To High School Seniors: The Mary Riddell Scholarship application is due July 1st: 2012 Mary T Riddell Scholarship Application (word) PDF due July 1st

Congratulations to KAIROS SWIM TEAM (KST-NE) for achieving the USA Swimming LEVEL 1 Club Recognition status! Kairos Swim Team is coached by Annie Lindland and is based in Beverly, Salem and Manchester, MA To learn more about this USA Swimming sponsored program, click HERE

The 2011- 2012 Scholastic All-American application will be activated on June 1st on the USA Swimming website. This year, the entire process will be through online submissions (nothing will be mailed). Applicants will be required to upload their High School transcripts onto the special site that is collecting the information. Please plan ahead with your High School guidance offices to secure an official transcript before the deadline of August 1st. READ HERE for information on the new process.

Congratulations to Hampshire Hills Seawolves for achieving the USA Swimming LEVEL 1 Club Recognition status! Hampshire Hills is coached by Tim Thompson and is based in Milford, NH To learn more about this USA Swimming sponsored program, click HERE

MAY 5, 2012 ANNUAL MEETING SCHEDULE OF EVENTS The Annual Meeting of New England Swimming will be held on Saturday, May 5, 2012 at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Building, Wellesley, MA. Please encourage your team to be well represented. Each team has one individual member vote and one athlete vote. Each Board Member and at-large delegate has one vote. All members of the New England Community are encouraged to attend even if they do not have a vote. 8:00 - 10 AM: Official's Committee Meeting : Bob Menck 8:30 am:...

CONNAR (CJ) PATTERSON, of Exeter Swim Team, broke the 13-14 Boy's NE-RES record in the 100 LCM Fly at the EZ Speedo Championships in Buffalo, NY. His time of 59.54 betters the previous record set by James Allen of GMSC in 2011 by .13 seconds. Congratulations CJ!

RECENT OLYMPIC TRIAL QUALIFIERS! Congratulations to the many young New England Swimmers who qualified for Olympic Trials this past weekend. These swimmers join many others who qualified this season as well.(click here) CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE LIST of NE Swimmers with OT cuts At the 2012 EZ Sectional Meet in Buffalo the following swimmers qualified: EST: Isabel Reis (15) in the 100 Fly GMSC: Ryan Harty (15) in the 100 Back, 200 Back and the 400 IM Kaitlyn Harty (14) in the 200 Back Megan Brown (15) in the 200...

RECORD BREAKER! At the 2012 NCSA Jr. National Championships this past weekend in Florida, The CRIMSON AQUATICS Boy's relay team of Jun Oh, Kevin Bradley, Joshua Beals and Liam Egan broke the 1993 record, in the NE-RES Boy's 15-18 800 Yard Free Relay, with a time of 6:40.77. The previous record was owned by the Mass Bay Marlin team of Kumakov, Hawkins, Eriksson and Craven (yes, the SAC Coach, Matt Craven)! Congratulations!!

February Swimmer of the Month This young swimmer is always in attendance at practice with a positive attitude and a smile, awaiting the next challenge. Cathleen Li is a tremendous student and a hard worker. She has been swimming with Bernal’s Gators since she was nine years old and always leads by example. Recently Cathleen has broken a number of Gator records as well as a New England Swimming Resident record in the 11-12 Girl's 50 Butterfly with a time of 26.32. Cathleen's time places her 3rd in the country...

Safety Poster Contest! USA Swimming is asking athletes to create a poster about safety in the pool (competition or training) or open water (competition or training) or dryland (training), the rest is up to their imagination. The objective of the Safety Poster Contest is to build awareness for safety in the competitive swimming environment. The poster can be created in any medium but must be submitted in an electronic format (scanned, photographed, electronically created, etc.) to the NES Office, [email protected] The Poster must be 20” x 24” for display. All...