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Bora raced in the 34th Bosphorus Cross-Continental (open water) Swimming Race between the Asian and European part of Turkey. There were 2400+ swimmers from all 5 continents. The winner's time was 48:13. Bora finished in 57:21, which placed him 58th among all men (1479 swimmers) and he was 32nd in the 14-18 age group. Great swim, Bora!! Results untitled (olimpiyatkomitesi.org.tr) The Bosphorus is a very busy shipping lane between the Black Sea and the M editerranean Sea and shipping traffic is stopped during the race.
Senior Zones Highlights – Pittsburgh, PA 9 TVSC Swimmers (Frankie Andersen, Timmy Brady, Marissa DeMarco, Bella Dimaculangan, Noah Giunta, Emily Herr, Ethan Placencia-Nazareno, Olivia Schlegel and Vincent Vinciguerra) competed in the 4 day, prelims / finals competition at the University of Pittsburgh. The men recorded a 10th place finish scoring 103 points, the women finished 5th with 214 points while both combined for a Top 5 finish scoring 317 points and finishing in 5th place overall. On the first day of competition Emily Herr led the way for TVSC with...
With perfect weather conditions, the 2022 Town of Brookhaven Lifeguard Run-Swim-Run was held this morning at Cedar Beach. Nine swimmers participated in the TVSC heat of the Run-Swim-Run. In the swimming leg, the leading group with Alyssa, Mila and Liam did not study the Run-Swim-Run course well enough and missed swimming around the next to last buoy. Liam corrected his mistake, increasing his swimming time 2 1/2 to 3 minutes! However, the lifequards on the course were not able to get the girl's attention, so they were disqualified (the shortcut...
Transition from swimming to running . . . . . Fastest 13&O boy Izzy Gedeon Fastest 13&O girl Lizzy Wright Fastest 12&U boy Christian Paterno Fastest 12&U girl Cali Gabrielson Lizzy was 12 seconds faster than Liam at the July 2 Biathlon! boy's record: Luka Zuric 21:53 (2015) girl's record: Bella Dimaculangan 22:21 (2020)
35 TVSC athletes raced 139 times and swam 89 best times -- 64% and TVSC finished in 12th place. Total time improvement 243 seconds, or more than 4 minutes. New time standards: 2 'AAAA' times, 2 'AAA' times, 28 'AA' times, 13 'A' times, and 4 'BB' times. New qualification times: 4 Sectional cuts, 1 Senior Mets cut, 5 Eastern Zone Age Group Champs cuts, and 22 LC JO cuts. More Highlights New Team Records: 200 Freestyle Relay (1:56.14) Amelia Griffin, Ava Emmerich, Meghan Brady, Emily Herr - 2.7 sec...
Day 1 – Thursday Kate Sommerstad got the first TVSC points of the meet by finishing 9th place in the 800 Freestyle with a time of 9:14.58. The relay team of Bella Dimaculangan, Kate Sommerstad, Olivia Schlegel and Emily Herr broke the 800 Free Relay Record by clocking an 8:45.46, finishing 6th place overall. The previous record of 8:46.70 was from 2019 and that relay team included Sydney Boals, Emily Herr, Angelina Harris and Kyra Sommerstad. The TVSC men started their point scoring with a top 5 finish in the...
In the last qualifying long course meet of the long course season 74 TVSC athletes raced 200 times and swam 148 best times -- 74%. Total time improvement 446 seconds, or more than 7 minutes. New time standards: 6 'AA' times, 7 'A' times, 26 'BB' times, and 30 'B' times. New qualification times: 1 Eastern Zone Age Group Champs cut, and 7 JO cuts. More Highlights All Best Times: Charles Antonetti, Bryce Boudreau, Lauren Brockman, Johnny Casalinuovo, Emily Casey, Kevin Duong, Ava Emmerich, Jacob Field, Julianna Fratticci Cseri, Aiden...
Earlier in the week the weather forecast for Friday morning was rainy and cool. Yesterday's forecast cloudy and cool. Surpringly, this morning it was sunny and pleasant, or perfect open water swimming conditions for the first USA-Swimming sanctioned open water event at Cedar Beach. 44 TVSC swimmers competed, most first time open water swimmers, and all did very well. The goal for next summer is 80 TVSC swimmers competing at the 2nd annual Cedar Beach Open Water Event! Results are posted below the pictures. Next open water events: Town of...
