Thanksgiving Week Practice Schedule Changes (unless noted, some days are just normal): Monday, 11/24 - SRHP - No practice (Hawaii) All other groups - Normal Monday times Tuesday, 11/25 - SRHP - No practice (Hawaii) Presenior - 5:30-7:00AM & normal afternoon time Masters - 5:30-6:30AM & 6:15-7:15PM All other groups - normal Tuesday times Wednesday, 11/26 - SRHP - 2:00-4:00PM Presenior - 5:15-7:15AM ALLAN HANCOCK / 4:30-6:15PM WHITEFIN 1 & 2 - COMBINED FUN PRACTICE!! 4:45-5:30PM Silver & Gold - 5:00-6:15PM NO MASTERS Thursday, 11/27 - HAPPY THANKSGIVING SMSC FAM!...

Santa Maria Swim Club Extends Head Coach Mike Ashmore Through 2030 Santa Maria, CA — October 2025 — The Santa Maria Swim Club (SMSC) is proud to announce the contract extension of Head Coach Mike Ashmore through 2030, ensuring his continued leadership of the program he has guided since 1999. When Coach Ashmore joined SMSC more than 25 years ago, the club had roughly 40 swimmers. Today, it stands as one of the Central Coast’s most respected competitive swim programs, serving nearly 300 athletes and producing excellence at every level...

So what happens when there is lightning? Why do we have to get out? State law dictates that we have to exit the pool any time we visually see lightning - or hear, thunder. It also tells us that we need to exit the pool if any of the detectors for lightning that we have give us an alert that there have been lightning strikes within 3-8 miles. When that happens - we have to stay out for 30 minutes. Sometimes, when we have seen multiple alerts or have already...

(Santa Maria, CA) - The SMSC BIG FALL SKILLS TEST DAY is Saturday, August 23! If you are CURRENTLY on the team - there is no need to re-test. But spread the word! SMSC is going big for our 100th Anniversary and you don't want to miss all the big things coming this year! Please spread the word to people not on the team so they can reserve a spot for August 23! Our Fall program is almost always close to capacity following this day!

APPROPRIATE DRESS FOR DRYLAND As part of our mission to develop your kids into healthy, powerful, balanced athletes, our coaching staff puts considerable time into planning our dryland workouts. What is dryland? Dryland is the slang in swimming for 'land workouts before (or after) we do our swimming. Exercises that might be included could be jumping jacks, running, body weight exercises, using some of the equipment we have at our disposal etc. We try pretty hard to plan to the skill level and age of the athlete as much as...

We are back from our holiday schedule! All groups resume their normal schedules the week of January 6, 2025. The Coaching Staff is excited to see everyone this week! We have around 5 weeks to the San Diego Senior Championships; 5 weeks to Age Group Championships (JO's) and 7 weeks to the Spring "B" Championships! There is a championship competition for every swimmer at SMSC! We hope to see you all there.

The City of Santa Maria is closing the locker rooms, effective today through December 13, to do some much needed maintenance. The two family change rooms and the two handicap restrooms will still be open. Please plan accordingly during this time for the lack of indoor showers.

The City of Santa Maria intends to upgrade the pool deck fence line and asked if we would like to submit a few inspirational quotes that could be placed inside the fence windscreen they intend to put up. The Coaching Staff will select the 10 best ones - and then we'll vote for the best 4-5 quotes. We would like SWIMMERS to submit awesome quotes to their group coach between Monday, December 4 and Monday, December 9. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: 1. Pick a quote that might inspire others. Quotes about EXCELLENCE,...

(Santa Maria, CA) - SMSC hosted another USA Swimming Block Party last night! The Block Party program is allowing SMSC to offer more competitive opportunities for our athletes. Last night, athletes were able to compete in the longest freestyle event for thier ability and age. Many did their first 100 Free, 200 Free, 500 Free or 1000 Free! Hats off to Amy Sage for the admin organization, seeding the heats and tabulating results. Many thanks to all of our volunteer timers. Results can be found here at SWIMCLOUD: https://www.swimcloud.com/results/314963/ Swim...

SMSC President's Weekend Schedule: Friday, February 16: normal Friday practice schedule Saturday, February 17: no scheduled practices Sunday, February 18: no scheduled practices Monday, February 19: WHITEFIN GROUPS ONLY (at your regularly schedule time.) No Silver, Gold, PS, SRHP or Masters). Tuesday, Februarty 20: Resume normally scheduled practices. (PS & SRHP are modified - check your schedule)