New York Breakers

NY Breakers is a professional swimming club and one of the original eight clubs of the global International Swimming League (ISL) based in New York led by general manager Tina Andrew and head coach Peter Andrew. The ISL is owned by Konstantin Grigorishin and had its inaugural season in 2019. The original eight clubs were:  DC Trident, the New York Breakers, the L.A. Current, and the Cali Condors in the United States of America, and the Aqua Centurions, Energy Standard, the London Roar, and IRON in Europe. In 2020 ISL added the Toronto Titans (Canada) and a Tokyo team (Japan) for a total of ten teams.

New York Breakers (NY Breakers)
NicknameBreakers
Short nameNY Breakers
SportSwimming
First season2019
LeagueInternational Swimming League
General managerTina Andrew

During the inaugural season in 2019, NY Breakers ended 4th in Lewisville, Budapest and College Park, MD in the preliminary rounds and failed to advance to the finale in Las Vegas.[1]

Team roster

ISL teams had a maximum roster of 32 athletes for 2019 season, with a suggested size of each club's traveling roster of 28 (14 men and 14 women). Each club had a captain and a vice-captain of different gender. The Breakers had one of the most culturally diverse teams of the league after Energy Standard Swim Club with athletes from 11 different countries representing the program.[2]

New York Breakers
Men Women
Michael Andrew Haley Black
Marcelo Chierighini Pernille Blume
João de Lucca (Captain) Ali DeLoof
Mack Darragh Catie DeLoof
Jonathan Gómez Gabby DeLoof
Marius Kusch Emily Escobedo
Marco Koch Reva Foos
Clyde Lewis Breeja Larson (Captain)
Jack McLoughlin Tayla Lovemore
Tomas Peribonio Lia Neal
Chris Reid Emily Overholt
Brad Tandy Alys Thomas
Grigory Tarasevich Madison Wilson
Markus Thormeyer Abbie Wood

[3]

Match results

In the 2019 (inaugural) ISL season, NY Breakers came 4th during the playoffs and failed to advance to the final.[4]

Dates Location Venue Teams Results MVP
Regular season
19–20 October Lewisville The LISD Westside Aquatic Center London Roar

LA Current

Iron

New York Breakers

 Vladimir Morozov

( Iron)

26–27 October Budapest Danube Arena London Roar

Iron

LA Current

New York Breakers

 Katinka Hosszu

( Iron)

15–16 November College Park Geary F. Eppley Recreation Center LA Current

Cali Condors

DC Trident

New York Breakers

 Caeleb Dressel

( Cali Condors)

The 2019 season debuted with eight clubs in total, four from the United States, and four from Europe. In 2020 clubs from Canada and Japan were added to the ISL, increasing the total number of clubs to 10.

2019 Teams
Team City Joined General Manager Head Coach
Americas Conference
D.C. Trident Washington, D.C. 2019 Kaitlin Sandeno Cyndi Gallagher
L.A. Current Los Angeles 2019 Lenny Krayzelburg David Marsh
New York Breakers New York City 2019 Tina Andrew Peter Andrew
Cali Condors San Francisco 2019 Jason Lezak Gregg Troy
Toronto Titans Toronto 2020 Robert Kent
European-Asian Conference
Energy Standard Paris 2019 Jean-Francois Salessy James Gibson
London Roar London 2019 Rob Woodhouse Mel Marshall
Team Iron Budapest 2019 Dorina Szekeres
Aqua Centurions Rome 2019 Alessandra Guerra Matteo Giunta
ISL Tokyo Tokyo 2020 Kosuke Kitajima

2020 International Swimming League Season[edit]

NY Breakers' 2020 roster to be announced in June for the new season starting in October.

References
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