Greenville Splash Masters

Greenville Splash has been super busy this fall. We continue to be amazed by all of our swimmers and their athletic feats. Read all about it in the section below called Splashing Accomplishments. Our biggest announcement this month is that Barbara Eisele broke the National USMS Record for the 200 IM in the 95-99 age group! Barbara inspires people from all walks of life and around the entire country. She is now famous on Facebook with her latest feat of athleticism. We couldn't be more proud of her!

Greenville Splash hosted the Upstate Splash Charity Open Water Swim this past September. It was our 11th event! We had 200 swimmers come from all over the southeast to swim either 1.2 or 2.4 miles at Lake Jocassee. Upstate Splash is an all volunteer charity and the proceeds directly impact groups in our community. We give back to our partners to provide swim lessons for children and adults that are in need. Our mission is to prevent childhood drowning and raise awareness of water safety. We plan to continue to work with Aqua Angels and look forward to providing swim lessons to children with special needs this coming year.

Greenville Splash was thrilled to be featured in the June edition of Town Carolina Magazine! Check out our article and pictures below, click to page 59.

Send Leslie results and pictures of your events for our next newsletter. Feel free to email Coach Leslie at greenvillesplash@gmail.com or give me a call if you need any help with anything: 864-283-1328.

November 8 Funvitational SCY Meet in Wilmington, NC. Sign up by Oct. 31. Click here to register:

November 22 Greenville Splash Annual Thanksgiving Workout. 11:00 am - 2:00 pm at GCAC. RSVP if planning to attend. We swim 100 x 100's or 75's or 50's. RSVP to get all the details and reserve lane space. Come for all or part of the workout. Lunch afterwards at Home Team BBQ.

Dec 5-7 South Carolina SCM Championships Meet in Charleston, SC. Entries due by Dec. 1. Click here for more info and to register.

Dec. 7 Adult Learn to Swim Instructor Certification in Augusta, Georgia. Click here for more info:

Alec DiBattista, Janine Serell and Alyssa Berry are planning to attend

Friday Dec 12 Greenville Splash Annual Christmas Party . You won't want to miss this year's party! Our hosts will be Becki & Bob McKee. The party will be held at Five Forks Plantation Club House, 16 Clifton Grove Way, Simpsonville. Please RSVP to greenvillesplash@gmail.com if planning to attend by Dec. 7th. Bring a gift under $25 and an appetizer or desert to share. Greenville Splash will be providing the main dishes. We are expecting a special visitor from up North and plenty of new fun experiences. Dress in your favorite tacky sweater or in your Christmas finest attire. We will have prizes for best dressed.

Dec. 15 -19 Christmas Week at the Kroc and GCAC. Don't miss our fun annual themed workouts.

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Congratulations and best wishes to Ryan and Amy Nicholson on their recent marriage. This was Ryan's favorite picture from their first dance!

Way to go Greenville Splash at the Spooky Fall Classic Short Course Yards Meet in Augusta, Georgia! We are ecstatic for some awesome races with many PR's and milestones reached by: Charles Michael, Susan DeMere, Kristi Panayotoff, Celeste Schultz and Barbara Eisele.

A huge shoutout to Barbara Eisele on earning the USMS National Record in the 200 IM in the 95-99 age group! Barbara is a source of inspiration for swimmers all over the United States.

Leslie Scott was honored to be a presenter for the USMS National Relay Conference in Kansas City, Missouri.

Congratulations to these amazing swimmers for competing in the following open water swims this fall: Melinda Menzer at Swim the Suck 10 mile in Tennessee, Charles Michael Swim for Alligator Lighthouse in the Islamorada Florida Keys and Tyler Scott for competing in the 10K in Bermuda.

Olivia Kayye is an Ironman! Way to go! She finished the Ironman in Kona, Hawaii! What an extraordinary accomplishment!

What a phenomenal group of Greenville Splash athletes at the Half Ironman in Edisto: Tim Coyle Smith, Camp Wynn, Zeth Sutton, Diana McCoy Davis, Carolyn Moore, Teri Laliberte, Caroline Fritz, Michael Mauhar

Welcome Coach Noah Cignarele as one of our evening coaches at Greenville County Aquatic Complex. Congratulations on becoming a Level 1 Certified USMS Coach! Noah will be coaching on Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:00 pm. Come out and give one of his workouts a try!

We are beyond proud of Steve Leitch! Steve completed the North Channel Swim (One of the Ocean's Seven) this August. The swim is from Northern Ireland to Scotland. The distance is 35K (21 miles) and his time was 12:50:21. He described this swim as 10 hours of fun and 3 hours of survival. He also completed the Tsugaru Straight in Japan in June. (One of the Ocean's Seven). he swam19.8 miles in 10 hours, fighting cold, current, and fatigue across one of the toughest open-water swims on Earth. Only 57 people have completed this swim. He does the swims to raise awareness and money for those that are overcoming addiction.

Coach Noah will be coaching Tuesday evenings at Greenville County Aquatic Complex 6:30-8:00 pm. We would love to get some more swimmers in the evenings! If you haven't been in awhile we look forward to seeing you soon!

Coach Eric coaches on Thursday evenings 6:30-8:00 pm at Greenville County Aquatic Complex. If you don't like waking up early in the mornings, these evening workouts are awesome. Our coaches are fantastic and the swimmers are super nice and fun. All levels welcome.

Greenville County Aquatic Complex:

It's Long Course Season! Coached workouts: TuTh 5:30-7:00 am, TuTh 6:30-8:00 pm, Tu 9:00-10:30 am, Fri 7:00-8:30 am & 9:00-10:30 am, Sat 7:00-8:30 am (informal workout)

Veterans Swim Program Mon & Wed 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Pool closed on these dates:

11/15 TG Beach Bash Meet

12/6 TG Champions Challenge

Kroc Center:

Coached workouts: MWF 6:00-7:00 am.

No workout on Friday Nov. 28. Pool opens at 8:00 am.

Please Note: Due to lane space and safety concerns we require swimmers to circle swim at all workouts at both pools.

Make sure to check our website to see our Greenville Splash workouts that we do every week. Coach Carolyn and Coach Leslie are working hard to post them every week!

Click here for workouts:

Aqua Angels is an amazing organization in our community that helps to provide swim lessons for those in need. They have also begun a program for teaching children with disabilities swim lessons and even had an adaptive swim meet in October. Upstate Splash is proud to partner with them to raise funds and awareness to make our community safer in and around the water. Thank you Aqua Angels for volunteering at the Upstate Splash!

Thank you so much to all of our swimmers that volunteer for Greenville Splash! Your efforts help to make our community safer in the water and provide fitness and competition activities for swimmers.

We host several big events every year:
Adult Learn to Swim
The Upstate Splash Charity Open Water Swim
Upstate Veterans Swim

We have taught 520 adults how to swim!
The Upstate Splash has raised money to provide swim lessons for over 3,600 children!

We are proud to be a team that gives back to our community!

Meet the Greenville Splash Advisory Board:

Sara Bopp, Amy Browning, Mark Kothe, Carolyn Moore, and Leslie Scott

Please, reach out to these board members with any suggestions for the future success of your Greenville Splash Masters team. Email: advisoryboard@greenvillesplash.com

Follow us on facebook, twitter, instagram and our website for more information about our USMS club. We also have FB messenger for each of the pools, let us know if you want to be added. We always welcome all swimmers to any of our workouts, events and socials. Join the fun!

Facebook Links:

Greenville Splash

Upstate Splash Charity

"Make a Splash in Life, Swim!"

Email: greenvillesplash@gmail.com
Website: www.greenvillesplash.com
Location: Greenville County Aquatic Complex and Kroc Center
Phone: 864-283-1328 Head Coach Leslie Scott
Facebook: facebook.com/greenvillesplash
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenvillesplash/