Torpedoes Swim Team Members Make A Splash Throughout Summer Season – The Newtown Bee

Published: Aug 16, 2025 7:00 am

Throughout a lot of the summer season youth swimmers ages 7 to 14 made waves as they improved their expertise at Treadwell Park with the Newtown Parks and Recreation-sponsored Torpedoes Swim Team. They practiced and had enjoyable for an hour and a half every weekday night for a month — offering a pleasant cool-down alternative throughout the sizzling days and evenings when temperatures had been recurrently within the 80s and 90s.

Led by Connor Negri, together with student-athlete coaches, this system teaches freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke, and backstroke. Swimmers are damaged into teams/lanes and get a soar on the aggressive indoor season simply across the nook.

“We also practice our starting dives, our turns on the wall, and our finishes at the wall,” stated Negri, who oversees this system to verify coaches are masking the required expertise and interesting with the swimmers effectively and successfully.

Although it’s a huge half, this system is just not solely about studying and bettering expertise within the water.

“Our Summer Torpedoes focus on fun,” Negri famous. “Coaches mix in fun games during practice and have swimmers play competitive swimming games, enjoy free swim, and they get to jump off our diving boards at the end of every practice.”

Most of this summer season’s coaches had been Newtown High School graduates, excluding Sierra Marx, who will swim for the Nighthawks once more this fall.

“It’s really nice being able to apply my knowledge and seeing them improve. I love seeing them excited to swim at practice and having fun throughout the summer,” Marx stated.

Former Nighthawk swimmer Collin Granville, who additionally coaches at volleyball and flag soccer camps, used to take part in every of those summer season applications so he enjoys the hyperlink to his previous. “It’s nostalgic for me because I did a lot of this as a kid — it’s a throwback for me,” Granville stated.

As a lot as this system is for the individuals it supplies an important probability for the coaches to study expertise as effectively.

“All of our coaches are certified lifeguards for Parks and Recreation and swam competitively in high school. This is a unique opportunity for our swim coaches to share their skills and swimming knowledge, helping swimmers develop and gain confidence in the water,” Negri stated. “Being swim coaches also helps sharpen their leadership skills, communication, planning and motivational skills.”

Sports Editor Andy Hutchison might be reached at andyh@thebee.com.

Parker Harriman, Amelia Burton, and Milo Harriman work on a freestyle kick drill throughout Torpedoes Swim Team apply at Treadwell Park this summer season. —Bee Photos, Hutchison

LJ Lemieux works on his butterfly stroke type.

Jack Mellen swims freestyle.

Dora Myzithras swims the backstoke.

Nathan Freitas, Thomas Serafini, and Ellie Dirschel work their manner throughout the pool.

Sierra Marx, a Newtown High swimmer and coach with the Torpedoes, offers instruction at apply.

Collin Granville instructs swimmers.