Boston Elite swim team was formed by a small group of parents whose swimmers had a strong desire to swim more competitively as a result of attending the national black heritage championship swim meet and meeting 2004 Olympian Maritza Correia and 2006 World Record holder Cullen Jones (Now 2008 Olympian). The swimmers returned to Boston with a great deal of enthusiasm and a desire to swim at the US
level. Parents collectively registered their children to swim as unattached USA swimmers via the local Swim Committee of New England. The swimmers spent the rest of the summer practicing and competing at the New England US meets. The parents realized there was much to learn and that it was imperative to find or create an avenue to get our inner city children to a more competitive level as most children in this arena were. and Different Strokes. Boston Elite Swim Team is an inner city and traveling swim team consisting of swimmers from the city of Boston and neighboring towns. Some of the swimmers on the team continue to swim for their team year-round on the city league team, as unattached swimmers or swimmers of our collaborative US level team. Some swim at the minority meets and for their high schools. introduces and gives its swimmers the opportunity to compete at many levels in order to educate and expose our youth to most arenas of the sport and support them in making good decisions relative to the sport and how it can affect their lives. The swimmers excelled in the sport on their city teams and their parents wanted to expose them to the sport of swimming at the US level. as a team, have participated in meets held in Goldsboro, North Carolina and Orlando, Florida (the annual National Black Heritage Championship Swim Meet), and Baltimore, Maryland (Unity Meet), and hope to participate in the Long Island, NY (MLK Meet), Washington, DC (the annual Black History Meet), Atlanta, GA (the annual Chris Silva Meet) in the future. has a collaborative partnership with Madison Park Community Center, this is the team.s home location where they currently practice and conduct lessons, workshops and meetings. Madison Park Community Center's mission is to develop and oversee Teen Programming that provides academic and enrichment based curriculums. Madison Park Community Center (MPCC) is a community based human service agency that has served Lower Roxbury, Roxbury, South End, and Mission Hill communities. MPCC has provided programs and activities that address the academic, recreational, cultural and social needs of the communities that it serves. MPCC is widely utilized by many agencies and neighborhood residents, adults, families and children alike. The MPCC Board of Directors and the administrative staff have committed their efforts to broaden the Center's scope of services to address teen programming, after school, Saturday programming and family support services. Multi-cultural low-moderate income parents of B.E.S.T youth (who swim at one of the 21 pools operated by Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF), the city.s community center network, and other organizations that services the cities youth in this capacity) now have access to a program and team that provides an avenue for swimmers from the inner-city community pools to participate and achieve a higher-level of training. has embarked upon a partnership with Bernal's Gators a USA Swim Club & New England Swimming to reach several of its goals and objectives.
