Archive for the 'General' Category

Morning swims at Compo Beach

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

Andy Davis posted this earlier in a comment but for those of you who missed it…
Morning swims at Compo have been a lot of fun (ok, at least fun when it’s over). For any of you “crack of dawn” types, these guys & gals (mostly hard core triathletes) will be swimming Monday, Wednesday and Friday [...]

2004 Greenwich Island Beach Two Mile Swim

Friday, August 20th, 2004

Bruce, Chet, Greg and Josh competed in the Greenwich Island Beach Two Mile Swim this past weekend. The conditons were perfect compared to the condtions at the Swim Across the Sound the previous weekend. The Greenwich Time’s has a nice recap of the event.
More photos from the Swim Across the Sound.

Announcements

Thursday, August 12th, 2004

Best of luck to Cheryl who heads down to Savannah, Georgia today to compete in the 2004 USMS Long Course National Championships.
Also the Westport/Weston YMCA will be closed from August 16th to August 29th. During this time we’ll practice at the Wilton YMCA. I’m sure Mike will have more to say about this [...]

Swim Across the Sound Recap

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004

This years Swim Across the Sound may be the best example in a long time of the strength of the swimming programs in Westport through the ages. Westporters, and Westport swimming programs, accounted for nearly 75 percent of the trophy positions, swum in conditions that race director Dave Parcells called “the worst in [...]

Swim Across the Sound 8/7

Thursday, August 5th, 2004

On Saturday August 7th Wesport Swim Club will have two relays competing in the Swim Across the Sound. If you’re interested in coming to watch the finish they said the relays will begin arriving around 2 PM at Captains Cove in Bridgeport, CT. The awards ceremony will begin at 7:00 PM, after all [...]

New Stuff

Wednesday, August 4th, 2004

Go cast your vote on the future of the Minuteman as part of our team logo. Please note if you haven’t registered for the bulletin board you’ll have to do so before you could vote.
Also I added a photo gallery to the site. If you have pictures from an event and would like them [...]

In the News

Monday, August 2nd, 2004

Westport Swim Club member Kim Russo was mentioned in this Fairfield Minuteman article regarding her participation in the upcoming Swim Across the Sound.

Olympic Swimmers Embracing New Technology

Big Weekend

Monday, July 19th, 2004

In case you missed it, this was the big weekend. We had the Westport Point to Point swim on Saturday which most of the team attended, and received awards and the Wilton Summer Sizzler which a smaller group attended.
Next big event is the Swim Across the Sound on August 7th, so we need to [...]

Swim Across the Sound Photo Session Tonight

Thursday, July 15th, 2004

For all people competing in the Swim Across the Sound there will be a photo session tonight at 6:30 PM at Captain’s Cove Marina in Bridgeport, CT. They would like to get as many solo swimmers and relay teams there so they’ll have plenty of pictures for the paper and web site.

Weekend wrap-up

Tuesday, July 13th, 2004

On Saturday July 10th Art, Andy, Bruce, Chet, Susan, Mike, and Kim all competed in the Greenwich Point One Mile Swim. Results from the swim haven’t been posted yet but the word is they all placed well, and Kim was the lucky one who got stung by a jellyfish.
8/9 Update - Greenwich Point One [...]