ELITE NEWS BULLETIN 3-20-08

DART TV SEGMENT EXPECTED TO BE AIRED TONITE (THURSDAY, MARCH 20^TH);

DART TO BE NAMED SWIMMER OF YEAR BY TWO PUBLICATIONS:

Celebrating his spectacular high school and club swimming year, the local media will prominently display Elite swimmer Chris Dart over the next few days.

First up: Fox News Channel 9 filmed a segment on Chris several weeks ago and that segment is expected to aired tonite, Thursday, March 20, 2008 during the 10:00 pm news show. Reporter Matt Trapani followed Chris to Chatham High School and to Elite practice, gathering information and film on our swimmer. In addition, Trapani is in possession of the Burgdorff Olympic Trials clip, which is expected to be included within the segment.

Next: Both the Star Ledger and the Morris County Daily Record will name Chris “Swimmer of the Year” in their annual wrap up of the local high school swim season. Both news items are expected to be in this Sunday’s edition.

The Star Ledger’s selection is quite an honor, as their selection is based upon swimmers in the entire state of New Jersey. A major factor in their decision was Chris’s fabulous Meet of Champions performance, where he won both his individual races (100 back and 200 IM), both in state record time.

The Daily Record will name Chris “Swimmer of the Year” in the Morris County area.

Elite hopes both publications will also name other Elite high school swimmers as “all-county” in their events.

P. DUVVURI, KOLOGY, LEVIN & A. MORREALE SELECTED FOR ZONES:

BECKY MARCELLIANO NAMED NJ ZONE COACH:

Priya Duvvuri, Regan Kology, Aaron Levin and Ali Morreale have been selected to represent New Jersey Swimming in the annual Eastern Zone Championship Meet to be held this year April 3 thru April 5 in Buffalo, New York.

All LSC’s within the Eastern Zone (New Jersey Swimming is a LSC-local swim committee), which extends from Maine to Virginia and out to eastern Indiana, will field all-star teams and will gather in Buffalo to compete to see who has the strongest LSC. Only the top swimmers in each event in each LSC are chosen to represent New Jersey.

14 year old Priya Duvvuri, based upon her fabulous Junior Olympic performance last week, will represent NJ in the backstroke and butterfly events.

11 year old Regan Kology, based upon her 3^rd place finish in the 500 yard free, has been chosen to represent NJ in that event. Due to academic conflicts, Kology may not be able to attend Zones.

10 year old Aaron Levin, based upon his tremendous Junior Olympic performance last week in the 500 free, will represent NJ in that event.

14 year old Ali Morreale, based upon her wonderful 100 and 200 yard breaststroke swims at JO’s will race in Buffalo in those events.

New Jersey Swimming has named its 2008 Zones Coaching Staff and has included Elite Coach Becky Marcelliano to its staff.

Elite will be well represented in Buffalo in early April!!!