Newsletter | November 28, 2023

Sign Up Now: Winter Nutrition Talk

Register today for our upcoming virtual nutrition talk with Beine Wellness Building where you'll learn how to fuel up for competitions!

• Who: AGUA Swim Team members and families 
• When: Today, November 28 at 7:30pm
• Where: Via Zoom
• Register here

Great Work at the LIAC Thanksgiving Invitational!

Congratulations to our athletes who raced at the LIAC Thanksgiving Invitational in Long Island, NY! Our swimmers raced hard throughout the weekend, achieving several top Metropolitan Swimming and personal best times.

Congrats as well to Milly Birch and Chloe Yang, who continued to climb the national top-ten rankings in the 12-year-old girls 200 backstroke and 200 butterfly, respectively.  

We want to extend a big thank you to Hugo Novaro Cortijo, Max Paltridge, Tim Seliger, Penny Wheaton, and Allison Zhu for standing out as R.A.D. teammates over the weekend.

Bravo to our top three finishers as well:

• Spyros Argeros - 100 butterfly 
• Milly Birch - 200 backstroke
• Kate Casciato - 50 freestyle
• Sienna Cho - 200 butterfly
• Milo Devine - 100 breaststroke; 200 IM
• Nikolai Haridasan - 200 breaststroke
• Eva Johnson - 100 and 200 backstroke
• Veronica McCall - 100 backstroke; 100 breaststroke; 200 freestyle
• Jonathan Packles - 100 and 200 backstroke
• George Wang - 100 and 200 butterfly; 200 freestyle
• Penny Wheaton - 100 butterfly; 200 freestyle
• Chloe Yang - 200 butterfly

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Have a passion for swimming? Want to get more involved in your swimmer's life? Become an official for your AGUA Swim Team!

Sign up for new official clinics today, where you'll learn all the rules of competitive swimming.

Interested? Click here to learn more. Metropolitan Swimming is running clinics for new officials this fall. Sign up today!

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Parent/Coach Communication

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• 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

Thursday, November 30, 2023

• Swimmers racing at CPAC may swim from 5:30pm to 6:30pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus or from 6:30pm to 7:30pm at Chelsea Piers, CT.
• Senior Prep Gold will swim from 6pm to 7:30pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus; Dryland will be from 5:15pm to 5:45pm.
• Canceled: Senior I dryland; Senior II

Friday, December 1, 2023

• National will swim from 6pm to 7:30pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus. 
• Senior Prep and AG3 swimmers racing at BGNW will swim from 5:30pm to 6:30pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus. 
• Senior Prep and AG3 swimmers racing at NCAP will swim from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus. 
• UES AG2 swimmers racing at NYS will swim from 4pm to 5pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus. 
• UES AG2 swimmers racing at NCAP will swim from 4pm to 5:30pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus. 
• UES AG1 swim practice will occur as regularly scheduled. 
• Canceled: Senior I; Senior II; all dryland practices.

Saturday, December 2, 2023

• National will swim from 10am to 11:30am at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus. 
• Senior Prep and AG3 swimmers racing at NCAP will swim from 7:30am to 9am at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus. 
• Canceled: All regularly scheduled practices at both campuses (see previous bullets)

Sunday, December 3, 2023

• National will swim from 8:30am to 10am at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus. 
• BPC and UES AG2 swimmers racing at NCAP will swim from 10:30am to 11:30am at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus. 
• Canceled: All regularly scheduled practices (see previous bullets)

Monday, December 4, 2023

• Canceled: Senior II morning practice

Wednesday, 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