CDST had 68 people enter last weekend's SRVA C/B/BB Meet at San Ramon. Many of them were the first time at the USA Swimming Meet. It wasn't great weather for the swimming meet; however, CDST swimmers showed their strength and were not afraid of any cold wind and rain. Most of them did the best times and gained many meet experiences. Below is the link to the photos taken from the meet last weekend and the summary from each group coach. Go To: Photos at SRVA C/B/BB Meet Photo Credit:...

Last week, Edward Huang and Coach Chen traveled to the WInter Junior National at Austin, Texas. It was the first CDST has swimmer and coach to participate in the Winter Junior National, and this was Edward's first appearance in the national level meet. His outstanding performance made him advance to the Junior National Finals for the first time! What an accomplishment for him and CDST! On Friday, December 10th, at Man 100 Yard Backstroke Preliminary, Edward Huang posted a stunning time, 48.83, dropped 1.13 seconds from his entry time. His...

CDST's 13-14 age group boys did an excellent job at the 2021 Winter Junior Olympic at Santa Clara International Swim Complex last weekend. Individuals Eric Meng, 13 Eric placed 5th in the Individual High Point of his age group. He advanced all his events in the final sessions, and all his races achieved best times. 100 Free - 52.09 - 3rd Place 100 Back - 59.75 - 3rd Place 200 Back - 2:04.73 - 3rd Place 100 Butterfly - 58.31 - 6th Place 200 Free - 1:54.74 - 6th Place...

CDST had a 50 people squad at the AAA C/B/BB meet; the largest group of CDST swimmers participated in a swim meet in the past two years. CDST was the largest club team at this meet, and most of the CDST swimmers are from our age groups. We were showing the other clubs at Pacific Swimming, CDST was coming back after 7 years with the most potential of age group swimmers. Below is the link to the photos taken from the meet last weekend, and the summary from each group...

CDST's Elite group did a great job at last weekend's Senior II Trial & Final Meet at Concord. This meet used the championship format, so swimmers swim their prelims and finals if they are qualified. Relay events also swam in this meet. We haven't had a championship format meet in the last two years. We were glad to see 8 CDST Elite swimmers back in the championship meet again. 50 Free Ray Cillo, Justin Ely, Leo Gao are first-time sub 24 seconds in 50 free. Ryin Ruaboro had 22.78 personal...

CDST has 20+ swimmers who participated in the three meets, BSW CBA(Brentwood), LAC CBA(Livermore), and WCAB Senior Open(Walnut Creek) last weekend. This weekend is first-time CDST's name back to Pacific Swimming's meets since 2014. Congratulations to Edward Huang, 15, the first CDST swimmer to qualify for the upcoming 2021 Winter Junior National Championships in Austin, Texas. He swam 49.96(Jr.National Cut) in 100 Yard Backstroke and 1:51.72(Jr.National Bonus Cut) in 200 Yard Backstroke at WCAB Senior Open Meet. Every CDST swimmer got personal best times in their events last weekend; even...

We had a great team hiking event on Friday, September 17th. Many new swimmers and families joined the hike, and they had chances to know teammates and coaches.

Dear CDST families: COVID-19 brings us a huge change and challenge in the past year, and our life has been changed indefinitely. However, CDST is doing its best to provide swimming training or dryland training regardless of we have pool access or not in the past 11 months. Because we know that swimming is crucial to children's and teenagers' physical and mentally healthy, especially when we spend more and more time at home. We have been hearing feedback from many families that swimming positively impacts our athletes during this unprecedented...

CDST APPRECIATE OUR FAMILIES' DONATION TO HELP US KEEP RUNNING IN THIS DIFFICULT TIME JUNE DONOR LIST Elite Group D'Amelio (Angela) Family; Lee (Anthony) Family; Tatikonda (Nithin) Family; Huang (Edward) Family; Allen (Ashley) Family; Len (Sidney) Family; Raghuraman (Medha) Family; Ruaboro (Ryin) Family; Lau (Michael) Family; Wu (Jasper) Family Senior Group Schwartz (Emily) Family; Ruaboro (Aleina) Family; Zhang (Max) Family Platinum Group Torjyan (Alexander) Family; Marwaha (Akul) Family; Meng (Eric) Family; Ely (Justin) Family; Chao (Andrew) Family; Ho (Angeline) Family; Tai (Adien) Family; Mashuk (Carissa) Family; Liew (Sophie) Family Gold...

Dear CDST Families, We had around 50 families joined Friday's Parents Meeting. It was nice to see the families that joined on Friday, and we were grateful to have all the questions, suggestions, and concerns to us that help CDST to build a better Safety Precaution Plan for returning to the pool. For those that were not able to join, we also have the summary listed for you. Zoom recording https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZzGqM3nbvFVZvUr8IpWSR-vPXgoj8k-y/view?usp=sharing Presentation Slides - Information Book https://www.teamunify.com/pccdst/__doc__/480404_2_RETURN%20TO%20THE%20POOL%20(June%205th).pdf Documents for Returning to the Pool CDST COVID-19 Safety Precaution Rules and Regulations...