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Savannah Bowser competed at the FSPA High School Invitational at Stuart, FL on September 27th, and finaled in her 2 individual events. Savannah finished 5th in the 200 Free with a 1:54.85, and took 7th in the 100 Free with a 53.99.
GCST Top Times have been updated with results from the GCST Fall Saturday Races meet on 9/20/14. We have several new "A" and bove times from the meet, as well many new swimmers making the "All Time Top Ten" and "Seasonal Top 10" yards lists. Check the Times page to see where you rank.
GCST started off the short course season with a home meet at FGCU on Sept. 20, 2014. Several good swims were turned in by GCST swimmers. Event Winners: Bean Faunce, Ethan Holter, Ryan Holter, Paige Madden, Antonio Medina, Alessandro Nieto, Mikayla Puckett, Hunter Seluk, Parker Seluk, Lucca Silva, and Alizea Teuscher. All Best Times: Anna Bonini, Sophia Bonini, Maggi Burnett, Emily Carter, Lauren Carter, Camille Dousson, Sarah Ferguson, Cameron Good, Jacob Good, Alejandro Hernandez, Jada Holdiness, Ethan Holter, Rachel Jamieson, Shannon Lebsack, Giuliana Marsala. Piero Nieto, Alex Olivera, Brittany Perez-Mendoza,...
GCST has been awarded the USA Swimming National Open Water Championships and World Trials Selection 10K & 5K events on April 24 through 26, 2015. We were also selected to host the Crippen 10K Cup on the weekend of March 28, 2015. Both events will take place at Miromar Lakes, FL.
A young swimmer asked if there were any nutritional strategies that prevented muscle cramps. If you have experienced the pain of an exercise-induced muscle cramp, you might just try anything to avoid another cramp. Sucking on mustard packets from the local fast food joint to swallowing pickle juice have all been reported to be miracle cures for cramping. One report found that 25% of athletic trainers suggest pickle juice for immediate relief. Muscle cramps have plagued not only athletes, but those who do hard, physical work in hot and humid...
USA Swimming has announced the Scholastic All-American lists. GCST's Savannah Bowser swam under the Junior National Bonus qualifying time and had a 4.0 GPA to qualify for the list. Scholastic All-American List USA Swimming National Team members Katie Ledecky (Bethesda, Md.) and Simone Manuel (Sugar Land, Texas) headline a list of nearly 1,800 prep swimmers honored by USA Swimming this week as 2013-14 Scholastic All-America selections. By virtue of their 4.0 grade point averages and national championship wins at last month’s USA Swimming Phillips 66 National Championships, Ledecky and Manuel...
Olivier Poirier-Leroy is a former national level swimmer based out of Victoria, BC. In feeding his passion for swimming, he has developed YourSwimBook, a powerful log book and goal setting guide made specifically for swimmers. Sign up for the YourSwimBook newsletter (free) and get weekly motivational tips by clicking here. Those who have achieved any measure of success in the pool understand that it is not by some large stroke (pun intended) of luck, or as a result of one or two amazing practices that they achieved something special. Rather,...
Olivier Poirier-Leroy is a former national level swimmer based out of Victoria, BC. In feeding his passion for swimming, he has developed YourSwimBook, a powerful log book and goal setting guide made specifically for swimmers. Sign up for the YourSwimBook newsletter (free) and get weekly motivational tips by clicking here. Another new season is upon us, and with it comes a fresh opportunity to achieve some awesome stuff. No matter how things went down this past season, September provides us a new chance to chase down swimming awesomeness. Here are 6 less...
Guest editorial by Olivier Poirier-Leroy Having goals — whether they are end of season, end of week, or end of workout, can help give swimmers focus and direction when it comes to the pool. The only thing that makes a swimmer happier than hearing “Get out swim!” yelled out loud across the pool deck is standing on the podium, looking up at the scoreboard and seeing that goal achieved and lit up. Here are 5 ways to use this technique to help get the most out of those goals: 1....
