ELITE NEWS BULLETIN 03-27-06
The
Elite Swim Club concluded its finest season ever by celebrating yesterday at
its annual Awards Banquet held this year at the Hanover Marriott.
The
four-hour celebration was highlighted by several award ceremonies recognizing
Elite’s finest, speeches, a 20-minute slide show and several 15 minute dancing
sessions with a DJ. Each swimmer who attended received a “Memory Book,” created
from the pictures taken this past season.
Spurred
on by the desire to recognize Elite’s Scholar Athletes and to “train” them to
qualify for USA Swimming’s Prestigious All-American Scholar Athlete Award, the
afternoon party began by Bill recognizing Elite’s finest Scholar Athletes.
Winning
the newest and most prestigious Elite award, known as the Elite Scholar-Athlete
“Gold” Award were the following: Carolyn DeMeo, Priya Duvvuri, Cassandra
Farnow, Greg Keiser, Emmie Lai, Michael Li, Madison Munoz, Lindsay Scott,
Veronica Smith, Lindsay Stearns, Lily Thompson & Maggie Woodruff. Winners
of this award needed to have all A’s with no more than 1 B and at least 1
Junior Olympic qualifying time.
Winning the next level scholar-athlete award,
known as the Elite Scholar-Athlete “Teal” Award were the following: Lindsay
Anderson, Courtney Brosnan, Corey Deatly, Tad Deatly, Christian DeFluri,
Venkatesh Duvvuri, Kristen Fedor, Alistair Hall, Zackie Katz, Victoria Keiser,
Kirsten Kellstrom, Regan Kology, Patrick Lai, Ricky LaSalvia, Robert Maloney, Maggie Nelson, Austin Meszaros,
Collin Reilly, Brittany Ross, Nicki Ross, Amanda Scherb, Andrea Shepard, Sarah
Weinbrom, Alex Wolfson, Winners of this award needed to have all A’s & B’s
more than 1 B and at least 1 Silver Championship qualifying time.
Elite
also recognized all those swimmers who attended practice 85% of the time or
more. They were by training group:
Marlin Teals: Chris Balbo, Katie
Brosnan, Emily Goad, Andre Guacelli & Julia Watt
Marlin Blacks: Sam Barback, Noah Eagle, Brandon Faris, Andrea Ferrell, Katie Golway,
Lydia Gracey, Julia Guacelli, Zackie Katz, Aaron Levin, Christina Pick,
Gabrielle Pick, Michelle Pick, Claire Serruto, Kaitlin Stearns, Spencer Turkington
& Caroline Watt
Wavebuster Teals: Meg Brosnan, Taylor Campolattaro, TJ Dougherty, Krishna Duvvuri, Hannah
Gleason, Ricky LaSalvia, Jessica Lowe, Marisa Manzi, Isabelle Morreale, Collin
Reilly, Taylor Savarese, Lindsay Stearns, Sarah Weinbrom, Nicole Weissman, Alex
Wolfson & Maggie Woodruff
Wavebuster Blacks: Courtney Brosnan, Monica Carty, Brannon Cho, Joshua Choi, Peter Davey,
Kristen Fedor, Spencer Fisch, Breana Fitzpatrick, Katie Gorman, Brent Jones,
Greg Keiser, Brandon King, Regan Kology, Emmie Lai, Robert Maloney, Brendan
Miller-Radest, Ali Morreale, Madison Munoz, Christopher Plunkett, Andrea
Shepard, Erica Takahashi, Jennifer Torre & Michael Wang.
Wavebuster Golds: Lindsay Anderson, Victoria D’Altrui, Tad Deatly, Carolyn DeMeo, Venkatesh
Duvvuri, Priya Duvvuri, Duncan Hall, Victoria Keiser, Michael Li, Danielle
Martinez, Sarah McGrath, Kendall Murray, Maggie Nelson, Nicki Ross, Amanda
Scherb & Lexi Tedesco
Senior Preps: Cassandra Farnow
Seniors: Crissy Condus, Chris Dart, Corey Deatly, Julianne Furdyna, Alex Gonzalez,
Austin Meszaros, Will Peters, Brittany Ross, Veroncia Smith & Nick
Trojanowski
Also recognized
were Elite’s 5 swimmers who placed in the top 8 at last week’s Junior Olympics.
They were: Courtney Brosnan, Chris Dart, Carolyn DeMeo, Priya Duvvuri &
Colleen Mason.
WAVE BLACKS: SPRING SCHEDULE ALTERED (ON SAT):
Pursuant
to the request at the January Parents Meeting to discuss the new Spring
Schedule, Elite has altered its spring schedule with regards to practice time
on Saturdays for the Wave Blacks. During the Spring 2006 Session, the Wave
Blacks will practice at Newark Academy from 9:30 am to 11:00 am on Saturdays.
Because
of a conflict with the Newark Academy High School Swim team, Elite will not be
able to provide this Saturday am practice time throughout the Winter 2006-07
Session. The tentative plan is for Elite to have this am practice time from
September thru November 15 and then move it to Saturday pm from 2:45 pm to 4:00
pm
TOP 10 TIMES TO BE UPDATED
THIS WEEK:
One
of the most fun elements of swimming is the “measurability” of performance. To
help keep swimmers motivated, Elite posts all sorts of “top 10” times on its
website.
Already updated on
the website is the Top 10 All Time Times list, which includes all this year’s
championship performances (including this past weekend’s Junior Olympics).
Later this week, the Top Age Group and Training Group times will be updated.
Look for your
favorite swimmer and lets get motivated to climb the list!!!
SUMMER LONG
COURSE MEET SCHEDULE REVISED:
Adjusting to the
increased participation in summer “long course” competition, New Jersey
Swimming has announced a restructure of the schedule of its championship meets.
To meet the additional
interest in summer competition (last summers meets were terribly overcrowded),
NJ Swimming will hold a Bronze Level Meet this summer in addition to “moving
back” the Junior Olympic competiton.
Junior Olympics will be
held Friday, August 4 thru Sunday, August 6, 2006 at Rutgers University.
12 & Under Silvers will be held Saturday,
July 15 and Sunday, July 16 at Rutgers (same weekend as in the past).
13 & Older Silvers will be held Saturday,
July 22 and Sunday, July 23 at Rutgers (same weekend as in the past).
Bronze Championships will be held on Saturday, July 29 and Sunday,
July 30 in Bayonne (at an outside venue!).