Junior Mets Recap, upcoming swim meets, spring events, special announcements, and more!
NEWSLETTER // MARCH 25, 2025
TEAM UPDATES
GREAT JOB AT JUNIOR METS!
Congratulations to all our athletes who raced at the 2025 Metropolitan Swimming Junior Metropolitan Championships. Our athletes raced to National Top-Ten Rankings, medals, heat wins, best times, and many new qualifications for Senior Mets, Sectionals and Futures!
Bruce Qian led the way by winning first-place high point honors for 14-year-old boys. He was victorious in eight events, and was featured in SwimSwam's Weekly Wonders of Age Group Swimming!
Milly Birch (second place, 14-year-old girls) and Olivia Kim (third-place, 11-year-old-girls) also earned high point honors, while our Women's Team, Men's Team and Combined Team all earned overall runner-up finishes.
AGUA also took home sixteen relay medals, highlighted by four golds:
13-14 Boys 200 Medley Relay (Xan Randolph, Leo Yang, Bruce Qian, Mason Kostov)
13-14 Boys 400 Medley Relay (Xan Randolph, Leo Yang, Bruce Qian, Mason Kostov)
13-14 Boys 200 Free Relay (Mason Kostov, Bruce Qian, Nathan Wang, Andrew Quach)
13-14 Boys 400 Free Relay (Mason Kostov, Bruce Qian, Andrew Quach, Jaden Quach)
Extra congratulations to our top-three finishers:
Aitana Almandoz - 100 freestyle
Alex Argeros - 200 backstroke
Camille Auth - 50 freestyle
Milly Birch - 100 and 200 butterfly; 100 and 200 backstroke; 500 freestyle; 200 IM
Elliott Darwell - 100 butterfly
Morgan Dasilva - 100, 200 and 500 freestyle
Atticus Fogarty - 100 and 200 butterfly; 1000 freestyle
Chloe Fu - 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke; 50 and 100 freestyle
Olivia Kim - 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke; 100, 200 and 400 IM
Mason Kostov - 50 and 100 freestyle
Jolie Loghmanee - 50 backstroke
Benjamin Luding - 50 and 100 breaststroke
Skyler Miskin - 100 and 200 butterfly; 200 freestyle
Maya Mulholland - 400 IM
Nicholas Pichlmeier - 50 and 200 breaststroke
Bruce Qian - 100 and 200 butterfly; 100 and 200 backstroke; 100, 200, 500 and 1000 freestyle; 200 IM
Guest Ticket Sale details will be available in the coming weeks
YOU'RE INVITED! ASPHALT GREEN ANNUAL GALA
You are invited to Asphalt Green’s special Gala Celebration on Thursday evening, May 29.
When you attend the Gala, you honor a coach, you honor a team, and you provide critical support to Asphalt Green’s mission and efforts to create pathways to achievement. Join an AGUA table at the Gala in celebrating our extraordinary year with breathtaking views of Central Park at the Mandarin Oriental.
Questions can be directed to: gala @asphaltgreen.org
UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS
March 25
Emma Bratu
Logan Bratu
Jonathan Packles
Jojo Plevin
March 27
Clara Chen
March 28
Olivia Kim
Josephine Luding
Flower Miculis
March 29
David Gutin
Jaden Huang
March 30
Dev Sud
Hiu Wong
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:
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