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CAST B/C swim meet June 24-25 - Granite Hills HS Please sign up (commit) to the CAST meet by nidnight tonight if you want to be entered. Everyone with B or C times should swim in this meet. The only exception are those who joined the team in the last 30-60 days. If you recently joined the team, and are practicing with AG SD or SR teams, then we want you to enter this meet. If you are new to the team and on Novice, you can wait until the...

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New Swimmers/Families First, I would like to give a warm welcome to the new swimmers and their families who are joining us this summer (and maybe beyond). Please check the NEWS tab periodically to make sure you're up to date on all of the current news. If your swimmer is assigned to the Novice or Age group practices, you will have a couple of "practice competitions" this summer, and may also enter some of the "normal" USA swimming competitions, if / when your coach thinks you're ready. I should have...

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Swim meets this weekend: We have swimmers in two different swim meets this weekend. One at Southwestern College and another up in orange county at El Toro HS. Sol Splash and Dash Max meet - Southwestern College (please note that parking is paid through the college website). Please be on deck at 7:50 am each day (note: it's a couple minute walk from the parking lot). The meet will be nice and short. General meet news Estimated Timeline Psyche sheet TST - El Toro meet This is a B min,...

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Meet this weekend: We have 35 swimmers competing in the meet this weekend. The meet is at Southwestern College. Please pay for parking online in advance so you don't get ticketed or towed. Swimmers should be on deck, ready for stretching at 7:15 am. Our team's designated warmup water time is at 7:30.. Do not show up when you feel like it. We are a team, and we warm up as a team during a designated time. If you swimmers first event is after 10:30 am, please talk with your...

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A couple of quick notes: 1) Entry deadline for SOL NTS(No Time Std) meet is tonight at midnight. This is a short course meet. No Time Std means that all swimmers at all levels are welcome. This means that every CAST swimmer is encouraged to enter this meet. Please sign up today. 2) Team Cap order. We have opened an opportunity for families to order their own silicone CAST caps. The cost for 2 caps with your name on it is $37. Ordering caps with your name will not occur...

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High School swimming. For you high school swim fans, the season is coming to a close. Next week the high schools all have their league championship meets. Most have prelims on Wednesday or Thursday with finals on Friday or Saturday. The following is the "CIF" championship week. With prelims also on Wed and Thur and Finals on Saturday the 6th. We have plenty of CAST swimmers on many different teams around the county who will be competing in these championship meets. It's their time to shine among their high school...

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CAST hosted swim meet this weekend. Granite Hills HS (no the meet is not at Grossmont - that was an error listed in the meet file by our admin person) First of all.....we need your help!!!! Running swim meets is not only an opportunity to have a meet close to home that our swimmers can get to, it's also a necessary service to our teams in San Diego. We also get the benefit of raising money when we run meets. We need this income to keep providing the services to...

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Just a few quick notes: MONDAY PRACTICE TIME CHANGE FOR AG AND NOVICE! In order to allow families to get home in time to watch the SDSU Aztecs compete in their first ever national championship game, we'll bump up practice times for the AG and novice groups. See calendar Entries due by Tuesday midnight for our CAST hosted meet B/C meet (April 15-16). If you are in Novice or AG, (or if you are in SD or SR with B or C times), this meet is for you. Also -...

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quick notes. March 25th meet. Monday midnight is the deadline to sign up for the March 25th meet. This meet is for 14&U swimmers who are not qualified for 6 or more JO qualifying times. Which includes all of novice, all of AG and many others. It is a one day meet at UCSD with limited events offered, and shouldn't be a very long meet. Please take the time and sign up before midnight Monday. April 15-16 meet. The next meet for most of the team is one that CAST...

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Please read March Calendar - by the way, calendars can be found under the "schedule" tab on the website. Big change on Friday's for AG for at least the next couple of months. On Friday's during the HS swimming season - Which runs through April - we will have the Age Group group practicing from 4:15 - 6:00pm. We are doing this in order to allow those swimmers some interaction and training alongside with the Senior Development group. Besides giving the swimmers more water time, we hope it will open...