VGCA Vice President Amy Nuttall headed up this year’s Back 2 School Pool Party! Hot dogs, chips, and drinks were provided by the Village Green Swim Team and music was done by DJ Connor. 😉 VGCA provided 20 goodie bags with schools supplies and candy for those that attended.
Thank you to all that helped out and to those who made it a great evening!
VGCA and the Village Green Swim Team are sponsoring a Back 2 School Pool Party!
VGCA and the Village Green Swim Team are sponsoring a Back 2 School Pool Party!
The Village Green Patriots had a great 2019 season that ended Saturday with the 2019 VPSU Championship meet. We had 12 swimmers that competed in 17 events along with a girls 18 and under 200m medley relay.
Ashley Calva swam in the girls 11-12 50 fly and dropped 2.06 seconds and placed 26th with a time of 44.57.
Lindsay Calva, at age 9, swam the girls 9-10 50m breast stroke and dropped 4.09 seconds earning 5th place and 18 points for the team.
Dylan Dennis had time drops in both his events, dropping .43 seconds in his 50m Free, earning 25th place and 2.55 second drop in his 50m giving him a time of 40.29 and earning 16th place and 5 points for the team.
Lexie Dennis joined her brother with more time dropped (1.96 seconds) in 50m breast, resulting in a time of 49.35 time and 27th place.
Zion Goodwin had a good swim and earned the team some points with his 43.43 second 50m breast, placing 18th and grabbing another 3 points for the team.
MK Maciejewski earned 1 st place in 25 Free (18.07) and 25 Breast (24.59). She earned 2 nd place in 25m backstroke with a time of 21.94, breaking the team record for the 3 rd time this season. With 69 points earned, MK tied with Lilly Younica of Governor’s Land, for 1st place overall 7-8 girls.
Kameron Moore, age 5, qualified for 2 events, swimming 6 and under 25m free with at time of 34.73 and 25m back with a time of 40.63.
Flannery Piercy, age 15, swam the Women’s 15-18 50m breast stroke and finished 22nd with a time of 46.35.
Kat Piercy earned 19 th place in her 50m freestyle, with a time of 35.78 seconds, earning 2 more points for the team and dropped 1.53 seconds on 50m breast, finishing 27th with her time of 49.35.
Abby Poole adds to the time drops, dropping 2.27 seconds and earning 16th place adding 5 more points to the team score with her time of 43.79 on the girls 13-14 breast stroke at age 13.
Emma Poole follows her older sister’s lead and dropped 3.43 seconds on her 25m Fly, with a time of 29.13 and gave Village Green 2 more points and earned 19th place.
Giselle Rivera finished up the afternoon swimming alongside Emma and dropped 3.36 seconds in the 25m Fly, and grabbed an additional 3 points for the team, landing in 18th place with her 29.09 finish.
Finishing up the morning session and starting the afternoon, Abby (back), Lindsay (breast), Flannery (fly) and Kat (free) competed in the 200m Medley Relay against 12 other teams and finished with a time of 3:08.91.
Overall it was an exciting day with a lot of personal bests for our athletes. We are sad to see the season end but look forward to another great season in 2020.
Special thank you to our wonderful coaches Amy Lewis and Kelly Owens. You both put in a very long day after a great season and support and care for our athletes 110%. Thank you for all you do!!
Due to the sun setting earlier and our contract with the pool management company, the pool hours will be changing on August 13.
Help us send our swimmers off in style next weekend. We’re looking for a few items to be donated from friends and neighbors.
Sign up if you’re able and thank you in advance for the support.
Join VGCA and join as a VGCA Recreation Member at 1/2 price to use the pool from now until Labor Day.
More info can be found here: https://vgnn.org/join/
We will be offering 1/2 off our pool memberships effective August 1st. This is a great way to try out the pool and support an amazing pool. We will post the adjusted rates price rates beginning July 27th. If you don’t want to wait and/or would love to support our amazing pool now, please visit https://vgnn.org/join
The pool pump motor failed on Wednesday and our pool management company had a new one installed by Thursday afternoon. The plan is to repair the old motor and keep it on-hand to be used as a backup in case of a future failure.
We hope everyone had an enjoyable 4th of July! It started off with the annual parade throughout Village Green with the NNFD from Station #6 leading many of our neighbors and Uncle Sam. Look below for links to pictures taken by Wes Poole and Victoria Woodruff. Thanks for capturing these special moments!
Amy Nuttall coordinated this year’s 4th of July and the turnout was amazing despite the heat/humidity. THANK YOU!
Thanks to all of those neighbors that came out and enjoyed this wonderful tradition. A special thanks goes out to those who volunteered their time to make July 3rd and July 4th a memorable occasion for so many!
If anyone has video of the flag retirement ceremony, please contact [email protected].
Wes Poole’s Pics — https://inspiremedia.smugmug.com/4th-of-July-2019/n-D83Vgv/
Victoria Woodruff’s Pics — https://photos.vlwphotography.com/Portraits/2019-Village-Green-4th-of-July