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The AGUA Swim Team is Manhattan’s premier
competitive swimming team and one of the top teams in the
Northeast. The Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics team is a youth
program offered by Asphalt
Green. Practices and meets are held at the George
Delacorte Olympic Pool located at East 91st Street and York
Avenue.
The mission of AGUA is to develop the character
traits, technical skills, and intense desire necessary for
success. We believe the qualities which are developed by our
pursuits in the pool translate effectively to our work habits in
school and beyond to our adult life.
The developmental steps for all AGUA team members
are: 1) Recognize potential; 2) Realize potential; 3) Surpass
potential; 4) Re-assess new potential (and repeat the
process).
More than 200 children ages 6-18+ of all skill
levels from each of the five boroughs of New York and northern New
Jersey enjoy improving themselves on the AGUA Swim
Team.
In recent years the Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics
program has produced Olympic Trials participants, Senior and Junior
National Championship finalists, National Junior Team members,
National Age Group and Metro LSC record holders, and multiple
swimmers ranked in the Top 100 in the world and Top 16 in the
nation.
About
Asphalt Green
WHAT IS
ASPHALT GREEN? Asphalt Green, home of the AGUA swim team, is a
nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting individuals of all
ages and backgrounds to achieve health through a lifetime of sports
and fitness. Asphalt Green offers sports, fitness and health
programs to individuals, members, groups and institutions. It is
the only facility in Manhattan with a 50-meter Olympic standard
swimming pool.
Community Partnership
Through the
Community Partnership, Asphalt Green makes its outstanding programs
and facilities available to all community residents through free
programming and scholarships. The Partnership provides exceptional
opportunities in sports and fitness education to individuals with
limited incomes and to non-profit organizations and public schools
that lack recreational facilities. For example, each year over 1500
community children learn to swim at Asphalt Green through the
Waterproofing program, a partnership with public
schools.
Special Blend
Asphalt
Green brings together people of different backgrounds and abilities
through scholarships for fee-based programs. It is this
special blend of people learning and playing together that makes
Asphalt Green such a unique place.
Brief History
The AGUA
swim team was formed in 1993 when the AquaCenter opened at Asphalt
Green. The name AGUA stands for the Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics.
The AGUA program was created by the unification of several small
swim programs in New York City, coming to swim together in
Manhattan’s only 50 meter Olympic standard pool. The team
consists of 165 members, with abilities ranging from the novice to
national levels. The AGUA Swim team is a member of Metropolitan
Swimming, the Local Swimming Committee (LSC) of USA
Swimming.
National Governing Body
USA SWIMMING
(USAS) is the National Governing Body for competitive swimming in
the United States. USAS was conceived in 1978 with the passage of
the Amateur Sports Act which specified that all Olympic sports
would be administered independently. As the National Governing Body
for the sport, USAS is responsible for the conduct and
administration of swimming in the United States. In this capacity,
USAS formulates the rules, implements policies and procedures,
conducts the national championships, disseminates safety and sports
medicine information and selects the athletes to represent the
United States in international competition.
Local Swimming Committees
Within the
United States, USAS is divided into 59 Local Swimming Committees
(LSCs); each one responsible for administering USAS activities in a
defined geographical area. Each LSC has its own set of by-laws
under which it operates. A House of Delegates with representation
of athletes, coaches, members of the Board of Directors and clubs
is responsible for managing the business affairs of each LSC.
Visit the USA Swimming website for further
information: www.usa-swimming.org.
Coaches
For more information about our coaches, click here.
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