Newsletter | December 5, 2023

Great Work at the CPAC December Invitational!

Congratulations to our athletes who raced at the CPAC December Invitational in Stamford, CT! Our swimmers set new championship standards for the Senior Metropolitan Championships, Eastern Zone Sectional, and Futures Championships!

The team also achieved numerous personal best times, heat wins, and finals swims. A special shoutout to Estelle Vernhes (50 and 200 freestyle) and Julien Shao (200 butterfly and 1000 freestyle), who each finished the meet with two individual event wins. 

Lastly, we want to extend a big thank you to Anisa Basler, Emma Chubb, Anna Hunt, and Aislinn Moloney for standing out as R.A.D. teammates over the weekend.

Bravo to our top three finishers as well:

• Satya Agashiwala - 500 freestyle
• Stella Anderson - 100 backstroke; 200 and 500 freestyle
• Isabella Babbitt - 1000 freestyle
• Anisa Basler - 50 and 100 freestyle
• Naomi Blau - 400 IM
• Naila Broening-Chai - 100 and 200 breaststroke
• Justin Chiang - 100 and 200 breaststroke
• Ryan Choi - 100 backstroke; 50 freestyle
• Tessa Feld - 200 backstroke
• Nikol Goncharenko - 100 and 200 backstroke
• David Gutin - 200 backstroke
• Anna Hunt - 100 and 200 breaststroke; 200 IM
• Kouros Javaheri - 200 butterfly
• Azana Karim - 200 IM
• Ella Knox - 500 freestyle
• Thomas Mackey - 200 butterfly
• Catherine MacLennan - 100 backstroke; 100 breaststroke; 200 and 400 IM
• Rohan Mehra - 1000 freestyle; 400 IM
• Katy Niziol - 50, 100, 200, and 500 freestyle
• Max Packles - 100 breaststroke
• Ethan Pak - 50 freestyle
• Yahro Pique - 100, 200, 500, and 1000 freestyle
• Aiden Rhee - 200 breaststroke
• Elonu Rodrigues - 100 backstroke
• Artem Safroniuk - 100 butterfly
• Hayden Schwartz - 400 IM
• Julien Shao - 200 butterfly; 500 and 1000 freestyle
• Oliver Shao - 200 backstroke; 200 IM
• Delilah Skaistis - 200 breaststroke
• Mia Slowik - 200 backstroke
• Jagger Stachtiaris - 200 IM
• Tyler Thompson - 200 backstroke
• Estelle Vernhes - 50, 100 and 200 freestyle
• Ethan Yi - 100 breaststroke
• Aidan Zhu - 200 freestyle

Stay tuned in the coming weeks for recaps of the NYS Holiday Classic and BGNW 14-and-Under Invitational!

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Practice Schedule Updates

Tomorrow, December 6, 2023

• AG3 Gold will swim from 5:30pm to 7pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus
• Canceled: AG3 Green (see following date)

Thursday, December 7, 2023

• AG3 Green will swim 4:30pm to 6pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus
• Senior Prep Gold and Senior I will swim from 6pm to 7:30pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus; Dryland will be from 5pm to 5:45pm
• Canceled: AG3 Gold (see previous bullets); National

Friday, December 8, 2023

• Senior I will swim from 6pm to 8pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus; Dryland will be from 5pm to 5:45pm
• Canceled: Senior II (see following dates); Senior Prep Gold, AG3 Gold, and AG1 dryland (swim practices will run as regularly scheduled)

Saturday, December 9, 2023

• Senior Prep Gold and Senior I will swim from 7:30am to 9:30am at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus
• UES AG1 will swim from 10am to 11am at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus
• Senior II will swim 11am to 1pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus; Dryland will be from 10am to 10:45am
• Canceled: National; AG1 dryland; UES AG2 and AG3 (see following date)

Sunday, December 10, 2023

• Senior II will swim from 7:30am to 10am at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus
• UES AG2 Green and Gold will swim from 10:30am to 11:30am at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus
• AG3 Green and Gold will swim from 11:30am to 1pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus
• Senior Prep Green will swim from 1pm to 2:30pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus
• Canceled: Senior Prep Gold (see previous bullet); Senior Prep Green dryland; National

Saturday, December 23 through Monday, December 25, 2023

• AGUA Swim Team's winter holiday break
• Canceled: All practices

Tuesday, December 26 through Sunday, December 31, 2023

• Please view the winter holiday practice schedule for all groups

Monday, January 1, 2024

• Canceled: All practices