Congratulations to Jamie Nolan for being awarded Student of the Month for March at her school for self-control. She received the certificate in recognition for her efforts to consistently exhibit good character and serve as a role model in the classroom.

NBC Announces 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials Television Schedule Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick NBC has announced the television schedule for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials, taking place in Omaha, Neb., June 26-July 3. NBC Press Release: NBC Olympics will present eight consecutive nights of swimming Trials action in primetime, including seven primetime telecasts on NBC. NBC and NBCSN’s 15.5 hours of coverage commences on Sunday, June 26, and runs through Sunday, July 3. Seven nights of live primetime coverage will air on NBC, with primetime coverage on Saturday, July 2,...

SwimFast 2016 Spring/Summer Meet Schedule (Last updated March 25, 2016) All Age Group swimmers should be available for JO's All Senior Group swimmers should be available for JO's, Sectionals & Senior Championships April 1st: Lake Lytal Night at the Races April 6th: Mini Meet - Pine Island April 10th: Mile Meet - Pine Island April 15th: Sizzler at Sunrise April 20th: Mini Meet - Pine Island April 29th - May 1st: FLORIDA KEYS - AG/Senior April 29th - May 1st: IM Ready at Sunrise (Age Group) May 6th - Sizzler...

Stroke School Attendance for February 2016 1st - 76%: Makaila Blanchard, Paola Escobar, & Ian Ruiz 2nd - 71%: Nicole Perez, & Valentin Zapata 3rd - 66%: Camila Ruiz, Estafano Ruiz, Tamalia Blanchard, & Frank Vincze 4th - 62%: Samuel Henao, & Lucas Zapata 5th - 57%: Nelson Santiago 6th - 52%: Lukas Betancur, & Sabrina Scarpinato 7th - 48%: Dustin Kanter, Samantha Moy, Robert Ros, Joshua Scarpinato, Eric Seo, & Victoria Zamora 8th - 43%: Angelina Barrera, & Tudor Maftei 9th - 38%: Dylan Fox, & Diego Tuesta, 10th...

Intention and Levers By Don Swartz & Ken DeMont "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move the world." Archimedes Laura, an actual swimmer on our team, swam a 50 free in Santa Cruz February 14 th this year. Her time was a 24.96 which tied her best time from 2015. This was a nice swim and put a small smile on her face…well maybe not that small after all! In finals that day she swam her 50 in 24.66...

- News Flash - GEENA SQUARTINO - lifelong member of SwimFast, went Lifetime Bests of 1:54 in the 200 free and 4:57 in the 500 free at her conference champs. The 4:57 has been a long time coming and is a great triumph for perseverence, toughness and resilience. We're PROUD to have you has a teammate, Geena! Way to Go!

Who Is Your Training Partner? By Swim Coach Direct Sunday, February 7, 2016 You pretty much always swim faster in a race than by yourself in a time trial at the practice pool. Why do you suppose that is the case? We are assuming that you answered with something along the lines of, “Because it’s a race, because there is another person(s), to work with” etc. Our question today is, “Who is you training partner?” That person fulfills the same function in daily training sessions as your competitor does in...

Stroke School Attendance for January 2016 1st - 75%: Lucas Zapata 2nd - 70%: Paola Escobar 3rd - 65%: Frank Vincze 4th - 60%: Julia Blyke, Robert Ros, Camila Ruiz, Valentin Zapata 5th - 55%: Dustin Kanter, Lukas Betancur, Tamalia Blanchard 6th - 50%: Makaila Blanchard, Nicole Perez, Ian Ruiz 7th - 45%: Dylan Fox, Samantha Moy 8th - 40%: Nelson Santiago 9th - 35%: Jewel Ramos, Sabrina Scarpinato, Kylie Tirado 10th - 30%: Zahra Exil, Samuel Henao, Ishan Kusuma, Tudor Maftei, Lilla Megyeri, Joshua Scarpinato, Eric Seo, Victoria Zamora...

Congratulations to Nakai who was voted at her school as Student of the Month for January! The school selected the receipent on the character trait for "kindness." The award ceremony took place on Friday, January 29th, 2016.

Swim Meet Procedures and Choices By John Leonard Dear Parents, A reasonable and fair question for parents to ask, is “why is my child swimming the events in swim meets that the coaches select for them”? Here are the philosophies we use to enter athletes in meet events: We enter athletes in the greatest VARIETY of events possible, all the time. Athletes are continually changing and developing. We NEVER give up on any event for any athlete. (sometimes in college they specialize…we don’t agree with that either, but we have...