North Carolina Swimming

Promoting Excellence by Providing Resources to Support and Empower the North Carolina Swimming Community.

You are here: Home / Archives for Swimmers

Welcome DECEMBER

by

NCS Welcome December

Tis the Season of Fast Swimming: Greensboro, NC will be hosting the U.S. Open, December 4-7 at Greensboro Aquatic Center (GAC), followed by Winter Junior Nationals- East, December 11-14 also at the GAC. Wishing our NCS athletes, from the grassroots to the elite levels, their coaches, and all Clubs a fast month of swimming ahead!

Reminders – LSC Mascot ideas are due by 12/18/24. Be sure to email your idea design and Why you think your mascot should be selected to represent NCS. Email: swimnorthcarolina@gmail.com Use the Subject line: LSC Mascot.

HYPE Video for your Club – NCS is seeking a 45 second or less Hype video to feature your Club in the New Year, 2025. Work with your NCS Athlete Reps to help highlight the great things taking place at your Club. #NCSBetter2Gether #WEARENCS

Share

Happy Thanksgiving NCS

by

Happy Thanksgiving NCS Video

Thanks to Each of YOU, for being a part of the NCS Village.  Thank You for all the hard work, commitment, dedication, encouragement, sacrifice, and support to our athletes, coaches, officials, volunteers, parents, guardians, clubs, teammates, competitors, facility staff, LSC staff, and all the people who make North Carolina Swimming the Best.  

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.  This Thanksgiving, let’s celebrate the little moments that make life extraordinary.  

*NCS Gratitude Challenge -Take time (with family and friends) to list 3 things you are THANKFUL for each day.  You life will become richer with daily gratitude. Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving week filled with many blessings, safe travels, good eats, and time well spent with family and friends. Happy Thanksgiving NCS! #WEARENCS

Share

WNC STRONG – NCSBetter2Gether

by

As we prepare for Thanksgiving this week, let us remember our friends in Western North Carolina. North Carolina Swimming has 15 Clubs out of 72 that were directly affected, or impacted by Hurricane Helene. Thankful for the swim community (locally and nationwide) coming together in so many ways supporting the immediate needs, to volunteers helping hard hit areas yesterday, today, and tomorrows. The Swimming community proves to be strong on and off the deck including AJCC (Asheville Jewish Community Center) offering pool water Fill to Flush operation to help their community in need- simple needs like flushing a toilet, to working with other clubs in the area to create opportunities for their swimmers to have some normal to their day with swim practice. What a blessing for Asheville AJCC, SMAC (Smoky Mountain Aquatic Club), and BAC (Blues Aquatic Club) coming together during unprecedented times. Truly Grateful for the leadership, collaboration, and willingness they put forth to work together. Stay Strong WNC.

If your family is looking for ways to support WNC this Holiday season, they encourage visitors to come, stay, and play; do all the things (day trips, shopping, support local artists, buy a WNC Christmas tree, skiing in the high country, etc). It takes a village, so let’s continue to support our friends in the West as we approach the Holiday season. #WNCSTRONG #NCSBetter2Gether

Read this article by USA Swimming: Asheville Jewish Community Center Gives Back After Hurricane Helene

Share

NCS MASCOT CONTEST

by

NCS Mascot Contest Video

Do you have what it takes to bring North Carolina Swimming’s next mascot to life? We’re looking for a fun, bold, and unforgettable mascot that will represent our swimmers and all of North Carolina Swimming with pride!

How to Enter: 1. Design your original mascot idea. 2. Submit your drawing or digital art, along with a short description of your mascot. 3. Tell us why your mascot captures the spirit of North Carolina Swimming and should be chosen!

Contest Details: Open to: ALL ages and skill levels! Submission Deadline: December 18th, 2024

Prize: Winner receives a prize package, a feature on the North Carolina Swimming website, and a photoshoot with the mascot! Plus, swag with the mascot print, and the first mascot appearance will be at *your* club practice!

Whether you’re thinking of something common or totally unique, bring your best ideas forward. Help us make waves with a new face for North Carolina Swimming! *Submit your entries Subject Line: NCS Mascot to: swimnorthcarolina@gmail.com



Share

NCS Action Items: What will be our LSC Mascot?

by

North Carolina Swimming is inviting YOU to take part in our upcoming action items which include: LSC Mascot contest, Each Club is to create a HYPE video (45 seconds or less) for your Club. We hope you will participate in our LSC Mascot contest, and help your Club create a HYPE video to be featured in the near future. #ItTakesAVillage #NCSBetter2Gether #WEARENCS

Share

NCS LEADS THE NATION WITH SAA

by

USA Swimming announced the complete list of 2023-24 Scholastic All-America recipients. The list consists of 1,790 athletes nationwide in grades 9-12 who maintained a minimum 3.5 grade point average (GPA) and met any of the competition criteria* during the qualifying period of September 1, 2023 – August 31, 2024. Compared to last year, more than 650 additional athletes earned the honor. View the full list here.

The Southern Zone led this year’s Scholastic All-America selections with 581 athletes, with North Carolina Swimming qualifying 139 to lead all Local Swimming Committees (LSC). SwimMAC Carolina led all swim clubs with 33 athletes. 2023-24 Scholastic All-America Team Announced

Congratulations to all these scholar-athletes on their achievements and to their coaches and parents who help support them every day.  Way to Go NCS! #WEARENCS

Share

FIRST NCS JR MEET OFFICIAL – JULIA STRUNK

by

Congratulations to one of our NCS Athlete Reps, Julia Strunk. Julia has been swimming for 11 years, and has recently become the 1st JR. Official for North Carolina Swimming. Julia comments “When I was first told there was an opportunity for swimmers to volunteer, I was very excited. I wanted to be an official to give back to the sport, and I am honored to be a part of such an amazing community. Being an official is very important to a swimmer’s development.” If you are 16 or 17 and are interested in becoming a Jr. Official please email ncswimofficials@gmail.com. Athletes be sure to copy a parent. “I am very excited to see what I am able to do, and hope to have more athletes join me.” Way to Go Julia! #JROfficiallyAwesome #ItTakesAVillage #NCSBetter2Gether #WEARENCS

Share

THANK YOU VETERANS

by

To All Veterans: THANK YOU for everything you do for our country and our freedom. Today and every day we thank Veterans everywhere for their service. There aren’t enough words to show our gratitude for all the troops who served our country. “We don’t know them all, but we owe them all.” To all Veterans out there, we honor, respect, and support you.

Share

A-TEAM CAMP HIGHLIGHTS

by

Sunday, November 3, 2024- Congratulations and Thank You to our A-Team campers and NCS Camp Staff who attended the 2024 NCS A-Team Camp in Hillsborough, NC. We had a fantastic day with 125 in attendance, approximately 80% athletes and staff first time NCS Camp experience, making new friends from across the State, connecting, practicing new drills becoming more efficient faster swimmers, and working together as an LSC becoming stronger as ONENCS!

Special Thank You to our NCS coaches Gavin Spake(BAC), Lindsay Takkunen(MOR), Yvonne Wilkins(RMY), Rachel Muller(YOTA), Louisa Raisbeck(SGSA), Jonathan Watson(CAT), Marco Hernandez (EAC), Rebekah Allen, Brad Langford(HAC), and Camp Coordinator, Amy Faulk(NCS) for organizing this Camp. Thank You Orange County Sportsplex for hosting our camp. Thank you to Carolina Sports for keeping NCS looking sharp. #NCSBetter2Gether #WEARENCS

A-Team Highlight Video by Amy Faulk

Share