2020 Flood Aquatics Time Trial
- Monday, August 3rd – Friday, August 8th
- King’s Academy Aquatic Center
- Short Course Yards (SCY) format
- Unsanctioned by USA Swimming
Previous Day Recaps
Flood Aquatics hosted the fourth day of their intrasquad yesterday, August 6th. They are currently running a 5-day, prelims, semifinals, finals style meet.
While the meet is being filmed and electronically timed, Flood Aquatics has elected to not have officials on deck. While this helps to allow proper social distancing, it also means that the meet is unsanctioned by USA Swimming, making all times unofficial.
Despite once again dealing with less than ideal weather, Flood Aquatics continued their meet with a series of impressive performances.
The team started the night off strong, with Noah Sipowski (17) swimming to a new personal best time, and first time under 21.0, in the finals of the 50 free. Sipowski finished in 20.76, taking nearly a full second off of his previous best (21.62) from the 2019 FHSAA 1A State Championships last fall.
The very next event, the men’s 100 free semifinals, saw all 6 athletes swim best times. While Pace Edwards (16) touched first (46.02), the most impressive swim came from Matthew Clancy. Clancy dropped almost seven seconds in the event to finish in 57.87.
The women’s semifinal of the 100 free was just as impressive, with 14-year-old Logan Zielinski taking first in a time of 52.5. Just behind her was 13-year-old Kiki Munna, finishing in 53.84.
Other Notable Swims
- Josh Zuchowski touched in 56.26 in the 100 breast, just off of his best time of 55.81.
- Eric Kempisty and Noah Smith both saw big drops in the 100 fly, finishing in 56.68 and 54.96 respectively.
- Breaking 50 seconds for the first time, Christian Proscia finished the 100 free in 49.02
The 3rd video’s title should read 56.26 not 52.62 I and a few others about sh@t ourselves.
Congrats everybody! The FAST times are great, but the positive attitudes are what make me most proud!
Great job, swimmers!
Also, when Swimswam uploaded Zuchowski’s 100 breast with 52.62 in the title, I almost fainted.
Congrats Noah!!
When did Florida get back into the pool? If I recall correctly, May? Pretty early compared to the rest of the US
Florida was a little fuzzy, but it’s not clear the state as a whole ever actually mandated pools be shut. So I think there were teams that maybe weren’t out of the water much at all.
There was some variation from facility to facility depending on local requirements and facility owners policies, but in this area (Palm Beach County) I believe most facilities where closed from mid March until late May or early June. Flood Aquatics was shut down from mid March to June 1.
Flood Aquatics was shut down for more than two months. Many kids transitioned from open water swimming to renting single lanes at the County pool beginning in May back to our club which opened on 6/1. We are surrounded by so much water that most kids opted for backyard training and the open water swimming to stay in shape. However when we opened on 6/1 – 40% of the kids were unable to train at all.
My good friend Sid Cassidy at Saint Andrews still is not allowed to have his team back at the school yet. Pine Crest pulled the plug on all Fall sports very early on.
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Way to go boys, this meet has been such a great opportunity to see results from the hard work this summer. Can’t wait to see what you do this fall.
Fast swims! Grateful the kids are blessed with this experience…
Great swim Noah !