Every year Missouri Valley Swimming hosts an Awards Banquet. This year, we have several Ad Astra Swimmers nominated for an award. Please go vote for our AAAA Swimmers: Athlete Awards Ballot 13&Over Female Performance of the Year Ella Marsh - 200 meter back Columbia Swim Club summer invitational 2:32.82. I think Ella Marsh should get this award because Ella worked hard on her backstroke and at this meet she had a time of 2:35.81 and at finals she cut two more seconds off. 12&Under Male Performance of the Year Evan...

Our first bus trip in over 5 years was a great time! Wall ball, pizza and team cheering for teammates… what an awesome time. We had new District Cuts, Champs Cuts and even some first-time prelim/final swims. Shout out to Kara Adams for helping us chaperone. The following 13-Over swimmers got second swims in Finals: Berklee Adams (200 Bk) Banks Anderson (200 Fr) Anna Bream (200 Br, 100 Fr, 200 IM, 200 Fr, 100 Br) Bridget Collins (200 Fr) Ella Marsh (200 Br, 100 Fr, 200 IM, 100 Fly, 100...

Mid Season Recap As we head into the back half of the summer LCM season, we want to recap all of our successes so far. With just 3 meets left (Beach Bash, Columbia Summer Invite and Last Chance) before championship meets begin, AAAA is already making some waves with their results. This past weekend at the KC Cup we had 20+ swimmers rocking in Lenexa. Many swimmers swam new events while others swam to new Zones, Champs and District Times. Ella Marsh (13-14 Girls) and Banks Anderson(15-O Boys) “body slammed”...

Congrats to those who participated in the Rose Memorial Swim meet this past weekend! 19 swimmers swam in this early season prelims/finals meet. We had 76 best times and two team records set by Karsyn Ward in the 200 Back and 800 Freestyle (Siggi Mattes also dipped under the old team record). The following swimmers won races: Ella Marsh – 200Fly Siggi Mattes – 200 Fly Rebecca Pickert – 1500 Free Karsyn Ward – 200 Back, 50 back, 100 Free, 200 Free, 50 Fly, 100 Back Melinda Zhang – 200...