Water Rat Swim Team | 2016 December

Water Rats Retain Bronze Club Excellence Status

December 14, 2016/in WRAT News /by WRAT Website Editor

USA Swimming announced today the rankings in the 2017 Club Excellence Program. The Water Rat Swim Team has retained its Bronze Level status as one of the top 200 teams in the country. This program recognizes USA Swimming clubs for their commitment to performance excellence and strives to meet the following objectives: Promote the development […]

Grinalds, Woods, and Ortega Break Long-Standing WRAT Team Records

December 13, 2016/in WRAT News /by WRAT Website Editor

December has been a busy time for the Water Rats. The senior swimmers traveled to Nashville for the Music City Invitational, other senior swimmers attended a meet at Chelsea Piers, the age group swimmers swam at the Canterbury School, and the 8 & under swimmers swam in Cheshire. There was some very […]

Nico Ortega Breaks 17 Year Old Record in the 1650 Yard Freestyle

December 5, 2016/in WRAT News /by WRAT Website Editor

It was a big weekend for our Water Rat Swim Team. The entire team swam fast in locales all across the state and in Nashville, Tennessee. In Nashville, Nico Ortega broke Matt Yacco’s 17 year old record in the 1650 yard Freestyle in a time of 15:37.18 at the Music City Invitational. Nicely done! […]

Chad Le Clos To Swim an Exhibition Race at the Y

December 2, 2016/in WRAT News /by WRAT Website Editor

As many of you know, over the last few days Olympian Chad Le Clos has been training at the Westport Weston Family YMCA. Chad is a South African swimmer, Who is an Olympic, World and Commonweath Games Champion, as well as the current world record holder in 100M Butterfly (SCM) with a time […]

December 2016

December 1, 2016/in Parents Club Minutes /by WRAT Website Editor

Minutes for the Ordinary Meeting of December 1, 2016 Board Members (Quorum is 8) Martha Corneck (Co-President), Sylvia Ortega (Co-President), John Wang (Officials Chair), Tracy Keblish (Officials Chair), Kerri Steele Rubin (Treasurer), Tricia Begg (Senior Rep), and Lori Blessey (AG rep). As a quorum was not able to be present, the meeting proceeded with non-voting […]