Cheltenham Aquatic Club

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ATTENTION ALL CHELTENHAM AQUATIC CLUB FAMILIES!!!!!!
The district is drastically raising the price of Cheltenham Aquatic Club for the use of the high school pool facilities by 700%! In addition, CHEL would only be able to use the pool 3 nights a week instead of 5, and they would only be guaranteed 3 months at a time.
Please CHEL families we need your help to try to stop this from happening! Please write a letter to the school board ([email protected]) AND PLEASE come to the school board meeting tonight at 7pm to help stop this from happening!
We have been a part of this community for over 50 years!

There will not be any practice tonight And tomorrow September 5th and 6th You can bring registration paperwork to the pool tonight from 4-6. 🏊 (Thursday only)

Cheltenham Aquatic Club Youth Swim Club

Our team continues to celebrate its 50th anniversary!!! Our club was founded in 1969 and has been a significant part of our community.
We hope you will be part of the celebration! Tuesday, September 3rd, is the first day of practice and registration!!!
There will be a practice available for high school aged swimmers ifrom 4-5:30.
All other groups start at 5:30!!
Registration will begin at 5pm on the Cheltenham High School pool deck.
Registration forms can be found on our website - www.swim4cac.org
So excited to start the season!! 🏊🏊🏊🎉🎉🎉

Cheltenham Aquatic Club Youth Swim Club

That’s Grace Bell (CHEL swimmer) on the bottom left! Go Grace!! Good luck at Zones this week!! 🏊🏊🏊

Good luck to our 2019 Middle Atlantic Zone Team

Guess who medaled at the Middle Atlantic Junior Olympics!!! Way to go Grace Bell!!!! Now on to the Eastern Zones in August!!! 🏊💙💛🏊

Last CHEL practice for Will before he heads off to college swimming!!! Things never change!!! He still takes forever to get in the water!!! Celebratory Chick-fil-a meal!!! 💙💛💙💛🏊🏊🏊🏊🏊🏊🏊🍟🍟

Congratulations to all our CHEL swimmers on their recent high school graduation!! Good luck with your next adventure!! We will miss you!! Katherine Brown And William Marcinkowski - Lycoming, Kerrie Bruce - George Mason Isabel Delosrios - Pitt, Anna Maus and Bridget McHugh - University of Florida 💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💛

Some additional highlights from our 2 recent long course meets:
There were 5 records broken
Sofia Bell - 11-12 year olds 800 free
Isabel Delosrios - 17-18 year olds 1500 free
William Marcinkowski - 17-18 year olds 100 and 200 breaststroke
Elsa Simonetti - 11-12 year olds 100 fly
We had 2 additional swimmers complete the requirements for an Ironman swimmer (swimming all short and long course events in a meet). Isabel De Los Rios and Madison Lush. What a huge accomplishment!!!
We are proud of all our swimmers who have participated in the last 2 meets. They swam new events and had many personal best times!!
Grace Bell, Sofia Bell, Jill Brown, Josephine Deck, Isabel Delosrios, Aidan Frankenberg, Madi Lush, Matt Marcinkowski, William Marcinkowski, Molly O’Neill, And Elsa Simonetti.
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Congratulations to all our CHEL swimmers on a successful first long course meet of the season!!!
We had 4 team long course records at the meet:
Grace Bell - 10 and under 50 and 100 Breaststroke
Isabel Delosrios - 17-18 200 Fly
William Marcinkowski - 17-18 200 Breaststroke
Grace Bell qualified for the Long Course Zone Championships. She will represent the Middle Atlantic Swim team in August at Richmond, VA and she made the Junior Olympics in the 50 and 100 breaststroke as well.
The following swimmers had all Personal Best times at the meet:
Sofia Bell, Josephine Deck, Klara Hartwell, William Marcinkowski And Elsa Simonetti.
We had several swimmers who swam in a long course meet for the first time: Grace Bell, Ella King, Matthew Marcinkowski, Conor McMahon and Fiona McMahon.
Olivia Bell, Isabel Delosrios, Aidan Frankenberg and Molly O’Neill also swam in events that are helping them to achieve their Ironman goal.
Great Job to all our CHEL swimmers!!! 🏊💛💙💛💙🏊

Our winter championship season has come to a close!!! Our swimmers did extremely well at the championship meets!!
I wanted to share some of the highlights from those meets:
Silver Champs - March 22-24
2 records were broken -
Grace Bell broke the 9-10 year old girls 50 breaststroke record that stood for 7 years and received a second place medal (overall) and achieved a Junior Olympic time cut in that event as well!
The 200 medey relay team - Klara Hartwell, Grace Bell, Sofia Bell and Josephine Deck broke the record that stood for 8 years by over 6 seconds.
Lyla Bechtel dropped 2.5 seconds in the 50 breaststroke
Elsa Simonetti swam seven events and achieved all personal best times during preliminaries and finals
Finals qualifiers were William Marcinkowski, Chase Montgomery and Elsa Simonetti
Congratulations also to Cierra Jefferson for achieving silver champs time cuts.

Mini Champs - March 16-17th
Charlotte Clute and Tacori Mateen swam all personal best times
Ella Gibson and Leia Gibson swam several personal best times
Congratulations to Frank Lester for swimming in his first championship meet in 25 free and 25 back.

Bronze Champs - March 9-10th
The following swimmers had all personal best times at the meet:
Lyla Bechtel, Jude Fulmor, Morgan Kuchar, Angelina Lester and Fiona McMahon
Lyla Bechtel (50 fly) and Jill Brown (100 and 200 back) also achieved silver champs cuts at the meet
Jill Brown, Aviana Fultz-Smith, Mira Hayes, Isabela McGillis and Dylan Miller also achieved several personal best times.

Junior Olympics - March 2nd
Grace Bell swam a personal best time in the 100 Breaststroke.

Congratulations to all our CHEL swimmers and coaches for an exciting season!!!
We look forward to seeing how our team does during the Long Course Season!!
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Registration for our spring session starts tomorrow March 11th and runs through March 14th at the Cheltenham High School pool!!

Registration forms can be found on the website www.swim4cac.org

Also all long course entries are due this week as well!!!

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Cheltenham Aquatic Club Youth Swim Club