MINDSET: Believe in Yourself – STAR Meet Recap Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. (Christian D Larson) Parents. If you are reading this recap please take a minute, huge your kids, tell them you believe in them and, most importantly, tell them that they can believe in themselves. Thanks. On Sept 13, 2025 12 of our beginner swimmers trekked to the STAR 1 day C swim meet. After taking some time off for vacations, school...

Setting Goals With Your Swimmers Give a man a bow and arrow and tell him to, “SHOOT!” and his first response would be, “At what?” When there is no target there is no purpose for shooting. He could shoot the arrow anywhere and wherever the arrow ended up would be where the arrow ended up. Not much to it. On the other hand, if you gave the archer a target and challenged him to hit the bullseye – everything changes. You now gave him something to aim at, something to...

Prologue Periodically I get asked questions about swim meets so I thought I’d write this article ‘About Swim Meets’. This article discusses how Southern California Swimming (SCS) and the Eastern Geo-Committee (EC) plan, sanction, and promote swim meets. Other LSC’s may plan and sanction meets differently. USA Swimming sets many of the rules that govern the execution of meets. Be sure to check out the Parents Guide to Swim Meets and About USA Swimming on our web page under the Parents tab. For those who are only interested in a...