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 updatedMinor 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:

• Four informative, hour-long webinars, with varying dates and times, to maximize membership participation. 
• A editable MAAPP 2.0 document for organizations to download and customize.
• Educational documents to help guide and assist all USA Swimming member clubs. 

For more information about MAAPP 2.0, please click the link below or visit usaswimming.org/MAAPP

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.

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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

Click here for complete results

Two NCS athletes were featured in a recent article, 5 to Watch in Omaha, on the USA Swimming website. Michael Chadwick (NCAC) and Charlotte Hook (TAC Titans) were two of the featured five. Check it out!

Several new NCS records were set at the recent SwimMAC Relay Meet. The SwimMAC 10 & under boys team with Cooper Raniszeski, Reid Cooler, Conner McCarthy, and Scott Williams set a new record in the 200 medley relay.

SwimMAC 13-14 boys relay teams set three new NCS records. The team of Mason Turner, John Kroll, Max Osman, and Granger Bartee established a new mark in the 13-14 boys 400 free relay. Osman, Turner, and Bartee were joined by Norvin Clontz in setting the 13-14 boys 400 medley relay record. The same group of Osman, Turner, Bartee, and Clontz also set the NCS record in the 13-14 boys 800 free relay. Their time of 6:55.16 was also faster than the National Age Group record!

Meanwhile, at the NCAA Divison I National Meet at the Greensboro Aquatic Center, the NCS State women’s team was also setting new NCS records. Katharine Berkoff broke the Open 100 back record with a time of 49.74. Her Wolfpack teammate, Sophie Hansson bettered her records in the Open 100 breast (57.23) and the Open 200 breast (2:03.86). The NC State women’s 800 free relay team of Julia Poole, Kylee Alons, Katharine Berkoff, and Kate Moore set a new NCS Open record in that event.

Congratulations!

Below is a summary of the recent records. Click here to view all NCS Records