NEWSLETTER // SEPT. 10, 2024

COMPETITION UPDATES

AGUA EARNS HIGHEST LONG COURSE VCC FINISH IN PROGRAM HISTORY!

The USA Swimming Virtual Club Championship program recognizes and highlights clubs that develop athletes and achieve success at multiple levels, emphasizing the team element of club swimming. Teams are evaluated using the USA Swimming PowerPoint system.

The Virtual Club Championship runs throughout each swim season. Teams may score two swimmers per event and age group, while individual swimmers are limited to contributing four swims. Swimmers must be 11 years old or older to score points.

Congratulations to all AGUA athletes on scoring our highest long course season VCC score in program history with 239,076 points! We also earned another top-25 finish as a team, with a national ranking of 20th out of over 4,000 USA Swimming teams.

Shoutout to our 2024 VCC contributors in the 13 and 14 age groups:

Spyros Argeros

Camille Auth

Milly Birch

Kate Casciato

Sebastian Chang

Sienna Cho

Sebastian Colvin

Leo De La Garza

Milo Devine
Luca Fong

Nikolai Haridasan

Alex Hoffmann

Claire Healy

Eamonn Hynes

Eva Johnson

Emily Jukic

Mason Kostov

Anna Lenzi-Palmero

Giulia Lenzi-Palmero

Bridget Lockwood

Josephine Luding

Veronica McCall

Rayah Milam

Jonathan Packles

Ellise Plevin

Bruce Qian

Andrew Quach

Xan Randolph

Will Rankin

Tim Seliger

Mark Silverman

Allegra Speight-Ray

George Wang

Leo Yang

Penny Wheaton

Chloe Yang

Allison Zhu

ACTION REQUIRED

MAAPP ACKNOWLEDGMENT

USA Swimming, AGUA's national governing body, requires every family to read and acknowledge the Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policy (MAAPP).

MAAPP was designed to prioritize the safety of athletes and addresses one-on-one interactions, social media and electronic communications, local and team travel, locker rooms and changing areas, and athletic training modalities.

Acknowledgment by all families is mandatory. Please do so by Monday, September 30, 2024.

COMPLETE

UPCOMING SWIM MEETS

METROPOLITAN SWIMMING OPEN WATER CHAMPIONSHIPS

REGISTER TO COMPETE — Deadline: Today, Tuesday, September 10

The AGUA coaches will confirm invitations this evening; Please declare your interest above.

Who // Invited AGUA Swim Team athletes (Minimum 9 years-old with qualifying standard; details will be confirmed this week)
When // Sunday, September 22
Where // Glen Island Park, NY

AGUA SEASON STARTER

REGISTER TO COMPETE — Deadline: Tuesday, September 17

Who // Full AGUA Swim Team
When // Sunday, October 13
Where // Asphalt Green, Upper East Side

LIE FALL CLASSIC

REGISTER TO COMPETE — Deadline: Friday, October 11

Who // AG1, AG2, AG3, Senior Prep and Senior I
When // Friday, November 8 through Sunday, November 10
Where // Hofstra University

ANNOUNCEMENTS

FAMILY WELCOME MEETINGS

We look forward to welcoming our AGUA families at our annual fall welcome meetings. Attendance for these meetings is strongly encouraged, as the AGUA coaches will be reviewing our team values and philosophies, meet calendars, training breaks and more.

Sign up for your group's Zoom welcome meeting below:

BPC & UES AG1 and AG2 - Tuesday, Sept. 24, 7:30pm
AG3 and Senior Prep - Monday, Sept. 23, 7:30pm
Senior I - Tuesday, Oct. 1, 8pm
Senior II - Thursday, Oct. 3, 8pm

SIGN UP HERE

IN-PERSON SUIT FITTINGS

SwimOutlet, our new provider for t-shirts, practice equipment, tech suits and more will be on-site for in-person fittings on:

Today, Tuesday, September 10 (UES campus, 4pm to 7pm)
Tomorrow, Wednesday, September 11 (UES campus, 4pm to 7pm)
Thursday, September 12 (BPC campus, 4pm to 7pm)

UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS

September 10

Peter Aby

Annabel Gui

Viaan Ramnath

September 11

Elvis Orchowski

September 12

Max Paltridge

Aurelia Zomopoulos

September 13

Sena Kanzaki

September 15

Veronica McCall

September 16

Jade Geolnar

Beatrice Koffey

REMINDERS

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.

*SwimOutlet has corrected the previous error in team shirt ordering