CVST's Kenny Named To USA Swimming National Disability Committee   CVST's Jackie Kenny (17), has been named to the USA Swimming National Disability Committee for a two year term.  Kenny, in the final year of her term as Florida Swimming's Senior Athlete Representitive,represents all of the athletes of Florida Swimming at the State and National level.  Among her other duties, she has attended the USA Swimming National Convention for the past two years and based on her participation at the meetings there was selected by USA Swimming Athlete Vice President...

CVST Adopts Two New SafeSport Policies:  Bullying & Electronic Communication   CVST Athletes, Coaches, Volunteers & Parents,   Last month, the USA Swimming House of Delegates approved legislation enhancing existing safeguards for the Safe Sport Program. Two of these pieces, Articles 305.3.6 and 305.3.7, require clubs to implement (1) an action plan to address bullying and (2) a policy guiding electronic communication between adults and athletes, respectively. As part of this legislation, the House of Delegates approved a deadline for implementation of these policies of 90 days after USA Swimming’s...

CVST's Bob Griffiths Receives Maxwell Award for Officiating   Bob Griffiths at the 2012 Boys & Girls Club Nationals   The Maxwell Excellence Award is given to honor an outstanding LSC official, by the USA Swimming National Officials Committee, for their contributions to local swimming.  The award is sponsored by Swimming World Magazine and Maxwell Medals.  The Award was presented to CVST's Bob Griffiths last weekend at the Annual Florida Swimming House of Delegates Meetings.  The following was taken from the September 2012 issue of Swimming World Magazine:   In...

CVST Breaks Nine Pool Records at October FNR   CVST had a great Friday Night at the Races last Friday at the Emerald Greens Pool, breaking nine Pool Records   and beating the thunderstorms as well.  Led by Megan Hyer (6), Logan Ingerick (8), Logan Tirheimer (10) and Abby Forman (10), the entire team did an outstanding job in the pool.  Megan Hyer, in only her second swim meet, broke three Emerald Greens Pool records for the 6&Under Girls Age Group:  25 yard Backstroke; 25 yard Butterfly; and in her...

Edwards Snags SOM Honors for First Month of New Swim Year   The CVST coaching has named Ava Edwards (6) as the September Swimmer of the Month.  It’s not often that you see a noticeable difference in a swimmers speed, but Ava’s September Friday Night at the Races was just one of those occasions. Ava swam a total of 200 yards in 5 events dropping a total of 50.58 seconds.  That averages an improvement of a quarter of a second dropped per yard.  The six year old Bronze Practice Group...

CVST Survives Storms & Heat To Swim Well At SPA Meet   CVST trekked across Tampa Bay to Northshore Pool, in St. Petersburg, this weekend for their first big meet of the new swim year.  Although the weather in the morning sessions was relatively comfortable, Friday Evening saw 40+ mile an hour winds, that mangled tents and sent them flying while the afternoons on Saturday & Sunday were in the mid 90's with no breeze.  Hopefully a farewell to the summer and now we will get some comfortable weather in...

New CVST Swimmers Shine, Veterans Swim Fast Led By Forman Pool Record   CVST held it's first meet of the new CVST Swim Year last night and it was also the first meet for many of our new CVST swimmers.  But by the way the swimming was going you wouldn't have known it was the first swim meet for many of those competing.    The veteran CVST swimmers did a great job, especially for this early in their training.  Abby Forman (10) even set a new Emerald Greens Pool Record...

Mark Your Calendars - 2013 BG Nat's April 5-7   The dates have been finalized for the 2013 Boys & Girls Club National Swimmig Championships.  The event will be held once again at St. Petersburg's Northshore Pool, April 5-7, 2013.  Mark your calendars now as this is a required volunteer meet for all CVST Families.  

CVST Announces June-August SOM Award Winners   June 2012 – Madison Ratchford (6) – Madison Ratchford of the CVST Bronze Practice Group, was selected as the June 2012 CVST Swimmer of the Month based on her 100 % best time performance over the month.  Madison not only swam all best times, but she also in her first ever long course meet, The Tampa Bay Swim Classic.  Her hard work and focus on doing her strokes correctly helped her along the way to earning this award.  Over the month Madison dropped a...

Senior Zone Meet Day 3 - Slow Start Picks Up As Day Goes On   Day three of the USA Swimming Southern Zone Senior Championships is complete and the day didn't start off as well as hoped for our CVST Seniors, but it got stronger as the day went on.  The only swims in the Prelims today were the 200 Freestyles where Coery Stein (17) and Emma Volz (17) were a bit off going 2:09.64 and 2:17.15 respectively.  Volz was fast enought to get into the evenings Finals, but Stein...