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Placentia, CA -- Last weekend 101 FAST swimmers from the Junior 1, Junior 2, National Age Group, Pre-Senior, and Senior 1 groups raced at the meet hosted by STOP. Every FAST swimmer achieved one or more lifetime bests for a team total of 365 best times! Among the best times were 41 new USA Swimming National Age Group time standards: New BB times - 9 New B times - 32 Huge time improvements were commonplace for FAST all weekend, even in the shorter (50, 100) distances! Drops of 5 seconds...
Fullerton, CA -- One hundred twenty-six FAST swimmers raced in our home pool and posted 219 lifetime best times. Among those times were 17 new USA Swimming National Age Group Time Standards and 108 first-time swims! New B times - 4 New BB times - 7 New A times - 4 New AAA times - 2 The largest time drop of the meet for the girls was turned in by Novi Stephan who improved her time in the 100 IM by an incredible 19.49 seconds for a final time of...
Honolulu, HI -- Thirteen FAST swimmers from the National & Senior 2 groups traveled to Honolulu for the Hawaiian Swimming Fall Senior Championships. FAST swimmers returned home with many lifetime best times -- a group average of 4 per swimmer! Our swimmers earned a ton of great Prelims/Finals experience, racing a full slate of relays and individual events every day of the 3-day meet. Eveline Grannis & Yves Pan were champions in the 1650 Freestyle taking the top finish in that event for their gender. Eveline's time of 17:14.27 was...
Huntington Beach, CA -- FAST swimmers achieved 302 (!!) lifetime bests at the Riptide Meet last weekend including 53 new USA Swimming National Age Group time standards: New B times - 27 New BB times - 22 New A times - 1 New AA times - 3 FAST swimmers had SO many gigantic time drops at this meet! Improvements of 10 seconds or more were turned in by: Chase Angderson - 14.26 in 200 IM Laiora Cohen - 10.46 in 100 Fly & 17.75 in 200 Free Valentina Flores -...
La Mirada, CA -- Five National group swimmers competed at the Southern California Swimming Legends meet, tuning up for championships cominng up later this season. Eveline Grannis & Yves Pan led the way on the first day with great swims in the 1000 Free. Eveline turned in a lifetime best 10:19.34 for 18th place overall in the women's event. Yves cut 7.78 seconds off his time for a lifetime best 9:34.22, earning his first Futures qualifying time. Congratulations, Yves! Eveline notched another best time in the 200 Free (1:55.48). Yves...
Irvine, CA -- Over Halloween weekend 16 FAST swimmers raced at "Our Rising Tides", a new Southern California Swimming senior meet. Our contingent returned home with 37 new lifetime bests, fantastic Finals racing experience, and 18 new USA Swimming National Age Group time standards. New BB times - 3 New A times - 7 New AA times - 6 New AAA times - 2 Congratulations to Katie Ho, Kenneth Ho, Kevin Ho, Gregory Kim, Bryce Pak, and Rhett Parker who achieved best times in all of their events! Shae Kennedy,...
Fullerton, CA -- One hundred sixty FAST swimmers competed at our home pool last Saturday. We welcomed competitors from the Long Beach Rocketfish and Santa Maria Swim Club. This was the very first swim meet for many of our swimmers -- congratulations! Overall, FAST swimmers posted 83 lifetime bests and 253 first-time swims in new events! Forty FAST swimmers achieved best times in all of their races. Congratulations to Chase Angderson, Aubrey Dippold, Leandro Espiritu, Katie Ho, Kevin Ho, Tyler Huey, Rebecca Jacobs, Vera Kwan, Kaitlyn Kao, Allison Kim, Claire...
Huntington Beach, CA -- Fifty-nine FAST swimmers competed in the annual Pumpkin Meet hosted by Golden West Swim Club where heat winners were awarded with pumpkins. The team posted an incredible total of 299 lifetime best times and all FAST swimmers returned home with best times! Forty-four swimmers posted lifetime bests in all of their races. Congratulations to Devin Allison, Chelsea Badral, Ellie Calabrese, Paul Calderon, Hugo Campos, Taylor Chin, Jacob Cho, Katelyn Cockerill, Laiora Cohen, Lucy Delgado, Rylann Glidewell, Jackie Hua, Mateo Jimenez, Nathan Ju, Allison Kim, Emily Kim,...
Villa Park, CA -- Forty-one FAST swimmers raced at the O.C. GOLD Invitational on October 18th & 19th. Senior 2 and National group swimmers participated on Sunday, the day after a strong showing at open water championships in Long Beach. Twenty-two swimmers achieved best times in all of their races. Congratulations to Iris Chowtham, Amilya Heffernan, Katie Ho, Kevin Ho, Hannah Ju, Myler Kang, Gregory Kim, Lucas Kim, Yena Liu, Hunter Lavold, Aileen Lee, Jayden Lee, Calah McLean, Jake Narahara, Isaac No, Bryce Pak, Charisse Pang, Mykel Park, Rhett Parker,...
Long Beach, CA -- FAST successfully ventured to the Marine Stadium, site of the 1932 Olympic rowing competitions, to race in in 5K/1K competitions. Swimmers challenged themselves and their competition and proved themselves with excellent results. Highlights (Top 3) 5,000 Meter Results -- Open Division (74 Entrants) Tyler Huey -- 1:04.20, 2nd Place 17-18 Division (M) Yejun Lee -- 1:06.46, 2nd Place 15-16 Division (M) Rhett Parker -- 1:14.16, 3rd Place 13-14 Division (M) 1,000 Meter Results -- Open Division (40 Entrants) Caleb Yoo -- 14:44.57 , 1st Place 15-16...
