Pacific Committee Championships (July 15-17, 2022) By now, you’ve all seen the fabulous report on our meet by one of our Meet Directors, Mel Kuo. This may have been the most fun and well-run meet the Pacific Committee has ever offered and it is all thanks to you, BCS Family! The racing did not disappoint, either, yielding 17 new Summer JO cuts and a plethora of new best times and gutsy efforts. Overall, the team finished in 3rd (combined), with the Men in 2nd and the Women in 3rd. Congratulations,...

June Age Group Championships (June 17-20, 2022) Summer championship racing is underway! BCS finished in fourth place in the combined team competition at the June Age Group Championships, just 71.5 points from a podium finish and a reminder of the importance of relays (lost some valuable points there due to a few early takeoffs - learning moments!). Our Women placed third overall and the Men fifth. Speaking of relays, our 11-12 Girls team of Eryn Arnold, Gabi Brito, Meagan Gordon and Kayla Sun nearly rewrote the entire BCS 11-12 Girls...

Congratulations to all BCS athletes and coaches for earning the prestigious status as a 2022 ASCA Top 100 Age Group Team! 28th place out of more than 3,000 clubs nationwide! Truly remarkable! Results were compiled using USA Swimming results of top ranked athletes in the 10&Under and 11-12 age groups for the 2021 Long Course season and 2021-22 Short Course season. Athletes were scored for 1st through 20th place in individual events only; relays not included. CLICK HERE for the complete list. Way to go, TEAM!

Spring JOs (March 10-13, 2022) The 2021-22 Short Course racing season culminated with the SoCal Swimming Spring Junior Olympic Championships last weekend in La Mirada. With 31 athletes, BCS competed in the Small Team division and…drumroll…WON THE MEET! The Men also won the Small Team competition, with the Women finishing 2nd. Overall, the team finished 7th out of 43 scoring teams in the combined team competition, with the Women in 6th and the Men in 7th. Congratulations to all of our athletes and coaches on the big win! And thank...

Sectionals Recap (March 3-6, 2022) I want to say a big congratulations to the 2022 Spring Sectionals Team - They earned a 3rd Place Finish in the Medium Size Team Division!!!!! x teams were at Sectionals from all of California and Nevada. We traveled down to Carlsbad in 2 Vans with 18 kids and 3 Chaperones. Thank you Kimberly, Robin and Aki for helping manage the troops, we can't do it without the help. We had some really cold, windy and rainy weather and still walked away with some amazing...

Short Course Finale (March 5, 2022) Just learned a new word this morning: borasco - a sudden violent gust of wind, typically accompanied by rain, snow, or sleet. So that’s what it’s called! All that was missing on Saturday was the precipitation :-). We could not be more proud of our 70+ athletes (and their families) and the way they carried themselves throughout a challenging day of competition at the Short Course Finale meet in Torrance last weekend, especially our rookies! With the cold and blustery conditions on Saturday, it...

2022 SCY Pac Comm Champs (February 25-27, 2022) Greeted by a traditional Pasadena winter weekend, with frost on the grass in the morning and warm sunshine in the afternoon, our Pacific Committee Championships team of 60+ athletes made a late surge on the third and final day of competition to vault into second place behind the perennially massive Rose Bowl squad in the combined team competition. Congratulations to all Pac Comm Champs participants. Check out the highlights below! Beach 1 It is always exciting to see members of the Beach...

2021 was a banner year for Beach Cities Swimming, as we had 51 athletes post a BCS All-Time Top 10 time in at least one event! Congratulations to the following athletes: David Arnold Emery Arnold Eryn Arnold Santi Baranda Molly Beetner Kotaro Bell Farah Bowles Trent Bowles Jamie Brennan Bella Brito Gabi Brito Evan Brutscher Nic Buhl Macie Campbell Tyler Campbell Kyle Capili Isaac Chang Penny Chiu Alex Chun Griffin Colomer James Coyne Williams Criley Mia Crisera Brad Diaz Jake Everitt Kennedy French Meagan Gordon Sammie Hall Delaney Herr Ethan...

Pacific Coast All-Star Meet On January 8, Southern California Swimming will take its top 32 11-14 year-old athletes to the Pacific Coast All-Star Meet in Pacifica, CA to compete against teams from Oregon and Pacific Northwest. Beach Cities Swimming is honored to have three athletes named to this year’s SCS Pacific Coast All-Star team: Bella Brito Gabi Brito Delaney Herr Coach Jack Alderson will also travel with the SCS Pacific Coast All-Star team as a member of the coaching staff. Congratulations to our athletes and coaches. Go, BCS! And go,...

2021 Winter Sectionals Recap Senior 4 Senior 4 sent two swimmers to their first ever Sectionals. The group’s focus was WAG so we attended Sectionals for the experience of swimming at the next level meet while on about day 10 of taper but both Peyton and Farah did a great job at the meet. They enjoyed the team dinner and gift exchange and still raced well, just off their best times. Farah Bowles Farah nabbed her first Sectional hard cut at WAG in the 200 breast then chose the 100...