Greenville Splash Masters

What an awesome summer it has been for Greenville Splash. Our annual team picnic was so much fun and we had a great turnout. We had record turnouts at our group open water swims. Our team had an awesome showing at the new long course meet in Columbia. We had a blast cheering for each other and getting to know each other better. I believe my favorite event this summer was our Shark Week Workout. It's always fun to coach a themed workout. We enjoyed some fun music, nostalgic trivia about the movie Jaws and a very competitive game of sharks of minnows, which was a riot! I think we may need to make that workout an annual tradition!

Did you know that Greenville Splash hosts the Upstate Splash Charity Open Water Swim every September? We are getting excited to host our 11th event! We have close to 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.

Sept 20 Upstate Splash Charity Open Water Swim, Lake Jocassee, Salem, SC.

This event is hosted by Greenville Splash. The event is full. Let us know if you want to volunteer as kayak support, swim buddy, transporting items, helping with timing, or helping with check in and clean up. Email greenvillesplash@gmail.com to volunteer. Proceeds are used to provide swim lessons to children and adults in our community. Click here for more info:

October 4 Spooky Fall Classic SCY Meet in Augusta, GA. Sign up by Sept. 29. Click here to register:

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. More info to come. RSVP if planning to attend

Dec 5-7 South Carolina SCM Championships Meet in Charleston, SC. More info and registration coming soon on club assistant.

Friday Dec 12 Greenville Splash Annual Christmas Party . More details coming soon.

For more swim events in the southeast click here:

Way to go Greenville Splash at the COLA Classic Long Course Meters Meet at USC in Columbia! We are super proud of these swimmers for swimming some awesome races with many PR's and milestones reached. Noah Cignarale, William Tarr, John Decker, Joe Shake, Bertrand Maillet, Charles Michael, Matthew Decker, Rick Haverland, Mark Kothe, Kristi Panayotoff, David Preuninger, Lauren Harper and Celeste Schultz. Thank you so much to Carolyn Moore for officiating and Beth Cox for volunteering to time. Not only did Beth time, but she cheered on every swimmer in her lane for the entire meet! Celeste made National Qualifying Times and Lauren competed in her first Masters meet! Congrats to these high point winners: Joe Shake, David Preuninger, Kristi Panayotoff, Bertrand Maillet and Rick Haverland.

A huge shout out to Kristi Panayotoff for breaking a state record in the 400 Meter Free in the 75-79 age group!

We are super 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.

Congratulations to these amazing swimmers for competing in the National Senior Games in Des Moines, Iowa this summer: Joe Shake and James Taylor! Joe got 2 golds in relays, 2 silvers in the 200 & 500 free,, and 1 bronze in the 50 back! James swam awesome races in all the freestyle events!

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 5:30-8:00 pm. Come out and give one of his workouts a try!

We are super excited to announce we have new parents! Tyler & Colleen Fozkos gave birth to Rory on July 29. Jeremy & Hayley Wilson gave birth to Kit on August 5. We wish both of these families health, happiness and lots of pool time with the new babies!

We wish Bertrand and Laura Maillet the best as they return to France. It was so awesome having you swim with us this past summer. You both will be missed. We can't wait for you to come back next year!

Before & After

10 hours of fun and 3 hours of survival in the North Channel

But

The pain was never greater than when I was battling addiction.

The pain was never greater than when I had to drop my kids off after visitation.

The pain was never greater than divorce.

The pain was never greater than the loss of my Dad and Laura within 8 weeks.

The pain was never greater than how my heart aches for those still in the struggle.

The pain was temporary but our choices are eternal.

Message me today with your prayer requests. I want to pray for you and with you.

Ephesians 3.20

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 6:00-7:30 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:

10/25 TG Great Pumpkin Meet

11/15 TG Beach Bash Meet

12/6 TG Champions Challenge

Kroc Center:

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