On Saturday night, the Piranhas looked to score big with many swims this night. The team looked to maintain a top 20 position at the Junior Olympic meet in Long Beach. One of the highlights of the evening was in the 200 freestyle, on her birthday, Kat Wickham swam to a personal best in a time of 1:54.96 and placing 5th. Also, Indy Ceranic swam a 1:54.21 in the prelims that helped her secure 16th position at night. The girls 13-14 100 fly saw Shelby Andrade swimming to a 15th...

After Thursday night, the Piranha team sat in 15th place combined and the ladies were top 10. The Piranhas were looking to add to their totals with 9 scoring swims in the first full day of competition at the Junior Olympic meet in Long Beach. At night, Adam Shaw swam to a 14th place finish in the 15-18 200 IM with a time of 1:58.46, just off from his preliminary time of 1:57.67. In the prelims, Alexa Wasserman swam to a best time of 2:15.22, and Shelby Andrade did a...

Teriyaki Yogi is a delicious and healthy place to eat! Nasser Rohani, owner of Teriyaki Yogi, and Piranha Team member, agrees to donate 50% of any giftcard purchases back to the Piranha Swim Team. All gift card orders must be processed through Piranha Swim Team billing in this manner so plan ahead to eat at Teriyaki Yogi. 1. A giftcard request is made and a check is made out to Piranha Swim Team in the amount desired. 2. Once check is received and applied to member’s Piranha Swim Team account—that...

The Piranhas started strong on the scoreboard today with solid swims in the 1000 freestyle. In the girls 13-14 year old division, Faith Travis and Kat Wickham scored in the event with Faith getting 1st and Kat 5th in times of 10:21.32 and 10:31.03. Alexa swam to a best time of 11:04.70 placing 25th. Adam continued the trend of best swims with a time of 9:50.72 and placing 12th. The Piranhas are on the board and look to continue to add more points for the team Friday with events of...

The Piranha Swim team heads to Long Beach to compete in the Older Junior Olympic meet today, Thursday through Sunday. It should be a meet packed with great swims and excitement for our swimmers. Today will be the 1000 Freestyle event in which Faith Travis, Kat Wickham, Alexa Wasserman and Adam Shaw will all be participating and anticipating a great start to the meet for the team. We will keep you posted on daily news about the results, you can also watch the meet online or follow results on the...

Dear Team! This month's Team Night out is at Rubios on February 23rd. We will need each swimmer to help pass out at least 10 flyers to friends and family to help promote this fundraising event! Please plan to wear your Piranha Apparel when you visit the restaurant so we can represent our team well! Click here to download the flyer, or visit our "Team Night Out" tab under Fundraising on our website. We'll look forward to seeing you there! thank you for your support!

Dear Piranha Families, A new feature of the Piranha Swim Team Website will be the posting of live videos filmed at swim meets. Under the "Meet Info" tab, we will be posting a link to videos sent to us by Piranha Families. Please take a look at our first video taken by Vince Cordero of our 10 & Under Medley relay at the JO competition this past weekend. We will endeavor to post at least one championship video from each end of the year meet. So that we are not...

The Piranhas successfully wrapped up their final day of younger JO's. Alissah Koochaki made her 4th finals appearance of the meet in the 100 yard freestyle swimming a personal best tonight in her final swim of the meet finishing 10th overall. Kelli Andrade also swam her final race of the meet and very nearly qualified for finals, just missing out by less than 1 second, and swimming a life time best time in the 100 yard breaststroke. Andrade was the 2nd highest placing 9 year old in the event. All...

All of the Piranhas qualified for younger JO's saw action today. Alissah Koochaki started the day off on the right foot by finaling in her 200 freestyle and a good showing in the 50 butterfly. Kelli Andrade swam a lifetime best time in her 50 backstroke as well and moved up six places with a good swim in her 200 IM. Today was also relay day. The 10 & under medley relay of Emma Johansen (back), Desiree Lewis (breast), Kelli Andrade(fly), and Jackie Cordero (free) assembled in Long Beach to...

Alissah Koochaki, Kelli Andrade, and Desiree Lewis all competed in day 1 of younger JO's. Andrade and Lewis each had a strong showing in the 50 breast with Andrade also swimming a very good 100 IM. This is the very first Spring JO's for both girls. The Piranhas are on the scoreboard thanks to two finals performances by Alissah Koochaki. Koochaki swam lifetime best times in both the 500 and the 50 freestyles, qualifying for consolation finals in the 500 and finals in the 50. In finals, Koochaki again improved...