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...

It was an exciting weekend of swimming at the NJ Swimming Silver/Bronze Championships at Berkeley Aquatics in New Providence. Our 28 attending swimmers rocked the blocks! Our Barracudas had 89 splashes over the weekend, with 52 (58%) of them being Personal Best (LC) times! Of those, 10 exceeded 5 seconds of improvement. Some of these swims were by Zach Bezold in the 200 Breast (-7.37); Ryan Juckett in the 100 Breast (-25.96); Jonathan Kern in the 50 Free (-5.68); Nathaniel Kern in the 100 Fly (-11.97); Jessica Kiederling in the...

Aloha! Our swimmers competed at the Scarlet Luau Meet at Princeton University over the weekend, once again swimming personal best times, top places, and more! Regarding times, in most cases the entry times used were converted Short Course times. Comparing swimmers’ best Long Course times to this weekend’s results (apples to apples), there were 39 Career Best Times (approximately 40% of swims) swum by Jillian Berg (200 Free, 200 IM, 50 Free); Peyton Berg (100 Free, 200 Free, 200 IM, 50 Breast, 50 Fly, 50 Free); Reese Berg (100 Breast,...

Swimmers hit the water some early morning training at the Lake Mohawk Pool. It was a beautiful morning to rack up some distance in the long course pool! Nice work, everyone!

Night two of Friday Night at the Races at Berkeley Aquatic yielded more great swims! Our ‘Cudas grabbed finishes up front with 18 Top-10 places by Jake Riva (2nd in 50 Free and 200 IM); Nathaniel Kern (3rd in 50 Free); Zach Bezold (3rd in 50 Free, 4th in 50 Breast, 5th in 200 IM); Reese Berg (3rd in 100 Breast, 4th in 50 Back); Jake Leddy (5th in 50 Breast, 8th in 50 Free, 7th in 200 IM); Jordan Maruska (4th in 50 Back, 6th in 100 Breast); Haley...

Our first meet of the Long Course season kicked off last night at the first of three Friday Night at the Races at Berkeley Aquatic Center in New Providence. Swimmers of all ages from 9 different teams hit the water for a night of great swimming. Our attending swimmers came home with Career Best Times, Top Places, first-ever swims, and more. Typically long course meets aren’t the place known for personal best times; the course is not only a longer distance, but the lack of walls physically taxes swimmers in...