by Coach Steve Hyde SOBA was well represented by a small but enthusiastic and skilled bunch of athletes at the Mission Viejo Long Course Summer National Championships. Day 1 Success for the eight member squad started on the very first day which was devoted just to the 1500. Lori Kelly Placed eighth 35.51, Dave Sundius placed 7th 21.58, and Bob Eberwine earned 10th 20.11. It a measure of the competitiveness of this meet that these times were the 17th, 21st, and 13th, fastest age group times in the nation! Day...

Congratulations to all "Dwight Crum 2-mile Pier to Pier" swimmers for an amazing feat in the 2013 race! This swim is one of the largest races around – 1089 finishers this year (783 in the swimsuit division, and 306 wetsuit division swimmers). This is our biggest team wide event of the year, and it looks like about 35+ South Bay Swim Team Masters swimmers participated this year – WOW! Race results are online – check them out. You can search by name, gender, age group etc. Enjoy reviewing the results....

July 19/20 Sanctioned meet results: Congratulations to our Junior Olympic qualifiers: Gavin Pierce 50 Free and Fly, Jasmine Wu 50 Back and Free, Kevin Zeballos 50 Free, 100 and 200 back! Still waiting to see about 9-10 boys 200 Free relay: Gavin and Riley Pierce, Ryan Fuqua and Collin Gray Broken team records: Forrest Wu 100 Breaststroke (sorry to Austin M.!) Kevin Zeballos 200 Free (just missed the 50 Free record by 0.01 sec!!). Jude Robinson and Riley Pierce lowered their own records in 50 Fly and 50 Free resp....

2013 Los Angeles Marathon By Cristina Gee Running and preparing for the LA Marathon has been the hardest thing I have done in my life. I was inspired to run the marathon last summer when friend of mine told me he had ran it twice before. I asked how he did it, and he told me "you have to want it". And I did want it. I wanted to run the marathon more than anything. The goal was never just to win the medal, or win bragging rights, but to...

By Steve Hyde We had a small but ferocious group at the Pentathalon this weekend I believe that this may be the most competitive meet of the season and it keeps getting bigger. 255 sprint specialists showed up for meet that offers 50 yard races in each stroke plus a 100 IM. Below you'll see time achieved by Dave Sundius, Dave Brookwell, Dave Neilan, and Kevin Nemeth. It can be seen that our swimmers achieve some impressive times. Dave Brookwell swimming his first meet in recent history earned second place...

CONGRATULATIONS on a fantastic Winter Championship Meet! SOBA earned the most points at Saturday’s Winter Championship Meet, coming in first in our division and winning the entire meet. We were so thrilled to share that big trophy with everyone at our awards celebration Monday. This year we had some solid competition from ZAP. They were within 400 points of beating us. Each and every swimmer who participated Saturday scored points for the team – this was truly a TEAM EFFORT! That means everyone earned at least one medal, and some...

Recap from SOBA Nutrition Talk with Coach Dede (January 7, 2013) Nutrition for Young Swimmers Meets and preparing prior to meets is largely experimental at this point and we learn if the child is the nervous eater or the running around forgetting to eat or the nervously throws up anything or the so nervous they have a dry mouth, etc. Safest choices are whatever the child is willing to eat frequently in small amounts (will they stop playing with friends/videos to eat something or will you have to monitor and...

By Steve Hyde I want to share a truly athletic accomplishment that has been a while in the making. Last year Kat Ahlers and her mom Joanna Choy decided that they wanted to take on an iron man distance triathlon. Many of these events sell out within minutes of going online. Being aware of this they volunteered at last year's Arizona Ironman knowing that doing so assured them priority registration. This was a huge leap of faith since neither of them had ever done even a half Iron man. Kat...

CONGRATULATIONS on a fantastic SCAA Summer Championship Meet on August 11, 2012 at Mira Costa High School Pool! SOBA earned the most points at Saturday’s Summer Championship Meet, coming in first in our division and winning the entire meet. We were so thrilled to share that big trophy with everyone at our awards celebration Monday. Each and every swimmer who participated Saturday scored points for the team – this was truly a TEAM EFFORT! That means everyone earned at least one medal, and some of you even more. 88% of...

2012 Seal Beach Rough Water Swim Results, Provided by Coach Steve Hyde The Seal Beach Rough Water Swim was one of our best attended events to date! It is the first of the swims in the SPMS’s Open water series. The eligible events are listed on the SPMS website The rules for the series are also posted on the SPMS website but are summarized here. A swimmer must swim in at least three sanctioned races. Points are awarded to the top ten finishes in each age group only to SPMS...