TSM continued to show its strength in the open water during day one of the USA Swimming Open Water National Championships on Castaic Lake, just outside Los Angeles. During today's 10k race, Jordan Wilimovsky finished in 4th place overall and scored a place on the U.S. National Senior Team. As a result, Wilimovsky will also qualify to represent Team USA at either the World University Games in Moscow or the World Championships in Barcelona. In addition, TSM placed 3 swimmers on the U.S. National Junior Team as Nick DeVito, Scott...

TSM's Sean Steele and Hunter Loncar were recently interviewed by the Palisadian-Post about their trip to the Colorado Olympic Training Center. Steele and Loncar, along with Head Coach Dave Kelsheimer and 20 National Group swimmers, traveled to Colorado Springs this past March for 10 days of high altitude, high intensity swim training. In addition to the standard swim training, Coach Kelsheimer was able to coordinate strength conditioning, dryland training, under water camera analysis, velocity testing and discussions on biomechanics and nutrition. Congratulations to all!

  TSM is excited to announce the arrival and introduction of state-of-the-art training equipment this month. As part of a matching grant, offered by USA Swimming to accelerate the performance of National Level swimmers, TSM recently purchased SwimPro underwater performance swimming cameras and a flat screen television, encased in a waterproof shield.   This week, Coach Dave Kelsheimer and the National Group introduced the cameras as part of an enhanced on-deck technical training program, whereby multiple cameras are placed above and below the water for swimmers to view on a...

  Jimmy started swimming summer league when he was eight years old. He grew up in Charlotte, NC and started swimming year round for Mecklenburg Aquatic Club when he was ten years old. In High School, he lettered all four years and was voted MVP as a junior and senior, as well as team captain his senior year. As a club swimmer Jimmy competed up to the Junior National level. After graduation, he attended The University of Tennessee where he swam four years while attaining his undergraduate degree. As a...

TSM will not be attending the 2013 Pacific Committee Championship Meet Feb 22-24. Important, please read in entirety. Challenge The Pacific Committee Championship (Pac-Com) meet has had a terrible history of being oversubscribed by swimmers lending to preliminary sessions running well into the afternoon and finals sessions running late into the night. This year’s experimental format that SoCal Swimming has adopted for JOs (JO & Super JO) and Pacific Committee Champs (Super JO Max with Prelims/Finals) has opened the Pac-Com meet up to even more swimmers than before. With the...

In response to inquiries and concerns about drop-off and pick-up points at SAMO High, I have put together a map highlighting the best places to park and drop-off/pick up swimmers for practices at the High School. Click Here: SAMOHI Access Map There is an access gate on Pico about 100 feet from the rear entrance of the pool. This point of enrty has been used without issue during morning practices and the Lifeguards have been opening the gate for us to accomodate for the "No Parking on Campus" directive that...

Now that school is back in session at Santa Monica Higth School, we received this email from hte Sports Facility Coordinator regarding TSM campus access: "Earlier this week, Samohi Staff and Administration arrived on campus to find TSM Parents parked in the Barnum Lot (entered from Olympic) waiting to pick up their kids.  Pickup and drop-off must take place off campus.  Suggested pickup drop-off points are 7th and Michigan, Civic Center Parking Lot, and Olympic Boulevard on the side of the tennis courts. Please forward this information to all parents,...

Happy New Year!! The Holiday season has come to an end and the Santa Monica Swim Stadium has re-opened its gates for 2013. This is good news for TSM as we have been deemed a Santa Monica based team and will have more priority while scheduling at the Santa Monica Swim Center.  Let’s take advantage of this and settle back into our primary training pool. The New Spring Training schedule will begin this Monday, Jan 7th. Please be sure to check the link to the Training Schedule on the website...

Happy Holidays to all TSM Families and Swimmers,  Thank you for your continued flexibility during the SMSC closure. Click the link for the revised practice schedule through January 5th. (Note: you must be logged in to access the file) Link: https://www.teamunify.com/tsm/__doc__/Winter%20Holiday%20Trning%20Sched%202012-13%20(Dec%2019%20v.2).xlsx Please note morning practice changes for Thurs. Dec 20th: National group at Culver City Plunge(CCP) 5:15-7:15am Sectional & J.O. Groups at Santa Monica High(SAMO) 5:00-7:15am. Apologies to the Sectional and National groups for morning practice location oversights and confusion earlier this week. The coaching staff takes full responsibility for...

Team Santa Monica is pleased to announce that it has, for the second consecutive year, been designated as a USA Swimming Silver Medal Club for 2013. Teams score points towards this honor based on junior national performances and faster. The 2013 standards were the toughest in the program's history. Gold level performances require a world ranking. Swimmers must be 18 and under and eligible to represent the USA. The focus of USA Swimming's Club Excellence Program is to identify and reward the very best 200 USA Swimming Clubs out of the 2800...