Our team has a great history of extending our member’s swim careers by promoting them to become a coach once they have graduated. It exemplifies our motto – “Once a Titan, always a Titan”. Our next spotlight is fondly remembered as someone who was an amazing swimmer and then an equally amazing coach: Andrea Gomez. Andrea started swimming for the Sweet Home Swim Club when she was 6 years old. The team merged with the Lockport swim team to become the Western Empire State Titans or WEST. She has been...

The Natalie Lewis Spring Invite returned! For the first time in 2 years we ran a Long Course Meet at the Town of Tonawanda Aquatic and Fitness Center! It was all hands on deck for this three session meet and it was a great opportunity to swim in the Olympic size pool! We played host to Amherst, BAAC, TWST and Victor hosting the biggest event in a long time! Two hundred and forty-five swimmers were given the opportunity to swim in Long Course Meters and the results were fantastic! We...

The Titans played host to Amherst Swim Cub with Time trial #21 Friday May 15th. We had nearly 100 Titans in attendance swimming fast and having some fun in the AFC pool. For the first time since the pandemic, we ran RELAYS! It was amazing to see the team aspect of the sport again and we saw the benefit of returning to a kind of normalcy. We will be doing our best to continue to include as many Titans in the relays as we proceed through spring and summer meets!...

The Titans Friday night Time Trials have continued to be a great opportunity for the team. We had 78 Titans swim on Mat 7th,showing us all that their time and efforts are paying off in some great improvements in strokes, technique, and time drops! Many Titans in all levels 1 to 8 are branching out into new events, fine tuning their best events, and discovering some new swims that could be truly great in the future! Thanks again to all who helped, swam, and made our 20th Time Trial another...

Our next spotlight is a former Titan that not only enjoyed a long swimming career, but also met some of the most important people in her life because of swimming: Samantha Wakefield. Back in 1995, Samantha McCarthy, now Samantha Wakefield, joined the Titans. Her long swim career started at the young age of 7 and continued throughout her college years. Sam could always be found in the pool, even though her high school didn’t have a swim team. She played high school soccer for Nichols but always kept up with...

The Last Chance Swim Fast Time Trial was only the last chance to get times into the Niagara LSC Virtual Championships. We are looking forward to a great deal more swimming fast on Fridays! The team played host to TWST swim team who brought some great competition to both sessions. We are very thankful for the opportunity to run these meets and want to thank all involved in making them happen! Titan Board Members truly go above and beyond, Coaches all put in tremendous efforts, AFC Staff did a fantastic...

With just two weeks back in the pool after break the Titans were back to racing on Friday night! The Spring Kick Off Meet was a great opportunity to see how we were able to refocus after a short recharge! We did great as a team, swimming some truly amazing races! We had 3 swimmers representing level 1, and they also had a great first meet back! Everyone dropped time and had some great races! Shout out to Sadie Habib for dropping 18 seconds in her 50 free! Awesome job!...

One of the greatest strengths that we have in our Titans organization is that several of our coaches are actual alumni themselves. We are proud to offer opportunities to our alum as we know how valuable it is when they can directly relate to our current swimmers while being able to continue in a sport that they love. Our next spotlight is another Titans alumni swimmer and current team coach: Greg Staebell Greg began swimming at the early age of 9 and never stopped. He grew up in Williamsville and...

We have made it to Spring! Even though we saw a bit of winter weather around WNY April 1st, things were heating up in the pool at the Spring Break Time Trial. Levels 1 through 8 were all well represented, and we continued to see tremendous progress in our racing. Level 1 sent 4 swimmers to Friday’s meet with representation from Sofia Burns, Anna Masse, Lannen and Liliah Pawelek. These swimmers had no DQ’s and even swam new events for them! To see how Level 1 has come along from...

We all know Coach Ben, but did you know he swam for Titans? Yes indeed! Our next spotlight is our own: Ben Verdi Ben started swimming back when he went to St. Andrews and continued to swim in high school at St. Joseph Collegiate Institute. He attended Le Moyne College in Syracuse and swam all 4 years there in the Northeast 10 Conference in Division II. Along with coaching for Titans, he also is the coach for SJCI as well and is currently Audience Services Manager at Irish Classical Theatre,...