FAST Senior and NAG swimmers had a great weekend at the committee meet hosted by Orange County Gold last weekend. Forty-one swimmers posted 149 lifetime bests and achieved an outstanding 65 new NAG time standards! All 41 FAST swimmers placed in the Top 8 in their divisions in one or more events. 1 new "AAA" time 7 new "AA" times 17 new "A" times 22 new "BB" times 18 new "B" times The largest time drop for the men was turned in by Finn Shook in the 11-12 Boys 200-yard...

FAST National and Senior 2 swimmers posted an impressive 75 lifetime best times at the Lakewood Halloween Invitational last weeked at Cerritos College. This included 43 new National Age Group Motivational times: 14 new "AA" times 16 new "A" times 9 new "BB" times 4 new "B" times Support for one another was outstanding and so was our racing, winning heats left and right. FAST had an awesome meet overall with 21 of 28 swimmers achieving lifetime bests at this early season meet. Five swimmers achieved best times in all...

FAST Senior 1 and NAG swimmers competed in the annual Pumpkin Meet at Golden West College last weekend. With pumpkins awarded to each heat winner, this event always produces great racing! FAST's pumpkin haul was...we lost count! Our swimmers totaled an incredible 156 lifetime bests and achieved 71 new National Age Group Motivational Times. Every FAST swimmer achieved 2 or more lifetime bests. 1 new "AAA" time 6 new "AA" times 18 new "A" times 26 new "BB" times 20 new "B" times Fifteen FAST swimmers achieved lifetime bests in...

Last Friday night FAST hosted a distance meet at our home pool, kicking off a great weekend of racing. FAST swimmers posted 33 lifetime bests including 13 new National Age Group Motivational times: 1 new "AAA" time 5 new "AA" times 2 new "A" times 5 new "BB" times The largest time drop of the meet for the women was turned in by Cadis Wang. She cut 24.06 seconds off of her entry time in the 11-12 Girls 500 Freestyle touching in 6:44.40. The largest time drop of the meet...

Last Saturday 18 FAST swimmers raced in the 2024 Western Zone Open Water Championships in Coronado, CA. They did an outstanding job facing currents, wind, and waves. This is a tough group! It was the first Open Water Zones for most of the group: Elizabeth Barnhart, Kevin Ho, Autumn Johnston, Gregory Kim, Stephanie Kim, Yejun Lee, Yves Pan, Rhett Parker, Rohan Parker, and Toby Swanson. Abby Guevara, Tyler Huey, Ratana Miller, and James Sy had raced before, but stepped up to challenge themselves in their first 5K. Luke Leon Guerrero...

The FAST Swim Team kicked off the new season instyle with an awesome intrasquad meet followed by fun and festivities at the pool -- including two water slides and 100 pizzas! Swimmers achieved 382 lifetime best times! Including: 2 new "AAA" times 2 new "AA" times 5 new "A" times 23 new "BB" times 34 new "B" times That was a genuine UNITEAM event at its best! Good luck this year and JUST SWIM FAST!

FAST had a fantastic season-ending meet at Summer Age Group Championships! Our 32 athletes posted an outstanding 176 best times and together earned a 5th place overall finish with 1558.5 points! Team points were led by top-8 finishes from Elizabeth Barnhart, Mia Carley, Aubrey Diebolt, Evan Eum, Eveline Grannis, Ellie Guayan, Kenneth Ho, Tyler Huey, Autumn Johnston, Jason Lee, Ratana Miller, Bryce Pak, Hudson Pak, Yves Pan, Victoria Ruge, Toby Swanson, James Sy, Declan Wang, Morganne Wanke, Liam Weinreich, and Caleb Yoo. FAST swimmers had a total of 46 top-8...

Luke Leon Guerrero competed at the 2024 Speedo Summer Championships in Irvine, July 23-29, 2024. This meet serves as the final national level competition of the summer for Junior National, National, and Olympic Trials level swimmers. This was Luke's national championship debut. Luke swam the 1500 Free, 400 Free, and 800 Free, posting lifetime bests in two out of the three events. He cut 4.66 seconds in the 1500 Free and 8.91 seconds in the 800 Free finishing in 26th and 25th place, respectively. Congratulations, Luke!

Fifteen FAST swimmers competed at the 2024 Summer Sectionals at the Janet Evans Swim Complex July 18-21, 2024. This is a regional USA Swimming competition that brings together swimmers from California, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. FAST took first place in the Medium Teams division with 499 points, 59 points ahead of the runner-up Roadrunner Aquatic from Bakersfield, CA. FAST was led in the scoring by twenty top-8 finishes from Mia Carley, Matthew Chai, Eveline Grannis, Tyler Huey, Carter Lavold, Luke Leon Guerrero, Ty Leon Guerrero, Ayanna Thompson,...

Ninety-two FAST swimmers competed in this summer's FAST Finale at the Janet Evans Swim Complex on July 15-16, 2024. This meet was the last meet of the season for many swimmers, as well as a final opportunity to qualify for the upcoming Southern California Summer Age Group Championships next week. This meet was also the first Long Course racing experience for our Junior 1 swimmers. Swimmers achieved an incredible 277 lifetime best times (!) including 61 new National Age Group Motivational Times: 16 new "B" times 28 new "BB" times...