The 2024-25 short course swim season is officially underway, as CSSC hosted the Coral Springs Closed Invite, August 30 – September 1 at the Coral Springs Aquatic Complex. There is always a buzz around the first meet of a new season as many swimmers look forward to improving their times from their prior short course meet months earlier. The Closed Invite was no different, as numerous members of CSSC improved their previous times at the season opening swim meet. In fact, as a team, Coral Springs Swim Club posted greater...

After a break from competition during most of the month of August, the team from Coral Springs Swim Club will be back at it this weekend, hosting the 2024 Coral Springs Closed Invitational, to be held August 30 – September 1 at the Coral Springs Aquatic Complex. This meet marks the highly anticipated kick off to short course season, and as a result, CSSC will send an extremely large contingent of swimmers to the home pool deck, and will be joined by other invited local teams, along with the Southern...

It was a handful of 10 & under swimmers that brought home the most hardware for Coral Springs Swim Club at the 2024 FGC Long Course Age Group Championships, held July 10 – 14 at the Sailfish Swim Waterpark in Stuart. Leading the way for CSSC’s youngest crew was Halil Sen, who had a truly phenomenal swim meet. Sen earned 40 individual points by placing in the top three in all of his events, which was good enough for fourth place in the boys’ 10 & under point competition. Sen’s...

CSSC’s Carly Chin and Roman Kondrashov recently competed for Florida Gold Coast Swimming at the USA Swimming 2024 Southern Zone Age Group Championships, held July 24 – 27 in Midland, Texas. The championship LSC of the meet was North Carolina Swimming, with Florida Gold Coast finishing in a very solid sixth place. Chin and Kondrashov each had a hand in the point total for FGC, but each contributed points in different ways. Carly Chin was a member of three very strong relay teams for the Florida Gold Coast Swimming girls’...

CSSC National Team members Carly Chin and Roman Kondrashov, along with White, Blue and Silver Coach Brittany Bellomo, are heading to Texas to compete in the USA Swimming 2024 Southern Zone Age Group Championships, scheduled to take place July 24 – 27 at the FMH Natatorium in Midland. Chin and Kondrashov, both 14 years old, were selected to represent Florida Gold Coast Swimming at the highly competitive, nationally known swim meet, which will feature timed finals for distance events, along with preliminaries and two finals for each of the remaining...

In front of their home crowd at the Coral Springs Aquatic Complex, John Albornoz and Carolyn Levy-Powell each qualified for finals in all of their events to post top finishes at the FGC Long Course Senior Championships, held July 18-21. Albornoz, who very recently turned 15 years old, was competing in his first Senior Championships, but if he was at all nervous it didn’t show. John totaled 93 points during the course of the meet, which was good enough to win the third place award for 15-16 boys individual high...

The Boca Raton High School Aquatic Center was the setting for the accumulation by CSSC of many milestones, with these coming at the 2024 Florida Gold Coast BB North Long Course Championships. The biannual championship meet, held July 5-7, has a dual purpose. In addition to being a championship swim meet formatted with preliminaries and finals sessions, it’s is also the locale for swimmers to attain qualifying times to enter the FGC Age Group Championships and FGC Senior Championships, both following the BB meet. At this 2024 version of the...

The Michael Lohberg Invitational is one of the most difficult championship swim meets to qualify for finals for. While most championship meets have two, three or even four finals heats, the Lohberg meet has just one. Combine that with the fact that it’s a long course meet, meaning only eight lanes swim at night, and you must be at the very top of your game to have a chance to swim finals. Just eight out of, in some cases, 80+ swimmers, get the opportunity to hear their names announced in...

Four members of Coral Springs Swim Club traveled to Lucas, Kentucky to compete in the 2024 USA Swimming Southern Zone Open Water Championships. The open water meet, held May 31 – June 2 and hosted by Kentucky Swimming, jumped off from Sunset Cove Beach at Barren River Lake State Park. Events included individual swims of either 2 or 5 kilometers, relay events of 1200 meter distances, and team pursuit events 2 kilometers long. CSSC National Team members John Albornoz, Reese Balkcom, Addison Palumbo, and Anthony Palumbo were members of the...

Coral Springs Swim Club team members recently competed at the 16th Annual Long Course Summer Kickoff, hosted by North Palm Beach Swim Club, but held at the Central Park pool in Plantation. The Summer Kickoff, June 1-2, featured timed finals sessions both Saturday and Sunday, with the senior swimmers competing in the mornings, and the 12 & under groups going at it in the afternoons. Unfortunately, the weather became a factor on Sunday morning, and four events were cancelled, namely the 13 & over 100 meter backstroke, 200 meter butterfly,...