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CFAC Earns Safe Sport Recognition

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Cape Fear Aquatic Club Earns Safe Sport Club Recognition Status

Congratulations to CFAC,  the first North Carolina Swimming club to earn USA Swimming’s new Safe Sport Club Recognition! The Safe Sport Club Recognition program distinguishes USA Swimming clubs that demonstrate their commitment to creating safe, healthy, and positive environments for all of their members through the development and implementation of Athlete Protection Policies, Safe Sport Best Practices, and Safe Sport education. CFAC has been highlighted as a Safe Sport Recognized Club with a banner on their team listing in the USA Swimming Find-a-Team Search and will receive a medallion for their club’s website as well.   Clubs can apply for the Safe Sport Recognized Club program through their Club Portal on the USA Swimming website.  Here’s a link to the Safe Sport Recognized Club program information: https://www.usaswimming.org/ssrp

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2019 NCS Open Water Zone Team

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Here is the initial 2019 NC Open Water Zone Team.  The meet will be held On April 13th and 14th in Ft Myers, Fl.  This year it will be swum at Florida Gulf Coast University, in a lake.  The team will fly down on April 12th and return on April 14th.  This year, the zone was asked to use the FINA standard for the Age Up, which is the end of the year (12/31/2019).  So, there are some swimmers who would have made the team that are now in the older age group.  This is not something that NC Swimming asked for, but was asked for by USA Swimming, to make it easier for them for qualification purposes to Open Water Junior Nationals and Open Water Nationals.

We realize that at the meet in September, swimmers were told it was their age as of April 13th, however, we were not told by USA Swimming until after our meet.

11-12 Girls

Mere Whelehan

Isabel Volk

Mackenzie Collins

Clarke Neace

13-14 Girls

Keelan Cotter

Nicole Zettel

Katya Ivanov

Lily Ann WIllis

15-16 Girls

Caitlin Hefner

MaKayla Ciancanelli

Emily Knorr

Emily Carpenter

Open Girls

Sydney Morgan

Olivia Sutter

Isabel Pennington

Gweny Durak

11-12 Boys

Alex Hill

Greyson Young

Holden Ball

Norvin Clontz III

13-14 Boys

Max Marrujo

Drew Hitchcock

Landon Lloyd

Lucca Battaglini

15-16 Boys

Michael Cotter

Lance Norris

Logan Zucker

Braeden Haughey

Open Boys

Connor Hughes

James Wyatt

Jared Carter

Owen Lloyd

An email from Manager Jonathan Bescher will be sent out the parents shortly.  If you don’t receive an email from Jonathan Bescher by 1/4, please email him at coachbesch@newwaveswimteam.org

I will answer emails about the meet itself, but I will NOT respond to any emails regarding the date being to determine the age of the swimmer at the meet.  This was not my decision.

Thanks,

jon

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2019 IMX Camp Video

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Thank you to IMX Camp head coach Amy Faulk for creating a video with highlights of the 2019 NCS IMX Camp at the Greensboro Aquatic Center. Also thanks to camp director Jay Dodson, camps coordinator Jonathan Watson, and the rest of the IMX camp coaching staff for providing this opportunity for NCS swimmers. Click the following link or the IMX camp photo above to view the video.

2019 NCS IMX Camp Video

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NCS Website Search Bars

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Did you know that if you are looking for information on the NCS website there is a search bar to assist you. Simply type in a key word or phrase and any previous posts with that word or phrase will appear. It is a great time saver and a simple method of retrieving previously posted information.

There is also a separate search bar in the MEETS section. This search bar can be found in the current meet schedule listings and in the meet archives listings. Using the search bar is the quickest and easiest method to pull up specific past or upcoming meets. Simply type in the year and the meet host club initials. For example, 2018 MOR will pull up all the meets that the Marlins of Raleigh hosted during 2018.

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NCS members earn Club Excellence recognition

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Several NCS Clubs earned recognition in the USA Swimming Club Excellence Program. Now in its 18th year, the Club Excellence program identifies clubs that execute strong, well-rounded programs to produce elite 18-and-under athletes. The top-20 clubs earn gold level ranking and those rated 21-100 are designated as silver honorees. The next 100 clubs are recognized at the bronze level.

Each team’s ranking score is based on the FINA Points Table, a power point rating system that assigns point values to individual swimming performances based on the Gold, Silver or Bronze time standard. Starting with the 2017 Club Excellence rankings, gold swims were multiplied by a factor of 2.0; points for silver-level swims were increased by a factor of 1.5. Open water swimmers are eligible to score points based on their finishes at the 2018 USA Swimming Open Water National Championships and Junior National Championships.

SwimMAC Carolina finished second in the country, earning Gold Level status. The Marlins of Raleigh also earned Gold Level status, finishing number eleven in the country. Silver Level clubs included the TAC Titans, Enfinity Aquatic Club, North Carolina Aquatic Club, and the Hickory Foundation YMCA Seahorse Swim Team. Earning Bronze Level recognition were the Aquatic Team of Mecklenburg and New Wave Swimming. Congratulations NCS clubs!

Click here to view all the 2019 Club Excellence results.

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Stay Up-To-Date

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If you would like to stay up-to-date on communications from NC Swimming, you may sign up to receive automatic email updates each time information in posted on the NCS website.  The content of every post will be sent to your email address the following day.

To be added to the automatic email list, please click the Feedburner icon or the link below and follow the sign-up instructions.

Automatic Email Sign-up

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NCS Short Course Records Fall

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Early in this short course season NCS records have already taken a serious hit.  Eighteen short course records have fallen.  Most of the records were set at last weekend’s Junior Nationals in the 13-14-year-old age group.  TAC Titans Braeden Haughey, Claire Curzan, and Charlotte Hook accounted for half of that total.  Here is a summary of the short course records broken so far this season:

NameClubAge GroupEventTime
Braeden HaugheyTAC13-14500 Free4:31.34
Ryan WeaverCAT13-14100 Back49.94
Braeden HaugheyTAC13-14200 Back1:48.49
Thor DykeTAC13-14400 IM3:59.95
Jack WalkerMAC15-18500 Free4:15.02
Anton IpsenWOLFOpen1000 Free8:47.76
Claire CurzanTAC13-1450 Free22.06
Claire CurzanTAC13-14100 Back52.77
Claire CurzanTAC13-14200 Back1:53.09
Claire CurzanTAC13-14100 Fly51.92
Charlotte HookTAC13-14200 Fly1:55.67
Charlotte HookTAC13-14200 IM1:57.22
Charlotte HookTAC13-14400 IM4:11.00
Abby ArensMOR15-16200 Breast2:08.46
Abby ArensMOR15-18200 Breast2:08.46
Olivia CarterUN15-18200 Fly1:53.49
Emma MuzzyUN15-18200 Back1:51.58
Emma MuzzyUN15-18400 IM4:05.60

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