This is a great year for swimming! Every 4 years, our sport gets put in the spotlight. The USA Olympic Swim Team has never lost a swim meet. Our sport will be on television more than at any other time. Our club has a strong history of high school aged men and women competing at the USA Olympic Team Trials over the past 40 years. Its a history we should celebrate more because when kids see someone near them accomplish something big, it makes it feel a little more possible...

(Santa Maria, CA) - Current Junior Olympic INDIVIDUAL qualifers as of December 21, 2023 include the following: Kobe Wallace Cameron Betancourt Camden Broggie Jakob Holt-Rhodes Hurlee Jones Vincent Velazquez Stuart Wineman Peter Klosterman Sebastian McLaughlin Roen Lopez Victoria Arehart Molly Doyal Charlotte Keeley Hope Perez SMSC has two more opportunities to qualify athletes: January 13/14 SMSC TripleSlam! February 2-3-4 AGAC Last CHance Meet.

(Las Vegas, NV) - The SMSC travel squad took 9th place with a young team this past week at the Las Vegas Superfinals. The meet brings together teams from around the region, including Nevada, California, Arizona and Utah. SMSC's small squad of 20 athletes found positions in many finals and managed to score 9th in the team competition with one of the smaller teams in the meet. Zelli Coats, Marlene Diaz, Kat Holt-Rhodes, Hope Perez, Aylin Piasai and Charlotte Keeley all scored in finals for the women. Men's finalists included...

The darker, colder days of winter are now upon us. Some suggestions for maximizing your child's swimming experience can be found below! Some of them are obvious, but we see a lot of kids walking on-deck that are not dressed appropriately for the sport or for the practice. 1. Athletes should try to come to practice in warmer clothing. We want warm muscles for dryland - which should include SHOES and warm, dryland appropriate clothing. Perhaps joggers and a hoodie. If you athlete reports being cold - shorts, no socks...

Good afternoon! The coaching staff really appreciates when our athletes attend swim meets! This is where the biggest lessons are learned. What lessons? I am glad you asked: 1. Failure! Whether they got DQ'd, missed a time standard or just lost the race - our constant coaching message is, "It doesn't matter EXCEPT for how you respond to this." Missed a time standard? How will you work at practice moving forward to make sure you get it next time? Got DQ'd? It's EXTREMELY likely that your coach has told you...

(St. George, Utah) - The Santa Maria Swim Club put on an epic performance at the Utah Superfinals, December 8-9-10-11. SMSC traveled with 31 athletes to the annual event to compete against teams from Nevada, Utah, California, Wyoming and Arizona. The Women's team took home the team championship with Noemi Bravo-Guzman winning the high point total for 15-18 girls. The Men's team finished 3rd. For the combined title, SMSC finished 2nd. The Women's relay team of Bravo-Guzman, Pearigen, Piasai and Herrmann broke the SMSC team record in the 15-18 and...

SMSC's Western Zone Team will compete against some of the best athletes "West of the Rockies." The meet features some of the best high school age athletes from Hawaii, California, Nevada, Colorado and more! The event is hosted in Clovis, CA from July 26-30, 2022. SMSC's Western Zone Team: Cole Aguirre Katie Arreguin Noemi Bravo-Guzman Allie Cabiles Kristian Chen Natas Coats Mason Enthoven Ian Friedrich Kirsten Herrmann Jamie Lomibao Emma Marsalek Nico Naumescu Madison Piasai Antonio Santos Congratulations on your hard work and good luck!

SMSC offers congratulations to our Summer 2022 Junior Olympic Team. The following athletes will represent us in Clovis, CA from July 21-24, 2022: Mason Puente - Silver Group Kristie Chen - Presenior Zelli Coats - Presenior Ella Edds - Presenior Brody Elkins - Presenior Gavin Flick - Presenior Kat Holt-Rhodes - Presenior Peter Klosterman - Presenior Aylin Piasai - Presenior Edward Wallace - Presenior Jada Brown - Senior Lizzie Hernandez - Senior Ryan Steed - Senior Torin Reynolds - Gold (14 athletes!) Good Luck!

(Santa Maria) - After securing Bronze medal status from USA Swimming for the past 20 years, SMSC achieved its first Silver medal status ever! The program recognizes achievement of USA Swimming member clubs, regardless of team size. A majority of teams on this list have well over 200 and even 500 members! For a small team like SMSC to be on the list continually and finally achieve a Silver medal status speaks to the fine coaches and athletes that Santa Maria has developed over the past 20 years. SMSC finished...

(Santa Maria, CA) – Haley Calderon, long-time Santa Maria Swim Club athlete and distinguished alumni is up to big things this summer! Haley is currently a student at the University of California at Berkeley. She swam in the SMSC Senior group during her high school years. Haley was offered a summer research position in Physics this summer. So what’s the big deal? Her hard work has led to her being offered a position to work on Project Alpha at CERN – the large hadron collider in Switzerland. Haley says, “I’ll...