If you have not seen our 2011 Piranha Team Calendar, make sure you get your hands on one. Word on the pool deck is that "it's cool!" Twelve months of great photos and inspirational quotes to motivate you through to the championship season. Start your year out right and make a donation to the Piranha Swim Team and recieve our team calendar as our big Thank you for supporting our program! (suggested donation =$20) Email coach Aimee to order.

Long Beach - the Piranhas finished the California/Nevada Sectional meet with 4 best swims! Faith Travis highlighted the day with her swim in the 1650! In the final event of the day, she dropped 11 seconds to go 17:32.71 and is sitting in 10th place with the final heat remaining tonight. The day began with Indy swimming a personal best in the 100 back with a time of 1:00.02, Adam went 1:00.23 in the 100 breast, and Shelby improved her 100 fly to 1:00.11. The team swam the 400 medley...

PIRANHAS COMPETE AT TWO WINTER CHAMPIONSHIP MEETS It’s winter championship season at the pool and the Piranha Swim Team sent 12 swimmers to Winter Age Group Championships in Las Vegas, Dec. 10 -12, and nine to 2010 Speedo Champions Series CA-NV Winter Championship “Gold Sectionals” in Belmont Shores, Dec. 17-21. Competing against swimmers from throughout Southern California and Nevada at the Winter Age Group Championships were Shelby, age 13, and Kelli Andrade, 9, Lexi, 12, and Lindsay Letellier, 15, Alexa Wasserman, 14, all La Quinta residents; Christina Bruni, 17, Rancho...

Long Beach- the Piranhas had a great evening session that helped push the team into the top 20 for small teams and 45th overall. Fueled by Indy's 6th place finish in the 50 free which gave us 24 points, combined with Adam's 3 points from the 400IM, the team total sits at 27 points, sitting us at 45th place for all of California and Nevada. Indy's swim of 23.75 improved her best time and helped the team in total points. The 400 free relay of Indy, Kat, Shelby, and Alissa...

Long Beach- Day 4 of the US Sectional meet, Piranhas have there first points on the board with Indira's smoking 50 free swim of 23.80! That swim places here in the top 8 final at 5th place. She will also swim tonight with Kat, Shelby, and Alissa Koochaki in the 400 free relay. 3 other Piranhas scored best swims in their events today. Adam Shaw swam a best 200 IM at 1:57.48. In the 500 free, Kat and Faith swam personal bests of 5:06.03 and 5:08.04. Adam followed that with...

Long Beach - Adam Shaw swam a personal best 400 IM of 4:05.68 dropping 8 seconds off his previous best time. That swim allows him to compete in the finals tonight and giving him another opportunity to improve his time. There were 3 other swims today for Piranhas, Indira and Kat swam the 200 free in best times of 1:53.50 and 1:56.52. Also, Chris Kopan swam the 200 freestyle in a personal best of 1:47.67. Another banner day for the Piranhas and it will be wrapped up at finals tonight...

Long Beach - 5 Piranhas swam 9 events in the preliminary session on day 2 of the US Swimming Sectional championships. The team had another banner day with 10 lifetime best times! By having aggressive strategies, 3 of the best swims were 100 lead-offs for their 200's. In the 200 butterfly, both Kat and Faith swam best time 100 swims, 1:02.66 and 1:01.08, on their way out to best times in the 200 with 2:11.30 and 2:09.67, respectfully. Adam Shaw swam 3 personal bests in the 200 Breast (2:08.38), 200...

There are 9 Piranha swimmers competing at the USA swimming Sectional meet in Long Beach at the Belmont pool. The meet starts tonight with the 1000 freestyle and concludes on Tuesday night with our 400 Medley Relay. The 5 day meet will give our swimmers a great opportunity and experience competing at a high levelmeet. Swimmers representing Piranha are: Shelby Andrade - 100 fly, 400 and 800 free relays, 400 Medley Relay Christina Bruni - 400 Medley relay Indira Ceranic - 50, 100, 200, 500 free, 100, 200 backstroke, 400...

Long Beach - two Piranha swimmers competed in the 1000 freestyle on Friday night and both achieved best times by almost 20 seconds. Kat Wickham and Faith Travis swam 10:26.54 and 10:24.04, respectfully. Both these times crush the Sectional automatic standard. The swims have sparked the Piranhas to a fast start at the meet and the team will try and carry that momentum into preliminaries on Saturday.

The Piranhas finished the weekend at Winter Age Group Championships in 26th place with 166.5 points out of over 40 teams. A great finish for our group of 12 athletes! Only athletes finishing in the top 16 places of their events can contribute to team scores. Kelli Andrade scored 15 points for the team with best times100 breast (1:25.00, 9th) and 50 breast (39.36, 11th); Shelby Andrade contributed 25.5 points swimming best times in the 100 back (1:02.13, 9th) and 100 fly (1:00.44, 2nd); Christina Bruni was the contributor of...