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Congratulations to our SC Swimming Seniors who have signed on to swim in College! Mary Bolgan University of South Carolina USC Camille Felix Georgia Tech GT Emily Hammond University of California Los Angeles UCLA Cassie Ley Florida Southern College FSC Zach Lierley - University of Pittsburgh Victoria Klein - West Virginia Wesleyan Caty Hueske: UNC Asheville Garrett Hills : TCU Ben Spinek has signed a letter of intent to swim for the University of South Carolina Coaches, if you would like your swimmers recognized on our website, please email me...

Summerville's Carson Davis is named South Carolina Wendy's High School Heisman Award winner! Carson Davis is a swimmer for Mount Pleasant Swim Club, and the Green Wave. Carson placed in the top 10 in two freestyle events at the state meet. He has a 4.8 GPA and is No. 3 in his class of 582. He is the student body vice president and is a member of the National Honor Society as well as the Spanish and math honor societies. "It's quite an honor," said Davis who plans to attend...

The SC Top 10 and Top 20 Overall SCY through the end of Oct are listed under "Times" then "Top 10 Ranking" on our website. Check them out! Link

A Stroke & Turn Clinic will be held at the Harbison Recreation Center on Monday evening, November 12, beginning promptly at 6:00 p.m. The Clinic is open to anyone that wishes to attend and there is no charge for the Clinic. If you plan to attend, please notify the Instructor, Mark Posey, at mark.posey@uscmed.sc.edu so enough training materials can be available.

Perry Gentry will be holding a Stroke and Turn Clinic Thursday, November 8th at the Middle Tyger YMCA in Duncan, SC. The Clinic will start at 6:30pm and last about 2.5 hours. For more information, please contact Perry at: gentryp@spart6.org This is a great opportunity for anyone who would like to be trained as an official.

New ONLINE REPORT OF OCCURRENCE FORM The Member Services Department of USA Swimming is pleased to announce the completion of the new online version of the Report of Occurrence form. Submitting the form online will be a more efficient way of sending information to USA Swimming. The Report of Occurrence is submitted any time there is an accident or injury during such USA Swimming activities as Sanctioned or Approved swim meets, swimming practices, contracted Swim-a-Thons or approved social events. The online form does require that certain sections, indicated by an...

Brent Demarest broke the 500 free SCISA high school state record and the first baptist girls: Logan Kraft, Sara Stansell, Meredith Lackey, and Abbey Moore all broke the 200 medley and 200 free relay SCISA State Records! Congratulations to All!

We will hold a Stroke & Turn Clinic at the Harbison Rec Center in Columbia at 5:45 on Wednesday, Oct. 17. Mark Posey will be the Clinic Instructor. If you plan to attend please notify Mark at mark.posey @uscmed.sc.edu Clnic is hosted by Palmetto Aquatics Thanks Andy Rutledge

Congratulations to Garrett Hills of Rock Hill for breaking the High School State Record in the 100 Freestyle with a time of 45:88--Nice Swim!!! Congratulations to Megan Kingsley for breaking 2 High School State Records this past weekend! Megan went 54:03 in the 100 Fly, bettering the State Record by almost 3 seconds. Megan went 2:00:90 in the 200 IM, knocking 5 seconds off the record. Nice Work Megan!!! Coaches, if you have news of excellent swims from HS State, please email them to me so I can post--thanks!

2012 Select Camp went GREAT this past weekend! Special thanks to Paul Yetter—he was FANTASTIC! We will have the video of the Camp posted soon—stay tuned Y’all!