GCST Masters swimmer Travis Davis competed in the St. Pete Masters Long COurse Meet.  Travis swam a 2:55.43 to win his age group in the 200 Back, and finish 4th overall.  He also competed in the 200 Free and finished 2nd in age group and 7th overall with a 2:24.92, and won the 100 Free in the age group with a 1:08.47.    

GCST Masters swimmer Ginger Tompkins competed in the US Masters Nationals at Omaha, NE.  The event was held at the Century Link Center in the same pool that hosted the 2012 US Olympic Team Trials.  Ginger finished 2nd in the 1500 Meter Free, and 3rd in the  200 Backstroke in her age group.  Both swims were personal best times. Event Page

The 2012 Swim-A-Thon is now closed.  Finals rankings are listed below.  Our goal was $15,000 and we surpassed that and went over $17.000, and the best SAT in GCST history.  Funds can still be rasied for 2012 and count towards swimmer's fundraising commitment.  OUTSTANDING JOB GCST!!!! Ranking Amount Participant 1 $1,500.00 Courtney DeVeny 2 $1,390.00 Savannah Bowser 3 $1,260.00 Mikayla Puckett 4 $1,010.00 McKenna Fiore 5 $1,000.00 Michael Pineda 6 $560.00 Madeline McAdams 7 $525.00 Ryan Sorensen 8 $500.00 Natalie Ippolito 9 $365.00 Hannah VanDress 10 $350.00 Antonio Medina 11...

GCST swimmers turned in some very good swims at the Saturday Morning Races Meet at FGCU on Saturday July 7, 2012. New Cuts: Nick Deguzman, Mikayla Puckett, Joshua Benzon, Haley Tompkins, Jordan McCollum, and Jakub Burian. Event Results and Files

As many of you know, we lost a long-time member and dear friend of our GCST family who fought a very tough fight with breast cancer.  Donna Jamieson's funeral will be on Saturday July 7th at 4 PM at the Christ Community Church at 4050 Colonial Blvd. in Fort Myers.  There will be a reception after to remember Donna for our GCST family and friends.  In lieu of flowers, donations will be accepted to help the Jamieson family with the expenses incurred during this very difficult time for them.  Donations...

GCST Hits Swim-A-Thon Goal of $15,000!!!!  GREAT job GCST!!!! SAT ends on Friday July 6th.  Please turn in all funds and packets.  The contest for the prizes will be closed Friday night.  You may still collect and do fundraising but the official SAT contest will end and final standings posted.  Congratulations to everyone that worked so hard on our only fundraisier for the year. 

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27 GCST swimmers competed in the 2012 Shark Open at Sarasota on June 29-July 1. GCST won the 3rd place visiting team trophy. Shelby Jacobson made her first FLAGS cuts as she qualified in the 11-12 Girls 50 and 100 Backstroke events. Event winners: Mikailey Hauser,  Kaitlyn Hauser, Savannah Bowser,  Courtney DeVeny, and Zach Brewer. 13 New cuts made: FLAGS - Nicholas Deguzman, Kaitlyn Hauser, Makailey Hauser, Shelby Jacobson, Jordan McCollum, Hannah VanDress, Madison VanDress, and Jessie Walsh. Senior Champs - Kyle Marshall Summer Sectionals - Michael Pineda Results Page

6/30/2012 By Matt Entringer//Correspondent When Conor Dwyer touched the wall at 1:46.64 in the Men’s 200m Freestyle, he knew he had spent his last 11 months wisely. The 23-year-old Winnetka, Ill. native, who qualified for the 800m freestyle relay in the 2012 London Olympics after coming in fourth place, trained upwards of six hours per day for almost an entire year, rarely taking a day off. The countless days of pool and dryland workouts all started shortly after Dwyer’s last NCAA Championship appearance for the University of Florida in 2011....

Molly Dubrasky finished her last swim at 2012 Olympic Trials with an outstanding 2:15.12 personal best time in the 200 Fly to move from the 81st seed to the 42nd fastest qualifier in the Thursday morning prelim heats.  Molly started the meet with the 100 Fly seeded 116th and swam a 1:02.25 to finish 99th. Molly also swam the 400 Free going in 73rd, and finished 96th with a 4:23.88. Molly is GCST's 4th Olympic Trials qualifier since 2008, and had the most swims of any previous qualifier. Olympic Trials...