Jack Montesi, member of the Chelsea Piers athletic club Swim Team, qualified for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials-Swimming after his performance in the 200-meter Butterfly at the U.S. Junior National Championships in San Antonio, TX.
The 17-year-old Greenwich native has been a member of Chelsea Piers Athletic Club swim team for three seasons, dating back to the opening of Chelsea Piers CT.
Montesi and the team are coached by Jamie Barone. An accomplished swimmer, Barone also competed in two Olympic Trials and has been both nationally and globally ranked in the 100 meter breast stroke.
“Jack is a very hard worker who earned this trip to Omaha,” said Barone, Head Swim Coach, Chelsea Piers Connecticut. “We are all proud to see a swimmer reach this level just three years after our program’s start. It has been a pleasure for the staff to watch him improve over the last three seasons.”
Approximately 1,500 of the top swimmers in the country qualify for the Olympic Trials, held June 2016 in Omaha, NE. The Olympic Games will be held in August 2016.
Chelsea Piers Connecticut is a 500,000-square-foot state-of-the-art sports and recreation facility located in Stamford, just off I-95 at Exit 9.
Opened in July 2012, Chelsea Piers Connecticut features two indoor ice rinks, an Olympic pool and adjacent 6,000-sq.-ft. Splash Zone indoor water park, a 14,000-sq.-ft. gymnastics training center, 11 singles and one hardball doubles squash court, seven indoor hard court tennis courts, an indoor turf baseball/softball training facility and five batting cages, a 12,000-sq.-ft. Adventure Center featuring a recreational trampoline center, a 24-foot high rock wall and a Little Athletes gym for children six months to five years, and a Field House with a 100-yard turf field, four hardwood basketball/volleyball courts and a 1/5-mile track.