Congratulations to Simone Manuel, Brett Pinfold, and Kaitlyn Swinney for an outstanding performance at the 2012 USA Swimming Winter National Championships.  The group came away with numerous best times, Texas and Gulf records, and a great deal of experience competing at the national level. Thanks to Simone and Kaitlyn’s efforts, the women finished 11th in the club team scoring. Simone set new Gulf and Texas records in the 100 free and 200 free, and she set a Gulf record in the 200 IM. Simone’s time of 47.97 was fast enough...

Although the temperatures may have been a little chilly at the November Open Meet, the FCST swimmers were hot with numerous great swims.  Throughout the weekend, we had swimmers making new TAGS, Gulf Times, Motivational Times and Best Times. New TAGS Times:  Jeff Kue, 100 Back & Charles Yuen, 100 Free New Gulf Times:  Ryan Aaron, 100 Breast; Ava Breeze, 100 Fly; Nicholas Choo, 200 IM; Tim Cummins, 200 IM; Claire Donavan, 100 Breast & 100 Fly; Tiffany Dormiani, 200 Breast;  Ben Greene, 200 Free; Eli Greene, 100 Fly; Richelle...

2012 Olympic Team- How did the get here? Read a quick article from USA Swimming on this.  http://www.usaswimming.org/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?TabId=0&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en&ItemId=4860&mid=11997

Congratulations to Brett Pinfold, a senior at Austin High School, who has signed a letter of intent to swim at the University of Wisconsin in the fall. Brett is a 2012 Olympic Trials participant and Jr National finalist. Wisconsin is a top 25 school, and Brett looks to make an immediate contribution to the middle distance program. Brett has been a member of FCST for nearly 10 years, and we congratulate Brett on continuing his swimming career in college!

FCST had 30 seniors compete in the November Senior Meet in Pearland. This was a fantastic mid-season meet for the senior swimmers, highlighted by Ashley Mercadel and Darrin Asphall. Congratulations to Ashley for making her first Sectional cut (1650 free) and to Darrin for breaking the 13-14 boys 1650 FCST team record!  Swimmers making new time standards are the following: Winter Nationals- Simone Manuel (200 IM) Sectionals- Darrin Asphall (1650 free), Simone Manuel (100 breast), Ashley Mercadel (1650 free), Asia Quentin (200 IM), and Kaitlyn Swinney (1650 free). In addition,...

FCST had nearly 300 athletes compete in the November Friday Night at the Races!  The November series offered the 50 back, 50 fly, and 1000 freestyle. Thank you to all parent volunteers who helped provide this opportunity for our swimmers to compete! A special note of congratulations go to Christopher Yeager and Brett Pinfold for setting new FCST team records at this meet! Christopher's time of 9:45.30 is a new 13-14 boys' 1000 freestyle record, while Brett's time of 23.60 is a new 15-18 boys' 50 fly team record. Congratulations...

Congratulations to Coach Dana and her family on the birth of their newest family member, Callie Mayson Skelton. Callie was born on November 14, 2012 at 8:03 PM. We are so happy for the Skelton family!

Congratulations to all the swimmers that competed in the Swim-A-Thon and helped raise money for the team.  FCST was able to reach their goal of $30,000. Top Fundraising Group: Age Group 1 Top Individual Fundraisers: 1st Place- Jordan Dorado 2nd Place- Connor O'Driscoll 3rd Place- Arina Connell  

  First Colony Swim Team is happy to announce our new IMR and IMX Program.  The goal is to have well-rounded athletes who are capable of developing all strokes and the individual medley.   Athletes will be awarded for many levels.   Please click here to read more about the program. ~~ FCST Coaching Staff

  Over thirty FCST seniors competed in the 2012 UH Senior Gulf meet this past weekend. FCST seniors accounted for a large number of best times, with special mention of Chandler LeMaire, Keegan Pho, and Meghan Pinfold for swimming 100% best times! Additionally, congratulations to the following swimmers for winning their respective events: Corey Duke- 200 free Colin Hwang- 100 free April Kwan- 100 breast Simone Manuel- 50 free, 100 free, 200 free, 500 free, 1000 free, 200 IM, 400 IM Connor Myerson- 100 breast Kaitlyn Swinney- 100 fly, 200...