We had 27 campers in our Rising Star Swim & Dive Camp this week.  Unfortuntely due to the stormy weather, we were limited on our normal instructional lessons, but we were lucky to get in all our diving lessons off the 1m & 3m boards.  The weather cleared in time for our Friday field trip with loads of fun on the water slide, arcade game room and we even got to teach some diving off the blocks using the track start.

Our biggest week so far for the summer with 33 swimmers.  It was truly an International group with children from Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Russia, and many other USA states.  A wonderful week of instructional lessons, diving lessons off the 1m & 3m boards, slip & slide, popcorn day, race day, fun free time in the pool and playground, and of course our weekly trip to the Boca Raton campus to enjoy the arcade games, giant water slide, and a delicious lunch and fun in the gym and pool.    

Congratulations to all our JO swimmers that competed this past weekend at the Plantation Aquatic Complex.  Unfortunately due to the stormy weather, there were cancellations for finals on Friday and Saturday night and many of our relays, but we had great results in both the prelims and the finals on Sunday night.   Our individual Junior Olympic Champions were: 13-14 Age Group 50 free - Marta Ciesla 11-12 Age Group 100 breast - Matthew Petreski 13-14 Age Group 100 fly - Jessica Nava 13-14 Age Group 200 free - Rak...

Pine Crest Swimming really made a statement at this past weekend's Developmental Championships held at FLA - FAU Boca Raton.  Loads of best times and new JO cuts with great weather was a great way to spend the weekend.  We are excited to now have a great team to head to the 14 & Under Junior Olympics this coming weekend at Plantation.   Click HERE for the results   Thanks also to our own Swim Officials, who really made the meet a very quick and well run meet.  Thanks to...

Congratulations to Alexa Rivera (13-14 age group) who again was representing her country of Puerto Rico at the Shark Open Invitational in Sarasota last weekend, June 28-30.  She is continuing to improve on her LCM times with 3 best times and results as such: 50 free - 3rd place 200 free - 6th place 100 back - 5th place 200 back - 3rd place 100 breast - 4th place 200 breast - 2nd place   Team Puerto Rico ended up in 5th place out of 22 teams.  Click HERE to...

Good story on the College Recruiting Process for swimming.  Click HERE.    

SAVE THE DATE   Mikey's Fun Run Saturday, July 27 7:00am at Pine Crest School   Click HERE for the full story    

Congratulations to Tyla Martin (16 years old) who will be representing her country of Trinidad & Tobago at this year's "2013 World Junior Swimming Championships" in Dubai, UAE being held August 26 - 31.   Click HERE for the FINA web site to follow the results Click HERE for the USA Swimming World Junior Team  

Congratulations to Noah Zylberberg (15 years old) who will be travelling to Israel for the "19th Maccabiah Games" on July 17-30, 2013.  He will be representing the USA along with 80 other countries.  Other noted swimmers are Garrett Weber-Gale (Olympian) and Alex Blavatnik (Pine Crest Parent).   Click HERE to follow the results and see the host website.      

Rising Star Swim & Dive Camp had 33 campers attend with loads of enthusiasm for meeting new friends and improving on their strokes.  Many of the children were not afraid to try the 3m diving board and the children in Coach Ryan's group stepped up to the plate and raced the 100IM, many for the first time, on race day. Congratulations to those children that earned Camper of the Week from their Coach, we hope to see you return later in the summer, or maybe next year.   Some of...