On the last weekend of September, ten adults represented the Vacaville Swim Team Masters program at the 40thAnnual Sprint Pentathlon held at the Schaal Aquatics Center at UC Davis. Cheered on under beautiful skies by their children, parents and friends, it was an incredibly fun meet. Two of those swimmers – Karen Jensen, and Dave Stewart – competed in last year’s pentathlon. The remaining eight swimmers – Sue Gibbs, Jennifer Orfin, Samantha Buckner, Mel and Brian Michaluk, Nick Hanley, Brandon Myers and Stephen Fournier – competed in the pentathlon for...

The Vacaville Swim Team traveled to Roseville, California to race in the Sierra Nevada Long Course Meters Junior Olympics July 19th – 22nd, 2012. The team consisted of 46 swimmers who competed over the four days. The meet was a trials and finals format with the top eight swimmers from the morning preliminaries racing at night in the finals. The team raced extremely well in both relays and finals throughout the meet and finished in a very close race for 6th place! Every swim and every point counted as the...

Swimmers from the National and Senior group traveled to Clovis, Ca. (August 2nd – 5th) to wrap up the long course season by racing at the Senior Western Zone Championship meet. The meet doubled in size from a year ago and hosted over 750 swimmers from Northern & Southern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado and Arizona. This was a trials and finals meet and a very competitive meet with a lot of fast swimming. The team gained a lot of experience with swimming two finals and trials meets with...

Over the weekend (6/8/12 - 6/10/12) the National and Senior Groups from the Vacaville Swim Team competed in the Summer Sanders Invitational. This is a long course Trials and Finals meet. As it is one of the last meets to qualify for the Olympic Trials there was a large group of swimmers competing at the meet representing the Sierra Nevada, Pacific Swimming and Oregon Swimming. The Vacaville Swim Team had seventeen swimmers from both groups racing in the meet. This was a great experience for the swimmers to compete in...

The Vacaville Swim Team attended the Woodland long course BB +/- May 20 – 22, 2012. This was the second long course meet of the season for most of the swimmers. As a whole the team performed very well and is setting the stage for an excellent long course season! The 12 and under swimmers representing the Red, White, Blue, Gold and Junior 2 groups that came to the Woodland meet did very well. All across the board many swimmers dropped time in one or several events giving them new...

Over the weekend swimmers Matt Abernethy and Kyle Castro from the National Group of the Vacaville Swim Team competed at the Santa Clara International Grand Prix long course swim meet. Both swimmers gained a tremendous amount of experience competing against National and International level swimmers. Matt Abernethy dropped over seven (7) seconds in the 400 Freestyle and two (2) seconds in the 100 Butterfly. Matt's time of :58.84 in the 100 meter butterfly is a new team record for the 15 - 16 boys. Congratulations Matt on the new record!...

Vacaville Masters swimmers had an outstanding meet at the recent Pacific Masters Swimming Championships held at Campolindo High School in Moraga, CA. First place finishers in individual events included the following athletes: Rick Busquets (35-39) – 50 Free Sue Gibbs (55-59) – 50 Back Karen Jensen (40-44) – 100 Free, 500 Free James Ramirez (25-29) – 200 Fly Jared Rondoni (25-29) – 1000 Free The relays were also very fun and exciting and Vacaville Masters finished strong and showed tremendous support and team spirit. On Saturday afternoon in the pouring...

The Vacaville Swim Team traveled May 5th & 6th to compete in Davis. This was a short course yards meet giving a lot of our younger swimmers more race experience. Coach Sarah noted that the Davis Meet was a great short course meet for her groups. Vacaville looked great with their new caps. Olivia Rush earned her Short Course Junior Olympic cut in 25 Free and Isabella Meraz earned her Short Course Junior Olympic cut in 50 Free and 50 Back. Coach Sarah only had a handful go but all...

The Vacaville Swim Team traveled to Folsom over the past weekend with 70 swimmers representing the team. This was the first long course meet of the season for the vast majority of the team. This was a great learning experience for all the swimmers and a first great step to building up for the long course season and competing at the Junior Olympics in July! For the Red, White and Blue groups, Coach Sarah was very excited with how the swimmers raced throughout the meet. She was very excited with...

The Vacaville Swim Team sent a group of swimmers to compete at the short course yards Far Western Championships, March 29th - April 1st, 2012.There were over 1700 athletes competing and over 12 different States represented at the meet. The meet provided a little bit everything with the weather from hot and sunny, to rainy and windy. The Vaca swimmers prevailed with a lot of fast swimming. The 11 & 12 girls came to race on Thursday with a great swim in the 400 Medley Relay. The team consisted of...