
You may see some familiar faces as you’re watching the WAVE II Olympic Trials this week. NCS Officials selected to officiate include from left to right: Dave Olack, Lisa Olack, Colleen Gillan, and Suzanne Heath. Congratulations!
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by Bill Martin
by Bill Martin
Congratulations to Piedmont Aquatic Club, the latest 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.
Piedmont Aquatic Club has been highlighted as a Safe Sport Recognized Club with a banner on its 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
by Bill Martin
Below are the results from the 2021 North Carolina Swimming Open Water Championship Meet held at Seven Lakes, NC last weekend. Congratulations to all the swimmers who competed, and thank you to all the coaches, meet officials, and other volunteers who participated.
by Bill Martin
by Bill Martin
USA Swimming’s top priority continues to be creating healthy and positive environments free from abuse for all its members. As part of its commitment to safeguard athletes, USA Swimming has released an updated Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policy (MAAPP) applicable to all USA Swimming Adult Participants, Zones, Local Swimming Committees (LSCs) and member clubs. These required updates come from the U.S. Center for SafeSport (the “Center”). USA Swimming’s updated MAAPP document has been approved by the Center and is required to be fully implemented by USA Swimming, its Zones, LSCs and member clubs. USA Swimming has set a deadline for those organizations to implement the policy in full no later than September 1, 2021; all organizations are encouraged to implement the MAAPP prior to the September 1 deadline.
To help prepare USA Swimming members, there are new resources available:
For more information about MAAPP 2.0, please click the link below or visit usaswimming.org/MAAPP
by Bill Martin
North Carolina Swimming has been using an email subscription service called FeedBurner to automatically send emails of all new posts to its subscribers. FeedBurner recently announced that it will discontinue that service, so NCS is switching to a platform called Mail Poet to perform the same function.
To receive automatic emails of all NCS posts from Mail Poet, simply submit the following form.
by Bill Martin
Congratulations to the North Carolina Open Water Zone team on its outstanding performance at the 2021 Open Water Zone meet in Chattanooga, TN! The NCS Squad scored 555 points to finish in second place behind Florida Swimming.
Click here for individual results
by Bill Martin
Congratulations to the NCS Open Water Zone team competing in the Southern Zone Open Water meet in Chattanooga.
The NCS squad had three first place finishes on Saturday. Makayla Ciancanelli won the women’s open 5K while Sam Marsteiner won the 13-14 boys 5K and Kathryn Cinson took first place in the 13-14 girls 5K. Other top three finishers for NCS were Drew Sito– third place in the 11-12 boys 2K, Matt Marsteiner – second place in the boys 15-16 5K and Lucca Battaglini – third in the boys 15-16 5k
by Bill Martin
Who has qualified for Team USA?
With 114 athletes competing in Omaha, North Carolina Swimming has the most Olympic Trials qualifiers of any Local Swimming Committee (LSC) in the country! To help keep track of their progress, links to results and daily updates from USA Swimming can be found below. To stay tuned in to the action, prelims are livestreamed on NBCOlympics.com (WAVE II) and www.usaswimming.org/watch (WAVE I), WAVE II Finals can be viewed on NBC at 8:00 pm (Broadcast Schedule).
WAVE II Articles
2021 OLYMPIC TEAM TRIALS RESULTS: WAVE II
USA Swimming Names 2020 U.S. Olympic Swim Team
Dressel, Finke Win (Again); Manuel Edges Weitzeil to Make Olympic Team on Final Night of Trials
Ledecky, Dressel, White Secure Wins on Dramatic Day 7 at Olympic Trials-Swimming
View from the Trials Stands – June 18
Friday Night Lights: Lazor, Andrew, Murphy, Wieizeil Shine, Dressel Breaks U.S. Open Record
View from the Trials Stands – June 17
Ledecky Completes Historic 200, 1500 Freestyle Wins to Headline Day 4 of Wave II Olympic Trials
Men’s 4×200 Free Relay Takes Initial Shape, Veterans Repeat Trials Titles on Night Three
Deep Diving into This Year’s Talent Pool in the Women’s 100 Back at Trials
Huske, Andrew and Ledecky Punch Tickets to Tokyo on Second Night of Wave II Olympic Trials
First Pool-Team Olympians Crowned at Trials Wave II Opening Night
View From the Trials Stands – Day One
WAVE I Articles
2021 OLYMPIC TEAM TRIALS RESULTS: WAVE I
15 More Athletes Advance to Wave II Olympic Trials on Final Night of Wave I Competition
Haebig, Sammon and Trace Thrive on Second Night of Trials Wave I
Teenagers Rule the First Night of Wave I U.S. Olympic Trials
by Bill Martin
NBC announced the broadcast and streaming information for the upcoming U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming competitions in June. To date, this year’s swim Trials include over 1,500 qualifiers who will be competing on the biggest stage in domestic swimming. Tickets to watch the nation’s fastest compete in Omaha are still available through Ticketmaster.
Daily finals coverage of both Wave I and Wave II will be broadcasted across NBC channels. Along with the live finals coverage, 24 hours of preliminaries will be streamed on NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app. Wave I prelims will also be live streamed on www.usaswimming.org/watch.
Date | Coverage | Network | Time |
Fri., June 4 | Wave I Finals | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA | 8 p.m. ET |
Sat., June 5 | Wave I Finals | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA | 8 p.m. ET |
Sun., June 6 | Wave I Finals | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA | 8 p.m. ET |
Mon., June 7 | Wave I Finals | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA | 8 p.m. ET |
Sun., June 13 | Wave II Qualifying Heats | NBCSN | 5:30 p.m. ET* |
Wave II Finals | NBC | 8 p.m. ET/PT | |
Mon., June 14 | Wave II Qualifying Heats | NBCSN | 6:30 p.m. ET* |
Wave II Finals | NBC | 8 p.m. ET/PT | |
Tues., June 15 | Wave II Qualifying Heats | NBCSN | 6:30 p.m. ET* |
Wave II Finals | NBC | 8 p.m. ET/PT | |
Wed., June 16 | Wave II Qualifying Heats | NBCSN | 6:30 p.m. ET* |
Wave II Finals | NBC | 8 p.m. ET/PT | |
Thurs., June 17 | Wave II Qualifying Heats | NBCSN | 6:30 p.m. ET* |
Wave II Finals | NBCSN | 8 p.m. ET | |
Wave II Finals | NBC | 10 p.m. ET/PT* | |
Fri., June 18 | Wave II Qualifying Heats | NBCSN | 6 p.m. ET* |
Wave II Finals | NBC | 9 p.m. ET/PT | |
Sat., June 19 | Wave II Qualifying Heats | NBCSN | 6:30 p.m. ET* |
Wave II Finals | NBC | 9 p.m. ET | |
Sun., June 20 | Wave II Finals | NBC | 8:15 p.m. ET |
Additional information on the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming can be found on www.usaswimming.org/trials.
*Delayed coverage