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  Here are the current scores for the IMX & IMR through USA Swimming.  If there is not a score, it will show what events are currently missing. IMX Report IMR Report

Results to Friday Night at the Races have been posted on the MEETS page of the website. Thank you to all of our volunteers for providing this opportunity for our swimmers, and congratulations to all swimmers for a great performance!

Top times from this fall's RWB Challenge and October Open meets are posted under the top times section, or by clicking this link.    As we get further into the season and more events are swum, athletes will have a chance to swim additional events, and improve their times in events they have already swum.    Way to go FCST!!!

FCST Hosts October Open Meet! The First Colony Swim team hosted a Gulf Swimming sponsored Open Meet on October 12-13 at the Lamar ISD natatorium in Rosenberg, TX, with 326 athletes from FCST participating. For many swimmers, this meet serves as the first opportunity for swimmers to race distance freestyle, longer IM’s, and the longer distance of non-freestyle strokes since the short course season ended last spring. It’s usually an exciting time of the season to see growth and progress made over the long course season. Special thanks to all...

Over 50 FCST swimmers competed in the Gulf Open Water Championships at Twin Lakes in early October. Three races were offered- the 800m, one mile, and two mile. This meet served as the Open Water All Star Team qualifying meet, and FCST had eight swimmers qualify for the team! Congratulations to Schuyler Mathews, Jacey Hinton, Peyton Quattlebaum, Ashley Harmon, Claire Donovan, Joshua Fruge, Will Schuler, and Christopher Yeager for qualifying for the All Star Team! More information about event results will be published as soon as we receive official results!

  This fall, USA Swimming will issue a membership packet to all athlete members.  This packet will include a personalized plastic membership card, sticker and poster.  The hopes of this new card is to give each athlete member a physical membership card as well as promote the creation of a new digital membership card (available via the Deck Pass app), and connect members to USA Swimming’s partners. Packets will start being mailed in late October. All members should make sure to take advantage of the updated Deck Pass app (currently...

We are proud to announce the teams for the FCST Red, White, and Blue Challenge Swimmers can find their team and teammates by clicking HERE. This year two of the team's most popular events, the intrasquad Red, White and Blue meet and Swim-A-Thon are combined.  The weekend will be a great opportunity for team building, fundraising and fun! At the Red, White and Blue Challenge, your swimmer's team gets to compete in the pool against their friends, but they will also get to compete to raise much needed funds for...

  White Team is in the lead!  Click HERE for a chart to see how your team is doing.

Congratulations to Alicia Finnigan and Simone Manuel for being named to USA Swimming's Scholastic All American list! This is one of the highest honors a high school swimmer can receive, as it requires fast swimming AND top notch grades! Congratulations! For more information, click here:  http://www.usaswimming.org/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?TabId=0&itemid=5546&mid=8712

The USA Swimming House of Delegates met at the annual USA Swimming Convention in Garden Grove, California on September 13-14. To learn about the new legislation, visit the USA Swimming website at the following link: http://www.usaswimming.org/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?TabId=0&itemid=5542&mid=8712