Beginning January 2025 Coach Keith will lead a High School Prep program to help swimmers in our community get ready for their upcoming high school season! Swim sessions will be technique & skills based with a curriculum designed for swimmers not already involved in year-round swimming. Students in the 8th through 12th grades from any town/city are welcome. Help us spread the word with the flier below!

National group swimmer Kevin Yum has earned Scholastic All-America honors from USA Swimming for 2024. To qualify for this, swimmers must achieve a Junior National time standard and have an overall GPA of 3.5 or higher. Congratulations, Kevin -- we are so proud of you! Kevin joined the FAST Swim Team at age 8. He competed in his first Junior Nationals at age 16 last year (500 Free, 1650 Free) and will attend the 2024 Winter Juniors in Austin, TX in a few weeks. Kevin recently committed to continue pursuing...

Jessica Mercer was born in Santa Ana and grew up in Fullerton. She went to Sunny Hills High School and attended USC. She got a business degree with an emphasis in finance and marketing. She always wanted her own business, and today she has realized that! Jessica took swim lessons at independence Park before it was named the Janet Evans Swim Complex. She worked her way up to club swimming and swam for FAST coach Kevin Perry! She says walking through the lobby is like walking down memory lane with...

Waipahu, HI -- Fourteen Senior swimmers captured a 4th place overall finish at the 2024 Hawaii Senior Championships last weekend on Oahu. The group had a fantastic meet with 74 lifetime bests and 55 second swims. All 14 swimmers achieved multiple lifetime bests and earned second swims! Yves Pan had the largest time drop of the meet for the men, cutting an incredible 58.04 seconds in the 1650 Freestyle for a final time of 16:12.96 to take 2nd place. His time was also a new AAA time and Sectional qualifying...

Twelve FAST swimmers raced at the Kevin Perry Invitational at La Mirada November 7-10. This was a successful tune up meet to kick off our higher intensity period of preparation and racing. The FAST crew turned in 9 lifetime bests, including 1 new AAA National Age Group time (Ratana Miller, 100 Free) and 1 new Sectional qualifying time (Ratana Miller, 200 Free). Congratulations, Ratana! Other best times were achieved by Abby Guevara (100 Free), Ratana Miller (1000 Free), Yves Pan (100 Free, 1000 Free), James Sy (100 Breast), and Caleb...

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...