We are pleased to announce coach Sofia Samartzis at the Pre-competition and Elite swim groups!
Sofia has a successful coaching career for twenty years now, as she started working during her studies at the School of Physical Education and Sport Science!
Sofia welcome and good luck on your new duties!
We are pleased to announce Mr. Vassilis Demetis as the assistant coach of the Deree College Athletic Club swim team and the coordinator of the Deree Swim Academy
Vassilis Demetis was a member of the Greek National swim team for many years. He participated in the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, and in European and World Championships, with participation and distinctions in the finals of major events, and medals in European U18 Championships!
After the end of his athletic career in 2010, he started working as a coach at all age groups and administrator in swim clubs and academies with great success!
Vasilis, welcome and good luck on your new duties!
The Deree College Athletic Club is pleased to announce Mr. Kosmas Fragos as their head coach at the volleyball academy!
After his career as an athlete, Mr. Fragos has been working with success as a coach since 2011 at all age groups.
Welcome and good luck Kosmas!
The Deree College Athletic Club thanks for her contribution our former volleyball academy head coach Efi Martsoukakis, who decided to open a new chapter in her career.
We also thank our coaches Jerry Armaos and Evanna Baglatzi, for their contribution.
Efi, Jerry, and Evanna all the best for the future!
We are pleased to announce Mr. Antonis Antoniou as the head coach of the Deree College Athletic Club swim team!
Mr. Antoniou is fully fulfilling the following conditions set by our Club:
Antonis Antoniou, after a successful career for two decades as a swimmer, has a continuous presence for another two decades as a coach with many and important successes!
In the coming days, the coaches in the pre-competition and Elite teams, and the head of the swim academy will be announced.
We wish Antonis all the best in his new duties with the DCAC!
The coach of our competitive swim team, Dimitris Papaharizanou, decided after a very successful decade to move forward to the next step of his professional career.
Dimitris, thank you for your contribution, commitment, and devotion to your duties all these years, which resulted to many successes such as the winning of the National Age Groups title in 2021, and the second place in 2022!
Dimitris, we wish you all the best for the future, on a personal and professional level!
The Deree Swim Academy continues their success in National level in age groups, as – after last year’s 1st place – our team won the 1st place in girls and the 2nd in total ranking and boys, in the 2022 Pan-Hellenic age groups swim championship organized June 13-16 at OAKA!
Additionally, Antonia Rakopoulou was named the best swimmer in girls and Stratos Patsoureas the best swimmer in boys!
Congratulations to all our swimmers and coaches Dimitris Papaharizanou, Sofia Mantaloufa, Yiannis Sirbopoulos, Gianna Athanasopoulou, Vassilis Bougioukos, Dimitris Voutsas and Kalypso Economidou for their excellent performance and behavior!
Our tennis athlete Thanasis Kostikas was accepted with an academic scholarship to Bard College located in the state of New York (https://www.bard.edu/)!
Thanasis was a member of our program since he was eight years old, and has been a member of our competition team for 9 years now, managing to perfectly combine high academic and athletic performance! Now he will be able to continue doing so in the United States, as he was also selected to join the College tennis team!
Congratulations Thanasis, your coaches and the club are proud of you and we will be happy to see you accomplishing great things!
Great success for Deree Track & Field Academy by winning the 4th place in the Pan-Hellenic U16 Boys-Girls Championship/4th Group, held at EAK Agios Kosmas on the weekend of July 2-3!
In the games 56 clubs participated, and our team also won:
Congratulations to all athletes and coaches!
Three swimmers of the Deree Swim Academy, Dimitris Tsaliagkos, Antonia Rakopoulou and Anastasia Boutou travel on Sunday, July 7, with the National swim youth team (U18) to Otopeni, Romania, in order to participate in the 2022 LEN European Junior Swimming and Diving championships!
This is the most important event of this age group, with the top European swimmers participating! Dimitris will compete in the 50-100-200m breaststroke, Antonia in the 400-800-1500m freestyle, and Anastasia in the 100m freestyle and the 4×200 freestyle relay.
Good luck to all athletes!
