22 Metro Athletes have been named to the 2023 Scholastic All-America Team. Athletes must have completed 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade with a minimum GPA of 3.5 and achieved Winter Junior Time Standards in the pool or and or participated in Open Water Nationals during the qualifying period. Congratulations to all the athletes. Name Team SAA Teams Satya Agashiwala Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics 1 Samantha Anderson Long Island Aquatic Club 1 Luke Dwyer Condors Swim Club 1 Cornelia Fox Condors Swim Club 1 Cavan Gormsen Long Island Aquatic Club...

6 Metro Teams have been recognized in the 2023-2024 USA Swimming Club Excellence Program. Long Island Aquatic Club was recognized as a Gold Medal Club, as well as a Podium Club having achieved Gold Medal Club status for the past 4 years. Badger Swim Club and Team Suffolk were each recognized as Silver Medal Clubs. Condors Swimming, BGCN-Westchester Marlins, and Westchester Aquatic Club were each recognized as Bronze Medal Clubs. Congratulations to all the teams that were recognized. Information about the Club Excellence Program is available from USA Swimming: https://www.usaswimming.org/docs/default-source/clubsdocuments/club-excellence/2024-club-excellence-program-information-requirements.pdf

Over 100 athletes competed at the 2023 Metro/NJ Open Water Championships on September 9, 2023 at Rye Town Beach in Rye, NY. Athletes from 15 teams across the Metro and New Jersey LSCs competed in the 1K, 3K, and 5K Open Water events. BGC-N Westchester Marlins won the Women's Team Championship with athletes Annabel Smith, Haley Penn, Kate Vitti, Isabel Valenzuela, Sienna White, and Maggie Joyce competing in the 5K. Hauppauge Swimming won the Men's Team Championship with athletes Chris Sweeney, Brennan Morelli, Dylan Lemieux, Noah Hutzler, Tyler Gallub, Dylan...

Congratulations to Sebastian Smith of Patriots Swim Team, and Drexel University Dragons Swimming on qualifying for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Swimming Trials in the Men's 100 LCM Butterfly. Smith swam a 53.51 during the Friday night Finals at Senior Mets, and was the top seed after going 53.96 in the prelims. According to Patriots Head Coach Bob Vializ, Smith had previously been coached primarily by Marc Rizzo who passed away in March 2023. Smith is scheduled to swim the 200 IM, 50 Free, 100 Back, and 100 Free later...

11 Metro athletes competed in the 2023 USA Swimming Open Water National Championships in Sarasota, FL. The Championships were held at Nathan Benderson Park, a venue that has hosted the World Championships, US Olympic Team Trials, and NCAA Championships for rowing. The Open Water Championships selected for the US Open Water National and Junior National teams, the 2023 World Aquatics team, Pan America Games team, and LEN Open Water Cup. Athletes from the US, Japan, Sweden, and Spain competed, including current US National team members, and past Olympic and World...