Hello all LAC families. We had a great Board Meeting last night and some key ideas were brought to my attention that I feel it is worthwhile to spend some time on. First, although swimming is an individual sport, being on a swim team is a TEAM experience. Our mission is to utilize swimming as a unique educational tool that will develop young people into leaders in their communities. Are we fulfilling this mission? In some ways very well: -Swimmers learning to be on time -Swimmers learning to always do...

Hello all Aquacowboy Families, it has been a busy week for swimming and this will be a short update to highlight some of the great swimming our team did in meets over the weekend. Aquacowboy swimmers competed for the first time at the Meet of Champions in Mission Viejo this past weekend. Among the particpants were Olympicans/World Champions Rebecca Soni, Jessica Hardy, Elaine Breeden, David Dunford, Nathan Adrian, Dominik Meichtry, Ricky Barons, Katinka Hosu, and several others. Nina Hayes swam great early season times in the 100 and 200 back...

Hello All Aquacowboy Families. We are having a great Spring on our team as we gear up for Summer league, High School Championship Season, and Long Course Season. Here is a quote for the week: “I am not afraid of the person who practices a thousand kicks once, I am afraid of the person who practices one kick a thousand times.” Bruce Lee This quote makes me think of the swimmers on our team and how they do their very best to perfect the skills and drills we go over...

The recent meet at Far Westerns was our best performance as a team at this venue. It was inspiring to see the kids taking care of their warm ups, body heat, and mental game at such a high level. There was great team support and enthusiasm for doing our best in each swim and it showed! Here are our highlights: 26 Finals Placings, including our first ever relays score by the 10th place 10&un boys team of- Chris, Paige, Collin and Franco 17 out of 23 finals swims were faster...

Greetings Aquacowboy Families. As we gave an update after JO's, this week's will be a short update on the great practices each group has been having. Sat AM- We WILL have practice with Coach Leslie 8-10 AM. Senior group will be swimming Long Course in San Ramon. Here are some highlights from the groups Coach Lisa works with: Novice - This week we had continuous improvements in technique and endurance. Finishing Thursdays practice with 32x25's we had great leaders by Sarah B., Paige, and Kristof. We have worked a lot...

This Saturday the 24th the Seniors will swim a long course practice at San Ramon We WILL have a practice from 8-10am for Jr and Pr Sr groups at LVTC On Saturday the 31st we will have practcie from 8-10 for non Far Western Swimmers at LVTC on Saturday the 7th and 14th of April there will be normal Saturday practices

Greetings Aquacowboy Families, we're coming of a great JO meet where we had more people than ever make finals and had some good tough minded swims in the cold and wet weather. Here are some highlights from the meet: 22 finals swims Caroline: 1st place 50 fly, 4th place 50 fr, 9th place 100, 200 fr, 100 fly, 11th place 500 free Tori: Best time 200 breast Sofia: Best Time 50 free Jenna: Best time 50 free Shahini: 16th place 200 breast Celine: Best time 200 breast, best time 100...

Hello all LAC swimmers and parents. What a great meet the kids had at Montclair! We won lots of T-shirts, made several new JO times, and qualified a new relay for Far Westerns. Along with great performance comes added responsibility to take care of our bodies and to focus on the details that will lead to greater health and future success. Recently Coach Lisa and I have noticed that for the most part, swimmers on our team are not taking care of fluid replacement and calorie replacement during and immediately...

Greetings Aquacowboy Families, it’s been a great week with lots of new faces at the pool during our Summer Shape up program. LAC swimmers continue to improve skills in the pool and we are working at a higher level than ever before. Here is a quote for the week: “Freely chosen, discipline is absolute freedom.” Ron Serino This quote makes me think of the great kids we have on our team who have a passion for swimming. The discipline they choose to have frees them from having to make other...

Greetings Aquacowboy Families, it’s been a great week of practicing at the LVTC pool! Thanks to Dezi and Anne and all of the volunteers for helping to put on a great movie night with about 40 LAC swimmers participating! Here is a quote for the week: “Victory awaits him/her who has everything in order- luck people call it.” -Roald Amundsen, the South Pole Here are some upcoming events: PLS Senior Meet: This Saturday. Sure to be a great meet with some lifetime best unshaved times Montclair Pentathlon: March 10th. Let’s...