04/04/2016
Congratulations to XCEL Swimming on a great Championship season! We had major success at the Speedo Sectional Championships and the Eastern Zone Championships.
At Sectionals, We achieved 29 best times, 5 individual team records and 4 relay records. A special congratulations goes out to Melinda Tang and Eric Tong for becoming Sectional Champions!! Melinda won the 200 fly and Eric won the 100 breast(100 breast is a new Ithaca College pool record 55.48!). As a team 2 years ago, we finished this meet with 38 total points. This year we totalled 310 points and a 5th place girls team finish.
At the Eastern Zone Championships, XCEL's Daniel Baytin and Ella Jones became Zone Champions! Daniel won the 10/under 500 free and 100 breast(both NJ State records) while Ella won the 10/under 500 free, 200im and 200 free (500 free was an NJ State record).
Great season XCEL!
12/12/2015
Amazing day of swimming for Xcel last night! We had 3 individual finalists at Winter Juniors in Atlanta. Kevin Doo made the final in 1 fly, Alex Martin 1fly, 1bk and Eric Tong in the 1br. All swims were team records. Melinda Tang also broke her 1 fly team record at Holiday Classic! 11 team records set in the last 2 days and many personal bests. Keep up the great work the next 2 days Xcel!
12/11/2015
10th place finish for Xcel swimming at Winter Juniors! Alex Martin, Eric Tong, Kevin Doo, Richard Deng took 11 seconds off the team record. Way to go!
12/10/2015
Congratulations to Alex Martin on his 5th place finish in the 200 IM at Winter Juniors 148.49!
12/10/2015
Good luck to XCEL swimming while we compete at Winter Junior Nationals in Atlanta, Holiday Classic at Rutgers and Winter storm at GCIT. Swim fast!
11/07/2015
Good luck and swim fast to all Xcel swimmers competing in the Fall Festival this weekend!
10/10/2015
Xcel at the NJ swimming awards ceremony at Raritan Valley Community College for NJ state record breakers(Zoe Stokes, Angela D**g, Micaela Bernard, Victoria Zhang, Miranda Cai) and Scholastic All Americans (Melinda Tang, Madeleine Deardorff, Kara Lydzinski, Eric Tong). Olympians Caitlin Leverenz and Summer Sanders presented the awards, took pictures and signed autographs. Great experience for all! Way to go XCEL! Keep up the hard work in and out of the pool.
09/20/2015
quote of the day (chosen by Adam Luk)
09/16/2015
qotd! (courtesy of madeleine deardorff)
09/14/2015
Quote of the day! (creds to Kevin Doo)
08/02/2015
Congratulations to Alex Martin on qualifying for the final heats of the 100 back at Junior Nationals! Way to go Alex!
07/30/2015
Good luck to our Junior National swimmers as they begin competition today in San Antonio!
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