The Olympic Trials is the most intense sports event in the world. It’s steel sharpening steel. Just by qualifying, you’re in the 1% club. And the rest of us – the 99% -- don’t mind celebrating swimming’s version of the 1%. We’re proud of you. Congratulations to all who competed.  Katie and Molly, we are proud of how you represented AAAA this past week!  Katie finished by moving up to 119th in her 100 Breaststroke and held place at 59th in her 200 Breaststroke.  Molly was 149th in her 200...

  When: Wednesday, July 11th Where: Godfather's Pizza Time: After the Intrasquad- (around 5:30 or 6PM) Price: Pizza, Salad, Dessert Pizza Buffet, and Water for $5  **All children 10 & Under $3 Beverages besides water are $1, 10 & Under Beverages are $.50  All Swimmers and families are welcome to attend our team dinner at Godfather's Pizza to kick off the Summer Championship Season for AAAA.   

Thanks for all you are doing Alaina!

 From Lawrence to Lincoln- Meet Preview: 20 AAAA Athletes will head to Lincoln tomorrow to compete against swimmers from 14 different states. This is the premiere age group meet for the Midwest and AAAA is well represented according to the psych sheets.   The psych sheets are out and we have several AAAA swimmers that will have a chance to make it to finals. For the 13 and Over Swimmers, the Top 16 will compete in finals, where as for 12 and Under Swimmers, the Top 8 will have the...

Beach Bash Recap   The weather didn't put a damper on AAAA's swimming at the 2012 Beach Bash. We had 40 athletes compete in the meet in Topeka and it was a perfect way to kick off the month of June for competing.   This meet was a great training and racing meet. Several of our elite and eclipse athletes used their races to gain experience, work on details, and practice racing in poor weather conditions.    Some highlights: -Carter Stacey achieved her first 13-14 D1 time standard in the...

Our two Olympic hopefuls had fun checking out the Trials pool this past weekend.  Both Katie and Molly turned in great performances and we had a blast seeing the great facility.  Molly was top 8 in the 200 back while Katie was top 16 in her 100 breast.  Way to go ladies -- the trials are just around the corner.   <Complete Results>   Competition Pool - 10 lanes   Scoreboard   Competition Pool During Warmup   Warm-Up Pool

Thanks for a great time last week!

Early Bird Recap AAAA continued to swim personal best times, qualify for D2’s and D1’s, and qualify for Zones and Speedo Sectionals as we competed at the Early Bird Meet on Mother’s Day Weekend. 21 AAAA athletes participated in the meet with 600 other athletes from around the area.   A team highlight of the weekend was swimming 80% personal best times overall as a team. It is great to see such a great group of athletes continue to improve and participate in swim meets.   Faith Baxter, Rachel Nikolov,...

Schedule   *Catch-All Group: LIAC Monday-Thursday – 6-7pm *This is a simple workout on paper used for make-up purposes only   MEETS June 1-3 Beach Bash Topeka, KS All Should Attend! June 9-11 Iron Man Volunteer Lawrence, KS We need your help! June 22-24 Capitol City Classic Lincoln, NB Travel Letter here (Finals Sunday TBD) June 25-July 2 Trials in Omaha, NB Go Katie, Molly and Emma! July 6-8 KCB LCM Invite Lee Summit, MO All Should Attend July 11 Intrasquad Lawrence, KS Tentative All Should Attend  July 17-21 Region...

Published by The American Swimming Coaches Association 5101 NW 21 Ave., Suite 200 Fort Lauderdale FL 33309   What’s We Do In Age Group and Stroke School Practice Written by the ASCA Staff (Who actually do coach senior, age group, and novice swimmers every day.)   Parents, you are always welcome to observe practice and if you do you might see two or three different ability levels doing different things depending on the objectives for that day for each group.  Above all else, their safety and well being is our...