Gold Group Coach Cathy Cooley will be moving on to bigger things as of Thursday, November 16. Cathy has coached with SMSC for over 15 years - 9 with Coach Mike and 6 at SMSC. In 2000, Cathy took over both the Silver and Gold groups. In only a short time, both groups grew to such large numbers that it wasn't possible to coach both groups at the same time, so she moved to the Gold group. In 6 years, Cathy has produced many great swimmers, including a National Top...

SMSC in the news. Click on the link below to get to the Santa Maria Sun article.   http://www.santamariasun.com/index.php?p=showarticle&id=2062

(Concord, CA) - The final day of competition came to a close today at the Pacific Trials and Finals Invitational which featured competition between some of the best clubs and athletes in Northern California. SMSC put together some great final day swims, with Erica Brannon, Samantha Lougee and Meghan Zimmer all racing to 1:00 - 100 Backstrokes. Rachael Wahl swam to a 2:06 - 200 Fly, good enough to qualify 2nd for the finals, while James Motley represented the boys in the same event, swimming to a 2:04. The team...

(Concord, CA) - The 2nd day of the Pacific Senior Trials and Finals meet drew to a close tonight in Concord. Santa Maria Swim Club opened up the evening's finals with a pair of 200 Medley Relays, the women finishing 4th (S.Lougee, Brannon, Wahl, Zimmer - 1:53.20) and the men finishing 5th (Bateman, Prenot, Motley, Furber - 1:51.29). In the Women's 1650 Freestyle, Lora Lougee came from behind for a 6th place finish (17:44), while Maddie Mastrup swam to an 11th place finish (18:13). Meghan Zimmer swam to 3rd place...

(Concord, CA) - The Santa Maria Swim Club High Performance Group kicked off the first day at the Pacific Trials and Finals Senior Invitational on Friday night at the Concord Community Pool. Competition saw teams from Sacramento, Palo Alto, Terrapins, San Ramon and Pleasanton. On the first night of competition, SMSC scored big in the 1000 Yard Freestyle with Jason Dupere, (7th / 10:00); Jamie Furber (10th / 10:07); Casey Bateman (14th / 10:18) and James Motley (15th / 10:20) all jumping into the top 16. On the women's side,...

Jared Zimmer, SMSC-alum and current Lewis University athlete named Conference "Athlete of the Week" for his efforts against Western Illinois University. Jared, a freshmen, started off the season with wins in the 500 Free (4:51) and 1000 Free (10:01).   Jared and the Flyers head next to the Eastern Washington Invitational on November 3-4, 3006. Way to go Jared! http://lewisflyers.cstv.com/sports/c-swimonly/recaps/102306aaa.html

(Santa Maria) - Antonio McNeil was selected by the Santa MAria SUN as their "Athlete of the Week" for his efforts with the Santa Maria High School Water Polo Team. In the article, Antonio mentions swimming with the club as one of his keys to success in both water polo and swimming. Antonio currently trains in the High Performance Group under Coach Mike. Congrats Antonio!!

(Corvallis, OR) - Dena Lougee, distinguished SMSC-alumi, is 2 months into representing her new team at Oregon State University. On October 6, she assisted the Beavers in their opener, flying down to take on the Stanford Cardinal. Then, on October 13 & 14, she traveled to California once again to help the Beavers take on UCLA and UC-Santa Barbara on the 13th, then followed up on the 14th with a triple meet against Cal-State Northridge (featuring another alumni - Katlin Phillips) and the University of Southern California. Dena is finding...

KCOY did a story on SMSC this past week, interviewing coaches and athletes about the upcoming USA Swimming Master Coach visit and Olympic Development Camp. The link to view this is located below:   http://www.kcoy.com/mediacenter/[email protected]   Check it out! Great job SMSC! Kudos to Jennifer Best for getting their attention.

(Santa Maria) - The 1st Olympic Conference Splash season kicked off with a bang on Friday evening at the Paul Nelson Aquatic Center with over 55 athletes from SMSC participating. The Olympic Conference Splash (OCS) is an attempt to provide more racing in a fun environment for the Novice level at SMSC. Five in-season meets are held with a culminating championship in March. Those athletes participating in 4 out of 5 in-season OCS meets will earn themselves a team trophy at the championship. Many SMSC athletes turned in best times...