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Jonathan Watson and Jay Dodson have created a new website for our Section with links to all the LSCs in the Section and all four zones! The website will host the Section Membership application, the Sectional (Senior and Age Group) meet info and qualifying standards, and sectional meeting minutes. In short, all things Sectional!
A permanent link to the new website was added as a subtab to the Southern Zone tab on the NCS homepage. Below is the link:
The 2021 Carolina Crown Swim Challenge will be held at the Clover/Lake Wylie YMCA in Clover, South Carolina on Saturday, April 24, 2021. The event features some of the top 15-18-year-old swimmers from North Carolina and South Carolina. Swimmers selected are divided into four teams in the long course competition.
Each team has one head coach and two assistants. If you would like to be one of the six North Carolina coaches named to the staff, please submit the coaching staff application form below.
Carolina Crown Coaching Staff Application Form
South Carolina Swimming will host the meet and has asked that we also post the following Meet Official sign-up form for officials interested in working at the meet.
Carolina Crown Meet Official Sign-up Form
Meet information will be posted shortly and athlete application forms will be posted soon after the end of the qualifying period, which is March 14, 2021.
The TAC Titans had the top combined overall team point total in the USA Swimming 18 & Under Winter Championships. TAC also had the top combined women’s team point total. SwimMAC Carolina finished second in men’s combined scoring.
The USA Swimming event compiled times from 18 & under meets held throughout the country. The awards video below announced the top eight times in each individual event and the top team awards. You’ll notice a lot of familiar names on the leader board, including these number one finishers from NCS clubs: Claire Curzan (100 back, 200 back, and 100 fly), Abby Arens (200 breast), Baylor Nelson (200IM), and Mikey Moore (400 IM).
Congratulations North Carolina Swimmers!
North Carolina Swimming sadly acknowledges the passing of long-time TYDE coach, Robin Jacobs. Coach Robin passed away last Sunday night with her family by her side. She had been a valued member of the North Carolina Swimming community and a foundation of the WSY/TYDE swim team for over 35 years.
As a tribute to Coach Robin, please enjoy this celebration video that was created last year to recognize Robin’s “retirement” from the pool deck.
Congratulations to Lowes YMCA Lightning, 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.
Lowes Lighting Swim Team 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
USA Swimming announced the addition of four new athletes to the 2020-2021 U.S. National Team and fifteen new swimmers to the 2020-2021 U.S. National Junior Team roster. Additions to the rosters were based on qualifying times swum during the abbreviated 2020 season. Congratulations to the following NCS athletes who earned spots on these prestigious teams!
Claire Curzan (TAC Titans) was added to the National Team roster, where she joins Titan teammates, Charlotte Hook, Ashley Twichell, and other athletes who were on the 2019-2020 roster.
Five of the fifteen new additions to the National Junior Team are NCS swimmers! They include Lindsay Flynn (MSA), Sam Hoover (NCAC), Michael Cotter (TAC), Braeden Haughey (TAC), and Michael Moore (MOR). These athletes join those who had made the 2019-2020 roster.
Click below for the USA Swimming articles and for complete National Team and National Junior Team rosters.
Parker Van Olst of New Wave Swimming broke two boys 10 and under short course breast stroke records at the TAC Jingle Bells Meet in December. Van Olst set new marks in both the 50 breast with a time of 33.44 and the 100 breast in 1:11.98. Congratulations on your outstanding swims!
