CVST's Safe Sport Recognition Up For Renewal - We Need Your Help! Good Evening CVST Parents and Swimmers, WE REALLY NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE OUR CLUB A BETTER, SAFER, & MORE PROTECTED PLACE FOR OUR MEMBERSHIP TO THRIVE! We, the Carrollwood Village Swim Team, fully endorse and support USA Swimming’s Safe Sport and Safety programs by helping to provide countless resources for our club members on our very own website, www.CVST.org or these resources can also be found at www.usaswimming.org/learn. OUR GOAL, AS A TEAM, IS TO RENEW AS...

FLAGS Psych Sheet (Ver. 1) Posted The Psych Sheet (Ver. 1) is published - it does not include late entries. Late entries are open til 3 p.m. Friday, July 8th. Late entries will be through email ONLY and accepted up to 24 hours after publication of the Psych Sheet. You can check out the Psych Sheet by visiting www.CVST.org , and going to the Event Page at https://www.teamunify.com/team/flscvst/controller/cms/admin/index#/calendar-team-events.

USADA News The USADA Supplement Guide is designed to help athletes understand the risks of using supplements and how to choose a lower-risk product if they decide to use supplements despite the risks. Download your copy here.

Safe Sport Newsletter - July 2022 Mandatory Reporting Reporting can be difficult, but it is vital to providing a safe and healthy environment for our athletes. Pursuant to federal law, all adults authorized to interact with minor or amateur athletes who learn of facts that give reason to suspect that a child has suffered an incident of abuse, including sexual abuse, must make a report of the suspected abuse to law enforcement and/or your state's designated agency within 24 hours. The SafeSport Code for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Movements...

FINA World Open Water Championships Wrap with 25K After 15 days of pool and open water racing at the 2022 FINA World Championships, the final swimming event of the competition concluded this morning in Budapest, Hungary. Four Americans dove into the Lupa Lake Beach waters to swim the grueling 25K and resulted in Anna Auld capturing the top-American finish by touching in seventh in the women's event. Auld rotated around the top-10 throughout the entirety of the five hour, 10-lap race, even finding herself as high up on the leaderboard...

Congrat's to the CVST June Health & Nutrition Challenge Winners & July's Challenge Congratulations to CVST's Jax Repak, Julia Laine, Sutton Lynch, Bella Herrera, Alex Myers & Sky Steele for completing the Sunscreen & Water Bottle Challenge. These swimmers brought their water bottles everyday to practice and also slathered on their sunscreen each day before getting into the pool! Great job girls! Where were our boys on this one? Next month's Challenge will begin on Tuesday, July 5th, and here's all the information: This month’s CVST Health & Nutrition Challenge...

Grimes Posts Historic 10K Result at Open Water Worlds A sunny day at Hungary’s Lupa Lake Beach was the setting for today’s FINA World Open Water Championships 10K. A quartet of Americans took to the water and saw Katie Grimes post a historic result in American open water swimming. Throughout laps 2-4 of the women’s 10K, the top three swimmers were Ana Marcela Cunha (BRA), the reining Olympic champion in the 10K; Aurelie Muller (FRA), the three-time open water world champion; and Grimes, the 16-year-old American making her FINA World...

Psych Sheets, Timelines, Heat Sheets Now Posted for SPA Meet All the information you need for this weekend's SPA, Last Chance Meet, at Northshore Aquatic Complex, is now posted on the Event Page at CVST.org. Psych Sheets, Estimated Timelines, Heat Sheets and more. Be sure to download a copy of the Heat Sheets before you go to the meet as they will not be available for sale at the meet. Also, take a minute to check out the Psych Sheets and where you stack up against the competition! Make sure...

Gravley, Smith Lead U.S. in Open Water World Championships 5K The 2022 FINA World Open Water Championships continued Wednesday morning, featuring the men’s and women’s 5K event at the Lupa Beach in Budapest, Hungary. The men’s race saw Brennan Gravley and Simon Lamar fight the course. Gravley, the reigning U.S. national champion in the event, posted the top-American finish in the men’s division by tying for 10th place in 52:48.40. The result is three spots better than his finish in the event at the 2019 FINA World Open Water Championships...

The 10 Guaranteed Ways to Spot a Swim Parent From SwimmingWorldMagazine.com Many people have no problem spotting swimmers from a mile away with these telltale features: a bulky bag, messy bun filled with dead hair (for the girls), dry skin, tired eyes, goggle and cap tan lines, and the wide-eyed fear whenever the word “butterfly” is used, no matter the context. Swim parents, however, can be more difficult to spot. They wear a camouflage much like any other parent, but a few distinct characteristics sets swim parents apart. 1. The...