NEWSLETTER // DEC. 17, 2024

Our next newsletter will be Thursday, December 26, 2024.

TEAM UPDATES

GREAT WORK AT NYSA INVITATIONAL

Congratulations to all our athletes who raced at the 2024 New York Sharks Holiday Invitational right here in New York City! Our athletes raced to first-time finals splashes, personal best times, heat wins, new Junior Mets qualifications and plenty more.

The team was led this time around by Cooper Chen (50 butterfly, 25 and 50 breaststroke, 25 freestyle and 100 IM) and Kieran Dewan (100 and 200 breaststroke, 200 and 500 freestyle and 200 IM) with five gold medals each, as well as Maya Mulholland (200 backstroke, 500 freestyle, 200 and 400 IM) who took home four golds for the girls' team.

Maya & Kieran, along with Emily Chan and Luisa Fadul also took home high-point honors for respective age groups! Emily won three individual events while Luisa won two.

The AGUA coaches would also like to thank Ava Appignani, Angelina Ash, Camille Cruz, Sury Loghmanee, Morgan Lynton, Hugo Novaro-Cortijo, Elvis Orchowski and Annette Yu for standing out as RAD teammates at the meet.

Additional congratulations to all of our top three finishers:

Daniel Andguladze - 100 butterfly; 50 backstroke; 500 freestyle
Angelina Ash - 100 and 200 backstroke; 50 and 100 freestyle; 200 IM
Emma Bratu - 50 and 100 backstroke; 50 freestyle
Olivia Cha - 50 and 100 butterfly
Donald Chan - 200 backstroke; 500 freestyle
Emily Chan - 100 backstroke; 100 breaststroke; 50 freestyle
Cooper Chen - 50 butterfly; 25 and 50 freestyle; 25 and 50 breaststroke; 100 IM
Joshua Cho - 200 butterfly
Camille Cruz - 25 butterfly; 25 freestyle
Kieran Dewan - 100 and 200 breaststroke; 200 and 500 freestyle; 200 IM
Lily Dragulev-Silva - 50 breaststroke
Lucas Dressler - 50 backstroke; 50, 100 and 200 freestyle
Juniper Eaton - 200 backstroke; 50 and 500 freestyle
Ezra Epstein - 50 backstroke
Luisa Fadul - 50 and 100 backstroke; 50, 100 and 200 freestyle; 100 IM
Daenerys Fong - 25 butterfly; 25 backstroke; 25 freestyle; 100 IM
Aria Freeman - 25 and 50 breaststroke
Pia Ghimire - 50 and 100 butterfly; 100 breaststroke; 100 and 200 freestyle; 100 IM
Annabel Gui - 50 and 200 breaststroke; 50 freestyle
Sophia Hadar - 500 freestyle; 400 IM
Charlotte Hammon - 50 and 100 freestyle
Dennis Hauser - 50 and 100 breaststroke
Eamonn Hynes - 200 backstroke; 400 IM
Elliot Katz - 100 butterfly
Kaila Katz - 100 butterfly
Jake Kim - 50 and 100 butterfly; 100 and 200 breaststroke; 400 IM
Everett Lan - 25 butterfly
Anna Lenzi-Palmero - 100 butterfly; 100 and 200 backstroke; 500 freestyle; 200 IM
Giulia Lenzi-Palmero - 200 breaststroke; 200 freestyle
Sury Loghmanee - 25 breaststroke
Cruz Malick - 100 breaststroke
Emma Matta - 100 butterfly
Nikhil Mehra - 200 butterfly; 200 backstroke
Tegan Mejia - 50 butterfly; 50 breaststroke; 400 IM
Maya Mulholland - 100 butterfly; 200 backstroke; 200 and 500 freestyle; 100, 200 and 400 IM
Rome Neal - 100 backstroke
Nicole Ning - 100 and 200 freestyle
Hugo Novaro Cortijo - 200 breaststroke; 200 IM
Max Paltridge - 200 backstroke; 200 and 500 freestyle; 200 and 400 IM
Zubin Reuter - 50 and 100 butterfly
Flip Smit van Riel - 50 and 100 freestyle
Katerina Spartioti - 200 breaststroke; 200 IM
Henry Tong - 100 and 200 freestyle
Sophie Tu - 100 freestyle; 200 IM
Rio Versfeld - 50 breaststroke; 50 freestyle
Annika Wahlquist - 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke; 400 IM
Lucy Watts - 100 and 200 breaststroke; 200 freestyle; 400 IM
David Xin - 100 and 200 breaststroke; 500 freestyle; 200 IM

Stay tuned to the next newsletter for a recap of the NCAP Invitational!

UPCOMING SWIM MEETS

January meet assignments will be confirmed via e-mail by Friday, December 20.

RUTGERS INVITATIONAL

Who // Invited athletes
When // Friday, January 10 through Sunday, January 12
Where // Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

AGUA MLK INVITATIONAL

Who // Invited athletes
When // Saturday, January 18 through Monday, January 20
Where // Asphalt Green, Upper East Side

ANNOUNCEMENTS

AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE: NEW AGUA CAPS WITH UPDATED LOGO

AGUA caps with our new logo are now available for purchase at the front desk! These caps are not customized. Please note that either an updated customized or generic AGUA cap is required for competition beginning January 1, 2025. Please plan accordingly.

You can purchase caps at the front desk of the AquaCenter or the front desk of our Battery Park City campus. Latex caps cost $6 and silicone caps cost $16.

Please note that all swimmers will be limited to purchasing a maximum of two caps until further notice.

UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS

December 17

Willow Schwalb

December 18

Bea Chukwulozie

December 19

Alan Louzao

December 20

Aleksandra Kubar

Annika Wahlquist

December 23

Chloe Gregorius

REMINDERS

LOCKER ROOM REMINDERS

As we continue the 2024-2025 AGUA season, we want to take the opportunity to remind our athletes of locker room policies and best practices:

Locker rooms are shared spaces at both BPC & UES. All AGUA swimmers should speak and behave in alignment with our team values of respect, accountability and discipline.
There are absolutely no photos or videos permitted to be taken inside the locker rooms, both on campus and during travel meets.
Swimmers should lock their belongings in a locker during practice.

REQUIRED ID CARDS

All swimmers must use their ID cards to access our facilities. Swimmers are not permitted to enter the facilities without their ID cards.

ACCESS AGUA'S SWIMOUTLET PORTAL

We are excited to announce our new partnership with SwimOutlet for the 2024-2025 season. You can shop for team gear and the entire SwimOutlet catalog at our new AGUA team store using the link below.

Click here for the link to the new AGUA Team Store. You may use your normal SwimOutlet account login. No additional instructions or details are required.

COACH COMMUNICATIONS

To streamline communication, please do not reply to this newsletter. Instead, please use the following email addresses for all questions:

Jeff Chen // UES AG1 + AG2

Evan Banciella // BPC AG1 + AG2

Hailey Hewitt // UES AG3

John Alaimo // Senior Prep

Youngho Kim // Senior I

Diana Ross // Senior II

David Rodriguez // National

Andy Ross // Admin + Private Lessons

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PRACTICE

SCHEDULE UPDATES

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Canceled  // All UES and SH practices

Friday, December 20, 2024

UES AG2 Green and Gold // 4pm to 5pm swim (UES campus)
Senior II // 5:30pm to 7:30pm swim (UES campus)
- Dryland 4:30pm to 5:15pm (UES campus)
Canceled  // AG3 Gold and Senior Prep Gold drylands