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

USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus delivered the annual State of the Sport address at the 2013 US Aquatics Sports Convention in Garden Grove, CA this weekend. To read his speech, click here.

  FCST is proud to announce we will have another large group who will be recognized at this year's Gulf Awards Banquet.  Congratulations to the following swimmers:   Darrin Asphall                    Brittayn Bui                           Jordan Dorado                  Ashley Harmon   Norah Hay                           Jacey Hinton            ...

  Congratulations to Simone Manuel on being named to USA Swimming's 2013-2014 National Team. The top six athletes in each Olympic event are selected for the National Team. Simone made the team in the 50 free (1st) and 100 free (3rd). Congratulations Simone! To see all members selected to the National Team, please click on the link below: http://usaswimming.org/_Rainbow/Documents/4d292776-b1d1-4807-bc4f-ad38913f3109/2013-14%20National%20Team%20FINAL.pdf  

FCST is excited to welcome Coach Beau Caldwell to the FCST family!  Coach Beau will be the lead coach for PreSenior 1 and Age Group 2.  He brings with him experience in coaching the developmental, age-group, senior, and collegiate athlete. Beau joins us after spending 1 year with a local Gulf team, and 5 years with the Dynamo Swim Club in Atlanta, GA. At Dynamo, Beau led or assisted with each training group within the Dynamo team structure, having coached 8 swimmers to team records and 1 USA-S top ten...

The USA Swimming Athlete Executive Committee just published their 3rd newsletter. You can read the newsletter here. The newsletter discusses the USA Swimming Convention, which will be held in California September 10-15th. FCST has three athlete representatives attending: Sean Dormiani- Gulf Swimming Jr Athlete Rep Simone Manuel- National At Large Delegate; National Diversity and Inclusion Committee Member Kaitlyn Swinney- National At Large Delegate; National Senior Committee Member