USA Swimming has unveiled their new Motivational Time Standards for the 2013-2016 seasons. It comes as no surprise, based on what we’ve been seeing as age group swimmers have gotten better-and-better, but the times have been ratcheted up for the upcoming four years as training develops, technique develops, and more of the best athletes are kept in the sport. These times on some level are arbitrary, as they won’t qualify anybody for a National Championship meet, but they are still very important. Not the least of which is in the...

Just like the excitement that surrounds the release of the NFL, NCAA and MLB schedules- WHAT Swimming has released their TENTATIVE 2012-2013 short course meet schedule..... W est H artford A quatic T eam Tentative Meet Schedule 2012-2013 All Meets subject to change based on meet availability and at the discretion of the WHAT Coaching Staff. Date Meet Location Remarks Sept 29 Annual “BTC” Challenge Miss Porters Inter Squad Meet ALLGroups Oct 21 WHAT Distance Meet Westminster School (Simsbury, CT) Timed Final Meet National/National Prep/Senior/Senior Prep/Juniors-ALL Junior Prep-Coaches discretion Oct...

The WHAT SENIOR Team will be diving into the water tonight to officially kick-off the 2012-2013 season! The WHAT Senior Coaching staff looks forward to seeing everyone this week...

Congratulations to Coach Caitlin!! The WHAT family sends you and Michael best wishes!!

Tonight at the August Maintenance Workout, Syd (Notre Dame), Scott (Mars Hill) and Jess (William and Mary) swam with Coach Katie before they begin their collegiate swimming careers. On behalf of the entire WHAT organization, we wish them continued success!!

The WHAT Senior Coaching Staff is very excited with the implementation of the our dryland program into this year's August Maintenance Training. Although some of the athletes have been a little soar, the coaching staff is already seeing the benefits from both the mental and physical aspects. Keep up the great work!!

Congratulations to the WHAT SPEEDO Super Sectional Qualifiers!!!!! Great job representing WHAT Swimming in Buffalo, New York!!

GOOD LUCK to our Eastern Zone All- Star Swimmers: Michael, Amber, Kimberly and Stephen. We can follow their swimming on the LIVE RESULTS or MEET MOBILE apps...

Congratulations to all the WHAT swimmers who participated in LC 2012 Regional Championships this weekend! WHAT swimmers achieved the following at LC 2012 Regional Championships.... 12&Unders: Results- lcregBEAR072012rslts.pdf 66 Best Times 12 Age Group Cuts Regional Champions (1st Place) Bell: 50 Fly, 100 fly Gens: 50 Fly King: 100 Back, 200 IM Lemus: 200 Back Otis: 100 Breast 11/12 Girls 200 Medley Relay- Hildebrandt, King, Brookes, Gens 11/12 Girls 200 Free Relay- Hildebrandt, King, Gens, Brookes 13&Overs: Results- lcregFriday072012.pdf, lcregZEUS072012rslts.pdf 53 Best Times 12 Age Group Cuts Regional Champions (1st...

13-18 REGIONAL ROUND-UP (submitted by Coach Grant) Another good morning at Wesleyan.... 24 more Best Times on Sunday!!! The GWOZ remains unbeaten in Regional Championships! 1st place in 100 Free (1:02.19) and 200 Free (2:18.07), both AG Cuts Stumo adds AG Cut in the 100 Free (1:02.56). Wertheimer leads off 200 Free Relay with 30.42 to qualify for AG!!!! Best Time Breakdown: Agata (100 Back, 100 Free, 200 Breast) Cassandra (100 Back, 100 Free) Erica (100 Back, 100 Free, 100 Fly) Gabby (100 Back, 100 Free, 200 Free) Chris (100...