The 18th Annual Swim Across the Sound 25km marathon swim will take place on August 13th, 2005. The 2005 Swim Application Packet (applications are due by May 31st!) among other things are all posted on the Swim Across the Sound website.
Let’s finalize our teams and get started on fundraising a bit earlier this year!

Congrats to our CONNMASTERS Team. Check out the results. We took third in the Small Team Division. All we need to do is go to more meets. Good job all of you who swam! Don’t forget the State Championship Meet at East Lyme on May 1. Entries are avaialble on the website.

Women’s Individual Results
Men’s Individual Results
Women’s Relay Results
Men’s Relay Results
Mixed Relay Results
Team Results

USMS One Hour Postal Championships

2005 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championship will be on TV Friday March 25th at 2:00 PM on ESPN2 (channel 35).
2005 NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship will be on TV Friday April 1st at 1:30 PM on ESPN2 (channel 35).
For more information, go to http://www.ncaasports.com/broadcast/tv.

Boys H.S. State OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP MEET
March 19 — Yale University – Kiputh Pool
Finals – 6:00 p.m.

DUE TO THE WEATHER, THE YMCA MIGHT CLOSE TONIGHT.
Before venturing out for practice tonight, call the Y at (203) 226-8981 to make sure it is open.
If it is not, stay home and do dry land.
Coach Mike

Read the two articles below for some extremely fast swimming. Phelps broke Matt Biondi’s 1987 American record of 1:33.03 and Simon Burnett’s overall record of 1:32.22 in the 200 yard freestyle with a 1:32.08. On the women’s side Natalie Coughlin went a 1:44.86 in the 200 yard freestyle and a 52.13 in the 100 [...]

College Swimming “Big 12 Swimming & Diving Championships” will be on televised on March 12th at 4 PM on FSN NY (should be channel 72 if you use Cablevision).

Four new meets were added to the Upcoming Events section. Anyone planning on attending any of these?

03.13.2005 – Spring Fling Masters Swim Meet at Lehman College
04.02.2005 – April Sprint SC Yard Masters Swim Meet at Asphalt Green
04.17.2005 – NYC Masters Meet & Commissioner’s Trophy Relay at Chelsea Pool
04.30.2005 – Yonkers Masters Winter Swim Invitational