SMSC swims "rain or shine." Remember, the athletes are wet either way. The only time we cancel practice is if there is lightning - which is obviously out of our control. The City also has a "lightning detector" which alerts us if lightning is within 3-8 miles of the facility. Some helpful hints for rainy days: Pack a large garbage bag in your child's swim bag - they can put it around their swim bag and stuff to keep it dry. Dress warmly Have fun - a lot of us...

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 a tumultous 2 years, SMSC is ready to re-establish our Junior Olympic Team. The following individuals qualified over this past few months, culminating in the Last Chance Meet in San Luis Obispo this past weekend. Coach Matt is still working on relays - but here are the individual qualifiers: Short Course JO Qualifiers – Feb 18-21 in Clovis Molly Doyal – 100 Free Mason Puente – 50 Back Kobe Wallace – 50 Back Aylin Piasai – 100 Back, 50 Fly, 200 Free, 50 Back, 50 Free,...

It's been nearly two years of "war footing" for SMSC as a result of the pandemic and some continued issues with our pool time. I am happy to announce that we signed a 3-year contract this morning that gives us a much needed ability to plan more than a month in advance and get nearly half of our programs off of the early mornings we have done since May 2020. Item #1: As a coaching staff, we are pretty fired up about all of the new kids that joined SMSC...

Practice Schedule for Senior / PS / BLUE Week of December 27: Monday, December 27: OFF Tuesday, December 28: 6:00-8:00AM BLUE [Blue done at 7:30AM] - PS - SRHP at PNAC 4:30-6:20PM BLUE - PS - SRHP at PNAC Wednesday, December 29 6:00-8:00AM BLUE [Blue done at 7:30AM] - PS - SRHP at PNAC 2:00-5:00PM SRHP at AHC (Last hour is DRYLAND/LIFT) Thursday, December 30 6:00-8:00AM BLUE [Blue done at 7:30AM] - PS - SRHP at PNAC 4:30-6:20PM BLUE - PS - SRHP at PNAC Friday, December 31 6:00-8:00AM SRHP...

(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...

(Arroyo Grande, CA) - Both local high school league meets took place at Arroyo Grande High School this week. SMSC had swimmers competing in both the Mountain and Ocean League Championships for their respective high schools. Not to be left out, several more SMSC athletes represented at the Channel League Championships also. To say that SMSC athletes dominated the results at these meets is an understatement. Your children have taken an unfortunate situation and rose to the occassion anyways. There are literally too many SMSC athletes for me to detail...

SMSC had meets in Clovis and Mission Viejo this past weekend. For many this represented the first real racing opportuntities in over a year. At the Mission Viejo TYR Pro, SMSC was represented by Claire Tuggle and Parker Reynolds. Considering they were some of the few high school aged athletes competing at this meet - often against professionals and college athletes, the meet went fairly well. These two athletes competed more long course mileage on the weekend than they have been able to swim in training for the past 14...