# Team 179: Children of the Swamp

Riviera Beach, Florida, USA. Rookie year 1998.

## Who backs them

- School: Suncoast Community High School & Inlet Grove Cmty High School
- Sponsors: Propp II Family Foundation, EDF, RTX, OTIS, DoD STEM, FP&L, Belcan, West Coast Products
- Website: http://www.179swampthing.org
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/childrenoftheswamp
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@swampthing1903
- X: https://twitter.com/frc179swamp
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/team179
- GitHub: https://github.com/frc179swamp

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **146.77**, rank 272 of 3708 (92.7th percentile)
- Record: 28-14-0 over 42 matches (67% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 29.1, teleop 117.7, endgame 0.0
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 91%, RP2 29%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Orlando Regional | 2026flor | 3 | 3 | 7-1-0 | 29 | 1 | 146.7 |  | 72 |
| South Florida Regional | 2026flwp | 6 | 5 | 7-3-0 | 32 | 3 | 124.9 |  | 51 |
| Johnson Division | 2026joh | 8 | 41 | 4-6-0 | 21 | 2 | 146.8 |  |  |
| Einstein Field | 2026cmptx | 8 |  |  |  |  | 146.8 |  |  |
| Space Coast Showdown | 2026flroc | 30 | 15 | 3-4-0 | 11 | 6 | 118.0 |  |  |
| Pirate's Pillage | 2026flhom | 33 | 4 | 3-2-0 | 14 | 3 | 115.9 |  |  |
| Raiders Revenge | 2026flpin | 34 | 8 | 2-3-0 | 11 | 3 | 111.9 |  |  |

### Awards in 2026

- Regional Winners (2026flor)
- FIRST Leadership Award (2026cmptx)
- FIRST Leadership Award Finalist (2026flwp)
- Industrial Design Award (2026flor)
- Quality Award (2026flwp)

## Name history

Every name FIRST recorded for this team, newest first. A span states the first and last season the name was on the team.

- 2016 – now: Children of the Swamp
- 2003 – 2015: The Children of the Swamp

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 23
- Awards: 69, over 22 seasons
- Einstein appearances: 3 (2007, 2019, 2026)

| Award | Won | Years |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Winner | 22 | 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005 |
| Finalist | 9 | 2025, 2023, 2018, 2016, 2014, 2008, 2007, 2005 |
| Excellence in Engineering | 9 | 2024, 2022, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012 |
| Quality | 4 | 2026, 2024, 2022, 2021 |
| Creativity | 4 | 2023, 2022, 2018 |
| Industrial Design | 3 | 2026, 2025, 2013 |
| Leadership | 3 | 2026, 2025 |
| Autonomous | 3 | 2023, 2019 |
| Imagery | 3 | 2017, 2016, 2014 |
| Innovation in Control | 2 | 2019, 2011 |
| Driving Tomorrow's Technology (no longer given) | 2 | 2008, 2005 |
| Team Sustainability | 1 | 2025 |
| Woodie Flowers | 1 | 2014 |
| Coopertition (no longer given) | 1 | 2010 |
| Judges' | 1 | 2004 |
| Rookie All Star | 1 | 1998 |

Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Engineering Inspiration, Gracious Professionalism, Impact, Impact Finalist, Rising All-Star, Team Spirit, VOTY.

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | Einstein Field |  |  |
| 2026 | Johnson Division | Alliance 2 · 2nd pick | Top four |
| 2026 | South Florida Regional | Alliance 3 · captain | Top four |
| 2026 | Orlando Regional | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2025 | Daly Division | Alliance 5 · captain | Finalist |
| 2025 | South Florida Regional | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2025 | Orlando Regional | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2025 | Arkansas Regional | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | Milstein Division | Alliance 8 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | Orlando Regional | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2024 | South Florida Regional | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2023 | Newton Division | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2023 | Rocket City Regional | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2023 | Orlando Regional | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2023 | South Florida Regional | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2022 | Carver Division | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | Bayou Regional presented by Entergy | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2022 | Orlando Regional | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2022 | South Florida Regional | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2019 | Einstein Field (Houston) | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2019 | Galileo Division | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2019 | South Florida Regional | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2019 | Orlando Regional | Alliance 3 · captain | Top four |
| 2018 | Roebling Division | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist |
| 2018 | South Florida Regional  | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2018 | Orlando Regional | Alliance 2 · captain | Won the event |
| 2017 | Carver Division | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2017 | Rocket City Regional | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2017 | South Florida Regional  | Alliance 5 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2016 | Newton Division | Alliance 4 · captain | Top four |
| 2016 | South Florida Regional  | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2016 | Rocket City Regional | Alliance 2 · captain | Top four |
| 2016 | Palmetto Regional | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2015 | Bayou Regional | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2015 | South Florida Regional | Alliance 2 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2014 | Galileo Division | Alliance 4 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2014 | South Florida Regional  | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2014 | Orlando Regional | Alliance 8 · captain | Finalist |
| 2013 | South Florida Regional | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2013 | Orlando Regional | Alliance 3 · captain | Top four |
| 2012 | South Florida Regional | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2012 | Orlando Regional | Alliance 7 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2011 | Newton Division |  | Not picked |
| 2011 | Florida Regional | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2010 | Florida Regional | Alliance 1 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2009 | Galileo Division |  | Not picked |
| 2009 | Florida Regional | Alliance 5 (read from the playoff lineups) | Won the event |
| 2008 | Newton Division | Alliance 5 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2008 | Florida Regional | Alliance 5 (read from the playoff lineups) | Finalist |
| 2007 | Einstein Field |  | Finalist |
| 2007 | Archimedes Division | Alliance 2 · 2nd pick | Won the event |
| 2007 | Florida Regional | Alliance 2 (read from the playoff lineups) | Finalist |
| 2006 | Archimedes Division | Alliance 5 · captain | Top four |
| 2006 | Florida Regional | Alliance 6 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2005 | Archimedes Division | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2005 | Palmetto Regional | Alliance 2 (read from the playoff lineups) | Won the event |
| 2005 | Florida Regional | Alliance 1 (read from the playoff lineups) | Top four |
| 2004 | Curie Division | Alliance 5 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2004 | Florida Regional |  |  |
| 2003 | Curie Division |  | Not picked |
| 2003 | Central Florida Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2002 | NASA KSC Southeast Regional | Alliance 5 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 146.8 | 272 / 3708 | 92.7 | 28-14-0 | 7 |
| 2025 | 84.8 | 55 / 3687 | 98.5 | 46-16-0 | 6 |
| 2024 | 35.6 | 200 / 3475 | 94.3 | 36-10-1 | 3 |
| 2023 | 52.2 | 267 / 3284 | 91.9 | 48-15-1 | 4 |
| 2022 | 51.0 | 30 / 3053 | 99.0 | 56-6-0 | 4 |
| 2019 | 36.7 | 23 / 3763 | 99.4 | 40-10-0 | 5 |
| 2018 | 138.9 | 77 / 3617 | 97.9 | 37-11-0 | 4 |
| 2017 | 115.2 | 223 / 3331 | 93.3 | 29-15-0 | 4 |
| 2016 | 62.0 | 30 / 3114 | 99.1 | 50-15-0 | 7 |
| 2015 | 41.2 | 385 / 2873 | 86.6 | Not applicable (qual average) | 3 |
| 2014 | 61.7 | 142 / 2697 | 94.8 | 31-17-0 | 5 |
| 2013 | 42.2 | 212 / 2510 | 91.6 | 22-7-0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 9.4 | 641 / 2332 | 72.5 | 14-12-0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 38.2 | 70 / 2053 | 96.6 | 22-4-0 | 2 |
| 2010 | 4.3 | 41 / 1801 | 97.8 | 8-4-1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 27.5 | 91 / 1675 | 94.6 | 16-7-1 | 3 |
| 2008 | 25.1 | 118 / 1498 | 92.2 | 13-13-0 | 2 |
| 2007 | 26.9 | 46 / 1295 | 96.5 | 24-11-0 | 3 |
| 2006 | 26.8 | 34 / 1125 | 97.1 | 13-10-0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 16.1 | 64 / 747 | 91.6 | 34-17-0 | 3 |
| 2004 | 28.9 | 310 / 932 | 66.8 | 13-7-0 | 2 |
| 2003 | 16.3 | 564 / 785 | 28.2 | 5-12-0 | 2 |
| 2002 | 11.1 | 371 / 641 | 42.2 | 5-6-0 | 1 |

A season is chosen with `?year=` on this URL.

The same page for a person: [https://www.match13.com/team/179](https://www.match13.com/team/179).

---

- Every URL on this site: [https://www.match13.com/sitemap.xml](https://www.match13.com/sitemap.xml)
- What this site is for: [https://www.match13.com/llms.txt](https://www.match13.com/llms.txt)
- Send `Accept: text/markdown` to any page here to read it as markdown.