SAS Aquatics Center Puxi
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Awards Picnic May 29th (Celebrating the Year in Swimming) For ES and MS Swimmers.
To celebrate the end of our exciting and successful swim team year we invite ES and MS swimmers and parents to the end of the year Picnic & Splash event at the SAS Puxi Aquatics Center from 3 to 5:40 pm. Click here for details and registration PicnicRegistMay29 2012. Register by May 24th.
Water Polo
We invite Grade 7 to 12 swimmers to a session of water polo training and games at the SAS Pudong Aquatics Center May 26th from 10:00am to 1:00pm. Swimmers will first take part in a skills and drills session where they will learn the fundamentals of Water Polo. Then they will be taught the game and later ability grouped and divided into teams. The last half of the Clinic will be playing games in the skill appropriate groups. Water polo is a fun, fast and challenging sport played at the Olympic for both men and women. Come out and learn more about this exciting game. Our goal is to set up a team for Spring of 2013 to play other International Schools. Click here for the registration form PoloReg.2012SAS. Register by Tuesday May 22nd.
Don’t Stop Now
The swim season ends the last week of May with Friday June 1st being our final AFTER SCHOOL practice for the year. Coach Sorica will continue to run Tuesday and Thursday 7:00 am practices until June 7th. We ask swimmers to continue to be committed and train with the team at least once a week until the end of the season even if you have private coaching to supplement the training your get at school.
Next School Year, 2012-13
If you know that you will be leaving the Puxi Aqua Eagles please let your coach or Coach Biros know. Try outs for next school year will take place at the end of August. We encourage you to stay in swim shape. A number of you will be heading off to swim clubs, swim camps and swim competitions over the summer. We have 5 swimmers who will attend the David Salo Swim Camp at USC in Los Angeles along with Coach Biros who has been appointed a counselor at the camp. For all our swimmers we wish you all the best. Keep us inform of your success.
SAS Summer School is running a swim camp for the week of June 18th to 22nd, headed by our very own Aqua Eagles Coaches. The 8:30 to 3pm camp will include two swim training sessions, a dryland session and a computer/technology session. The cost of the camp is $600 USD for the week. Contact SAS Summer School to register.
Swimmingly,
Your Puxi Coaches: Andy Jin, Bogdan Sorica, Corry Day, Sam Vierra, Jerry Koontz, Vera Day, Emilia Pelone, Maria Velasco, Tony Cao, Brendan Peake and Jon Biros
With 27 Puxi swimmes and 41 Pudong swimmers, the School Wide SAS Aqua Eagles won the High Point trophy at the Mantas Swim Meet in Hong Kong for the second year in a row. This was an impressive feat with only two 15&Over swimmers in a meet represented by 18 schools and swim club and over 500 swimmers. All contributed to this great success which was celebrated in regal style with awards, fine dining and a disco Sunday nigh at the Hong Kong Football club.
Puxi swimmers top in their age groups were:
Place Name Age Team Points
1st Wang, Tina 10 SAS px 84,
2nd So, Isabelle 10 SAS px 60,
3rd Li, Linda 10 SAS px 59
2nd Lee, Leonard 10 SAS px 73,
3rd So, Tristan 13 Shanghai American School 52
Tina Wang won 7 gold medals and 2 Silver; Linda Li won 2 silver and 5 Bronze, Isabelle So 1 Gold and a record in the 50 Free, 3 Silver and 3 bronze; Leonard Li 5 Gold one which broke a record held since 1986 in the 100 Fly, along with 3 Silver with another record breaking swim in the 50 free and 1 bronze; Jun Sung Tak 3 Silver and 1 Bronze; Yeop Lee 2 bronze; Tristan So 2 Gold, 1 Silver, 3 Bronze; All these swimmers swam ten individual events plus one or two relays which is an achievement in itself. Collectively the team also did very well in the relays with the boys dominated each both the Medley and Freestyle Relays with 1st place and the girls with 3rd.
Click here to see results: mantas results 2012, individual high points 2012, and team scores 2012.
A big thank you to the 50 plus traveling parents that gave great support to the swimmers and coaches, our travel agent Lily Zhang for handling bookings and logistics and a special thank you to coaches Carpouzis, Sun, Lu, McVean, Cao and Biros for bringing it all together.
21st of April was a great day for the swimmers of SAS Puxi participating in the Swim Meet at Nanjing International School, a great facility with one wonderful swimming pool in a 4 story building!
The organizers did a great job running everything smooth even if we started 10 minutes late we finished 2 hours earlier and without any problems.
For SAS Puxi this was a dual affair, with part of the Puxi team (26 swimmers) in Hong Kong at the Mantas International Invitational with coaches Jon Biros and Tony Cao and 20 swimmers and 20 plus parents in Nanjing with coaches Sorica Bogdan and Emilia Pelone .
Even so, with only 20 swimmers our team was strong and won overall with 387 points, followed by the host NIS with 309.50 points. 3th place went to the Smic Shark Swim Team with 189 points .
Not to forget to mention that it was the first meet organized at NIS and the event was attended by 6 international schools, but we are sure after this success it will become a major event in the future years and it’s popularity will increase.
Our swimmer did a fantastic job winning many medals and supporting each other very well.
Individual rankings follow:
8 & under
Girls: 3 rd Yeung Stephanie
Boys: 2nd place Dungan Aidan, 3rd place Shen Jacob
9 & 10
Girls: 2nd place Chao Roxanne
Boys: 1st place Chan Nathan, 2nd place Tang Alexander, 3 place Chau Calvin
11 & 12
Girls:1st place Chao Roseanne, 2nd place Nellis Julia
Boys: 1st place Chan Nicholas, 2nd place Chen Kenneth
13 & 14
Girls: 2nd place Markmann Cecilia
Coach Sorica Bogdan and Coach Emilia Pelone are very proud of the performance of our swimmers and looking forward for next year Nanjing swim meet. We also would like to thank the parents for the help to manage and support our swimmers.
Click here for results meet results NIS, scores.
Traveling swimmers head to Hong Kong for the Mantas Meet April 21-22 and ISNanjing Meet April 21.
Buses depart Puxi ES main office area at 11:10 for Hong Kong on the Hong Qiao flight KA859, and 11:50 for Hong Kong Pudong flight KA805.
The Bus for Nanjing will leave the ES office area at 2:15. Students leave your class 10 minutes before bus departure.
April 20th Practice is canceled as our coaches will be traveling.
Mantas Program click here meet program,
Mantas final information Info.Mantas.2012,
Map to Mantas and NIS meets click on maps below
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Travel Doc. update click here HK.travelDetails2012
Nanjing Program click here meet programme updated. Click here for for travel update NIS meet traveldetails APRIL 2012, Info_for_coaches.NIS, 
Coach Carpouzis and I decided not to send a team to the Phuket Invitational Swim Meet on May 5th and 6th. It came to our attention that this meet falls on the May holiday week and all flights returning to Shanghai are fully booked. We apologize if you had planned on attending this meet.
We have two meets remaining until we break up for summer. Hong Kong Mantas April 21-22 (Entries now closed) and Nanjing International School April 21 (Register by April 11th) Only SAS Puxi swimmers will attend.
Water Polo in May…Middle and High School Swimmers will have the opportunity to attend a water polo clinic and tournament on May 26th @ SAS Pudong. The clinic will be lead by Coach Sam Vierra with assistance from Coaches Mark McVean and Tony Cao. Further details to follow mid April.
May 22nd will be our annual Awards Event for Elementary and Middle School Swim Team Members.Details will come out in April.
The Coaches wish you all a pleasant and safe Spring Break. See you back in the pool in April.