Gold Medal swimmers had lots of first time swims in the 500 and 1000 frees as well as many outstanding swims, way to go! Here are the results: Age Group 2 AG2 had a great weekend with many first time and outstanding swims as well as best times. With all the best times that we achieved we still have a few technical components that we need to get more practice with!! The streamlines and kick-out were great. In the coming practice we will focus on speed of our transition turns...

Swimmer of the Month for September Senior 1 Due to the large size of Senior 1, I have three winners for September. Male Swimmer: Cedric Brooking. Cedric has significantly improved his work ethic over the past few months. He has displayed a tremendous attitude and swam well at the SAC meet and in practice test sets. His hard work and dedication should lead to some great swims in the near future. Female Swimmer: Sasha Volkova. Sasha continues to work hard at practices and swam all best times at the SAC...

Lots of first time swims for the 400im and the 1650 last weekend...and some outstanding swims too! Here are the results from the meets: Age Group 1/ Age Group 2 AG1/2 had some great swims at the distance events this past weekend, with most of them swimming these tough events for their first time! 400 IM Swimmers - Rachel Spresney Alaina Herrig - New State Time Hadley Nixon Declan Tierney - New State Time Adam Botsios Elliot Niemoth Javier Jopez-Anchia 1650 Swimmers - Emma Antawirya - New State Time Addison...

Gold Medal swimmers were ready to race at the first meet of the season, here are the results! AG2 The AG2 started the season with an excellent meet this weekend. Many new swimmers to the team swam great in their first meet. Friday night the group did an outstanding job with 1 new state and 11 new Regional qualifying times. Saturday, the whole team continued to do very well. We had 3 more new state qualifying times and 32 new Regional qualifying times. Sunday, AG2 finished strong with another new...

After countless great performances at the July and August Championship meets, Gold Medal Swim Club finished 23rd nationally in USA Swimming's Virtual Club Championship (VCC) ranking system. VCC uses times from our 11-18 year old swimmers to calculate point values, and is a general gauge of overall team strength and performance. Gold Medal finished the season ranked 5th in the entire Western Zone, with the only teams ahead of us being teams with 3-5 times the number of swimmers as GM. Additionally, our national rank means we also finished ahead...

Gold Medal Swim Club sent a group of nine swimmers to the Junior Nationals in Irvine, California. This meet came after the group spent a week in Texas at the Future's Championships. The ability to swim best times at the second of two meets in a row was an incredible accomplishment. Jack Luken and Trey Hesser scored individual points and the 800 free relay of Luken, Hesser, Jason Sugihara and Cedric Brooking placed 7th. Jack Luken swam four best times in four events. He placed 5th in the 400 free,...

Landon recorded an almost three second improvement in the 400 IM and placed 20th overall at the Senior Nationals in Irvine, California at the end of July. This meet completed an excellent year for Landon, where he competed in many high level meets, including the World Championship Trials in April. Landon will be continuing his swimming career at the University of Tennessee this coming school year. We wish him great success at Tennessee and look forward to seeing his continued improvement.

AG2 Sydney Withem Sydney comes to practice with a positive attitude and willingness to work. She also encourages and supports others! The Regional meet was successful for her. She established 5 best times and continues to get better and better. Keep chasing those 11-12 cuts. We are proud of your efforts and you! AG1 Isla McMullan and Alaina Herrig! At the State meet Isla dropped time in all 6 of her individual events and placed top-8 in every individual event as well. Her State meet performance was topped off by...

A small group of Gold Medal swimmers were part of the Arizona All-Star Team that attended the Western Zone Age Group Chamnpionships. They all did an outstanding job against the best competition in the Western United States. - Alaina Herrig swam in two finals with a personal best in both 50 back and 50 free. - Cullen Kelly swam in three finals with a personal best in 100 fly. - Isla McMullan had personal bests in both 200 free and 50 back. - Marley Spray swam in five finals taking...

Gold Medal had an excellent showing at the Futures Championship Meet in College Station. Gold Medal Men are the Futures Champions, and Gold Medal Women took 6th place overall. In Combined Scores, Gold Medal took 2nd, only behind a team composed of college swimmers. In this meet, Gold Medal added several new Junior National cuts. Congratulations to all swimmers who competed and ended the season with strong racing! First Time Junior National Qualifiers: -Paige Downey (1500 - winter JRS, notable right off the cut in the 800 as well) -Colin...