Amelia Armstrong-Grant had a stellar freshman season for the Saline High School varsity swim team last year, earning three all-state medals at the Division 1 state finals, including one for first place in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

If her summer performance is any indication of what is to come in the fall, there is more success on the horizon.

Armstrong-Grant competed in the AAU Junior Olympics, held at Canham Natatorium July 26-29, and set two individual records in the 15-18-year-old division. Swimming for the Plymouth-Canton Cruisers, Armstrong-Grant, 15, won the 100-meter freestyle in 59.62 seconds, beating the old record of 59.72 seconds, which was set in 2001 by Kelly Freeburn. Armstrong-Grant also set the 50-meter freestyle long course record with a time of 27.32, besting the old record (set in 1996) by .3 seconds.

Armstrong-Grant was also part of four record-setting relay teams, the 400 long course medley (4:41.57), 400 long course freestyle (4:16.68), 200 long course freestyle (1:54.33) and the 200 long course medley relay (2:09.79). In total, she swam in 10 events and took first place in nine. Her team took first place in the competition.

Olympians leading swim clinic to benefit children's camp

Former Olympians Sheila Taormina and Chris Thompson will lead an open water swim clinic at 2 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 10 at Halfmoon Lake Beach in Pinckney. The following day, "Swim to the Moon" will be held at the same location, which will feature half-mile, 1.2-mile, 5K and 10K swims. Visit EpicRaces.com for registration details.

Both events will serve as benefits for North Star Reach Camp, a year-round camp for children with chronic and life-threatening health challenges. The camp is scheduled to open in 2015 with construction planned for 2014.

Taormina, a Livonia native, won an Olympic gold medal in swimming in 1996, competed in the triathlon in 2000 and 2004 games and modern pentathlon in the 2008 games and was the first woman to ever qualify for the Olympics in three different sports. Thompson is a former University of Michigan swimmer who won a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics.

Veteran's Park holding grand reopening

A wide-scale refurbishment project at Veteran's Memorial Park, Southeast Area Park and West Park meant no adult baseball, kickball or softball leagues last fall. Now that the projects are completed, the games can go on.

The Ann Arbor Rec & Ed Department will host a grand reopening from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4 in celebration of the projects' completion. The event is open to the public, free and will include carnival-style activities, a ribbon-cutting ceremony, food and exhibition adult kickball and youth baseball games. For details visit RecEd.aaps.k12.mi.us.

National Senior Games

Ypsilanti's James Bowers, 56, competed in the 2013 National Senior Games in Cleveland, which took place July 19-Aug. 1. Bowers took sixth place in the long jump with a leap of 4.63 meters (first place was 4.97 meters) and seventh in the triple jump with a distance of 8.54 meters (first place was 10.89 meters). Bowers is an architect and master carpenter at Oxford Company in Ann Arbor.

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Pete Cunningham covers sports for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at petercunningham@annarbor.com. Follow him on Twitter @petcunningham.