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Village Green Swim Team 2019

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!!

Pool hours changing on August 13

Due to the sun setting earlier and our contract with the pool management company, the pool hours will be changing on August 13.

Help support our Village Green Swim Team…

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.

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1/2 price pool memberships are available now.

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/

Newport News taking thoughts on proposed road extension through Tech Center to Oyster Pt/Village Green Pkwy

There is a meeting scheduled for next week for residents to comment on the proposed extension of Hogan Dr from Cannon Blvd to Village Green Parkway/Oyster Point.

Knowing the concerns over traffic, light timing, and entryway beautification, this would be an excellent opportunity to express them and encourage some action to address them. Just remember once it is done, we have little room to complain.

According to the website it is “7/23/19 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM in the JAMES ROOM of the Waterworks City Center Conference Facilities located at 700 Town Center Dr., Newport News, VA 23606” or send comments to the project coordinator Thomas Cheney, 757.926.8715, [email protected].

City’s Project Status Page: https://apps.nnva.gov/ps/project.aspx?id=597

Daily Press Article: https://www.dailypress.com/news/newport-news/dp-nws-newport-news-notebook-20190715-story.html

Half price pool memberships begin Aug 1

  1. Join VGCA.
  2. Join the VGCA pool.
  3. Enjoy the pool.

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

New pool pump motor installed

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.

2019 4th of July Parade and Picnic

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

2019 Village Green Biathlon

The annual Biathlon was run again with some previous athletes (Carrisa and Candice came out of retirement) and equally important MANY new faces!!! What a great time. This is what Village Green is all about. Connor was DJ and official race starter due to a bicycle accident the day before. We had several last minute entries which made it fun and exciting. Coach Amy brought a distance runner with her and the Block children were resourceful in drafting teammates. (The Woodruff’s are starting their training for next year’s biathlon beginning tomorrow.) Team Potatoes shot out of the gate with a great swim and then rocketed around Village Green Pkwy with the fastest run — admittedly, they caught the race organizers by surprise!!!

We had to run 3 heats because we had 14 teams! That was amazing…and made it a bit of a challenge for the official timekeeper. 😉 Thanks for the 14 timers that were able to help out using stopwatches and cell phones.

Great job to all the participants and of course to all the winners!

Here are the results:

FinishTeamSwimRunTotal
1stTeam: Potatoes
Laurel/Perry
4:19.188:42.7212:57.60
2ndTeam: Blondies
Candice/Belle
4:09.378:51.6913:01.06
3rdTeam: El Papas
Flannary/Joel
4:19.189:15.2713:34.45
4thTeam: Panthers
Abby/Lexie
4:53.779:05.8013:59.57
5thTeam: ThicThic Boys
William/Dylan
4:14.9910:29.4814:44.47
6thTeam:
Ashley/Lyndsay
5:01.469:43.2614:44.72
7thTeam: Turtles
MK/Victoria
4:33.8410:16.6014:50.44
8thTeam:
Courtney/Josh
6:32.548:54.1115:26.65
9thTeam:
Brittney/TJ
5:38.0710:28.8616:06.93
10thTeam:
Evie/Austin
7:10.348:58.9516:09.29
11thTeam:
Clarissa/Jacob
3:50.7112:28.5316:19.25
12thTeam:
Coach Amy/Yon
4:12.6912:31.7216:44.31
13thTeam: Champions
Brandon/Eric
5:56.5111:58.1617:54.68
14thTeam: TeamName
Josh/Isaac
7:08.6211:32.0918:40.71

2019 Village Green Junior Biathlon

The 1st annual Junior Biathlon was a SUCCESS and positioned these young athletes for future success in the Village Green Biathlon in coming years. We had 9 children participate…4 teams of 2 and 1 athlete that ran the grueling biathlon event by himself, Cameron (Coach Amy’s son). We had parents and spectators stationed throughout the cross-country track in the Village Green Park and these kids had a great time officially kicking off our 4th of July festivities this year!

Thanks to all the volunteers and spectators that came out and thanks to Connor for being the DJ and official starter for the evening.

Individual Jr Biathlon Results:

FinishIndividualSwimRunTotal
1stTeam: Rattlers
Cameron
1:47.041:37.563:24.60

Team Jr Biathlon Results:

FinishTeam MembersSwimRunTotal
1stTeam: Foxes
MK/Lexie
46.771:22.922:09:69
2ndTeam: Super Twins
Anna/Ella
59.601:33.472:33.07
3rdTeam: Tigers
Jacob/Emma
1:09.771:36.562:46.33
4thTeam: Swim
Olivia/Laurel
1:38.49135.173:13.65