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His Final Race Over, Michael Phelps’s Influence on Swimming Hard to Measure By Michael Rosenberg, Sports Illustrated, Sunday August 14th, 2016 It was hard to avoid the Michael Phelps storyline at the Rio Olympics, as his excellence in the pool transformed the sport of swimming and its role in the Games. Read more here:

Annual CVST Family Relay Champ's Crowned At last weekend's Annual CVST Awards Banquet & Pool Party, the team also held the Annual CVST Family Relays and it was a great time for all of the competitors as well as spectators! This year there were 14 family relays entered, with the fastest four swimming a second time for the Championship and the CVST Family Relay Trophy! Each Family Relay, consisting of three swimmers, had to have at least on parent in the relay. There were some good really good...

CVST Presents Annual Awards Last night, the Carrollwood Village Swim Team held their Annual Awards Dinner & Pool Party at the Carrollwood Country Club's Tennis & Aquatic Center and here is a list of all the Award Winnners: 2015 Athlete Appreciation Award Kiki Cook, Florida Swimming, Inc., Executive Assistant Best Overall Attendance Award Bronze Group – Matthew Healey – 91% Silver Group – Sky Steele – 88% Gold Group – Jayden Repak – 100% Senior 2 Group – Kaitlyn Labella – 87% Senior 1 Group –...

CVST Announces Fall Practice Group Changes Congratulations to the following swimmers who will be changing practice groups for the 2016 Fall Swim Session beginning tomorrow, August 22nd: Bronze Group to Silver Group Landen Lee Noah Houck TJ Rodriguez John Gleason Matthew Healey Lila Ordtex Silver Group to Gold Group Lauren Clark Bodi Burill Gold Group to Senior 2 Group Alex Hebard Senior 2 Group to Senior 1 Group Henry Walz

We Need Your Vote! USA Today is doing its “Ad Meter” of the best Olympic commercials. This is similar to what they do for the Super Bowl. For the Olympics this is a 32 “team” bracket similar to the NCAA Basketball tournament of single elimination. USA Swimming’s “Before They Were Winners, They Were Beginners Video” is in the bracket. This is the video that Rowdy voices and overlays his race calls with home video footage of the Olympians as kids. We are the only non-profit featured. In the first...

Nutritional Recovery: Refuel, Repair and Prepare Swimmers face a challenging task every day trying to balance workouts, school and meals. As everyone knows, the day starts for many swimmers with an early morning practice and ends with a very tired head hitting the pillow. Throw in at least another practice and some homework and it is easy to see how a swimmer without a nutritional recovery plan is going to fall behind their competitors. Creating a plan, sticking to it and choosing the best foods for the plan are...

USADA Update Supplement 411 FAQ: Are my #supplements safe to use? ...you can’t rely on the label Athletes: Are you aware of your rights and responsibilities during a sample collection?

Classy and Another Hit! Just a bit of peace and quiet. Compliments of Head Men’s Coach, Bob Bowman and the pride of Rhode Island, Elizabeth Beisel. Carpool Karioake

Jackson Houck, CVST's July SOM July 2016 – Jackson Houck (11) - The Carrollwood Village Swim Team has named Jackson Houck as the July Swimmer of the Month. For the month, the 11 year old senior 2 practice group member swam to ten best times out of ten events. At the St. Petersburg Aquatics Last Chance meet held at the beginning of July, Jackson swam to best times in the 100m Freestyle, 50m backstroke, 50m butterfly, and 100m butterfly. Jackson largest improvement came in his 100m butterfly where he...

Ocala Meet Hotel Block Only Good Through August 23rd Thanks you to Cathy Edwards for once again this year setting up a block of rooms for CVST at the Ocala Meet. Thisyear the rooms will fast as there is a UF Football game the same weekend and they are only available until August 23rd, so make your reservation today! Dear CVST Parent, The CFM, Ocala Meet, is quickly approaching and a block of rooms have been established for that weekend at the Homewood Suites (same hotel as years...