Aqua Centurions

The Aqua Centurions is a professional swimming club and one of the original eight clubs of the International Swimming League. The team is based in Rome, IT led by General Manager Alessandra Guerra and Head Coach Matteo Giunta.

The team participated at three matches in the first ISL season, starting with the first match in Indianapolis, USA, then Naples,^[1] Italy, continued and finished at the European Derby in London, UK, without making it to the Final in Las Vegas, USA.^[2]

2019 International Swimming League Season[]

Team Roster[]

ISL teams had a maximum roster of 32 athletes for 2019 season, with a suggested size of each club's travelling roster of 28 (14 men and 14 women). Each club had a captain and a vice-captain of different gender.

Centurions had a majority of Italians on their team with athletes from seven other countries around the world.^[3]

AQUA CENTURIONS^[4]

MEN	WOMEN
Apostolos Christou	Larissa Oliveira
Santo Condorelli	Sarah Köhler
Breno Correia	Georgia Bohl
László Cseh	Silvia Scalia
Luca Dotto	Franziska Hentke
Kristian Golomeev	Alba Vázquez
Philip Heintz	Ilaria Bianchi
Travis Mahoney	Silvia Di Pietro
Nicolò Martinenghi	Freya Anderson
Alessandro Miressi	Federica Pellegrini (C)
Matteo Rivolta	Margherita Panziera
Simone Sabbioni	Hannah Miley
Fabio Scozzoli (VC)	Martina Carraro
Poul Zellmann	Elena Di Liddo
	Lidón Muñoz

Match Results[]

In the 2019 inaugural ISL season, the Aqua Centurions fought despite the lack in athletes specialize in the Skin Races.

After the first race in Indianapolis, the Team improved in the "Home Edition" in Naples, Italy, with extraordinary results by Nicolò Martinenghi that almost had the same number of points than the MVP Caeleb Dressel in the first day, with only a four points difference.^[5] Due to an unlucky disqualification of Margherita Panziera^[6] the Team arrived 4^th for only half a point.

In the last race, the European Derby, the Centurions finished 3^rd behind Energy Standard and London Roar who eventually went on to place 1^st and 2^nd in the Championship Final in Las Vegas.^[7]

Dates Location Venue Team Scores Results MVP Regular season 5–6 October Indianapolis Indiana University Natatorium Energy Standard 539 Cali Condors 457 DC Trident 330.5 Aqua Centurions 300.5 [8] [9] Sarah Sjostrom (Energy Standard) 55.5 pts 12–13 October Naples Piscina Felice Scandone Energy Standard 493 Cali Condors 490.5 DC Trident 322 Aqua Centurions 321.5 [10] [11] [12] Caeleb Dressel (Cali Condors) 57.5 pts 23–24 November London London Aquatics Centre Energy Standard 467.5 London Roar 458.5 Aqua Centurions 369.5 Team Iron 335.5 [13] [14] Chad Le Clos (Energy Standard) 44.5 pts

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