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Senior Champs Updates: Moving Thursday Events to Friday

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On behalf of our Meet Referee, Beth Burge, and our Operations Vice Chair, Jon Jolley, I am passing along updates based on the discussions and voting at the General Meeting.

All sessions will be swum in two pools and will be contested as timed finals.  The Friday (the ones that were always on Friday) events will be the first session and the Thursday events (the ones we missed today) will be during the second session Friday evening.

Friday Events (1st Session – Later Start Time)

Warm-Up            11:00 AM

Meet Begins       12:30 PM

Thursday Events (Now 2nd Session – NOW FRIDAY EVENING)

Warm-Up            5:00 PM

Meet Begins       6:00 PM

WOMEN’s events will be in the main SCOREBOARD pool

MEN’s events will be in the deep end DIVEWELL pool

Click here for the the Revised Timelines.

Revised check-in times for distance events and relays are listed below.  Time trials will be offered in the scoreboard pool at the conclusion of each session on Friday and the signups will close one hour after the start of each session. 

Individual Events Check-In Deadline  
400Y IM Friday 12:00 PM    
1000Y Freestyle Friday 5:30 PM    
500Y Freestyle Saturday 8:30 AM    
1650Y Freestyle Sunday 8:30 AM    
         
Relay Events Check-In Deadline Relay Cards Due
200Y Medley Relay Friday 11:00 AM Friday 11:30 AM
400Y Freestyle Relay Friday 12:00 PM Friday 1:30 PM
800Y Freestyle Relay Friday 5:00 PM Friday 6:00 PM
200Y Freestyle Relay Saturday 7:30 AM Saturday 7:30 AM
400Y Medley Relay Sunday 8:30 AM Sunday AM Sunday PM 9:30 AM 5:30 PM

Saturday and Sunday will run as previously planned unless the weather is uncooperative.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions and have a good evening!

Lynn

Lynn Tippets-Fazen

NCS OME Entry Coordinator

858-735-8803

Ltippets@MLStech.com

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Senior Champs: NO THURSDAY EVENING SESSION

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Because of weather conditions, Mecklenburg County has made the decision to close ALL county facilities at 5:00 pm today (Thursday, 2/20/2020) with no exceptions.  Therefore, there will be no session this evening.  We will still have the general meeting at 3:00 pm at the Aquatic Center to discuss our plans moving forward for the weekend.

The pool will be available for warm ups until 4:30 pm (the pool will close 30 minutes before the facility closes).

Additonal information on Senior Champs will be announced as it becomes available.

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More records fall at Age Group Champs

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Two individual records and one relay record fell at the 2020 NCS Short Course Age Group Champs meet this past weekend. Albert Smelzer of Swim GSA broke the 11-12 record in the 50 back while Lucca Battaglini of the YMCA of the Triangle broke the 13-14 200 free record. The TAC Titans boys 800 free relay team (Landon Lloyd, Max Marrujo, Chad Jacobs, and Andrew Li) broke the record in that event.

Congratulations Swimmers!

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

NameClubAge GroupEventTime
Men’s Records
Albert SmelzerSGSA11-1250 Back25.92
Lucca BattagliniYOTA13-14200 Free1:41.07
Relay Records
TACMen’s13-14800 Free Relay7:00.59
Landon Lloyd
Max Marrujo
Chad Jacobs
Andrew Li
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TAC Titans win SC Age Group Champs

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The TAC Titans won the North Carolina Swimming Short Course Age Group Championship held at the Greensboro Aquatic Center. The Titans were followed by SwimMAC Carolina (2nd), NCAC (3rd), YOTA (4th), and MOR (5th).

High point winners included Sloane Whelehan (TAC) 10 and under Girls; Cody Sha (NCAC) 10 and under Boys; Meredith Whelehan (TAC) 11-12 Girls; Sam Marsteiner (WAVE) 11-12 Boys; Keelan Cotter (MOR) 13-14 Girls; and Andrew Li (TAC) 13-14 Boys.

Congratulations to all the swimmers who competed at Age Group Champs!

Complete meet results for this meet and all others can be found under the MEET SCHEDULE tab.

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NCS Records set at High School Championships

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Claire Curzan of the TAC Titans and Sam Hoover of NCAC both set NCS 15-16 age group records while representing their high school swim teams at the recent NCHSAA Championships in Cary. Hoover broke the 100 free record while Curzan broke records in both the 100 back and and the 100 fly. Curzan also broke the 200 free record at a meet in January.

Hoover’s time of 43.10 in the 100 free is the second fastest time in the country for a 15-16 year old this year. Curzan’s 100 fly time of 50.35 established a new National Age Group record and a new National High School Swimming record. Her fly time was the fastest time ever recorded by a North Carolina swimmer in any age group!

For more on this record breaking weekend, click here for the Swimming World article.

Here is a summary of the recent NCS records which were set. Click here for a list of all current NCS Records.

NameClubAge GroupEventTime
Women’s Records
Claire CurzanTAC15-16100 Back51.38
Claire CurzanTAC15-18100 Back51.38
Claire CurzanTAC15-16100 Back50.35
Claire CurzanTAC15-16100 Fly50.35
Claire CurzanTAC15-18100 Fly50.35
Claire CurzanTACOPEN100 Fly50.35
Claire CurzanTAC15-16200 Free1:46.21
Men’s Records
Sam HooverNCAC15-16100 Free43.10
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Aqua Techs Swim Team earns Safe Sport Club Recognition

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Aqua Techs Swim Team (AQTC) earns Safe Sport Club Recognition Status

Congratulations to Aqua Techs Swim Team of Sparta, 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.

Aqua Techs 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

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NCS Coach Mentor Program

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Hello NCS Coaches,

I’m happy to be able to share with you that North Carolina swimming now has money to support a coach mentor program! 

Along with a grant from USA Swimming, NCS is contributing money to reimburse coaches for hotel, food, and travel to and from a location where they spend time with a mentor coach.

  • The NCS Coach Mentor program will be offered to all coach members in NCS who apply to the Coach Rep via email. Following approval by both NCS and the requested mentor coach, applicants will make arrangements with their mentor coach for the visit. Mentor coaches will be senior level professionals with 15 years or more experience coaching swimmers who have achieved national level recognition, or who possess demonstrated skills in the particular technical field in which the applicant has expressed interest.  Examples of specific areas of focus are:
    • Working with novice, entry-level athletes
    • Good dryland program
    • Running a learn-to-swim program
    • Writing workouts for senior level athletes
    • Season planning
    • Managing a satellite program
    • Coaching advanced age-group athletes
    • Recruiting new swimmers
    • Running the business side of the club
    • Moving athletes from Sectionals to Junior Nationals
    • Technical skills (teaching specific swimming skills)
    • How to become a good head age group coach
    • Developing a progressive age group program
    • How to make age group practices exciting and fun
    • How to help a swimmer with college recruiting
  • Length of reimbursed visits will be, at minimum a 1/2 day (lunch/dinner + practice) up to a maximum of 1.5 days (up to 3 meals and 3 practices, plus 1 night’s accommodations assuming the mentoring sessions are more than 1 hour from the mentored coach’s home.) The goal of the visit is to be determined by the mentored coach and the mentor, and a brief outline of the mentoring session(s) will be submitted to the NCS Coach Rep in advance of the visit.
  • After the visit, along with their reimbursement request and receipts for transportation, hotel, and food, the mentored coach will provide a brief written report to the NCS Coach Rep. The report will summarize the visit, highlight the learning, and recommend any improvements for the mentoring experience. The NCS Coach Rep will submit approved expenses to the NCS Treasurer for reimbursement and submit the mentored coach’s report to the LSC BOD during a regularly scheduled meeting.
  • Reimbursement will be provided for hotel, up to $50 per day for meals prorated for partial days, and $.50 per mile for transportation (distance from mentored coach’s home to mentor coach’s pool as determined by Google Maps.)   NCS will provide the mentor coach with a $50 honorarium.

Please let me know if you are interested!

Steve Romito

Coach Rep

North Carolina Swimming

704-562-0457 (m)

smromito1@gmail.com

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