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Submitting Legislation: Fall 2020 HOD

July 10, 2020 by Bill Martin

Submitting Legislation:

REMINDER:

If you would like to propose legislation for the NCS Fall HOD meeting on Oct 4, 2020, please mark up the existing Rule or By-Law with the proposed wording and submit your proposal to Wayne Shulby wayne.shulby@gmail.com using the HOD Legislation Template below. The deadline for submitting legislation is August 15, 2020.

HOD Legislation Template

* Any legislation submitted for the Spring HOD, which was not held, will be considered at the Fall HOD. There is no need to resubmit that legislation.

30 mile swim in 24 hours: NCS swimmer’s goal

July 9, 2020 by Bill Martin

NORTH CAROLINA YOUTH SWIMMER TO SWIM 24-HOURS, 30-MILES, TO FUNDRAISE $30,000 FOR SHEPHERD CENTER PATIENT ASSISTANCE FUND.

On July 22, 2019, North Carolina State Trooper, Chris Wooten was in a terrible accident. Hit and thrown from his motorcycle, Chris was found fighting for his life. He was transported to Carolina Medical Center and soon diagnosed with a complete spinal cord injury. After gaining enough strength, Chris was later transported to the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, GA., where he would spend more than six months recovering, with his wife Sharon always by his side.

Chris’s near-fatal accident and his path to recovery have affected many lives, especially his family. “Everything changed in an instant” recalled Chris’s brother-in-law, Michael Sever. “The magnitude of the life-changing impact is incomprehensible until it’s thrust upon you.”

Cooper Sever, Chris’s 16-year young nephew was also very moved by his uncle’s situation. Cooper, a competitive swimmer from Salisbury, North Carolina wanted to help. “A couple of weeks ago, he came to me with an idea to swim for 24-hours – like an ultra swim-a-thon,” said Michael. His idea quickly transformed into a 24-hour, 30-mile swim, with a goal is to fundraise $30,000 for Shepherd Center Patient Assistance Fund. The fund provides financial assistance to patients with spinal cord injury for medical goods, prescriptions, and other related services.

The charity swim event will be held at Eaman Park Pool in Salisbury. It begins at 6 pm, July 21, and ends at 6 pm, July 22. Cooper is no stranger to swimming, but swimming 24-hours will be especially challenging. “My uncle has overcome more challenges than my swim, that’s what keeps me going, that’s what keeps me pushing,” said Cooper.

Please help us share this story of hope. Information and donations can be made at:

https://swim243.com/

https://www.shepherd.org/giving/swim-243

Facebook @swim243

Contact Michael Sever, 401-439-1441, vmsever@gmail.com

Facebook @swim243

NCS Athlete Committee Food Bank Drive

July 7, 2020 by Bill Martin

To my fellow North Carolina inhabitants,

During our current time of change, the North Carolina Athlete Committee has been looking for a way to help our community. Working together we came up with a plan to support three major Food Bank organizations that stretch across North Carolina: Second Harvest, Central & Eastern NC (CENC), and Salvation Army. These Food Banks have had an influx this year with the coronavirus crisis affecting almost everyone. As student athletes we work hard in the pool and even harder in school. We also want to show how much we want to be a positive influence on those around us. With that being said…

We are selling wristbands for $1.50/ea and accepting donations

Payment will be through Paypal and Venmo (more information is included on the order form).

“Take Your Mark Then Make Your Mark #NCS” is printed on the wristbands

One of our very own athletes came up with the phrase and we believed it made the best statement as to what we want to do; take our mark at the pool and then make our mark on the world.

Wristbands will be delivered to your local swim team in a mass delivery (one in July & one in August).

The last day orders will be accepted is September 1st.

You can place your order using the following link.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScoc42EzkyPpzP8M2xi5n8OPSkqpik51viv5jB7o_TjNy0-lQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

SPREAD THE WORD! Forward this post and ask your neighbors; you don’t have to be involved in swimming to get one!

Thank you for your help in supporting our community!

Piper Burton – Senior Athlete Representative

USA Swimming COVID-19 Relief Program Grants – Round 2

July 1, 2020 by Bill Martin

As shared in late May, the USA Swimming Foundation has pledged up to another $1.5M to support phase two of the COVID-19 Relief Program, which focuses on supporting a return to business for member clubs.

The application period for phase two is now open. The grant guidelines and information can be found here: usaswimming.org/utility/community-quaratine-resources/covid-19-relief-program-for-teams

The application for this next phase will be done online. Clubs must complete the application form by visiting: usaswimming.smapply.io/prog/usa_swimming_covid-relief_grant/

The application deadline is Friday, July 10, 2020.

Further questions about the USA Swimming COVID-19 Relief Program can be sent to clubgrantrelief@usaswimming.org.

GRANT GUIDELINES

New NCS Meet Schedule Format

June 30, 2020 by Bill Martin

When you click the MEET SCHEDULE tab you will notice a new look. Our meet database software was updated to be compatible with recent web host upgrades. The upgrades promise to improve both speed and website security. Please give Richard Pockat a big “thank you” for his work on this project!

The meet database includes NCS meets from 2007 thru meets bid for the 2020-21 long course season. The new meet schedule has the same information as the previous schedule but in a slightly different format. The best way to find meets is to use the “Quick Search” box in the upper right-hand corner.

A season column has been added so that meets can be pulled up by season. For example, if you would like to view just those meets in the 2020 long course season, you would enter “LC 20” in the search box. All meets in the 2020 long course season will pull up in reverse chronological order. To view in chronological order, simply click “Event Start” at the top of the Event Start column. (Note: season codes have been entered only for the most recent seasons: 2019-20 short course (SC 19-20), 2020 long course (LC 20), and 2020-21 short course (SC 20-21). Season codes will continue to be added as future meets are posted.

If you would like to find a specific meet, the easiest way is to enter the meet year and the host club in the search box. For example, if you are looking for a Marlins of Raleigh meet from 2019, you would enter “2019 MOR” and all Marlins of Raleigh meets from 2019 would pull up. Meets can also be pulled up by entering the sanction number in the search box. Again, the meets will pull up in reverse chronological order but can be reversed by clicking “Event Start” at the top of that column.

Clicking an event under the Events column will pull up a detail view of that event.

Clicking the “EVENTS” title on the upper left side will return you to the entire database.

Additional features are being considered. In the meantime, please check out the new Meet Schedule.

USAS Safe Sport ZOOM Training

June 30, 2020 by Bill Martin

Since April, the USA Swimming Safe Sport staff has been hosting weekly Zoom training for parents, minor athletes and coaches to assist clubs in completing the Training and Education requirement of the Safe Sport Club Recognition program. Starting July 2020, the Safe Sport staff will offer these training sessions semi-monthly. Please see the July 2020 training schedule below which will also be communicated via email, newsletters, and social media.

July 2020 training schedule:

Parent Trainings:

· Wednesday, July 15 at 3:00 p.m. EST https://zoom.us/j/93724361466?pwd=OVF4RFlNZFpaMHhqSEVVRGwzbmpQUT09

· Wednesday, July 29 at 8:00 p.m. EST https://zoom.us/j/93724361466?pwd=OVF4RFlNZFpaMHhqSEVVRGwzbmpQUT09

Athlete Trainings (12-18 years old):

· Thursday, July 16 at 3:00 p.m. EST https://zoom.us/j/97633664936?pwd=YnpXZmljME5PcldacW9ZQ0w5YTFIZz09

· Thursday, July 30 at 8:00 p.m. EST https://zoom.us/j/97633664936?pwd=YnpXZmljME5PcldacW9ZQ0w5YTFIZz09

Coaches Training:

· Friday, July 17 at 3:00 p.m. EST https://zoom.us/j/98698656108?pwd=NzQ5TGdjWkRDc0Irck9tWHpJL1hkQT09

USA Swimming Safe Sport Team

USA Swimming Return to Competition Plan

June 26, 2020 by Bill Martin

USA Swimming Return to Competition Plan Last month, USA Swimming introduced the concept of a crawl, walk, race approach to our return to competition. As part of that return to competition plan, for July 2020, the USA Swimming Board of Directors has approved sanctioning of meets comprised only of athletes and clubs registered within the sanctioning LSC.*

Furthermore, with the recognition that many of our clubs have limited or no access to facilities, and to maintain a level playing field, times achieved in sanctioned meets during July 2020 may not be used for any USA Swimming programs, camps, or competitions above the LSC level. Competitions above the LSC level include, but are not limited to, Zones, Sectionals, Futures, Junior Nationals, U.S. Open, National Championships and the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming. LSCs may use times achieved for LSC programs, meet qualifications, etc.

All competition events must conform to local, state, and federal public health guidelines. An LSC shall establish submission deadlines for sanction or approval applications and shall publish such periods, along with relevant instructions and forms.

Given the varying access to facilities and myriad of local requirements, USA Swimming understands that clubs and athletes may not be able to attend or host a traditional sanctioned competition. In the coming weeks, USA Swimming will share new practice-based opportunities for recognition and fun virtual events in which our clubs and athletes can participate.

Every club planning to host or attend a meet must develop a Return to Competition plan. Return to competition can only occur if and when your local authorities have deemed it safe to return to competition. USA Swimming in no way endorses conducting practice or competition in violation of any local, state, or federal guidelines.

To access USA Swimming’s Return to Competition plan, visit the link below.

(*A club, geographically isolated within their LSC, may be granted the opportunity to compete in an adjacent LSC with permission from both the club’s LSC and the adjacent LSC.)

RETURN TO COMPETITION PLAN

USA Swimming Scholastic All America Applications available

June 2, 2020 by Bill Martin

The Scholastic All America (SAA) application is now available on the USA Swimming website. The quick link to get to the application and relative information is:

http://www.usaswimming.org/saaapp

Athletes are the only individuals who may access the application so please make sure that athletes only sign in to their account.

QuaranTEAM Challenge – Week 6 Results

May 30, 2020 by Bill Martin

Complete Week 6 Test Set Results

Rankings by Average Test Set Time

Rankings by Best Time in a Test Set

Week 6 was the final week of the QuaranTeam Dryland Challenge. More than one thousand NCS athletes competed in the challenge over a six week period. Athletes performed nine dryland exercises for time to complete the challenge. This was the final of three test sets. Above are the rankings for the Week 6 Test set, along with final rankings for an average of sets participated in, and final rankings of each participant’s best time.

Below are the Top Ten finishers in each of four age groups by gender for week 6.


Club Code	Swimmer Name	Age Group	Gender	Test Set	Rank
RSA	Grace Yu	10U	F	00:59.0	1
GFSC	Kamdyn Leute	10U	F	01:07.0	2
RSA	Violet Eckard	10U	F	01:15.0	3
NSS	Blakeley Hogan	10U	F	01:19.0	4
NSS	Mia Rozman	10U	F	01:24.0	5
TYDE	Eva Beekman	10U	F	01:25.0	6
YOTA	Margot Church	10U	F	01:26.0	7
NSS	Cailyn D’Onfrio	10U	F	01:27.0	8
RSA	Grace Desrosiers	10U	F	01:33.0	9
MOR	Eliza Townsend	10U	F	01:33.0	10

Club Code	Swimmer Name	Age Group	Gender	Test Set	Rank
RSA	Gavin Hulbig	10U	M	00:50.0	1
RSA	Jake Levesque	10U	M	01:16.0	2
RSA	Ethan Liu	10U	M	01:19.0	3
RSA	Levi Camp	10U	M	01:22.0	4
TYDE	Russ Beekman	10U	M	01:25.0	5
RSA	Declan Atai	10U	M	01:26.0	6
RSA	Noah Brumback	10U	M	01:27.0	7
RSA	Connor Licht	10U	M	01:27.0	8
RSA	Saathvik Vemuri	10U	M	01:27.0	9
RSA	Canaan Salvitti	10U	M	01:29.0	10
RSA	Austin Alamo	10U	M	01:29.0	10

Club Code	Swimmer Name	Age Group	Gender	Test Set	Rank
WOW	Heidi Bollenbacher	11-12	F	01:46.0	1
RSA	Grace Pereira	11-12	F	01:46.0	2
NSEA	Taylor Crane	11-12	F	01:56.0	3
RSA	Harper Lucas	11-12	F	01:58.0	4
MOR	Brinkley Argenta	11-12	F	02:26.0	5
LOY	Amira Buttar	11-12	F	02:30.0	6
YOTA	Addy Church	11-12	F	02:32.0	7
SAC	Abby Haydon	11-12	F	02:35.0	8
SSS	Lexi Brown	11-12	F	02:35.0	9
RSA	Lauren Schoenagel	11-12	F	02:38.0	10
NSS	Kate Pennell	11-12	F	02:38.0	10

Club Code	Swimmer Name	Age Group	Gender	Test Set	Rank
RSA	Marcus Hulbig	11-12	M	01:57.0	1
NSEA	Clem Camacho	11-12	M	01:58.0	2
NSEA	Nathan Neu	11-12	M	02:01.0	3
GFSC	Noah Walcott	11-12	M	02:17.5	4
RSA	Franklin Aycock	11-12	M	02:18.0	5
XA	William Abernethy	11-12	M	02:26.0	6
GFSC	Joshua Delos Santos	11-12	M	02:30.0	7
NSS	Brandon Wong	11-12	M	02:30.0	8
SAC	Jacob Tysinger	11-12	M	02:32.0	9
NSEA	Ryker Eder	11-12	M	02:33.0	10

Club Code	Swimmer Name	Age Group	Gender	Test Set	Rank
RSA	Adwita Arvind	13-14	F	02:48.0	1
MOR	Abigail Dozier	13-14	F	03:07.0	2
NSEA	Keener Witmer	13-14	F	03:11.0	3
LOY	Amelia Betancourt	13-14	F	03:25.0	4
NSEA	Cadence Eder	13-14	F	03:25.0	5
SAC	Lauren Barrick	13-14	F	03:29.0	6
TEAM	Abby Lutz	13-14	F	03:30.0	7
TEAM	Kendal Wilson	13-14	F	03:33.0	8
TEAM	Alije Schultz	13-14	F	03:34.0	9
TEAM	Kaitlynn Malarney	13-14	F	03:35.0	10

Club Code	Swimmer Name	Age Group	Gender	Test Set	Rank
RSA	Dylan Gretok	13-14	M	02:47.0	1
GFSC	Nate Derwin	13-14	M	02:58.0	2
LOY	Austin Hartsell	13-14	M	02:58.0	3
RSA	Matthew Schoenagel	13-14	M	02:59.0	4
NSEA	Cole Witmer	13-14	M	03:11.0	5
NSS	Reid Kendall	13-14	M	03:13.0	6
TEAM	Caleb Larson	13-14	M	03:14.0	7
TEAM	Will Roper	13-14	M	03:15.0	8
YBAC	Owen Nye	13-14	M	03:21.0	9
RSA	Emilio Aparicio	13-14	M	03:21.0	10

Club Code	Swimmer Name	Age Group	Gender	Test Set	Rank
NSS	Agnaeya Arora	15-18	F	04:28.0	1
NSS	Samantha Melton	15-18	F	04:36.0	2
TEAM	Emma Nash	15-18	F	04:38.0	3
TEAM	Reese Lauletta	15-18	F	04:38.0	4
TEAM	Caroline Stowe	15-18	F	04:39.0	5
SAC	Trinity Price	15-18	F	04:46.0	6
LOY	Ava Schuster	15-18	F	04:50.0	7
LOY	Meredith Tucker	15-18	F	04:57.0	8
GFSC	Bridget Derwin	15-18	F	04:58.0	9
NSS	Eliza Haines	15-18	F	05:00.0	10
TEAM	Megan Rink	15-18	F	05:00.0	10

Club Code	Swimmer Name	Age Group	Gender	Test Set	Rank
NSS	Daniel Snapp	15-18	M	03:34.0	1
NSS	Julian Mercer II	15-18	M	03:39.0	2
XA	Landon Lennex	15-18	M	03:41.0	3
TEAM	Ryan Schulken	15-18	M	03:42.0	4
YOTA	Wiley Sikes	15-18	M	04:10.0	5
TEAM	Diego Caravaca	15-18	M	04:10.0	6
TEAM	Johnathan Burch	15-18	M	04:18.0	7
YOTA	Shaw Satterfield	15-18	M	04:27.0	8
GFSC	Ian Giffel	15-18	M	04:30.0	9
TEAM	Ben Esarove	15-18	M	04:32.0	10

NCS members named to Southern Zone Select Camp

May 27, 2020 by Bill Martin

Several NCS athletes and coaches were named to the 2020 Southern Zone Select Camp. Amy Faulk (SwimMAC), and Kristina Bond (Team Charlotte) were named to the coaching staff. Female athletes representing NCS include: Lily Welsh (TAC Titans), Sofia Plaza (ATOM), Paige Thome (SwimMAC), Nicole Zettel (TAC Titans), and Lily Willis (TAC Titans). Male athletes selected were: Henry Lee (TAC Titans), Ross Noble (YOTA), Andrew Li (TAC Titans), and Max Marrujo (TAC Titans).

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these camps were pivoted to a virtual format to provide the athletes who’ve earned this distinction a unique learning experience. The sessions, facilitated by James Leath, founder of Unleash the Athlete, are scheduled for Saturday, May 30, and will include discussions on leadership, including navigating change, setting and adapting goals, mental resiliency and character development. Athletes will also attend a virtual panel discussion with current and former National Team athletes, including Kelsi Dahlia, Hannah Moore, Sean Ryan, and Tom Luchsinger.

Congratulations Swimmers and Coaches!

Click here to read the entire USA Swimming article.