CAST News for 9-19-23 The Freestyle Festival is this Sunday. If you had signed up by the deadline (9-12), you were entered. This is the first meet of the season and, for some swimmers, their first USA swimming meet. There are two sessions in this meet: the morning session is for 12&U's and the Afternoon session is for 13&O's. The meet is at the Poway community center. Please plan on parking taking a little time as you may have to park 1/4 to 1/2 mile from the facility. I would...

CAST Notes: This Saturday AM. was originally posted on our online schedule as TBA, then on Tuesday morning I posted a schedule update. If you noticed that one - just letting you know there was a further update. So here it is: AG: 7:45 - 9:00 AM Helix SD and SR 7:15 - 9:00 AM Helix As for last Saturday, those of you who showed up and couldn't swim. My sincere apologies. I was prepping for a medical procedure later that morning and had hired a lifeguard to open the...

Freestyle Festival Entries are due by midnight tonight. This meet is the first meet of the season. It is only freestyle events. All CAST swimmers should enter, but you must log in to the CASTSWIM.COM website and commit by midnight in order to be entered. Please email me if you have any issues with commiting to the meet. castcoachdave@gmail.com More notes and news coming tomorrow.. Coach Dave

Update from yesterday's email - the old links were changed by USA swimming....please use the "CAST specific" links from this email as the ones I sent yesterday no longer function. USA swimming registration: Here is a list of currently registered CAST athletes for your reference (as of 9-7-23). Click Here This message is for families / athletes that either had seasonal registrations (summer only) or are just joining for the first time. Athletes who already have USA swimming registrations can renew their registrations with a 2024 membership after 9-15-23. If...

Information and notes for September: Here is a September practice Calendar. There are a couple of things to immediately take note of: 1) There will be no practices this coming Monday and Tuesday. The Kroc center is closed on Monday (labor day), and will be closed at 4:30 on Tuesday for a Kroc staff event. 2) Due to the fact that there are no pracices on Monday and Tuesday, All groups will be swimming on Wed- Thur-Fri and AG,SDand SR will have Saturday morning practices at Helix HS. 3) Our...

CAST meet this weekend The final meet of the summer is upon us. The meet is Sunday at GHHS. It is a decent sized meet with 370+ swimmers. CAST has 58 swimmers in the meet. Because of the overall number of swimmers and the size of our group, and being meet hosts, we are warming up prior to the other teams. Swimmers in the meet should arrive at 6:50 am for check in and warmup. Since we are the hosts, there's a lot of work to be done. Please check...

Summer wrap -up meet The final summer meet is on Aug 13th - hosted by CAST at Granite Hills HS. This is a meet without time standards, which means any swimmer at any level can compete. We would like everyone on the team to attend. Please sign up by midnight tonight. Two week break We are taking a full team two week break beginning on August 14th. Normal practices will resume on the 28th. Some families have asked if there will be any kids moving to other groups in the...

Age Group Champs Max meet (JO MAX) this weekend Location: Mater Dei High School. Please read the meet notes below....the very first note is Absolutely No Pets allowed on campus. It also has rules for where to set up, check-in parking etc. Swimmers in the distance events at the end of Saturday will need their own timer and counter. Estimated Timeline Psyche Sheets Meet Notes Practice notes for Fri - Sat: AG practice this Friday (and the next two Fridays) will be 6-7pm - Kroc SR-SD practice this Saturday is...

Long Course Age Group Championships notes from Coach Dave First of all a huge shout out to Coach DawnElla who has spent the last 27 months taking on a group of youngers to develop them into a small but mighty force to be reckoned with. Her swimmers accounted for about 80% of our points. . . And to Coach Ben who had 6 10&U’s who competed. CAST finished 6th out of 22 teams attending the 2023 Summer Championship Meet. We had 26 swimmers compete in individual and relay events scoring...

Some have been asking questions about the novice meet and this weekends meet. There are a few questions I need answered before I can send out some of the news. I hope to have those questions answered by tonight, so check keep an eye out for some more news in the next 24 hours. Here's a few quick notes prior to that.... Yes there is another Summer fun meet tomorrow. There is no Novice practice tomorrow - we would like all novice swimmers to attend the Summer Fun meet. As...