NEWSLETTER // JUNE 24, 2025

TEAM UPDATES

GREAT WORK AT NASHVILLE SUMMER SIZZLER

Congratulations to the AGUA swimmers who competed in the 2025 Synergy Dryland Summer Sizzler in Nashville, TN! Our swimmers raced against top swimmers in other LSCs and swam to new cut times for Junior Mets through Junior Nationals.

The team was led in points by Milly Birch (112) and Ben Vargas (104). Milly was victorious in the 13-14 Girls 100 Backstroke, 200 Freestyle, 200 IM and 400 IM, while Ben was victorious in both the 11-12 Boys 50 and 100 Backstrokes.

The AGUA coaches would also like to thank the following swimmers for standing out as R.A.D. Teammates throughout the meet: Max Packles and Aiden Rhee.

Special congratulations to all of our top-eight finishers:

Aitana Almandoz - 100 freestyle
Alex Argeros - 100 and 200 backstroke
Spyros Argeros - 200 breaststroke
Milly Birch - 200 butterfly; 100 and 200 backstroke; 200 freestyle; 200 and 400 IM
Naila Broening-Chai - 200 breaststroke
Sienna Cho - 100 and 200 backstroke; 400 freestyle; 200 and 400 IM
Lauren Fishbein - 200 breaststroke
Atticus Fogarty - 100 and 200 butterfly; 400 freestyle
Chloe Fu - 100 breaststroke; 50, 100 and 200 freestyle
Vincent Gookin - 1500 freestyle
David Gutin - 200 backstroke; 200 IM
Aerin Healy - 50 and 100 breaststroke
Sena Kanzaki - 100 breaststroke; 50, 100, 200 and 400 freestyle
Jake Kim - 50 butterfly; 200 IM
Olivia Kim - 50 and 100 butterfly; 50 and 100 breaststroke; 200 and 400 freestyle; 200 IM
Mason Kostov - 50 and 100 freestyle
Parker Lee-Walters - 50 and 100 backstroke; 50 breaststroke; 200 IM
Zach Levin - 200 breaststroke
Josephine Luding - 100 freestyle
Rohan Mehra - 200 butterfly; 400 and 1500 freestyle
Jonathan Packles - 100 and 200 backstroke
Ethan Pak - 50 freestyle
Nicholas Pichlmeier - 50 and 100 breaststroke
Yahro Pique - 100 freestyle
Bruce Qian - 800 freestyle
Andrew Quach - 100 and 200 butterfly; 50 and 100 freestyle
Viaan Ramnath - 50 and 100 butterfly; 50 backstroke; 50, 100, 200 and 400 freestyle
Xan Randolph - 100 butterfly; 100 and 200 backstroke; 200 freestyle
Sabrina Shafer - 100 butterfly; 50 breaststroke; 100, 200 and 400 freestyle
Mark Silverman - 200 breaststroke; 200 and 400 IM
Rose South - 100 and 200 breaststroke; 200 IM
Ben Vargas - 50 and 100 backstroke; 50 and 100 breaststroke; 100 and 400 freestyle; 200 IM
Nathan Wang - 50 freestyle
Penny Wheaton - 800 freestyle
Chloe Yang - 100 and 200 butterfly; 200 freestyle; 200 IM
Leo Yang - 100 breaststroke; 100 freestyle

Stay tuned next week for a recap of the LIAC Summer Fun Meet!

UPCOMING SWIM MEETS

LIAC SUMMER SPLASH

Final Entries

Who // All 12 & Under Swimmers; Select 13 & Over Swimmers
When // Saturday, July 5 and Sunday, July 6, 2025
Where // Nassau County Aquatic Center
Tentative Swimmer Call Times //
- 12 & Under - Saturday 7:30am; Sunday 11:30am
- 13 & Over - Saturday 11:30am; Sunday 7:30am

SENIOR METROPOLITAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

Preliminary Entries; All corrections must be communicated to your lead group coach by Friday, June 27.

Who // Qualifiers
When // Thursday, July 10 through Sunday, July 23, 2025
Where // Nassau County Aquatic Center
Job Signup // Now available
- Due to our large number of qualifiers, AGUA will be assigned a minimum of 15 job assignments. If you are available, please sign up here. All remaining openings will be assigned by the coaching staff by Monday, July 7.

JUNIOR METROPOLITAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

Who // Qualifiers
When // Friday, July 18 through Sunday, July 20, 2025
Where // Nassau County Aquatic Center

ISCA SUMMER SENIOR BLAST

Preliminary Entries

Who // 15 & Over Qualifiers
When // Tuesday, July 29 through Saturday, August 2, 2025
Where // North Shore Aquatic Center, St. Petersburg, Fl
Hotel Block // Hyatt Place St Petersburg Downtown
- Start Date: Monday, July 28, 2025
- End Date: Sunday, August 3, 2025
- Reservation Deadline: Friday, June 27, 2025
- Room Rate: $199/night before tax

ISCA SUMMER ELITE SHOWCASE

Who // 14 & Under Qualifiers
When // Wednesday, August 6 through Saturday, August 9, 2025
Where // North Shore Aquatic Center, St. Petersburg, Fl
Hotel Block // Hyatt Place St Petersburg Downtown
- Start Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2025
- End Date: Sunday, August 10, 2025
- Reservation Deadline: Monday, July 7, 2025
- Room Rate: $199/night before tax

ANNOUNCEMENTS

2025-2026 AGUA SWIM SEASON

Stay tuned over the coming weeks for updates on the following for the 2025-2026 AGUA Swim Season:

Official start date & tentative fall practice schedules
Group placements
Swim for the Future Scholarship applications
Asphalt Green registration (please be sure to check your login information in advance)

UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS

June 24

Yahro Pique

June 26

Stella Anderson

Kate Casciato

Kaia Mejia

June 27

Aurora Leung

Sofia Manukyan

June 28

Laura Strassenburg

REMINDERS

LOCKER ROOM REMINDERS

As we continue the 2024-2025 AGUA season, we want 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.
Only swimmers who are members of Asphalt Green are permitted to use the member locker rooms at Asphalt Green. There are no exceptions.

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.