The Piranha Swim Team had some exciting events happening this past weekend on the last days of our Fall/Winter season! Coach Adam Schmitt said "it shows the depth and tradition of the Piranha program to have success in so many meets!" The majority of the team was at the Eastern Championship meet in Redlands, Ca. competing with age group swimmers from our region of Southern California Swimming. The number of medals, ribbons and best times were numerous and it wrapped up a very successful season for the team. The coaches...

Monterey Park - The Junior Olympics have ended and "it was a great meet for all Piranha swimmers" says Coach Adam Schmitt, "We had many event finalists and lifetime best times!" Congratulations to all of the Piranhas who represented our team at one of the biggest and highest level meet in Southern California Swimming. This past weekend, the “older” JO meet had the Piranha girls finishing in 10th place overall in Southern California Swimming. Our small team beat out many of the bigger teams in the region, and was ranked...

January 20, 2012 - The Piranha swimmers are starting the new year with a qualifying meet held in Fontana this weekend. The meet is held for all Red and above swimmers to gain better times in hopes of attaining some Junior Olympic qualifying times. Others are heading to the meet to rev up their engines a bit before the big championship meets in February. All Piranhas have an opportunity to wrap-up their season with a meet at either the Junior Olympic champs and/or the Eastern Championships. The JO meet is...

Huntington Beach - The sun came out and so did the Piranhas in a great finale of a long meet. The final day of the 5-day Sectional swim meet came to an end yesterday with Piranha swimmers attaining 6 lifetime best times in their events. Coach Adam Schmitt was excited with "the resilience of our athletes in the conditions was a testimony to their toughness and desire to swim fast." The meet began with the 100 yard backstroke where Faith, Indira and Adam all swam best times! Faith shaved a...

Huntington Beach - the Piranhas had another great day of swims at the Sectional Championships. Coach Adam Schmitt was impressed with the swimmers stepping up in their individual events. The day began with the 200 IM with Alexa and Adam. Alexa dropped 2 seconds to record a best time in the event of 2:13.06. Adam swam a solid 1:56.63 in his individual medley. The 50 freestyle had Indira and Shelby sprinting in the cold. Indira went 24.12 to qualify 18th for the night finals. Shelby went 25.72. Indira finished 22nd...

Huntington Beach - the Piranhas had another great day of swims with all best times! In the frigid environment, the Piranhas are "overcoming all obstacles to perform at their best'" says coach Adam Schmitt. The meet began with the women's 200 freestyle where both Indira and Kat swam best swims to make it to the finals at night, 1:51.50 and 1:52.47. In the finals, they both improved to 1:51.22 (8th) for Indy and 1:51.65 (19th) for Kat. The 400 IM had three Piranhas competing. The day began with Adam swimming...

Saturday, December 17- Huntington Beach - The Piranha swimmers that are competing in the USA Swimming Sectional meet had a great day of swims. The preliminary session had 6 of the 8 swims with best times! In fact, it was 8 best times which would include the first 100 butterfly of the girls 200 butterfly. Faith Travis and Kat Wickham swam the 200 yard butterfly in 2:06.30 and 2:09.03. Faith's time qualified her for the finals in which she improved to a 2:05.93. In the 200 breaststroke Adam Shaw swam...

The Piranha Swim Team is headed to the USA Swimming Southern California/Nevada Gold Sectional meet in Huntington Beach, Ca from December 16-20. This is a 5-day, preliminary/final, short course competition that will pit our very own Piranha swimmers against some of the best swimmers across our region. The list of competitors will include collegiate athletes as well as some professional swimmers as we saw last year when the Olympian, Jason Lezak swam in the meet! This meet is an important barometer of where our rising swim stars compare to the...

The Piranha Swim Team is coming off an incredible weekend both in the water as a team, and out of the water as the host. Congratulations to all our Piranha swimmers who competed hard to garner an overall place team finish of 8th out of over 30 teams. The weekend had many highlight swims individually and on relays, age group winners, as well as many personal bests for our team members. I am so proud of their effort to step up and compete at this level and the great team...

All Piranha members, the latest Piranha Team Gear is available at 4Seasons Swim! The “Flyers” displaying the items can be found on our Piranha Team website under the “Piranha Swimming” Tab and at the flyer links below: • Flyer Gear 1 • Flyer Gear 2 Take a look at the newest Piranha gear for all family members. These would make great stocking stuffers and gifts for the Holidays. All arrangements can be made through 4Seasons, just tell them what items you would like to purchase and you can wear the...