Zeus was proud to host our 15th Annual Pat Spinola Age Group Qualifier Swim meet named for the namesake of the Norwalk High School Pool. Pat was a standout diver for NHS in 1957 and later returned to coach swimming there. He has been linked to swimming in Norwalk for over 50 years, and it was great to meet and hear from him as we kicked off the big weekend of competition.

We had a lot of memorable swims, best times, new age group qualifiers and duckies won. We are looking forward to building on these successes at the meets we are going to in the next few weeks leading into Regionals the first weekend of March.

We thank all of the parents who supported their swimmers this weekend and came together as a team to volunteer and make the meet run smoothly. We can’t do it without all of you.

Connecticut Swimming recognized our Zeus Top 16 swimmers, as well as Scholar Athletes at a banquet on November 5th held at the Aqua Turf. Congratulations to the following swimmers for finishing in the top sixteen in one or more events this past year in the state of Connecticut.

Guido Balderrama
Melissa Burnham
Ashley Calderon
Anoushka Chatterjee
Zofia Chmiel
Liam Colleran
Katherine Czulewicz
Christopher Dauser
Edward Donovan
Kate Fedor
Natalia Ferranto
Kristopher Flores
Quinn Gilbertson
Marcelo Leite
Hayley Linder
Pablo Parizot
Emily Reinoso
Pamela Reinoso
Sandra Remson
Mateo Roldan-Vasco
Abigail Roller
Morgan Saunders
Julia Stidolph
Henry Velazquez
Wyatt Vitiello

And we are very proud of our 2016-2017 Scholar Athlete award winners!
Here are some of the requirements they had to meet in order to receive this great honor. (1) Applicant must have completed 10th, 11th, or 12th grade and (2) Be a 2017 CT Member of USA Swimming. (3) Must have swam event in 2015 LC (or 2016 SC) CT Sr. Championships. Or if they participated in two CSI LC or three SC sanctioned meets during the 2016-2017 season. (4) For the entire 2016-17 academic year, applicant must have achieved a minimum GPA of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale [A (90-100%) = 4.0; B (80-89%) = 3.0; C (70-79%) = 2.0; D (65-69%) = 1.0], with only solid subjects being used to calculate the GPA.
Congratulations: Anoushka Chatterjee, Liam Colleran, Allessandra Cruz, Emilia Cuevas, Katherine Czulewicz, James Hogan, Emma Lenskold, Victoria Morin and Sandy Remson.