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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...
Fullerton, CA -- Last Saturday FAST kicked off the new season at the 5th annual Blue vs. White Meet. This was our largest Blue vs. White meet ever with 215 swimmers! They achieved an incredible 429 lifetime bests, and our new swimmers had 198 first-time swims! Seventy-one swimmers from all different groups posted time improvements in all of the races they swam on Saturday. Congratulations to Devin Allison, Chase Angderson, Aria Asavasumrid, Chelsea Badral, Samuel Bettfreund, Ellie Calabrese, Hugo Campos, Logan Chanporn, Taylor Chin, Ian Choi, Iris Chowtham, Laiora Cohen,...
24 FAST swimmers combined forces for a fantastic summer-ending meet at the SCS Age Group Championships. Highlights: 104 lifetime bests 52 new National Age Group time standards Top 8 Finishers were: Kenneth Ho (1500 Free, 400 IM, 800 Free) Shae Kennedy (200 Free, 400 Free, 800 Free) Dylan Khajavi (1500 Free) Yejun Lee (200 Back, 400 IM) Bryce Pak (100 Back, 100 Free, 200 Free, 400 Free, 50 Back) Rohan Parker (200 Fly, 800 Free) Victoria Ruge (1500 Free, 200 Breast) Toby Swanson (1500 Free, 400 Free, 800 Free) Congratulations...
At the Junior National meet in Irvine, CA Luke Leon Guerrero produced best times in the 400M Freestyle (4:02.33) and 1500M Freestyle (16:28.56). Competing in his final meet as a high school athlete, Luke is now off to swim for the University of Las Vegas, an NCAA Division I team. Good luck with the the fall season Luke!
