Hello Neptune Families, Due to the Neptune Invitational starting at Finley Swim Center this Friday, March 19th, we are cancelling practice for all groups at both locations. Regular practice schedule will resume on Monday. Thanks for your support & Go Neptunes!!

The Zone All-Star championships will be held this weekend March 7th in Morgan Hill and the Neptunes will be well represented at this select meet. Zone All-Stars is held every year with each zone selecting only 8 athletes per age division. The athletes will travel with their team mates, most from other teams within zone 3, by bus to Morgan Hill where they will practice with the team on Saturday. They will then stay overnight with their team mates and then compete against top athletes from all of the other...

Hello Neptune families, I just got off the phone with the manager at Ridgway and she tells me the pool is open and the heater/pumps are working... so we are on for practice tonight. Which brings me to my second point of this email: today is the first high school meet of the 2010 season at Ridgway so practice times are different for the 4 following groups: Elite 5 - 6:30 pm, Blue 6:30 - 7:30 pm, Bronze (1) 6:30 - 7:15 pm & Seahorse (2) 5:45 - 6:15 pm....

Neptune Alumnae Amanda Sims, Penelope Yamauchi, and Kelsey Louden came up big at the 2010 Pacific 10 Swimming Championships this weekend. (Note "B" = NCAA Provisional Qualifying Mark in summary below) Amanda Sims - placed 4th in 100 Fly (52.12"B"); 16th in 100 Back (55.31"B"); 6th in 200 Fly (1:56.44 "B") She also swam fly on Cal's 2nd place 400 Medley Relay and 3rd place 200 Medley Relay. Helped Cal to 2nd place conference finish. Kelsey Louden - tied for 11th in 100 Breast (1:02.53 "B" - lifetime best) -...

Eleven swimmers and divers with local roots made an impact at the Big West Conference Championships at Long Beach , February 17-20. Reid Hartz(Montgomery ), Jim Fong (Maria Carrillo), Derek Baldwin (Casa Grande), and William LeBarge (Rancho Cotate) were all major contributors leading the UC Davis men to the conference title. Hartz placed 8th in 400IM, 6th in 1000 Free, and th in 1650 Free. Fong took 7th in the 200 Back, 8th in 100 Fly, and 4th in 100 Back. Baldwin placed 6th in 100 Free and 3rd in...

Junior Olympics in San Ramon at the end of March is now accepting online entries. To enter online click here

Dear Neptune families, As some of you have already noticed, the team is in the process of changing the way we collect and process the dues. We have created a system that allows Team Unify (the team web site) & QuickBooks (for our record keeping as a business) to communicate together. We hope these changes will result in the following, accurate accounting of accounts receivable each month, checks being processed and posted by the 15th of each month and allow members to view their account history/balance on line. Presently we...

Zone 3 All Stars Needed! Applications are due February 8th (one more week) Applications received are listed below. Zone 3 will take 8 from each age group/gender. 8 & Under Girls: 3 applications 8 & Under Boys: 2 applications 9-10 Girls: 5 applications 9-10 Boys: 7 applications 11-12 Girls: 10 applications 11-12 Boys: 4 applications 13-14 Girls: 9 applications 13-14 Boys: 3 applications For questions email Lehla at [email protected]

Here are a few of the articles that have been published over the past weeks discussing the Zone 3 meet and the aftermath : Marin IJ article Press Democrat article Press Democrat article #2 Thanks for your support & GO NEPTUNES!!

Group training schedule during high school swim season is now available on the "swim groups" page of the team web site. During this time of the year, both Healdsburg & Ridgway are the primary pools for most of the high schools in the county. The number of people coming and going from the pools will increase dramatically in the next few weeks and continue through the summer. In an effort to avoid some of the theft issues we've experienced in the past we (the Neptune coaching staff) strongly recommend that...