Monday Message 8/4/2025
Monday Message 8/4/2025
Thanks Coach Mohamad Abdelaal
Over the past five years, we have been privileged to have Coach Mohamad Abdelaal on deck coaching the AquaHawgs. He has been an instrumental part of our organization’s success during that time. The AquaHawgs were twice named a Silver Medal Club by USA Swimming. We had two swimmers represent our organization at USA Olympic Trials. Coach Mo helped sixteen different AquaHawgs’ swimmers make the trip to USA Swimming Junior Nationals.
Coach Mo’s presence on deck will be greatly missed. He has been a great leader and mentor to numerous swimmers during his tenure. We hope that Coach Mo, Elisha, Gabriel, and Isla have a great return to New Jersey. Good luck to Coach Mo and Scarlet Aquatics in the future!
Juniors & Zones
This past weekend, we had numerous AquaHawgs compete in USA Swimming Summer Junior Nationals and the USA Swimming Central Zones Championships.
In Irvine, California, Lexie D’Amico, Hayden Gibson, Ethan Nguyen, and McKenzie Vasquez represented the AquaHawgs at USA Swimming Junior Nationals. The AquaHawgs also made it back to finals in several events…
- Lexie D’Amico – 8th Place 200 Breast | 12th Place 50 Breast | 19th Place 100 Breast
- Hayden Gibson – 7th Place 400 IM | 10th Place 200 Back | 11th Place 100 Breast | 18th Place 200 IM
In Rochester, Minnesota, Veta Alferova, Ty Call, Josiah Ching, Reagan Johnson, Harry Jung, Ian Jung, Leona Likvornik, Creed Moore, Elijah Reed, Mark Tanski, and Emily Yale represented Team Arkansas at USA Swimming Central Zones Championships. We had several swimmers make the podium at the meet…
- Veta Alferova - 4th Place 400 IM | 6th Place 1500 Free | 8th Place – 200 IM | 8th Pace 200 Breast
- Ty Call - 4th Place 1500 Free | 6th Place 800 Free
- Reagan Johnson - 1st Place 50 Free
- Harry Jung - 5th Place 100 Breast | 5th Place 200 Breast | 6th Place 200 IM
- Mark Tanski - 6th Place 100 Breast | 7th Place 200 Breast
We are so proud of how well our swimmers competed during the 2025 Long Course Season. We want to carry this positive momentum into the upcoming short course season.
2025-2026 Short Course Season
We have a lot of information to share on the upcoming short course season. We have published our Fall Practice Schedule and Training Group Strucutre. Senior Hawgs and Senior Prep will not start morning practice until several weeks into the season We will update everyone with soon.
On Monday, August 11, we will turn off everyone's account and open registration. We will send an email when you are able to register. Everyone will need to re-register with the team before we start back to practice. In March, we had numerous swimmers move to new training groups. We will have some swimmers change groups, and we will notify those swimmers changing groups this week.
