The 2011 Agua Caliente Swim Meet finished this past weekend as a huge success! Congratulations go out to all of our swimmers for competing hard this weekend and also a big thank you to all of our parents and volunteers who made this meet happen. The long hours and the tireless duties to help produce such an event can only be done with great parents like we have at Piranhas! We need to give a special recognition for two people; the Meet Director, Matt Nevins and the Meet Coordinator, Jen...

Wednesday, November 9 – With an Hawaiian lei around his neck, Piranhas Senior swimmer, Adam Shaw signed a National Letter of Intent to swim for the University of Hawaii next fall. Adam was among many athletes at Palm Desert High School who attained scholarship in their sports. Adam was ranked as a three-star swimmer by Swimming World Magazine. Adam has a junior national cut in the 200-meter breast (2:24.47), along with multiple US Sectional time standards. We all wish Adam good luck next year and congratulations on his hard work...

Costume Contest Winners!!! The first annual Piranha costume contest has announced its winners! We had a good turnout of costumes on Monday and Tuesday night that made it very difficult for the judges to decide who will win the prizes. The prizes will be given to the two locations of Piranhas and will consist of: 1st- $10 Yogurt Gift Certificate 2nd- $5 Yogurt Gift Certificate 3rd– Piranha Silicone Cap The winners are: Palm Springs – 1st– Candace Bon-McPeak - Zombie Girl 2nd– Haley Schmitt - Wasp Girl 3rd– Austin Good/Dimitri...

Monday, October 31st, the Piranha Swim Team will be having a costume contest on the pool deck before practice. Each group can wear their costume to practice to get judged by the coaches. The results from those scores will be tabulated and the coaches will determine who had the best costume that night. There will be a winner from both locations; Palm Springs and Shadow Hills and they will be presented with a prize the following practice. It is open to all ages and must conform to a modest standard...

The Piranha Swim team had a great turnout and some fantastic swims at our most recent meet this weekend at Riverside City College pool. The team looked great and represented the Piranha Team with confidence and pride! At all sessions, the Piranhas were seen and heard throughout the meet and also swam some great races. The October meet is the meet that is sandwiched in between our first meet of the Fall season and before our home November meet. It is a good meet to gauge where you are as...

Piranha Swim Team has 6 team members break into the top 16 fastest swims in Southern California. Six Piranha team members had times from 2010-2011 short course and long course seasons that were fast enough to be recognized in the top 16 rankings by the Southern California Swimming Committee. These rankings are put out each year and include all the teams in the Southern California Local Swimming Committee. This committee is recognized by USA Swimming as the largest LSC in the United States and includes very visible teams like Mission...

The Piranha Swim Team had a great turn out for the first meet of the 2011-2012 season! Piranhas definitely made an impact on the meet as one of the more visible teams there and we looked great with our team attire. The team performed well for the first meet and we look forward to much more success in the future meets this fall. The philosophy of the Piranha coaches is about the process, the work and attitude of performing under tough conditions and to know that there is an end...

This Friday, September 16, the Piranha Swim Team will be having a team function. The team will get together to participate in an Inter-squad meet. This is a low key event that will bring the team together as a group; Palm Springs and Shadow Hills. Everyone is invited to participate to compete in the fun. We have selected 4 team captains from the Senior group who will select their teams for the meet. This event will bring unity of swimmers, young and old, also introduce new swimmers to a “meet”...

September 2, 2011 - The Piranha Swim Team had its annual banquet Friday night to celebrate the success of our swimmers over the past 2010-2011 season. The evening was a night of fun, food, prizes and awards for those individuals who contributed and performed for the Piranha program. We would like to congratulate the following swimmers: Swimming Awards: Junior National Recognition – Indira Ceranic placed 20thin the country for 18 and under in the 50 meter freestyle, also competed in the 100 and 200 meter free. Adam Shaw competed in...

The Piranha Swim Team will have its yearly banquet this Friday at 5:00pm in the banquet room of the Golden Sun Estates development. You can find all the information about the banquet on the website under events. The banquet will be in lieu of practices that afternoon, there will not be any Friday afternoon practices. There will be Masters in the morning. The Gold and Senior groups will have practice on Saturday morning at 7:30am. As for Labor Day, the Palm Springs and Shadow Hills pools are closed for the...