http://www.swimnetwork.com/videos/swimming-video-player.aspx Please spend a minute watching my friend Mel's Gold Medal Minute. A touching plea for swim safety through lessons. MCAT is a local make a Splash partner at the Salinas Aquatic Center and we will gladly take donations to help provide lessons free of charge or at lower cost to kids in our community. Or we can provide swim team participation opportunity to "at risk" or low income kids. Email me if you want to help us with the cost of offering our local school districts low cost water...

Below are the recommended Best Practice Guidelines for the protection of USA Swimming Athletes and guidelines we will expect our coaching staff, parent board members, and volunteers to abide by. We are sharing these guidelines as full disclosure of our expectations. We will post these on our website and email these out annually. We will also include these in our new member packet. Every active family membership is receiving this dated 11/08/2010. Our next parent meeting, 12/01/2010 will cover this subject matter and try to answer any questions that you...

Dennis Wang qualified for the Pacific Swimming 14 and under Junior Olympic Championships and the Senior Championships with his swim in the 100 Breast at Morgan Hill on November 6,2010. Congratulations Dennis on this milestone achievement in swimming.

October 16 and 17,2010 was an amazing weekend of observing some of the best swimmers in the world and Pacific Swimming in different and strange settings. My weekend began with coaching Toby Macabugao at a Senior Meet at Diablo Valley College. Toby swam a 106.00 in his 100 Breast stroke taking of yet another .90 seconds. This was not an age group meet. Toby had 17 and 18 year olds in his heat. A strong performance for a very nervous 13 year old. We (my son Jake and I) jetted...

http://results.cwgdelhi2010.org/en/Comp.mvc/DetailedScheduleByDate?sportCode=SW&expandAll=False Results for the Commonwealth Games can be found at the above link. Learn more about Team USA's competition going into the 2012 Olympiad.

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. " ~Mary Anne Radmacher Part of the swim experience is learning the value of courage. Courage is the greatest of all virtues in swimming and in life. To learn how to be courageous in defeat and victory is a gift that the swim experience can provide. You know it isn't always about having best times. Sometimes it is about enduring the peaks and valleys of training. It takes...

West Coast Aquatics Short Course Yards October 9-10 MCAT Meet Round-Up The WEST Meet was held on a beautiful weekend. MCAT parents made it more beautiful by volunteering to officiate . We want to thank Jim Hashimoto for officiating on Sunday and Manny Bolosan for officiating on Saturday. A special applause goes to Mrs. Kasten, and Mrs. Michalski , for attending the clinic and then working the meet. George Matos also shadowed as a stroke and turn official on Sunday. We also want to recognize the MCAT Parents for timing...

MCAT swimmers had a very successful and fun meet in Santa Cruz the weekend of September 25-26! There were several swimmers swimming in their first meet as well as experienced ones who attended. During this time of year, the focus is more on technique and aerobic capacity, and I'm pleased to say that there were vast improvements in both areas as well as some very fast swims! Congratulations to everyone on a job well done :-) Arianne Movilla swam her first 100 backstroke ever and got her JO time! Amanda...

Gunderson HS- JR+Meet Three MCAT swimmers signed up for the Jr. + meet at Gunderson High School on October 2,2010. Toby Macabugao, Dennis Wang, and Caitlyn Rodriguez experienced the next level of swimming in our sport, This meet was a qualification meet by the JR Time Standards listed in the Pacific Swim Guide. All swimmers of all age groups compete as one group of swimmers at this type of meet. There are no age group classifications at this level. This is the first time these swimmers have participated in this...

From: Chuck Wielgus <[email protected]> To: Dia Rianda <[email protected]> Subject: Make a Splash Wins USOC Rings of Gold Award Date: Tue, Sep 28, 2010 9:37 am MCAT families, We are proud to be a partner of this program. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Saturday, September 25, 2010 Gregory, Make a Splash take home USOC Rings of Gold Awards COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) unveiled the recipients of the 2010 Rings of Gold awards on Saturday afternoon during the 2010 U.S. Olympic Assembly in Colorado Springs, Colo. Figure skater Melissa...