Newsletter | January 17, 2024

Great Work at the AGUA MLK Invitational!

On behalf of our AGUA Swim Team coaches, thank you to all our families who served as officials, timers, volunteers and more throughout our MLK Invitational weekend!

Our athletes continued to inspire as they raced to new personal bests and qualifications for the Junior and Senior Metropolitan Championships. 

The AGUA Swim Team was led by Allison Zhu, who raced to eight individual event wins in the 100 butterfly, 50, 100 and 200 backstroke, 50 and 100 freestyle, and 100 and 400 IM.

Additional shoutout to our R.A.D. swimmers of the meet: Emma Bratu, Lucien Chan, Emma Chubb, Cooper Dong, Daenerys Fong, Gebran Kastoun, William Levine, Kyra Stinebaugh, and Ali Wright. 

Extra congratulations to our top-three finishers:

• Aitana Almandoz - 50 breaststroke; 100 and 200 freestyle
• Naomi Blau - 200 breaststroke 
• Salvatore Bove - 200 backstroke
• Naila Broening-Chai - 100 and 200 backstroke; 400 IM
• Kate Casciato - 100 freestyle 
• Beau Chan - 500 freestyle 
• Danan Chan - 50 breaststroke 
• Edward Chan - 100 and 200 butterfly; 200 breaststroke 
• Emily Chan - 200 backstroke 
• Justin Chiang - 100 and 200 backstroke; 500 freestyle 
• Joshua Cho - 200 butterfly; 200 IM 
• Bea Chukwulozie - 100 backstroke
• Jonathan Davis - 50 breaststroke
• Eva Dolan - 200 breaststroke 
• Jazzy Foster - 50 and 100 freestyle
• Iain Fulnecky - 100 breaststroke 
• Kouros Javaheri - 200 backstroke 
• Gebran Kastoun - 100 backstroke; 1650 freestyle
• Anna Lenzi-Palmero - 100 and 200 backstroke; 50 and 200 breaststroke; 100 and 200 IM 
• Giulia Lenzi-Palmero - 100 and 200 breaststroke 
• William Levine - 200 breaststroke; 1650 freestyle; 200 IM
• Thomas Mackey - 100 backstroke; 400 IM
• Catherine MacLennan - 100 butterfly; 200 and 500 freestyle; 400 IM
• Nikhil Mehra - 200 butterfly
• Daniel Mente - 400 IM 
• Imogen Miller - 100 backstroke 
• Aislinn Moloney - 200 butterfly
• Rome Neal - 50 butterfly; 50, 100, and 200 backstroke; 100 freestyle; 100 IM
• Katy Niziol - 100 and 200 butterfly; 200 IM
• Max Packles - 100 breaststroke 
• Ethan Pak - 200 freestyle 
• Max Paltridge - 100 and 200 backstroke; 200 freestyle
• Nicholas Pichlmeier - 50 breaststroke
• Lily Ramirez - 100 butterfly; 100 breaststroke; 200 and 500 freestyle 
• Viaan Ramnath - 50, 100, and 200 butterfly; 200 IM
• Hayden Schwartz - 200 breaststroke; 1650 freestyle; 200 and 400  IM
• Allegra Speight-Ray - 200, 500, and 1000 freestyle; 400 IM
• Sophie Tu - 100 breaststroke; 50 freestyle; 100 and 200 IM
• Estelle Vernhes - 200 butterfly; 200 backstroke; 200 IM
• George Wang - 500 and 1000 freestyle
• Lucy Watts - 100 breaststroke 
• Sienna Wiggins - 100 and 200 breaststroke; 200 IM
• Daniel Wojciechowski - 200 butterfly 
• Ali Wright - 50 and 100 freestyle
• Chloe Yang - 200 butterfly 
• Ethan Yi - 200 IM 
• Allison Zhu - 100 butterfly; 50, 100, and 200 backstroke; 50 and 100 freestyle; 100 and 400 IM
• Kylie Zhu - 50 butterfly
• Dylan Zucker - 1000 freestyle

Stay tuned next week for a recap of the 2024 TYR LCM Invitational!

Mark Your Calendars!

Add our upcoming winter and spring 2024 events to your calendar:

• Thursday, February 1: Digital Dive In - AGUA Winter Parent Meeting at 7:30pm on Zoom 
  • Registration now available 
• Monday, February 19 through Thursday, February 22: Long course season group placements assigned. If your swimmer turns 11, 13, or 15 by June 1, 2024, they will likely be placed into a new group for the long course season.
• Monday, February 26: Spring Schedule Begins (swimmers will remain in current groups until Monday, April 8, 2024).
• Monday, April 1 through Sunday, April 7: AGUA Swim Team spring break. All practices are canceled. 
• Monday, April 8: Long course group placements begin. 

Spring 2024 Practice Schedule Now Available

Please see below for the tentative spring 2024 practice schedule. As a reminder, the spring schedule will begin on Monday, February 26. All swimmers will stay in their current practice groups upon the start of the spring schedule.

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Required: Asphalt Green 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.

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Parent/Coach Communication

To streamline parent/coach communication, please do not reply to this newsletter. Use the following email addresses for all questions:

• Jeff Chen: UES AG1, and AG2
• Kalee Walcott: BPC AG1, and AG2
• Hailey Hewitt: UES AG3
• John Alaimo: Senior Prep
• Youngho Kim: Senior I
• Diana Pimer: Senior II
• David Rodriguez: National

Practice Schedule Updates

No schedule changes at this time.