Newsletter (June 11, 2010) o Team Picture Day June 11 at 3:30pm Picture day starts at 3:30pm this Friday (June 11) at American high school. Individual picture will be the first session, and ALL SWIMMERS NEED TO BE AT THE POOL AT 4:30 PM for team picture. WEAR YOUR TEAM SUIT. If you haven't gotten yours yet, don't panic, just wear a plain black or dark color suit. If you don't have a dark color suit, a CDST T-shirt would work as a last resort. Remember to bring your checkbook...

Eighteen swimmers including relay swimmers participated Short Course Far Western Championship at Morgan Hill last week April 8-11. Weather wasn’t great for perfect performance, but our swimmers did so well. Following are some highlights: Congratulation to Eric Lee , our only 1st winner at Far Western, won the 1st place in 11-12 boys 50 breast on Saturday with time (30.83). 11-12 boys relay team won 2nd in both 200 Medley Relay and 200 yard freestyle relay. Good job! Excellent job: Jordan Vega, Eric Lee, Steven Lau and Misha Galant. Our...

Sixty swimmers participated Zone 2 short course championships meet last weekend on Feb 20 & 21 at San Roman. It was a great experience for all our CDST swimmers and parents in raining weekend. All of our swimmers got personal best, some of got new A times and other may got new JO time, Far Western or PRT time, and it’s just too much to list all, followings are just some of the highlights: Last year Zone 2 championship our team won the 10th place with 910.5 points , and...

Spring and Summer 2010 Practice Schedule Changes Due to limited water space at Calphin indoor pool, we will move to Kennedy and American high school pools for our daily practice starting March 1, 2010. All Gold and Silver groups will be practicing at Kennedy, and Platinum and Elite groups will have to move between two pools according to facility availability. Please check following link for detailed spring and summer practice schedule: http://www.teamunify.com/pccdst/__doc__/2010_Spring_Summer_Practice_Schedule.pdf We try our best to make the practice schedule as stable and efficient as possible, and get more...

Great Junior Olympic Meet Dec 4-6 CDST swimmer had an excellent swim meet at Junior Olympic meet Dec 4-6 last weekend. It was a 3-day meet Friday to Sunday. The meet started at 9:00am and conclusion of finals was around 6:00pm every day. We had 20 swimmers participated in JO this time, and had so many great swims in freezing cold weather. Jordan Vega, Misha Galant, Christopher Ha made top 8 finals, and Stephen, Eric, Jessica made consolation finals (top 16). Our 11-12 boys team (Jordan, Misha, Eric, Stephen) won...

Congratulation to all 21 CDST swimmers who are qualified for Junior Olympic Championship this weekend Dec 4-6 at Pleasanton. We also have registered total 8 relays at this meet Dec 5 and Dec 6 (Saturday & Sunday only). Following is our relay teams List: 13-14 boys: Michael Sui, Chris Yu, Dustin Lam, Anthony Lau. 11-12 Boys: Team A : Jordan Vega, Misha Galant, Eric Lee, Stephen Lau. Team B : Andrew Lou, Tan Gunady, Xuan Kang, Nicholas Cai. 10 & Under Boys : Kevin Cui, Christopher Ha, Mars Lu, Andrew...

Oct 31 & Nov 1, 2009 There were 60 plus CDST swimmers participated AIA swim meet at Chabot College last weekend. Too numerous to report in total, following are just some great swims at Alameda Island Aquatics Meet: Suri Yu, age 8, won 1st place in 25 free (15.29), 25 breaststroke (21.49), and second place in 50 freestyle (32.45), 100 free (1:14.64), 50fly (40.00), 100 IM (1:24.68) plus 3nd place in 50 breaststroke (45.16), 25 fly (17.87). Catherine Chen, age 7, took first place in 50yd butterfly (39.96) Jessica He,...

We have total 6 swimmers participated 2009 long course Far Western Championships last week July 30-Aug2. Our 11-12years old boy relay team swimmers (Jordan Vega, Stephen Lau, Eric Lee, Misha Galant) won 3rd place in 200m freestyle relay, and 4th place in 200 Medley Relay at 2009 Long course championships in San Jose. What a wonderful race at very end of 5 days meet. Congratulations CDST swimmers!

California Dolphin Swim Team only sent 7 swimmers to Junior Olympics Championships at Concord last weekend, but results from JO meet were awesome. Congratulations to Kevin Cui, 9, who made his first JO finals and placed 7th place in both 50m freestyle (31.25-PRT) and 100m backstroke (1:22.05-PRT). Also swim of 44.85 in 50m breaststroke (PRT), and 50m butterfly (37.32-Far Western cut). Jordan Vega , 12, made final in 50 backstroke (34.61), and his 1st PRT time in 100m breaststroke (1:15.99). Misha Galant, 12, received his 1st PRT time in 50m...

46 swimmers participated in Oakland Undercurrent swim meet on May 2 & 3 in raining weekend. Following are some of the highlights: Trista Ma won first place and received her Far Western time in 200 breaststroke (2:46.44) Kevin Cui received his new Far Western times in 50 free (29.44), 100 breaststroke (1:26.88), 100 free (1:04.08) Congratulations! Madellyn Joly, age 8, won First place in 100 freestyle (1:22.07), 100 Freestyle (1:34.13), 2 nd place in 50 free (38.61), 50 back (49.52), 25 breaststroke (22.08) Diana Brightwell, age 12, received her new...