Throughout each year, Trident asks our Swimmer Scholar graduates to come back and talk about their experiences at college. During this year's end-of-year party at Pier i Cafe on the Hudson River, three graduates came and spoke.
Yaya Toure talked about his freshman year at SUNY New Paltz and how he became ineligible for the swim team for a quarter when he lost focus on his grades - and then spoke about how he refocused and remembered everything Trident had taught him to get his grades up so he could swim again next year. Jeffrey Mena spoke about his graduation from Binghamton University as an Electrical Engineer, and how Trident's discipline enabled him to succeed in such a tough environment throughout his college career. Finally, Andres Rodriguez spoke about his first year at SUNY Potsdam, swimming on the team, and how important studying every day had been for him. It was a great end of our 8th year in NYC and always wonderful to see graduates from different years come back! Big thanks to Lee Berman and Co-founder Kristin Gary for putting together a great event, and coaches Rob Garcia and Olga Kolvalkova and teacher Bethany Webber for doing such a great job with the kids this year! Finally, thank you to Aquatics Director Ray Miller for steering the swim program in his first year with Trident - the results were incredible!
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 Congratulations to the Inglewood Swimmer Scholars for completing their first ever high school swim season. Thanks to the dedication and hard work of the team, Coach Orion Young and Program Director Patrick Bridges, the team did well in its first dual meet season and everyone dropped a lot of time. Above, some of the team heads off to the championship meet!
Congratulations to this year's Swimmer Scholar Seniors! We had a great crop of acceptances this year, adding more SUNY campuses (Cortland, New Paltz, and Potsdam) to our list of colleges our Scholars will attend.
See the full list here! Congratulations to all participants and thank you to all our donors! The first Great Relay was a huge success. A special thank you to Jim Bolster, Head Coach of Columbia Men's Swim Team, for hosting us at Columbia's pool! We had 8 teams compete and had a lot of fun. We are looking forward to our next Great Relay - host one in your town!
We are excited to announce the swimming of the first Great Relay!
Columbia University Swimming Pool - Dodge Fitness Center 3030 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 November 22, 2014 (10am-2pm)
 We were very excited to have our Prospect Heights and Washington Heights programs come together for the first time to visit Columbia University. Swimmer Scholars from both programs started out by watching Columbia defeat Yale in swimming, toured campus, and then finished it up with pizza! Teens from all over the world, including Morocco, Senegal, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic, came together and shared their love of swimming and talked about their plans for college.
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