By Dr. Alan Goldberg, Competitive Advantage If you want your child to come out of his youth sports experience a winner, (feeling good about himself and having a healthy attitude towards sports) then he needs your help! You are a vital and important part of the coach-athlete-parent team. If you do your job correctly and play YOUR position well, then your child will learn the sport faster, perform better, really have fun and have his self-esteem enhanced as a result. His sport experience will serve as a positive model for...

Summer Doubles! by: Mike Gustafson, Senior Analyst, Swimnetwork.com June equals the start of summer doubles for most swimmers. However, here is the best part about the breaks between those tough two-a-days. For many age group swimmers, the advent of June means one thing: doubles. Depending on your personality, summer double practices are either a death sentence or (to the clinically insane) Christmas 6 months early. Doubles practices means waking every morning in your beloved summer months, heading to what is likely a freezing cold why-do-I-do-this morning pool, and jumping in...

by: Casey Barrett, Columnist from Swimnetwork.com Not long ago, after writing a column about the North Baltimore Aquatic Club and its insane success producing teenage Olympians, I received a call from top Canadian coach Randy Bennett. As the Director of Island Swimming and coach of the Victoria Academy of Swimming, in Victoria, British Columbia, Randy runs one of North America's finest all-around swimming programs. Among his stable of once and future Olympians is 2008 Olympic medalist in the mile, Ryan Cochrane. (North-of-the-border note: Cochrane's best in the 1500 is 14:40.84...

Congratulations, Courtney Randolph! Miami Herald Scholar Athlete of the year! We are very proud of you! Posted on Thu, May. 27, 2010 Athletic and academic success is rewarded BY AMANDA MARQUEZ Miami Herald Writer CANDACE WEST / FREELANCER Scholar-athletes of the year Reynaldo Kirton of St. Thomas and Courtney Randolph of American Heritage pose with their awards during the Miami Herald's All-Broward Athletic Awards banquet Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at the Signature Grand in Davie. Standing out amid their teammates at St. Thomas Aquinas and American Heritage was no easy...

Memorial Day Practice Schedule Senior Group - 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Sectional & above - 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Coach Dolores & Terrells 5 p.m. group - 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. 3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. - NO Practice 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. - NO Practice PST coaching staff wishes everyone a happy & safe Memorial Day!!!

PST Weather Policy is as follows: We will post pool opening and closures on www.swimpst.com , Please do not call the office to see if the pool is open. If it is only raining --- all groups will train at their normal times. If there is thunder and lightning in the area --the Plantation Aquatic Complex has a "Thorguard" lightning detection system. When the alarm goes off, we must exit the pool and get off the pool deck as soon as possible. PST will handle this occurrence as follows. 1....

Update: May 25, 2010 JUNIOR NATIONAL QUALIFIERS Cheriesse Campbell Courtney Randolph Jessie Randolph “AAAA” SWIMMERS” Dylan Marsolek, Sivan Fraiman, Said Mosquera, “AAA SWIMMERS” Taylor Cook, Jenna Diamond, Kristina Figueroa, Max Fons, Abigail Fossas, Chloe Gerena, Chris Kohanyi, Allison Moser Krissa Robinson, Alec Wathen “AA SWIMMERS” Laryssa Bedley, Hank Contich, Skye Downey, Caitlin Gerena, Krista Gomes,Rachel Gross, Hailey Hernandez, Max McClenney, Mikaela Michalowitz, Demetra Nakis, Sophia Oliva, Renata Rios, Sarah Shah, Logan Snider, Matt Wathen, Kristin Wilson, Ryan Witcher “A SWIMMERS” Allison Abad, Meagan Abad, Jessica Ankney, Ronit Ben-Joseph, Edward Burgess,...

2010 FLA Senior Circuit Date: Friday, May 28th, 2010 Location: Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Complex 501 Seabreeze Blvd. Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316 Warm-up: 4:00 p.m. Start Time: 5:30 p.m. PST Events Psych Sheet Timelines

New USASwimming.org coming Wednesday! (5/17/2010) USASwimming will launch a brand new website on Wednesday, May 19. The new www.usaswimming.org will feature a radically revamped design, vastly improved navigation and an abundance of video features. The website will also continue to offer training resources, event information, unique content and times for our 300,000 members. The new USASwimming.org aims to help our members take advantage of USA Swimming's many programs and services. From tips and training tools to help swimmers improve to comprehensive educational and developmental resources for coaches and officials and...

28 PST Swimmer take home Top 8 High Point Awards. PST Swim Team swimmers took home 28 Top 8 high point finishes this past weekend at the IM Xtreme Challenge hosted by PST. PST Girls won the Team Title over Pine Crest, PST boys were 2nd to Pine Crest boys, and PST won the Combined Team title. PST 1st , Pine Crest 2nd, St. Andrew’s 3rd, Broward Aquatics 4th, AK Sharks 5th. Top 8 finishers in each age group won IM Xtreme t-shirts. Congratulations to the following swimmers. 10 under...