143 Swimmers, 7 out of 10 High Point Champions, and 8,325 ½ team points WOW! The team won its second Nevada State Championship title in seven years. The Sandpipers have won state titles before but that was in the early 80’s and late 70’s. Having the team return to the top of the State Championships is an awesome achievement by the Coaching Staff, Swimmers, Parent Board, and Membership. Even though it looked like an easy win over our rival by almost 2300 points. It took 6 years of continuing to...

Last year we were the first to ever place someone on the National Youth Team for Team USA. Now we are the first to have Two! From USA Swimmming to Cody Miller and Olivia Barker! Congratulations on your accomplishments this past summer. We are pleased to announce you have been selected for the 2010-2011 National Youth Team (roster attached). These are exciting times for USA Swimming and our National Teams. We trust this National Youth Team will be a stepping stone for your future. Many of our NationalTeam members started...

Outside the Pool with Olympian Chloe Sutton Chloe Sutton is transforming from the open water back to the pool. She made the 2008 Olympic team in Open Water and is setting goals to make the 2012 team in both disciplines. Click on this Link : http://fanzone.att.net/play/teamusa/show/swimming-outside-the-pool/p/video/fz2___090210_swimming_otp_sutton_WORLD__NFZ_700K

The 2012 Olympic Trials time standards have been released. Please note: Qualifying period is from October 1, 2009 (effective date of new suit rule) to entry deadline. Men Women LCM Event LCM 23.49 50 Fr 26.39 51.49 100 Fr 57.19 1:52.89 200 Fr 2:03.19 3:59.99 400 Fr 4:19.39 800 Fr 8:50.49 15:53.59 1500 Fr 57.59 100 Bk 1:03.99 2:04.99 200 Bk 2:17.99 1:04.69 100 Br 1:12.19 2:20.79 200 Br 2:35.99 55.29 100 Fl 1:01.99 2:03.99 200 Fl 2:16.49 2:06.59 200 IM 2:19.49 4:30.49 400 IM 4:55.89 Qualifying Period Oct 1,...

Barker, Miller, Gravley, and Daigler set new team records at USA Nationals and Junior Nationals Olivia Barker lead the team with 6 new team records and two 4th place finishes in the 100 & 200 Butterfly. New team record in the 15-16 & Open girls 100 Back 1:07.43 old record 1:07.71 New Team record in the 15-16 & Open girls 100 Butterfly 1:01.19 old record 1:02.14 New Team record in the 15-16 & Open girls 200 Butterfly 2:12.99 old record 2:15.58 Cody Miller set five team records and placed 3rd...

The Sandpipers 2010 long course JO meet in Mission Viejo, CA was an enormous success. As a team we place 5th overall and were well represented in finals each night. We had several new Sectional qualifiers including: Nick Tucker, Adam Henley, Ivan Sergeyevsky, Alexa Aguilera, Erin Emery, Jasmine Perez, and Logan Houck. There were 13 team records broken at this meet. Seven of those records were individual: 11-12 Girls Old record Helen Yee 200 free: 2:14.11 New record Erin Emery 200 free: 2:11.27 Erin’s swim was the 6th fastest time...

Multiple Team Records Broken at Summer Sectionals Amanda Guerrero breaks four records in four different events! Amanda Guerrero breaks four team records with a record time for 17-18 girls 100 backstroke with a new time of 1:10.13 breaking her old record of 1:11.21. She also broke the 200 backstroke record with a new time of 2:30.72 the old record was held by Jodi Hashagen in 2:31.50 in 1998. Amanda better her team record in the 17-18 girls 200 IM to 2:27.77 her old record was 2:30.50 and she lowered her...

Jasmine Perez, Riley Molina, Amanda Guerrero, and Sam Weiser were selected for the North American Cup Challenge swim meet August 4 to the 7th in Santa Clara California. Stay posted upto date with them meet at www.socalswim.org

Boland, Englestead, Miller, Daigler, Gravley, & Deem make Junior National Team July 25th, the final count of new Junior National members was 6 making it the largest Sandpiper group of Junior National members in team history. Friday night Catie Miller rallied the team with a huge leap to the Junior National level being 13 years old swimming a 5:01.47. Hannon Daigler bettered his prelim time from the morning to a 400 IM and finished 5th in finals with new time of 4:35.91 just 2 seconds off Nationals. Friday night Hannon...

July 23rd Boland makes Nationals in the 200 Breaststroke Meghan Boland finished 4th in 200 Breaststroke finals at Sectionals with a new National Qualifying time of 2:36.46. Lindsey Englestead makes Junior Nationals with a new time of 2:38.41. This morning Hannon Daigler qualified for Junior Nationals in the 400 IM and seed 5th for tonight with a time of 4:37.37 add to the Junior National team list of Cody Miller, Billy Gravley, Olivia Barker, Meghan Boland, and Lindsey Englestead. Catie Miller is seeded 9th tonight in the 400 IM with...