Colonies Zone & New England LMSC SCY Championship
Full results are posted for the 2025 Colonies Zone & New England LMSC Short Course Yards Championship. The meet took place March 15 (distance day) & 21-23 (main weekend) in Boston at Harvard University’s Blodgett Pool. There were 68 teams and 662 swimmers from around the country entered in the meet.
There were 73 Colonies Zone SCY championship meet records broken, and Courtney Bartholemew of Great Bay Masters Swimming set new USMS records for the 30-34 age group in the 200-yard backstroke (1:56.26) and 100-yard IM (56.73).
Congratulations to 2025 Colonies Zone Champions South County YMCA, Kingsbury Club Masters, EDGE Masters, Adirondack Masters, and Salve Regina Swim Club for winning the team points competition in the Large, Medium, Small, Squad, and College Club team divisions, respectively. Special shout out to Cape Cod Firefish Masters for its great turnout and good cheer in winning the Team Spirit Award!
Jason Weis Receives 2024 Colonies Zone Dot Donnelly Service Award
The Colonies Zone has bestowed Jason Weis with the 2024 Dorothy “Dot” Donnelly Zone Service Award. While an undergrad at Georgia Tech, Jason was a founding member of the College Club Swimming league and CCS Advisory Board. After graduating and joining USMS, he affiliated with New England Masters Swim Club and Charles River Aquatic Masters, where he coached and began attending New England LMSC board meetings and served as the LMSC’s sanctions coordinator and CCS liaison. He is now the New England LMSC board chair, sits on the Championship Meet Subcommittee that manages NELMSC and some Colonies Zone championships and the NELMSC’s annual CCS-USMS meet. Jason has also served on USMS national committees, officiated meets and, as the head coach of Boston University Masters Swimming, has reinvigorated that program and worked with the school’s administrators to bring back Masters Swimming meets to the nice BU Aquatic Center for the first time in a decade.