From Coach Megan: The Red, White and Blue groups did amazing at JOs! I could not be more proud of my swimmers and how they swam over the weekend. They did a fabulous job of getting up to race and swimming fast! It was the first JO meet for many of the swimmers and I was impressed by how well all the swimmers handled such a big meet! Congratulations to Julia Miles on earning a medal by placing 8th in the 8 and under 50 freestyle! From Coach Wedaman: JO’s...

Sam Starks, from the National group, was the lone swimmer who qualified for the CA/NV Gold Sectional meet, and so traveled with Coach Brad down to Santa Clarita to compete with over 800 top athletes from all of California and Nevada last weekend. This was Sam's first experience traveling to this high-level meet, and he did a great job representing our team and had a phenomenal individual performance. The team really rallied around Sam, showing a great outpouring of support as the swimmers wrote notes and letters wishing Sam good...

From Coach Megan: The Davis swim meet was an incredible meet for the Red, White and Blue groups! A lot of swimmers competed in new and challenging events. I love to see my swimmers taking the opportunity to challenge themselves. All the swimmers did a fantastic job of stepping up and racing! I had a blast watching all of my swimmers and was so proud of how they did over the weekend. I am excited to see all of my swimmers compete at the upcoming meets! Congratulations to Emma Guinan,...

From Coach Megan: The Red, White and Blue groups did a fabulous job at Napa! There were a lot of swimmers who swam in their first long course meet and very first swim meet! I am excited to see more and more swimmers at meets in the future. I really enjoyed seeing the swimmers growing and taking more responsibility at swim meets by getting to their events and coming to see me before and after races. We had a lot of great swims and I could see all the work...

From Coach Brad: Summer Sanders was my first opportunity to watch the swimmers from our National and Senior groups race in what was the largest and fastest Summer Sanders Invitational I have been to out of the past 5 years. Competing against the top swimmers in our area and many from Pacific Swimming’s LSC as well, I was truly impressed with the energy and effort with which our swimmers attacked their races. As a team, our one finalist was Sam Starks, who was only able to attend the meet on...

We are only two weeks into June and already Vacaville Masters swimmers have stepped out and challenged themselves in a variety of events. On Saturday, June 1st, we had 15 people participate in the Lake Berryessa Open Water Swim in the 1 and 2 mile events. Congratulations to all of you who participated this year and kept the VACA spirit and tradition alive! See below for all of the people and their amazing efforts: Veronica Frederick (25-29) – 9thin 2 mile; 15thin 1 mile; 4thin 1 & 2 mile combined...

The Vacaville Swim Team participated in their first long course meet of the season at the 2013 Spring Splash held last weekend at Folsom Aquatic Center. VACA swimmers were quick off the blocks in anticipation of this upcoming fast-and-furious long course season! This meet served as the first stepping stone leading up to the end of summer meets such as Junior Olympics, Far Westerns and elite meets for the senior-level swimmers. Shoutouts to the following swimmers for their exciting performances: Coty Norton (Coach Darin - National Group) for breaking a...

A prolific-scoring group of Vacaville Swim Team Masters competed last weekend at the Pacific Masters Championships in Moraga, CA and came away with a Top 5 finish out of 54 teams in the Small-Team Division. Personal bests, points and pride prevailed throughout the 3-day weekend event under mostly sunny skies at Campolindo High School. In the 25-29 age group, Jared Rondoni took 2ndin the 50 and 100 fly, 3rdin the 500 free, 4thin the 100 IM and 5thin the 50 back. Jared wears many hats for our team, as he...

The Vacaville Swim Team’s National group sent four swimmers to the 64th annual Husky Invitational November 30th – December 2nd in Tacoma, Washington. This is a trials and finals meet that has time standards that have to be attained to attend the meet. The meet is composed of college teams and USA Swimming club teams. This year there were over 1,000 swimmers in attendance. Matt Abernethy, Billy Mullis, Sam Starks and Ryan Tunney all competed over the three days and had a spectacular meet. In each of three relays that...

The Vacaville Swim Team hosted their annual Fall Swim Meet October 19th – 21st. There were over 600+ swimmers and 21 teams who competed over the three days of competition. The Vacaville Swim Team had an impressive 140+ swimmers compete at the meet. The meet was tremendously successful with great weather and a lot of fast swimming. Red, White & Blue Groups The Red, White and Blue groups did fantastic at the meet this past weekend. For a lot of swimmers it was their first large swim meet and they...