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Midwest Aquatic Club today announced the official launch date of its upcoming 2018-2019 tryouts and swimming season. Rumors are already starting to circulate among observers, and die-hard fans within the swim team community in St. Louis. Midwest Aquatic Club followers are expecting big things for the swim team. An extremely high level of swim coaching and instruction is provides the team with an edge over it’s competition.
The first thing folks should expect is a significant improvement in times, Coach Raz said he is excited to lead his program. “I am committed to building a culture of excellence at Midwest Aquatic Club by providing a quality, competitive swim team based on technique and speed, with a one of a kind, professional lessons program, and a training platform for adult athletes.” Before coming to St. Louis, Coach Raz was the Head Coach of the TAC Titans in Cary, NC, and a USA Swimming National Team Coach. He coached Ashley Twichell, USA Swimming National Team member, to a 2016 World Championship in the 10k Open Water event before transitioning her to the pool for a fifth-place finish in the Women’s 800 Free at 2016 Olympic Trials. In 2015, Cuparencu received the Top Ten Age Group Coach of the Year award from the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) for his 2014-2015 age group coaching performance. Under his guidance, the TAC National Team finished in the Top 20 at the 2015 USA Swimming LCM, and SCY Junior National meet and boasted five Olympic Trial Qualifiers under the age of 17. Midwest Aquatic Club makes this happen by letting Cuparencu focus on identifying and developing the potential in young swimmers. His 17 years of coaching elite swimmers in IN, NC, and MO gives him perspective on how to grow a champion swimmer. “I want these kids to excel at their sport, but the most important thing is how they develop as an athlete.” He is committed to success and focused on helping the kids be great in and out of the water. Coach Raz has a passion for swimming and has demonstrated that he can prepare swimmers to compete at meets of all levels. This is to be expected from a business who places this much value on Coach Raz understands swimming from the inside out. His career choices were a natural outreach from his swimming career. He left his native Romania when he was 15 years old on a student exchange program, after which he decided to stay and pursue his swimming career in the United States. He earned a swimming scholarship and swam through college. After college, he wanted to stick with the sport he loved and make an impact on future generations as his swim team did for him.
As well as that, Midwest Aquatic Club will be competing in several meets to start the Fall 2018 season and many more in 2019 St. Louis swim team season. They hope is that more competition will produce faster times, better stroke techniques and great swimmer habits will produce champions.
Finally, for die-hard fans of swimming in St. Louis, they will be interested to know what went into the creation of the new St. Louis swim team. It has taken 25 to put together, from start to finish, from the initial idea to fully implementing our sim team’s program.
Raz Cuparencu, Swim Team Founder / Head Coach at Midwest Aquatic Club also wanted to add “I want these kids to excel at their sport, but the most important thing is how they develop as an athlete.”
For further information about Midwest Aquatic Club or the new Swim Coaching and Instruction service, it can all be discovered at the Midwest Aquatic Club and Swim Team website.
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