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By Jill Castle MS, RD Roll out of bed and eat breakfast? Yeah, right. Many swimmers cringe at the idea of eating breakfast, especially if they’re heading to the pool for an early morning practice or meet. But breakfast is a critical component of the training and competition diet. Why breakfast is important In a typical day, the swimmer eats several times, in intervals of about 3 to 5 hours. Overnight, the interval is longer because sleep cycles tend to be 6 hours or more (hopefully). The result is...
FCST Team Store Online Click the link above, sign in, and view details of FCST merchandise for sale. Newly available items include: FCST Team Travel Polo's, Car Decals, and Baseball Caps
The USA Swimming Safe Sport Program is proud to offer free athlete protection training to the parents of our member athletes. Parents are a critical component to our overall goal to protecting children from sexual abuse. The comprehensive online programming includes information about how offenders operate; how to recognize and respond to boundary violations, myths and facts about child sexual abuse and USA Swimming’s Athlete Protection Policies and Procedures. Use this flyer to promote the FREE training to parents at your club: Parent Training Flyer
With over 250 swimmers, FCST dominated the first ever 3rd Coast Invitational held by Pearland Aquatics. In a prelim-final meet format, FCST swimmers stepped up and had great performances throughout the weekend. Leading the way were Charlie Wort and Connor Myerson who both were first time qualifiers for the NCSA Junior National Meet. Final Team Scores: 1. First Colony Swim Team 6308.5 2. Pearland Aquatics 3230.5 3. Dads Club Swim Team 1479.5 4. Rice Aquatics 1360.5 5. Katy Aquatics 1290 6. South Shore Sails 767.5 7. Spartan Swimming 711...
Senior Elite group swimmers spent time talking to their younger counterparts at a special MLK day practice. They shared their experiences training at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs this past winter break in addition to providing a bit of their swimming history to White, Red, Blue and Age Group 1 groups. FCST thanks Connor, Ashley, Brett and Simone for taking the time to share with their excited young team-mates!
There is a ton of fast swimming taking place in Pearland and Austin! We have three athletes that made very special first time qualifying times. Congratulations to Connor Myerson and Charlie Wort for making your first NCSA Junior National cuts. Connor qualified in the 100 and 200 breast, and Charlie qualified in the 100 back. Congratulations to Brett Pinfold for making your first World Championship Trials cut. Brett qualified in the 200 free. Let's keep the fast swimming going!
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – USA Swimming, in collaboration with the United States Olympic Committee, today announced the cities that have submitted official bids to host the 2016 Olympic Team Trials – Swimming. A total of six cities will be reviewed as the potential site for the biggest swimming event in the country that will select the 2016 U.S. Olympic Swim Team. The cities in contention are: • Greensboro, N.C. • Indianapolis, Ind. • Jacksonville, Fla. • Omaha, Neb. • St. Louis, Mo. • San Antonio, Texas USA Swimming...
