Our Second year at the Harvard Christmas saw double the athletes and double the results.  Overall, the meet was faster and our swimmers stepped up to the challenge to amass an impressive number of quality results.  52 swimmers achieved 189 personal best swims, 104 Silver Championship Qualified swims, 31 Junior Olympic Qualifying swims, 17 Zone Trial Qualifying swims and 3 Senior Met Qualifying swims.  14 of our swimmers made it back to finals in a very tough meet.   Congratulations to Marissa Calcutti, Alana Donabie, Amanda Fung, Kassey Gonzalez, Devin Guardino, RJ...

If you missed Peter Clark's presentation Wednesday night you missed a ton of great information, tips and perspective for swimmers, parents and coaches alike.   Peter is USA Swimming's Sports Consultant for the Eastern Zone.  Here are a few of the hightlights: -Do not accept or internalize limiting assumptions.  Statements like "I won't grow any more," I can't do other strokes/events," "My child will probably never be good."  These types of statements serve to limit artificially and the truth really is that we don't know how much growth, what strokes/events we will ultimately...

Patriot Swimmers continue improving at an astonishing rate, amassing 215 Personal best swims, 99 Silver Championship qualifying swims, 18 Junior Olympic Qualifying  swims and 7 Zone Trials qualifying swims as well as Breaking 1 Beacon Team Record, 15 Peekskill Team Records and 6 Overal Patriot Records.  Our swimmers were so exciting even Coach Edgar couldn not resist getting in on the fun.  On the Saturday morning session, he dove into the pool to help a young swimmer, from another team, who was in distress.    Our hero saved the young lady...

  Congratulations to Blair Wegescheide & Paige Rutkoske for qualifying for the State High School Championships in Buffalo, NY.  Good Luck & Good Swimming ladies!!

Our 8 & under swimmers represented the Patriot Swim Team in fine fashion this past weekend.   They were led by Kimberly McCaffrey who went 4 for 4 and took of 9.6 seconds off of her swims.   Marley Lazo-Murphy and Dina Millerman were also perfect, each going 3 for 3 and knocking off 7 and 9 seconds respectively.  Great Swims were also turned in by Valerie Bottarini, David (Edge) Gougelmann, Hunter Jackson and Tommy Jaeger.  Congratulations to our 8 & Under swimmers.

Our swimmers have been training well and the size of many of the drops in time, this past weekend at the Marlins Distance meet, are a testament to their hard work. Chiara Calov  500 free  -38.97                Sam Conforti    500 free split in her 1650  -11.60           Luis Estevez  1000 free split in his 1650 -20.76        Josephine Holman 500 free  -4.45     Thomas Holman 500 free -28.60     RJ Hutton 500 free -22.92     Matt Keane  500 free  -15.47     Donna Lam   1650 free  -37.61 and 1000 split -34.36     James Mazzarano 1650 Free  -71.10 and 1000...

The "Standards & Quals"tab has now been updated  and reflects current championship qualifiers as well local, regional and national time standards

The Patriot Swimmers were possessed with the spirit of fast swimming, this past weekend, achieving a record 267 personal best swims.   Along the way, they Monster Mashed 1 Beacon record, 17 Peekskill records and 10 Patriot records.  They also Achieved 111 Silver qualifying times, 22 Junior Olympic Qualifying and 10 Zone Qualifying times.  Metro Top 10 List Caroline Jaeger 100 Back,  500 Free Kaitlyn Quezada 100 Fly, 500 Free RJ Hutton 200 Breast Record Breakers Beacon Kimberly McCaffrey   8 & Under 100 Back Peekskill Devin Guardino 11-12 50 Back RJ...

We had a huge number of swims make the Metro top 10 List this past weekend, Many with multiple qualifying swims.  Congratulations to the following swimmers: 9-10 Year Olds Kaitlyn "Queso" Quesada,  Josephine Holman, Ariana Lopez, Matt Keane, Thomas Holman 11-12 Year Olds Lauren Siegel, Alana Donabie, Remi Uretta, Nicole Conforti, Dana Armstrong, Chiara Calov, RJ Hutton, Devin Guardino 13-14 Year Olds Donna Lam, Emily Buitekant, Sam Conforti, Mary Kate Keane, Betsy Portch, Aditi Athavale, Presley Mekeel

Take a look at the results statistics and you would have thought the entire team swam up this past weekend at Hydro/Roosevelt Island's Roktober swim meet.  A small group of 37 of our swimmers compiled very impressive  performances: 116 Personal best swims, 73  Silver Championship qualifying swims, 6 Junior Olympic qualifying swims, 2 Zone qualifying swims, 11 Peekskill Team Records and 6 Patriot Team Records. Championship Qualifiers Matt Keane Zone Qual 100 Breast Alana Donabie JO 50 Free 100 Free Devin Guardino JO 100 Back Kaitylyn Quezada ZQ 100 Fly ...