Nation's Capital Swim Club Explained

The Nation's Capital Swim Club (NCAP) is a swim club in the Washington Metropolitan area. The club was created in 1978 as the Curl-Burke Swim Club. It changed its name to NCAP in September 2012. [1] In 2016, USA Swimming ranked it the top club in the nation as part of its USA Swimming Club Excellence program.[2] It has produced a number of Olympic medalists, including Mike Barrowman, Tom Dolan,[3] Mark Henderson, Ed Moses, Jack Conger, Andrew Wilson, Phoebe Bacon, and Katie Ledecky.

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  1. Web site: D.C. area is proving to be one of swimming’s deepest talent pools . 2012-12-25 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20220626015429/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/dc-area-is-proving-to-be-one-of-swimmings-deepest-talent-pools/2012/12/24/c8458d06-43d2-11e2-8e70-e1993528222d_story.html . 2022-06-26 . live .
  2. http://www.usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=1616&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en-US USA Swimning Club Excellence Program. It has been number one in all the following years.
  3. Tom Dolan Swim School, http://tomdolanswimschool.com/about-us/story/. Retrieved April 16, 2013.