2022 NE BGSC LCM SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
- July 14-17, 2022
- Kathleen Moran Coleman Aquatic Center, Brown University (Providence, RI)
- LCM (50m)
- Results on MeetMobile
The NE Senior Championships kicked off today on the campus of Brown University.
Commonwealth Swimming 18-year-old Natalie Mannion, a National Junior Team member, won the women’s 100 back in 1:02.19, touching just off her personal best of 1:01.87. Bluefish Swim Club 15-year-old Zuri Ferguson had a great race as well, taking 2nd in 1:02.48. Her personal best sits at 1:02.39.
Commonwealth Swimming 17-year-old Thomas Hagar took the men’s 100 back, dipping under 57 seconds for the first time in his career, touching the wall in 56.89. He won the race by 2.5 seconds, getting out to a quick 27.79 on the first 50.
Phoenix Swimming 17-year-old Malia Amuan won the women’s 50 free in 26.74, touching just off her top mark of 26.48. In the men’s 50 free, James Misto, a Gator Swim Club 17-year-old, swam a personal best 23.43 to take the event. The swim was big for Misto, marking his first time under 24 seconds in the event.
In the women’s 800 free, Commonwealth Swimming 17-year-old Dana Li had a fantastic race, swimming an 8:57.37 to take 8.68 seconds off her previous best. Moreover, her previous best of 9:06.05 was just set in March at a Sectionals meet in Buffalo. The men’s 1500 free was won by Veritas Swimming 19-year-old Shane Washart, who swam a 15:57.77 to touch first by a wide margin.
The women’s 200 fly went to Aislin Farris, a 17-year-old out of Bluefish, in time of 2:16.79. She won a tight race, beating out teammate Kathryn White (18), who finished 2nd in 2:17.02, and Natalie Mannion, who was 3rd with a 2:17.40. Josh Parent won the men’s 200 fly in 2:02.74, coming in just off his personal best of 2:02.01. Typically a distance swimmer, Parent didn’t race the 1500 today at this meet, however, he is entered in the 800 free on Sunday.
Natalie is so amazing and a great athlete and person. I am a big fan of that family. They are all such hard workers, humble, and great teammates!
The club abbreviations aren’t really helpful to those of us who live in other parts of the country. Can you write them out please?
Agree…
CS= Commonwealth Swimming
ABF=Bluefish
PHX=Phoenix Swimming
BGSC= Gator (Is the B for Bernal still…?)
VS=Veritas Swimming (Harvard men’s swim club)
found these on MM
Yep.. interesting that they changed their name, but abbreviation they can continue to keep. But I guess they want to market the team from a whole, hey this team was founded by a banned coach vibe.
CS-Commonwealth Swimming
ABF-Bluefish Swim Club
BGSC-Gator Swim Club
PHX- Phoenix Swimming
VS-Veritas Swimming
What you don’t know that BGSC stands for Bernal’s Gator Swim Club. Oops, I mean Gator Swim Club.
Since the whole B situation, they are now Baystate Gator Swim Club.
I get that people really, really love holding on to tradition, for reasons that are beyond the scope of my education in psychology, but…
I think in this case, I might consider just nuking the whole brand and starting from scratch.
Not sure that “Gators Swim Club” is such a valuable brand, especially after what went down, that it’s worth clinging to. Just my $.02 though.
The reason it’s still BGSC is because the current owner was a former swimmer of Joe Bernal’s and would 100% fail if he had to create or produce anything of his own volition. The team is holding onto a thread of its former glory as it is.
For what it’s worth, New England Swimming as a whole has a massive SafeSport issue – especially with “elite” clubs and Safesport violations of a sexual nature. At quick glance 3 of the top 7 scoring current teams (SOLO, CRIM, BGSC) at the LSC championship meet have recently had a coach banned from the sport.
It’s an epidemic that neither the parents or seemingly the LSC cares about. The teams just… Read more »
You somehow left out that PHX is a rebranded offshoot of one of those clubs with a banned coach (CRIM).
I mean, half the teams can trace their roots to OSS and MAG.
And that’s exactly why we should stop with this guilt-by-association crap. The number of coaches on the banned list far outnumbers the amount of clubs who have done complete rebrandings in the aftermath. The people complaining about this sort of thing are obviously coaches of other established clubs with ulterior motives.
Look, friend, we know you’re trying really hard. But you’re just losing this one.
BGSC had the chance to drop the B. They refused to do so, and we all know why. They can’t keep the B as a lowkey tribute to the owner’s former coach and then get mad when people notice.
Like, just change the team code. It’s not hard. It’s not expensive. There’s no reason to leave that B there. And if you choose to leave it there because you want people to remember the B, then own it and don’t fight people when they remember the B in a different way than you do.
If Nick Rice is convicted and the club were named “Nick Rice… Read more »
First of all, insanely relevant username. Not sure if that was intentional or not.
Now let’s try to unpack all of that rambling. First of all, if your standard is a criminal conviction, then Gator was never under any obligation to change the name given that Bernal was never convicted (or charged) in criminal court. By that metric, they went above and beyond by dropping his name.
Getting charged with a felony (not convicted, just charged) is enough to get your butt canned from the local little league team, yet you’re content to admit in a public forum that it “doesn’t offend [you] that much”.
Maybe that sort of statement is why we laugh at you when you… Read more »
You know that we all know who you are at this point, right?
Not a great look my dude.
You’re the one who has made the “criminal charge” standard. I’m not bound by it, because I have a brain.
Admitting on a public forum that a coach being charged with a felony “doesn’t really offend [you] much” sums up perfectly why self-righteous whinging about the letter “B” is not taken seriously.
That’s the first I’ve heard of the B meaning Baystate. Their team unify and Instagram just refer to “Gator Swim Club.”
I used to swim for them, on every official document like banking and business papers they would write Baystate. They didn’t want to lose the B from the official name so that’s what they changed it to. Since the team was started in 1970, they didn’t care that Bernal was attached to it.
lol yeah destruction of property is definitely a raise on raping your swimmers.
BGSC kids, man.
Comparing the two? No. But let’s kill the sanctimony over a single letter in a team name while a coach in the same LSC walks the deck with an open felony charge.