(Santa Maria, CA) - The Santa Maria Swim Club has been recognized for the third year in a row as one of USA Swimming's Bronze Medal teams. The award distinguishes the Santa Maria Swim CLub as one of the top 200 swimming programs in the country.  The top 16 teams are awarded Gold medal status and often have Olympians in their stables. Silver medal status goes to rankings 17 through 100, followed by Bronze medal teams up to 200. SMSC was ranked 178th. "The USA Swimming Club Excellence program...

   (Orlando, FL) - SMSC continued with some more good swims in the past 48 hours. Rebekah Corbin equaled her best in the 200 Fly. Josh Prenot dropped 4 seconds off his 400 IM, narrowly missing our team record with a 4:02. In this mornings excitement, Rebekah Corbin won her heat while lowering her lifetime best in the 100 Butterfly to 58.50. The Girl's 200 Free Relay narrowly missed breaking the team record in that event. Josh Prenot lowered the SMSC team record in the 200 Breaststroke to 2:07, finishing...

  (Orlando, FL) - SMSC had a great first day at the 2009 NCSA Junior National Championships with huge move-ups and two team records falling. Josh Prenot finished 27th IN THE COUNTRY in the Men's 1000 Freestyle, dropping from 9:31 to 9:23, breaking the old team record by 5 seconds. Maddie Mastrup moved from 48th to 23rd IN THE COUNTRY in the Women's 1650 Freestyle, dropping from 17:11 to 16:54 and breaking the old team record by 9 seconds. Lora Lougee also moved up to 73rd, finishing with a 17:23....

  (Bakersfield, CA) - SMSC concluded the best Junior Olympic meet in its history Sunday, finishing in 3rd place, just 375 points behind Clovis and 500 points behind Canyons. The team has never finished higher than 4th and never been this close to the much larger teams. Huge performances were turned in by the entire team. Individual standouts included Rebekah Corbin who qualified for Junior Nationals in 5 events and Josh Prenot who won the individual high point award while winning 7 individual events. The coaching staff could not be...

  (Bakersfield, CA) - The Santa Maria Swim Club strolled into the CSUB Aquatic Complex with the largest Junior Olympic team in its 83 year history on Thursday afternoon. While final results for the meets first of 4 sessions were not available Thursday night, it appeared that SMSC might be challenging for the lead. Nearly 100% best times highlighted the evening. Josh Prenot won the 15-18 1000 y Freestyle in a new Junior National qualifying time of 9:31. Casey Bateman finished second. In the girl's 15-18 division, Maddie Mastrup took...

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  (Berkeley, CA) - The SMSC Senior Team will head to U.C. Berkeley this coming weekend to compete in the CAL Invitational. The meet is a college format, Trials and Finals meet, bringing together the best athletes in Northern California. The meet also gives the athletes a chance to see the UC Berkeley campus.

  (Santa Maria, CA) - The 2008 Duel in the Pool between Santa Maria, Bakersfield and Team Santa Monica came to a close Saturday evening with split results between all the participating teams.  Combined Scoring Division: Santa Maria Swim Club (322) d. Bakersfield Swim Club (290) Team Santa Monica (343.5) d. Bakersfield Swim Club (264.50) Team Santa Monica (382) d. Santa Maria Swim Club (230) Men's Division: Bakersfield Swim Club (186) d. Santa Maria Swim Club (119) Bakersfield Swim Club (179.50) d. Team Santa Monica (121.50) Team Santa Monica (183)...

  (Santa Maria, CA) - The Duel in the Pool, featuring competition between Team Santa Monica, Bakersfield and Santa Maria happens Saturday at the Paul Nelson Aquatic Center. The meet will occur in 2 sessions, with session I begininning competition at 10AM and session II beginning at approximately 2:00PM. The meet features head to head racing between the three teams who all enjoy similar rankings in USA Swimming.

  SMSC did an outstanding job at the PUMA ABC Meet! SMSC athletes were excellent and dominating the back half of races. Great job to all who attended! High Performance Swimmer of the Meet kudos extended to Josh Prenot and Casey Bateman for getting the "hidden training" done consistently and racing well. Kudos also extended to Jordan Devine for a divine 50 and 100 Free performance. Age Group Elite Swimmer of the Meet kudos given to Jeremy Grden for a stellar 200 Backstroke and Tori Dailey for a stupendours 100...