Click here for USA Swimming information and updates to the 2022 Toyota U.S. Open Swimming Championships at the Greensboro Aquatic Center.

The 2023 North Carolina Swimming Club Development Incentive Program is now live.

Clubs can access the Online Application Form here.

The Club Development Incentive Program is open to all NCS Clubs who are at least Level 1 in the USA Swimming Club Recognition Program.

Clubs can claim achievements that occurred between September 1, 2022 and August 31, 2023. Clubs can select the points that are most relevant to them and are not required to answer all questions. The max payout is $1,000 and will be calculated for all eligible clubs submitting online applications by October 15, 2023.

Questions? Call Trish Martin at 336 327 4697.

Below are the IMX rankings for the 2022 Long Course season for NCS registered 10, 11, 12, and 13-year-old swimmers.  To have been ranked, athletes must have completed all the IMX events during the 2022 long course season.  The top-20 athletes in each age/gender group are invited to attend the 2023 IMX CAMP to be held on Saturday, January 21, 2023 at the Greensboro Aquatic Center.

2023 IMX CAMP 10- and 11-year-old QUALIFIERS

2023 IMX CAMP 12- and 13-year-old QUALIFIERS  

The 21^st-25^th ranked athletes on the lists are alternates and will be offered space in the camp should any of the top-20 decline their spot. 

The cost to attend the IMX Camp is $105 per swimmer. The application form includes a link to the PayPal page.  Alternates should not submit payment unless they are notified that they have been added to the roster.  No refunds will be given for camp cancellations after November 10, 2022.  The deadline for submitting applications is Tuesday, November 8, 2022.

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

2023 IMX CAMP APPLICATION FORM

NCS Clubs:

The 2022 North Carolina Swimming Fall HOD will be held at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh on Sunday, Oct 2 at 1:00 PM.  Only those in attendance at the meeting will be casting votes. There will not be a virtual option.

The HOD Meeting Schedule has been posted on the NCS website.

Pre-register your delegates by following the step-by-step instructions below.

1. You must declare your club’s delegates to Barb Frith by Thursday, Sept 29th.
2. Please check the Delegate per Club Count List for the number of non-athlete delegates you are permitted to name for your club. Each club also may name one athlete delegate.
3. Send an email to Barb Frith at pfr…@mac.com and include:
   • Name for each non-athlete delegate who will be attending.
   • Name for your athlete delegate who will be attending.
4. This information is due to Barb no later than Thursday, Sept 29th.
5. PLEASE NOTE that all declared delegates must be USA Swimming members in good standing on Oct 2, 2022. Please check your club portal for any membership issues your delegates need to address before Sept 29th.
6. Delegates MAY NOT vote by proxy. They must attend HOD meeting on October 2nd at 1:00 PM to cast their votes.

If you have any questions about the delegate registration process, please contact Barb at pfr…@mac.com prior to Sept 29th.

Several NCS athletes have been named to the 2022-23 National Team Roster and the 2022-23 National Junior Team Roster.

Below is a list of athletes from NCS member clubs on each of the rosters.

Congratulations to these outstanding athletes.

2022-2023 NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER: WOMEN
Katharine Berkoff	NC State
Claire Curzan	TAC Titans
Brooke Travis	NC State
2022-2023 NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER: MEN
David Curtiss	NC State
Ross Dant	Wolfpack Elite
Will Gallant	Wolfpack Elite
James Plage	Wolfpack Elite
Hunter Tapp	NC State
2022-2023 NATIONAL JUNIOR TEAM: WOMEN
Charlotte Hook	TAC Titans
2022-2023 NATIONAL JUNIOR TEAM: MEN
Norvin Clontz	SwimMAC Carolina
Ben Delmar	SwimMAC Carolina

Several NCS athletes have been named to the 2021-22 National Team Roster and the 2021-22 National Junior Team Roster. Click here to view the USA Swimming link.

Below is a list of athletes from NCS member clubs on each of the rosters.

Congratulations to these outstanding athletes.

2021-2022 NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER: WOMEN
Kathleen Baker	Team Elite
Claire Curzan	TAC Titans
Charlotte Hook	TAC Titans
Linnea Mack	Team Elite
Ashley Twichell	TAC Titans
2021-2022 NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER: MEN
Ross Dant	Wolfpack Elite
Will Gallant	Wolfpack Elite
James Plage	Wolfpack Elite
Justin Ress	Wolfpack Elite
Coleman Stewart	Wolfpack Elite
Hunter Tapp	NC State

2021-2022 NATIONAL JUNIOR TEAM: WOMEN
Lindsay Flynn	Mecklenburg Swim Assn.
Caroline Pennington	TAC Titans
Amanda Ray	New Wave Swim Team
Kiley Wilhelm	Lifetime Swim Team
2021-2022 NATIONAL JUNIOR TEAM: MEN
Alex Ayers	SwimMAC Carolina
Tim Connery	SwimMAC Carolina
Michael Cotter	TAC Titans
Sam Hoover	North Carolina Aquatic Club
Baylor Nelson	SwimMAC Carolina
Lance Norris	TAC Titans
Jacob Pishko	TAC Titans

Congratulations to the North Carolina Swimming Zone Team on winning the 2022 Southern Zone Age Group Championships held at the Tupelo Aquatic Center in Tupelo, MS on July 26- July 30, 2022.  This is the third win in a row for the NCS Team! NCS won in 2019, 2021, and 2022 (the meet was not held because of COVID in 2020). The North Carolina Squad scored 1206.5 points, easily outscoring second place Georgia team’s 820 points and third place Florida Swimming with 640.5. It was a dominating performance with all age groups contributing fast swims. Santi Alzate received the High Point award for 13-14 boys and there were many other incredible individual performances. See the Meet Results below for a summary of the results for NCS Zone Team athletes.

Thanks to head coach Jonathan Watson, team manager Amy Faulk, and the entire coaching staff and chaperones for their hard work and preparation! And thank you to all the members of the 2022 NCS Zone team for making this another successful and memorable zone trip and another outstanding meet!

Amy created the following videos for everyone to enjoy!

Tupelo Highlights

Day 1- Travel to Tupelo

Day 2- Fancy Like

Day 3 – NCS Take Your Mark

Day 4- Simply Swimming

Day 5- NCS Top Guns

Day 6- NCS Stars Shine Bright

2022 SZAG Champs Tupelo Highlights- NCS Champions

Google Folder of Photos

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vYSAkV0PLcyYJ3NTayJOKgyKyAERKw6T

TUPELO TIMES: NCS ZONE TEAM UPDATES

NCS MEET RESULTS

2022 ZONE MEET INFORMATION

2022 NCS ZONE TEAM ROSTER

Swimmers with NCS connections contributed to a medal count record for Team USA at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Budapest.

On the meet’s final day, Justin Ress (formerly with NC State and MOR) won the men’s 50m back, out-touching teammate Hunter Armstrong to win the gold medal. Erika Brown (formerly with SwimMAC) earned a bronze medal in the women’s 50m free. Ryan Held (formerly with NC State) added to his relay medal collection with a silver in the men’s 4×100 medley relay and Claire Curzan (TAC Titans) anchored the winning women’s 4×100 medley relay, earning her second relay gold. On Friday, another NCS swimmer, Katharine Berkoff (NC State) won silver in the women’s 50m back. Click here for complete meet results.

The final day’s haul brought the United States’ team-leading meet medal count to 45–17 of them gold–and set a new record for medals at a World Championships. The previous record of 38 pool medals–also by the United States and also in Budapest–came in 2017. 

Ryan Murphy, who’s been a member of the past four World teams, credits strong teamwork for this unparalleled feat. 

“It was an incredible eight days with this team,” said Murphy, who swam the opening backstroke leg of the silver-medal-winning 400 medley relay with teammates Nic Fink, Michael Andrew and Ryan Held. “I feel like we just put our heads down, handled business, and when we looked up at the end of the meet, it was, by at least one metric, our most successful team ever. 

“I think that’s something really special. That’s not one person. That’s not one performance. That’s a collective as a whole, and that comes down to people executing session after session, and that’s really hard to do over an eight-day meet.” 

How deep and dominant was the United States this year in Budapest? Not including relays, 26 different swimmers won medals. Second-place Australia won 17 total medals. 

On Saturday, Justin Ress and Hunter Armstrong started the final session with a bang, going 1-2 in the 50-meter backstroke. Originally disqualified, Ress and the United States appealed, and he was reinstated as the victor. 

Ress won in 24.12, while Armstrong was a close second in 24.14. Armstrong even donned the medal to Ress after the swim happened.

In the 1500m freestyle–an event he won last summer in Tokyo–Bobby Finke won silver, his second medal (gold in the 800 free) of the meet. 

He and the rest of the field chased gold medalist Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy from start to finish – but Finke’s time of 14:36.70 set a new American record by almost three seconds. 

“In the beginning, I was just trying to keep up with him, but he just kept getting further and further ahead,” Finke said. “Hats off to Greg. I wasn’t able to run him down. He had a great race, and I’m really proud of him.”

In the last sprint of the meet, newlywed Erika Brown of the United States touched in 24.38 to tie for bronze with Australia’s Meg Harris. 

Brown’s medal marked the third-straight Worlds where a U.S. woman stood on the podium, following Simone Manuel’s bronze in 2017 and gold in 2019. 

“I was in shock,” Brown said of learning she won bronze. “I was really just trying to focus on having my own race and getting my hand on the wall. I can’t even explain how excited I was when I saw that. 

“I have gotten to swim on a lot of relays (at Worlds), and that really got me even more excited for the 50.”

Tokyo Olympians Katie Grimes and Emma Weyant also added to the United States’ medals Saturday with silver and bronze, respectively, in the women’s 400m individual medley. Grimes’ time of 4:32.67 was just eclipsed by fellow teenager Summer McIntosh (4:32.04) of Canada. 

Weyant, who won silver in this event on the first day of the Tokyo Olympics last summer, finished third in 4:36.00 despite the long wait to compete on the final day of the meet.  

“It was definitely a difficult feeling (having to wait),” she said. “I got to watch the meet for a good part of it, but I was ready to race today and was happy I walked away with a medal, especially against this field.”

Grimes, the silver medalist in the 1500 freestyle earlier this week, said she’s sees good things for herself and the United States in this event in the future.

“Last year, there were still some bumps in the road with that race (400 IM),” she said. “But I think this year, I’ve gotten a little bit stronger, and my coach and I have worked on my weaknesses, so it’s coming together really nicely. 

“I went in knowing my strengths and weaknesses. I went over everybody’s splits and kind of learned how they swam the race. I just knew that if I got to the breaststroke turning into the freestyle with them, then I could have a chance at a medal. I was just having a good time racing.”

The final two events of the meet– the men’s and women’s 400m medley relays–both finished in exciting fashion.

A strong favorite for gold, the U.S. men were out-touched by the Italian team – 3:27.51 to 3:27.79. Ryan Held, who won gold as a member of the 400 freestyle relay, made a furious dash over the final 50 meters but couldn’t catch the Italian swimmer. 

In the women’s final, despite swimming in lane 1, the U.S. women won their second relay (800 freestyle relay) of the meet by outpacing silver-medalist Australia. The United States won in 3:53.78. 

“We have crushed it this whole week,” said Regan Smith, who won the 100m backstroke earlier in the meet and started the United States off strong in the relay with teammates Lily King, Torri Huske and Claire Curzan. 

“I really just wanted to go out and do my best for Team USA on this relay, and I know these girls wanted to do the same. And I think we really did that, and we went out on a good note.”