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California Beach Hut is once again hosting their Annual Fit Session with Speedo on November 24. The regional Speedo Rep will be there with all of the different tech suit styles and will size everyone from 1:30-5. All Speedo Tech Suits will be 25% off on that day only! It's a great opportunity to get additional discounting on Tech Suits. For more info, contact: Hannah Walsh, Team Coordinator California Beach Hut 1 Broadway, Denville NJ 07834 Phone (973) 625-9155 Fax (973) 784-3743
The Barracudas kicked off their competition season at Go for the Gold, joining a couple of hundred swimmers from 10 different teams at Raritan Valley Community College over the weekend. Our 28 attending swimmers validated their early-season training earning Top Places, Gold Times, New Team Records, and some Personal Best Times. While typically these achievements are earned at the end of the season, 19 of our swimmers decided not to wait: Top 3 Places were swum by Jillian Berg (2nd in 400 IM, 3rd in 500 Free); Zach Bezold (3rd...
Parents, siblings, and friends- show your team spirit! We are proud to announce this season’s clothing line, with similar products and designs as last season as well as a few new items. Visit our team store online, and you can order whatever items you want and have them shipped directly to your home. The Clothing Store is OPEN NOW THRU MONDAY 10/22!
Time to suit-up! Team Suits, Caps, Goggles, and more: California Beach Hut, our team’s suit vendor, will be at Blair Academy during practices next Wednesday, 10/17. This season’s suit is the TYR Miramar (note: intended to be worn at competitions only). They will be sizing any swimmers that need to be, and will also be selling drag suits, Speedo team bags, personalized NJB caps, training equipment, and more. We recommend the following equipment: Juniors: Fins Intermediates: Fins, Paddles, Pull buoy Seniors: Fins, Paddles, Pull buoy Won’t be there Wednesday? California...
CHUCK WARNER: THE PROCESS & POSSIBILITIES of SWIMMING IN COLLEGE Sunday Oct. 7, 3-5:30 PM at the WWAE Family Empowerment Center, Bound Brook NJ This is a great seminar to help inspire your swimmers to aspire to successfully swim in college. How To Become & Stay Eligible for College Swimming Factors to Consider In Choosing the Right School A Process for Selecting a School One fee per family (parents should attend with swimmers). Coach’s may attend free of charge. Virginia HS Champions Coach Mike Stott says: “Chuck Warner's The Process...
A special shout-out to our seniors for running a great Starts & Turn Clinic for our younger swimmers-what a great night! Their patience and guidance were admirable as they lead our Juniors and Intermediates through some basics. A fun time was had by all! Well done!
Please mark your calendars: Next Tuesday 9/25 we will have a modified schedule during our normal practice time at Kittatinny to accommodate Team Pictures, a Parents’ Meeting, and more. Please plan on attending! 6:30-6:45 All swimmers/Coaches should plan on arriving. There will not be dryland, but swimmers should plan on being in the water after pics. We don’t expect this season’s shirts to arrive by then, so we are asking everyone to wear their black shirts from last year (please bring any extras to loan to new swimmers), last season’s...
Over 700 swimmers from 13 states are converged on SwimRVA in Richmond, VA for the USA Swimming Futures Championships from August 2-5. This was one of four championship meets taking place last weekend across the United States. Futures Championships provides swimmers with a stepping stone between Sectionals and Junior Nationals. It’s an open-age meet not limited to 18 & unders. There are separate meets for each Zone. The meet is a Long Course meet usually held in August. For more detailed information regarding these big meets, go here. We are...
Congratulations to our swimmers for qualifying for this season’s long course JOs at Rutgers, and on some great swims there. Jake Riva had a good weekend swimming the 100 Fly and 100 Free, dropping 1.08 and 1.12 respectively off of his best LC times and qualifying for finals in both. Zach Bezold continued his trend of fast breast swims with a drop of 2.08 in his 100 Breast, finishing 31 of 62 swimmers in prelims. Sam Russell went after her events, with fast swims in the 100 Free and 100...
