter Smit

Of the 31 teams, TVSC finishes in 8th place behind mega-sized teams Hampton Aquaplex Sotiris is getting ready for his 200 fly . . . 10 & Unders Madison, Jack, Bryce, Chloe,Olivia and Izzy 11-12s Marcus, Julianna, Kaylee, Ula, Myla, Emirhan, Luke and Antonis in front Hampton Aquaplex (we could use a pool like that on the north shore of Suffolk County) 13-14s posing for pictures before the start of Sunday's session Jack (9) 10th and Bryce (9) 1st Izzy (9) 13th 10&Unders Chloe, Jack, Bryce and Olivia with their...

Peter Smit

In the Firday evening session of the TJ Kelly Memorial Joust, Trevor Green (15) broke the 1998 or 26-year old 400 IM Stony Brook University Pool record, held by TVSC Alumni Chris Helin, by over 6 seconds - 3:58.90. Congrats Trevor! TVSC Class of 2024 at their last TVSC home meet 169 athletes-in-training raced 859 times and swam 569 best times -- 66%. Total time improvement 1517 seconds, or more than 25 minutes. New time standards: 1 'AAAA' time, 6 'AAA' times, 12 'AA' times, 38 'A' times, 63 'BB'...

Peter Smit

TVSC swimmers swimming the distance events for the first time are always afraid that they will "die" during the race. 22 TVSC Miles and still nobody "died". Rayna (13) right after swimming a Stony Brook University pool record in the 1650 free:18:45.13 (that empty row on the new record board). Actually we did not know that a 1650 free pool record did not exist, so, Alyssa Casalinuovo had this pool record since last year's TVSC Mile with a 19:23. Evenness of 1650 free race (many swimmers went out too fast...

Peter Smit

Franklin & Marshall pool 10 & Unders (most) 11-12s Myla and Marcus, he only two TVSC 12-year olds making finals on Sunday night Colin showing off his ugly Christmas sweater on the Ugly Xmas Sweater themed Friday night's finals 54 TVSC swimmers, their families, and coaches Mark, Chris, Peter, Rita, Mike, Jason and Danny traveled to the Holiday Classis at the aquatic center of the Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (We believe) this is the 25th year TVSC competed, starting in 1997. Due to the pandemic the Holiday...

Peter Smit

75 athletes raced 464 times and swam 275 best times -- 59%. Total time improvement 637 seconds, or more than 10 minutes. New time standards: 2 'AA' times, 4 'A' times, 40 'BB' times, and 41 'B' times. New qualification times:15 AGC cuts, 18 Holiday Classic cuts, 33 Holiday Classic Bonus cuts, and 36 Silver cuts. More Highlights All Best Times: Vincent Nguyen, Adelyn Wiederson, Reygan Brugnoni, Joseph Nguyen, Adison Schaentzler, Austin Wu, Anvi Aggarwal, Cali Gabrielson, Harry Gao, Daniel Meng, Elliot Thomas, Kaylee Vargas, Sadie Wiedersum, Derry Chen, Luke...

Peter Smit

The LIAC Freedom Pool 91 athletes raced 350 times and swam 260 best times -- 74%. Total time improvement 897 seconds, or more than 14 minutes. New time standards: 2 'AAAA' times, 3 'AAA' times, 9 'AA' times, 30 'A' times, 57 'BB' times and 51 'B' times. New qualification times:1 Sectional cut, 3 Senior Mets cuts, 3 Eastern Zone Age Group Champs cuts, 50 JO cuts, 25 Holiday Classic cuts, 29 Holiday Classic Bonus cuts, and 43 Silver cuts. More Highlights New 'AAAA' standards: Brendan Miller (200 back, 200...

Peter Smit

84 athletes raced either the 200 free or 500 free with 200 free split and swam 99 best times. Total time improvement 1,650 seconds, or more than 27 minutes! New time standards: 2 'AAA' times, 5 'AA' times, 1 'A' times, 29 'BB' times, and 25 'B' times. New qualification times:2 Eastern Zone Age Group Champs cuts, 6 JO cuts, 3 Holiday Classic cuts, 7 Holiday Classic Bonus cuts, and 21 Silver cuts. More Highlights New 'AAA' standards: Alex Fidos, and Rayna Mossey. New Eastern Zone Age Group Champs Cuts:...

Peter Smit

Start of Rayna's heat at the Marlin's Trotta Millenium pool in Mount Kisco Joey swam best times in the 500, 1,000 and 1,650!