Newton County has an official USA Swimming Swim team located in Chunky, Mississippi. The team, named TOP Swim, is coached by Anthia, Bryan, and Marina Olmstead.
Anthia Olmstead has been the head coach of The Newton County High School (NCHS) swim team for 7 years and a USA Swimming coach for 8 years. Bryan Olmstead is the head coach for East Central Community College Swimming (ECCC) and a former coach for the Chinese-Taipei National Team of Taiwan. Additionally, Bryan has coached NCHS for the past 7 years and year-round swimming for 13 years. Marina Olmstead is a former member of the Chinese-Taipei National Team, where she was a three-time national champion, and former collegiate swimmer for the University of Alabama and University of New Mexico. She is currently the ECCC Swimming assistant coach. Both Bryan and Marina Olmstead are lifeguard certified by the American Red Cross.
Top Swim already has 5 swimmers who recently competed in the Mississippi Swimming Short Course State Championships on February 12-15th. State participants include Edie Pippin, Erin Tullos, Emma Ward, KaiDee Faith Hill, and Wyatt Cannon. With multiple new best times and the teams first medal achieved by Cannon, TOP Swim's members eagerly return to training to ready for the next meet. Pippin, Tullos, Ward, and Hill have achieved not only state qualifying times in multiple events, but if they were in junior college right now, they would qualify for the NJCAA National Championships. Since two of those swimmers are only in 8th grade, a bright future in swimming lays ahead.
