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EMMA BEST SHINES AT SECTIONALS

Posted by SWIM FLORIDA ~ CAPE CORAL at May 24, 2024 9:11AM PDT ( 0 Comments )
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Emma Best had an outstanding showing at the 2024 Southern South Sectional Championships in Ocala. The meet attracted swimmers from Iowa, Ohio, Connecticut, Georgia and New Jersey in addition to Florida Swimming and Gold Coast Swimming. At the first session Emma was in attack mode lowering her personal best and team record in the 200-Meter Freestyle with a time of 2:10.98 (-5.13). In the 200-Meter Butterfly, Emma lowered her personal best and the team record in the prelims with a time of 2:32.80 (-4.19) and then lowered her time again with a 2:30.54 in finals. Emma came back her second day with her sights set on showing what she can do. In the 100-Meter Free she again broke both her best time and team record with a 1:00.85 (-.89). In her fourth event, Emma went four for four establishing both a personal best and team record in the 100-Meter Backstroke finishing with 1:10.81 (-.67). Emma’s commitment to swimming has paid off big time. Well done, Emma!

TEAM BANQUET

Posted by Ed Collins at May 13, 2024 8:40AM PDT ( 0 Comments )
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SWIM FLORIDA’S 50th ANNIVERSARY BANQUET

The Swim Florida 50th Anniversary Banquet was a sold-out success. The event featured numerous raffle baskets, great food, awards for all swimmers, recognition of our championship qualifiers, high school swimmers, graduating seniors and new inductees to the Swim Florida Hall of Fame. Guest speakers included Swim Florida Hall of Famer and CEO of Captiva Bank, Kyle DeCicco, the Mayor of Fort Myers, Kevin B. Anderson and former Swim Florida, Fort Myers High School and Stamford University 200-yard Backstroke NCAA champion and American record holder, Derek Weatherford. Approximately 400 people attended the banquet with photographs being taken by Mike Bradley’s Visualanties (visualanties.com).

Our very own Naval Lieutenant Jack Pelegrino was inducted into the Swim Florida Hall of Fame, and Sophie Pellegrino spoke as a graduating senior heading to the University of Mary.
An album of photos taken by Visualanties has been set up in our photo albums section.

NEW BLOCKS AT CAPE

Posted by Ed Collins at May 6, 2024 1:51PM PDT ( 1 Comment )
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We now have a full complement of blocks. Thank you Lee County Parks and Recreation.!

JOEY STEVENTS IS GOING TO FLAGS!

Posted by Ed Collins at Feb 26, 2024 7:28AM PST ( 0 Comments )
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Silver group’s Joey Stevens (11) achieved a Florida Age Group Championship (FLAG) cut at the Area 5 Championship this past weekend in Naples. Joey’s time of 27.94 (-.81 seconds) in the 11-12 50-yard Freestyle earned him a trip the big dance this weekend in Orlando. Joey had a very impressive meet as he also dropped time in the 100-yard Free with a 1:04.79 (-7.64) and the 200-yard Individual Medley with 2:59.90 (-41.25). Well done Joey! Best wishes for your trip to FLAGS.

SKYE SETS THREE TEAM RECORDS

Posted by SWIM FLORIDA ~ CAPE CORAL at Feb 21, 2024 10:29AM PST ( 2 Comments )
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Skye, pictured with seven time Olympic champion, Katie Ledecky, at the recent United States Swimming ‘Southern Zone South Sectional Championships’ held at the Rosen Aquatic & Fitness Center in Orlando; lowered three Cape Aquatics Long Course records. In the 100-meter Freestyle, Skye lowered the 15 – 16 Girls team record of 1:04.65, set in July of 2013 by Kasey Swartley with a time of 1:03.41 (AA). In the 400-meter Freestyle, 15-year-old Skye lowered the15 – 16 and Senior Girls team record, set by Monica Jaeger in April of 2011, by 10.93 seconds with a 4:40.66 (AAA). In the 1500-meter Freestyle, Skye bettered Monica Jaeger’s 15 – 16 and Senior record set in 2011 by 1:10.98 with a 18:29.16 (AAA).