North Carolina Swimming was spotlighted in a recent article on the USA Swimming website for its commitment to Safe Sport. NCS requires that clubs have Safe Sport Recognition approval to host a swim meet sanctioned by the LSC. 

Click here to view the USA Swimming article

Below is information from the NCS Open Water Committee on the criteria used to select swimmers for the NCS Open Water Select Camp, the NCS Open Water All Stars, and the NCS Open Water Zone Team.

2024 Open Water Select Camp** – Selected from 2024 NCS OW Champs, OW Zone Meet, OW Juniors/OW Nationals (see point chart below)

	OW Nationals	OW Jr. Nationals	OW Zone Meet	NCS OW Champs
Participation	5	4	2	1
Additional Pts.
Top 24			1
Top 16	2	2	2	0
Top 8	3	3	3	1
Win	Automatic	Automatic	4	2

2024 Open Water All Stars** – Selected from 2024 NCS OW Champs, OW Zone Meet, OW Juniors/OW Nationals (see section 2.8 of the NCS policies for selection criteria).

** Any ties will be decided by an Open Water Committee comprised of OW coaches who are well versed in the eccentricities of Open Water Swimming.

2024 Open Water Zone Team – Selected from 2023 Carolina Cup, at this time the Top 3 by gender/age group are automatic selections, with three additional coach picks by gender/age group.

**NOTE – There may be an applications process for the 11-12 year olds.

YOTA swimmer Ross Noble just returned from Scotland where he represented the Scottish Junior National Team at the Glasgow International Meet. Ross, a dual citizen of the USA and the UK, trains with the YMCA of the Triangle Area in Raleigh.

The Glasgow International Meet attracted swimmers from the Danish, Icelandic and Irish national teams, as well as college swimmers from Stirling, Loughboro, and the University of Edinburgh. The Scottish Commonwealth Games team was also there.

At the meet, Noble made the finals in the 50, 100 and 200 Backstroke, plus the 100 and 200 Butterfly, scoring a Personal Best in the 100 fly.  In the fall, Ross will head to Harvard University, where he’ll join the Men’s Swim and Dive team.

USA Swimming, the National Governing Body of swimming in the United States, recently announced the official dates and time standards for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming, which will take place June 15-23, 2024 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind.  

A complete look at the time standards can be found below: 

Women	Event	Men
25.69	50m Freestyle	22.79
55.79	100m Freestyle	49.99
2:00.89	200m Freestyle	1:49.99
4:15.49	400m Freestyle	3:55.59
8:45.79	800m Freestyle	8:09.69
16:45.69	1500m Freestyle	15:39.89
1:01.89	100m Backstroke	55.69
2:13.59	200m Backstroke	2:01.69
1:10.29	100m Breaststroke	1:02.19
2:31.69	200m Breaststroke	2:15.99
1:00.19	100m Butterfly	53.59
2:13.69	200m Butterfly	2:00.49
2:16.09	200m Individual Medley	2:03.49
4:49.89	400m Individual Medley	4:25.19

The qualifying period will take place Nov. 30, 2022-May 30, 2024.  

“Having our Olympic Trials time standards available to our swimmers is a big step towards Indianapolis and Paris 2024,” U.S. National Team Managing Director Lindsay Mintenko said. “The drops in time from the 2020 Trials Time Standards are a sign that our sport is continuing to get faster across all events and disciplines. We look forward to seeing our nation’s best swimmers compete in Indianapolis in two years and are excited to name the next U.S. Olympic Team.” 

Compared to the time standards for Wave I of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming, male events are 1.0% faster on average while the women’s events average out to be 0.8% faster. The 100-meter breaststroke saw the biggest drop (1.74%) in men’s events compared to the previous Trials time standards, while the 100m backstroke had the biggest drop (1.28%) among women’s events. To view time standards for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming and all other national events, visit www.usaswimming.org/times/time-standards.   

Additional information on the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming will be updated at www.usaswimming.org/Trials.  

USA Swimming announced the names of the up-and-coming athletes selected for the Regional Diversity Select Camp. Among those named were two athletes from North Carolina Swimming clubs who will attend the 2022 Southern Regional Diversity Select Camp at the Florida Aquatics Swimming and Training facility, June 8-12. Congratulations to Angelina Lu (RSA) and Devin Whitlock (MOR).

To continue providing in-person opportunities for our athletes at the age-group level, these Zone-specific camps allow for a unique opportunity where the pool and classroom work alongside one another. The camp will consist of five in-water sessions and a number of classroom sessions. It will provide ignition, motivation and information for athletes to continue to set goals, work hard, excel in swimming and feel empowered to take ownership of their swimming carriers and roles within their community. (Click here to view the entire USA Swimming article)

There will be a virtual U.S. Para Swimming Level 1 Official’s clinic on June 26. See details below.

U.S. Para Swimming Level 1 Clinic Sign-up Link

NCS finished third overall at the 2022 Southern Zone Open Water Championships in De Leon Springs, Florida this past weekend. Below is a list of those NCS athletes who finished among the top sixteen in their division. Also below are the complete results by age group/gender and the Team Pursuit results. The NCS 11-12 boys (Parker Van Olst Jr., Eli Sweet, and Bodhi Cummins) earned a first place finish in Team Pursuit. Also winning their Team Pursuit division were the NCS 13-14 girls (Ella Cowles, Madi Hertzig, and Kathryn Cinson).

Top 16 Finishes by NCS Swimmers
Event	Name	Place
Girls 11-12 2K	Annie Shall	2
Girls 11-12 2K	Neela Chintapalli	9
Boys 11-12 2K	Eli Sweet	4
Boys 11-12 2K	Parker Van Olst Jr.	7
Boys 11-12 2K	Bodhi Cummins	9
Girls 13-14 5K	Kathryn Cinson	5
Girls 13-14 5K	Madi Hertzig	10
Girls 13-14 5K	Ella Cowles	14
Boys 13-14 5K	Drew Sito	9
Boys 13-14 5K	Ben Smith	16
Girls 15-16 5K	Riley Hawkins	11
Girls 15-16 5K	Kyley Lloyd	12
Girls 15-16 5K	Clara Carson	15
Boys 15-16 5K	Jackson Scheiber	5
Boys 15-16 5K	Owen Nye	9
Boys 15-16 5K	Christian Smith	14
Boys 15-16 5K	Isaac Holthan	15
Girls Open 5K	Charlotte LePage	7
Girls Open 5K	Esther Ghim	13
Girls Open 5K	Kailyn Becker	14
Boys Open 5K	Keith Williams	4
Boys Open 5K	Charles Henage	8

TEAM SCORES

11-12 2k Results

All age Group 5k Results

Open 5k Results

Over-All 5k Girls, and Boys Combined Age Results

11-12  Girls Pursuit.  Boys Pursuit

13-14  Girls Pursuit.  Boys Pursuit

Open  Girls Pursuit.  Boys Pursuit

USA Swimming recently announced the names of 60 athletes who will represent the U.S. internationally this summer at the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, which take place August 24-27 in Honolulu, Hawaii; or the 2022 Mel Zajac Jr. International Swim Meet, which takes place June 3-5 in Vancouver, Canada. 

The 41-person Pan Pac roster includes two SwimMAC athletes, Ben Delmar and Matthew Lucky. Coach Chuck Batchelor of SwimMAC was named to the PanPac coaching staff.

Named to to the 19-member Mel Zajac roster were SwimMAC’s Baylor Nelson and Braeden Haughey of the TAC Titans.

Congratulations to all!

2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships Roster

2022 Mel Zajac Jr. International Meet Roster

Click here to view USA Swimming Article

Below is the final roster of those athletes who will be representing North Carolina Swimming at the Southern Zone Open Water meet in De Leon Spring, FL this coming weekend. Good luck swimmers!

11-12 Girls

Chintapalli, Neela – TAC

Fleshman, Liv – TAC

Kibbe,  Elizabeth – RMY

Smith, Zona – TEAM

Shall, Annie – MAC

11-12 Boys

Cummins, Bodhi – TYDE

Sweet, Eli – MAC

Van Olst, Parker – WAVE

13-14 Girls

Cinson, Kathryn – YSST

Cowles, Ella – MAC

Drummond, Mary – TEAM

Hertzig, Madi – MAC

Nixon, Nikki – WAVE

Thomas, Emma – TAC

13-14 Boys

Brooks, Nicholas – EAC

Harris, Cole – TAC

Hedrick, Noah – YSST

Kroh , Jackson – MAC

Sito, Drew – WAVE

Smith, Ben – WAVE

15-16 Girls

Carson, Clara – MOR

Eggers, Kaylee – TAC

Hawkins, Riley – TAC

Kjar, Ava – WNCY

Lloyd, Kyley – TAC

Miller, Maris – WAVE

15-16 Boys

Dant, Ryan – YSST

Holtman, Isaac – LT

Nelson, Eli – MOR

Nye, Owen – GCY

Scheiber, Jackson – WAVE

Smith, Christian – MOR

Open Girls

Becker, Kailyn – TAC

Ghim, Esther – TAC

Howard, Georgia – TAC

LePage, Charlotte – MAC

Open Boys

Henage, Charles – MAC

Polzien, Adam – MAC

Krisko, Sawyer – TEAM

Williams, Keith – TAC