AGUA Newsletter
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Great Work at the Phoenix Summer Classic
The 2023 Phoenix Summer Classic was a great success! Our athletes raced to many first-time championship qualifications, additional cuts, heat wins, and more.

A big shout-out to Kelly Hsu on earning 15-&-Over High Point Honors. Kelly took home top-three finishes in the 100, 200, and 400 freestyles as well as the 100 butterfly.

The AGUA coaches would like to thank George Erich Gill, Zoe Jalkut, Zahra Kumar, Simone Lilavois, Matthew Renwick, Karan Thakker, and Annika Wahlquist for standing out as RAD teammates throughout the weekend.

Congratulations to our top-8 swimmers:
  • Daniel Andguladze - 50 and 100 butterfly; 100 backstroke; 50 breaststroke; 200 freestyle
  • Angelina Ash - 50 backstroke
  • Hugh Batten - 50 and 100 backstroke
  • Xanthe Blackburne - 100 and 200 backstroke; 400 IM
  • Salvatore Bove - 400 IM
  • Kate Casciato - 50 and 100 freestyle
  • Emily Chan - 100 and 200 backstroke
  • Sienna Cho - 100 butterfly; 200 IM
  • Sebastian Colvin - 100 butterfly; 100 backstroke; 50 and 100 breaststroke; 100 freestyle
  • Sam Crisostomo - 200 breaststroke
  • Cooper Dong - 100 and 200 backstroke
  • Arabella Fang - 50 and 100 breaststroke
  • Tessa Feld - 200 backstroke; 200 and 400 freestyle
  • Chloe Fu - 200 IM
  • Nikol Goncharenko - 100 and 200 backstroke; 200 IM
  • Nikolai Haridasan - 100 butterfly; 100 and 200 breaststroke; 100, 200 and 400 freestyle; 200 IM
  • Alex Hoffmann - 100 and 200 butterfly; 100 and 200 breaststroke; 200 freestyle; 200 and 400 IM
  • Kelly Hsu - 100 butterfly; 50, 100, 200 and 400 freestyle; 200 IM
  • Kai Huang - 100 breaststroke
  • Ryan Kakimseit - 100 butterfly; 100 and 200 backstroke
  • Jake Kim - 200 and 400 freestyle; 200 IM
  • Ella Knox - 200 backstroke; 200 and 400 freestyle; 200 IM
  • Beatrice Koffey - 50 and 200 breaststroke
  • Cormac Lapolla - 200 breaststroke; 400 freestyle; 200 IM
  • Wyatt Lee-Walters - 100 butterfly; 50 and 100 breaststroke; 400 freestyle; 200 IM
  • William Levine - 200 butterfly; 200 backstroke; 100 and 200 breaststroke; 400 IM
  • Simone Lilavois - 200 butterfly
  • Bridget Lockwood - 100 backstroke; 50 freestyle
  • Cruz Malick - 50 and 100 breaststroke
  • Tegan Mejia - 100 butterfly; 50 backstroke; 50 and 100 breaststroke
  • Rohan Mehra - 400 IM
  • Daniel Mente - 200 breaststroke; 400 freestyle; 200 IM
  • Aislinn Moloney - 100 butterfly
  • Maya Mulholland - 100 butterfly; 100 backstroke; 200 and 400 freestyle; 200 IM
  • Rome Neal - 100 butterfly; 100 backstroke; 50 and 100 freestyle
  • Jonathan Packles - 100 and 200 backstroke; 200 and 400 freestyle; 200 IM
  • Yahro Pique - 100 butterfly; 100, 200, and 400 freestyle
  • Ellise Plevin - 200 breaststroke
  • Will Rankin - 100 butterfly; 100 and 200 backstroke; 50, 100, and 400 freestyle; 200 IM
  • Matthew Renwick - 100 butterfly
  • Zoe Ross Allen - 100 and 200 butterfly
  • Artem Safroniuk - 100 and 200 butterfly; 100 and 200 backstroke; 100 freestyle; 400 IM
  • Hayden Schwartz - 100 and 200 butterfly; 100 and 200 backstroke; 400 freestyle; 200 IM
  • Tim Seliger - 100 backstroke; 100 freestyle
  • Sabrina Shafer - 100 butterfly
  • Katerina Spartioti - 50 butterfly; 50 and 100 breaststroke
  • Allegra Speight-Ray - 200 butterfly; 100, 200, and 400 freestyle
  • Oliver Speight-Ray - 200 butterfly; 100 backstroke; 400 IM
  • Laura Strassenburg - 100 breaststroke
  • Benjamin Vargas - 100 backstroke; 100 and 400 freestyle
  • Annika Wahlquist - 50 breaststroke
  • Tessa Weber - 100, 200, and 400 freestyle
  • Brian Wu - 100 and 200 breaststroke
  • Heidi Wu - 200 backstroke; 50 and 200 freestyle; 200 IM
  • Addie Yang - 50 butterfly; 100 backstroke; 50 and 100 breaststroke
  • Annette Yu - 50 backstroke
  • Aurelia Zomopoulos - 50 and 100 butterfly; 100 backstroke; 400 freestyle
Sign Up for the 2023 LCM Weekend Meets
NBAC Mid-Summer Classic
Final entries are now available.
  • When: Thursday, July 6, to Sunday, July 9, 2023
  • Where: St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, MD
  • Job Signup: Please keep an eye out for our assigned timing responsibilities. 
  • Tentative Swimmer Call Times:
  • Thursday Distance – 2:30pm
  • Friday/Saturday/Sunday 13 & Over – 6:15am
  • Friday 12 & Under – 11:45am
  • Saturday/Sunday 12 & Under - 12pm
  • Friday/Saturday/Sunday Finals – 4:15pm
  • Uniform:
  • Thursday – Choice AGUA shirt
  • Friday – Black AGUA shirt
  • Saturday – Dark gray AGUA shirt
  • Sunday – Light gray AGUA shirt
  • Tech suits are permitted. All suits must adhere to the team suit policy.

Condors July Jubilee
Final entries are now available.
  • When: Friday, July 7, to Sunday, July 9, 2023
  • Where: Felix Festa Middle School, West Nyack, NY
  • Tentative Swimmer Call Times:
  • Friday Distance – 5:15pm
  • Saturday and Sunday 12 & Under – 7am
  • Saturday 400 IM – 12:15pm
  • Saturday and Sunday 13 & Over – 2:15pm
  • Sunday 400 Freestyle – 12:15pm
  • Uniform:
  • Friday – Black AGUA shirt
  • Saturday – Dark gray AGUA shirt
  • Sunday – Light gray AGUA shirt
  • Tech suits are permitted. All suits must adhere to the team suit policy.

Senior Metropolitan Championships
  • When: Thursday, July 13, to Sunday, July 16, 2023
  • Where: Nassau County Aquatic Center, East Meadow, NY
  • Job signup is now available. All unfilled roles will be assigned by AGUA.
  • Swimmer Call Times:
  • Thursday 800 Freestyle – 3:30pm
  • Thursday 800 Freestyle Relay – 4:30pm
  • Friday/Saturday/Sunday Preliminaries – 7am (Swimmers should confirm with their lead group coach.)
  • Friday/Saturday Finals – 4pm
  • Sunday Finals – 3:30pm
  • Uniform:
  • Thursday – Choice AGUA shirt
  • Friday – Black AGUA shirt
  • Saturday – Dark gray AGUA shirt
  • Sunday – Light gray AGUA shirt
  • Tech suits are permitted. All suits must adhere to the team suit policy.

Metropolitan Age Group Championships
  • Who: Qualifiers
  • When: Friday, July 21, to Sunday, July 23, 2023
  • Where: Nassau County Aquatic Center, East Meadow, NY

USA Swimming Futures Championships
  • Who: Qualifiers
  • When: Wednesday, July 26, to Saturday, July 29, 2023
  • Where: SwimRVA, Richmond, VA

ISCA Summer Elite Showcase
  • Who: Qualifiers
  • When: Wednesday, August 2, to Saturday, August 5, 2023
  • Where: North Shore Aquatic Complex, St. Petersburg, FL

Eastern Zone Senior Zone Championships
  • Who: Qualifiers
  • When: Thursday, August 3, to Sunday, August 6, 2023
  • Where: Eerie Community College, Buffalo, NY
  • Hotel room block information: The Buffalo Marriott at LECOM HARBORCENTER at 95 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203
  • $199 per night
  • Deadline to book: Wednesday, July 5, 2023
  • Book a group rate through Asphalt Green
Registration for the 2023-2024 Season
As a reminder, group placements for the 2023-2024 short course yards season, which runs from September to March, will be announced the week of Monday, July 10, 2023.

Registration for the 2023-2024 season will be open from Monday, July 17, through Friday, August 11. Registration must be completed through your Asphalt Green account. Please be sure to check your password in advance.

For the 2023-2024 scholarship application process, all financial information must be submitted through Asphalt Green’s financial aid software, TADS.

Once you create a login, please make the following selections:
  • State: New York
  • City: New York
  • School: Asphalt Green
  • Select the 2023-2024 school year
Upcoming Birthdays

July 4
Manas Chan
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July 5
Nari Baker

July 6
Michael Mahedy
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July 9
Michelle Jia
Reece Toliver

July 10
Lexi Asch
Lora Wu
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Training Schedule and Updates 

Tuesday, July 4
  • Canceled: All practices.
  • Please note: All practices on Wednesday, July 5, will run as regularly scheduled.

Thursday, July 6
  • Senior Prep Gold swimmers racing at Senior Mets will swim from 5:45pm to 7:30pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus.
  • Senior Prep Gold swimmers not racing at Senior Mets will swim from 4:15pm to 5:45pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus.
  • Canceled: BPC dryland practices.

Friday, July 7 (UPDATED)
  • Senior II will swim from 7am to 8:30am at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus.
  • Senior Prep and Senior I will swim from 5:15pm to 6:45pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus.
  • UES AG1, AG2, and AG3 will swim from 4:15pm to 5:15pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus.
  • Canceled: All dryland practices.

Saturday, July 8
  • Canceled: BPC and UES AG2 and AG3.

Sunday, July 9
  • Canceled: Senior Prep and Senior I.

Thursday, July 13
  • Swimmers in Senior I, Senior II, and National racing at Senior Mets may swim from 4pm to 6pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus.
  • Senior Prep Gold will swim from 5:30pm to 7pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus.
  • Canceled: Senior Prep dryland.

Friday, July 14
  • Swimmers in Senior I, Senior II, and National racing at Senior Mets may swim from 7am to 8:30am at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus.
  • Senior I will swim from 4pm to 5:30pm at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus. 
  • Canceled: All dryland practices.

Saturday, July 15
  • All (UES & BPC) 11- to 14-year-old Age Group Championship qualifiers will swim from 7am to 8:30am at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus.
  • All (UES & BPC) 10-and-under Age Group Championship qualifiers will swim from 8:30am to 9:30am at Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus.
  • All 15-and-over Age Group Championship qualifiers will swim from 10am to 11:30am at Asphalt Green's Upper East side campus.
  • Canceled: All other practices at both the Battery Park City and Upper East Side campuses.

Sunday, July 16
  • Canceled: All practices.

Monday, July 17
  • Senior II and National morning practices are canceled. Evening practices will run as regularly scheduled. 
  • Canceled: BPC dryland practices.