News
The following is our meet schedule for the summer. I will also post it in the news section on the website so you can look there for reference. We have chosen the meets that we think are best for the athletes. There are two meets listed on the schedule that we will need to know in advance if your child is participating. These meets are considered our travel meets. The first travel meet we must have 10 athletes commit in order to attend. This meet is located in...
We had six 8 and Under swimmers compete at the 8 and Under MAL Championship Meet in Gladstone, MO. There were 187 swimmers (Record High) competing at this meet. The meet started out with a parade of athletes to recognize all the swimmers that attended the meet. Congrats to Benjamin Carroll, Adin Florence, Giuliano Lule-Paredes, Karsyn Robertson, Nicholas Stefanov, and Maximilian Whittaker for representing Ad Astra. Each swimmer was being positive, smiling, and having a great time at the meet. It was so fun to watch the young...
MAL Championships With 60 swimmers competing for Ad Astra, we had a strong showing in Lawrence. For some swimmers this was their last meet of the season- all the hard work they put in over the 6 months paid off! One interesting fact for the weekend was that all 14 and under swimmers went at least a best time and several swimmers swam all personal best times! The relays were a highlight of the weekend for AAAA. It was great to see Ad Astra having multiple...
Ainsley Krug Leads the Way at COOL and Ad Astra Has Several “First” Moments Over 600 athletes participated in the COOL Rock the Blocks Meet. We had 28 athletes compete for Ad Astra. The weekend was filled with “Firsts” Ainsley Krug led the way for Ad Astra taking home the High Point Award for Girls 11-12 Age group. Ainsley finished 1st in 5 out of 6 races. She also swam very close to her best times, or swam a best time in each race. Some other...
Team Missouri Valley placed second at this year’s All-Star swim meet behind Team Colorado, 1,953 to 1,218. It was a great showing and AAAA played its part. Ad Astra had 11 swimmers compete this past weekend, third most from any team in our LSC. We comprised 10.8% of the entire team, but contributed 11.4% of the points to Team Missouri Valley. 10 of 11 of our swimmers scored points for Team Missouri Valley. Claire Campbell and Stephen Johnson led the way for Ad Astra Area Aquatics. Claire Campbell...
Over 50 Swimmers for Ad Astra started the New Year at True Blue Igloo Meet in Topeka Kansas. The swimmers were ready to race after a hard two weeks of Holiday Training. The training paid off as we had new Sectional cuts, new D1 Cuts, and D2 Cuts. We had new swimmers compete for the first time and it was great having them represent AAAA. True Blue Igloo set us up for the remainder of the season and helped us see what we still need to work on for...
It is never too late to celebrate a successful Swim-A-Thon... The AAAA Swim-A-Thon Awards Ceremony will take place on Wednesday January 16th at 6PM in the Indoor Aquatic Center. We will hand out certificates, pins, USA Swimming Prizes, and Ad Astra Prizes. Date: Wednesday, January 16th Time: 6:00PM Where: Lawrence Indoor Aquatic Center
As Ad Astra Area Aquatics grows, we want to continue to advance the structures of our Squads. This is a natural and necessary step in club growth. In our case, team growth and progress has been accelerated and our coaching staff wants to make sure each Squad has the necessary standards of excellence to allow each athlete to reach his or her full potential in swimming. The following are the revised standards and expectations for each Squad. These new standards will go into effect at the end of this season...
