August 12th 2025

" Cullen Cashman made his triumphant return to the short course pool earlier this month at the CRA Invitational in Wellesley, MA, where he saw wins in all eight of his individual events. The 14-year-old’s impressive weekend was highlighted by a blistering 2:00.92 in the 200 breaststroke, which gave him the win by an impressive 23-second margin, and moved him into 6th all-time among 13-14 year-olds in that event.

The CRA Invitational was just the cherry on top of a remarkable month for Cashman. At New England Senior Champs in mid-July, Cashman became just the 8th swimmer ever to break 2:20 in the boys’ 200 breast before turning 15, finishing in a time of 2:19.61. At the Futures Championships in Ocala two weeks later, Cashman burned off another second and a half, jumping up to 5th all time with a 2:18.24, and just missing out on the podium by two tenths. He also sits just outside the all-time top-10 in the 100 breast at 1:04.27, which was enough to get him into a second championship final at Futures.

Despite only a few days of rest after his busy week in Ocala, the return to New England proved to be a success. As expected, Cashman swept all three breast events, with best times in the 50 (26.62), 100 (56.70), and 200 (2:00.92), winning each handily. He also got wins and best times in the three IM events —  clocking 52.59 in the 100, 1:52.18 in the 200, and 4:01.51 in the 400 — as well as in the 50 fly (23.26) and 100 fly (50.83). His 2:00.92 in the 200 breast makes him the 6th swimmer ever to break the 2:01 barrier as a 14-year-old, while his times in the 100 breast and 200 IM put him in 36th and 76th, respectively, among the 13-14 age group.

Cashman’s move up the ranks has been quite dramatic, with massive drops over the last year. Entering the 2024-25 short course season, his best times in the breast events were 28.47 in the 50, 1:00.41 in the 100, and 2:11.61 in the 200, just enough to qualify for Sectionals. Now, he is a Summer Juniors qualifier with a lot to be excited about in the near future. We are sure to see his name again soon once we get to our first championship meets of the new season, which come later this fall. "

Read more here! https://swimswam.com/14-year-old-cullen-cashman

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Friday September 20th 2024

Congratulations to the Strypers swimmers who are being recognized for the 2023 - 2024 season at the New England Swimming Top Ten times banquet this weekend! 

SCY: Adrian Alee, Nick Austin, Cullen Cashman, Sheldon Chen, Sam Fernandez, Colbi Krause, Elena Ngo, Alex Noble, Sam Noble, Gavin Ruan, Grady Ruan, Anna Tocchio; 

LCM: Adrian Alee,  Nick Austin, Cullen Cashman, Kenny Guan, Safina Khan, Colbi Krause,  James Kruzer, Ksenia Nenacheva Fiorentino, Alex Noble, Gavin Ruan, Grady Ruan, Anna Tocchio

Outstanding swimmers: 

Colbi Krause - girls 11-12 LCM

Gavin Ruan - boys 11-12 SCY

Tuesday January 30th

YMCA Districts:

This past weekend Strypers sent 65 swimmers to Beverly for YMCA Districts. Full results here

Congrats to our 11-12 Boys & 13-14 Girls for placing 1st in points scored!

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Tuesday 10/31/2023

News! News!

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – USA Swimming today announced the full list of 2022-2023 Scholastic All-America recipients. The lists consist of 1,135 athletes in grades 9-12 who maintained a minimum 3.5 grade point average (GPA) and meet any of the competition criteria* during the qualifying period of September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2023.

Congratulations to Nick Austin being named to 2022-2023 USA Swimming Scholastic All American Team.

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Monday 10/30/2023

News! News!

This past weekend we had a distance meet in Wellesley. Results (here). 

Congrats to our Swimmers...

500 Free, Anna, Ksenia, Adrian, Ryan & Grady.

400IM, Alex, Sam, Colbi, Izzy, Cullen, Gavin, Brian L, Brian C.

The meet finished off with the 1650 for Sam & James!

Cullen Cashman of SSYS broke another 11-12 Breaststroke record over the weekend at the CRA Distance Meet.  He now holds all three 11-12 Breaststroke records breaking the 50 Breaststroke with a time of 29.03.   This breaks the previous record from 25 years ago previously held by Brian Fiske’s time of 29.11 set back in 1998.

Link to instagram post here

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Monday 10/16/2023

News! News!

This past weekend the Strypers attended a swim meet at MIT (results) and a swim meet at Charles River Aquatics, (results here). Many fast & best time swims were had. A special mention to CULLEN CASHMAN breaking the NEW ENGLAND 100y Breastroke & 200y Breastroke records. NE Swimming Link here

We also had Team records broken by the following swimmers. 

Elena Ngo - 10 & Under 50y Freestyle - 27.76

Sam Fernandez - Open 100y IM - 54.16

Sam Noble - 11-12 Girls 200y Breastroke 2:32.01

Cullen Cashman 11-12 Boys 50y Breastroke 29.34, 100y Breastroke 1:03.80, 200y Breastroke 2:17.12