The age group swimmers at the North Fort Myers branch of GCST were happy to have Harry Stephenson visit our pool.  Harry donated his training time from GCST's  senior team to give a presentation about his experiences in swimming, including a motivational talk about what it takes to be a champion, what he has experienced when he qualified for the USA Swimming National Youth Team, and presented a slide show of his travels as a swimmer on the National Youth Team.  Harry generously presented the swimmers with a National Youth...

Molly DuBrasky finished 8th in the C Final of the 200 Fly. Molly DuBrasky swam a lifetime best time in preliminary heats of the 200 fly to qualify for tonights C Finals with a 2:17.56. Molly breaks 100 and 200 Fly team records. Molly swam a very nice 800 Free despite her goggle strap breaking as she stepped onto the starting blocks.  Molly is one tough customer and swam a nice race leading the field most of that way and finishing 2nd in the heat by a touch from lane...

32 GCST swimmers traveled to Tampa on Saturday July 31 to compete in the CVST End of Summer Invitational Meet. This meet was a good and fun alternative to the Area 3-5 meet.  Coach Don won the GCST Coaches and Parents 25 meter challenge. New Cuts: GCST swimmers did very well at the meet with Madeline Willoughby making a new JO cut in the10 & Under Girls 50 Fly, and Darrien Heil making a new JO cut in the 11-12 Boys 200 Free. Event Winners: Mackenzie Arens, Madi Baron, Ally...

Thursday Savannah Bowser finished 2nd in the 11-12 Girls 400 Free with an outstanding 4:37.65. Wednesday Savannah Bowser finished 9th in the 11-12 Girls 200 Free Finals  a with2:14.89. Team Florida leads after 1st day. Real Time Results

Florida Swimming Senior Champs Sunday Finals Kyle Snew finished 6th in the Senior Boys 200 Back (2:12.71).  Courtney DeVeny finished 6th in the Senior Girls 200 back (2:25.97).  David Albion finished 12th in the Senior 200 Fly (2:20.87).  Jake Albion finished 16th in the Senior 200 Fly (2:30.82).  Nikki McCollum finished 16th in the 15-16 Girls 1500 Free (19:37.78). Zach Jamieson finished 12th in the 15-16 Boys 1500 Free (18:11.28).  Matt Nielsen finished 15th in the Senior Boys 1500 Free (17:26.18). GCST finished 18th in the team standings Saturday Finals...

GCST Mini Meet Paige Madden makes her first J.O cut in the 11-12 50 Back.  Congrats Paige!!! Meet results posted Event Page here.

  Courtney DeVeny made some major changes to the GCST Record book at the Florida Swimming Junior Olympics.  Courtney broke the 13-14 Girls 100 Back, 200 Back, 200 IM, and 400 IM records as well the Senior Girls records in the 100 and 200 Back.  Courtney made her first  NCSA Junior National q-times in the 200 Back, and 400 IM. Congratulations on a great meet Courtney!!

  Alina (Bean) Faunce broke the GCST 11-12 Girls 100 Breast Record at Junior Olympics.  Congratulations Bean!!

GCST swimmers lead the way in Southwest Florida at Junior Olympics GCST swimmers have an outstanding Junior Olympics as we finished the meet in 7th place in the Team Scoring to move into the Top 10 for 6 straight years in the Summer Junior Olympics, and we are the HIGHEST placing team from Southwest Florida.  Our girls finished the meet in 6th place and the boys finished 10th overall. 2010 FL Swimming Summer JO Champs - 7/15/2010 to 7/18/2010 Team Rankings - Through Event 124 Combined Team Scores Place Team...

Speedo Champions Series So. Zone So. Sectional This meet is at the University of Florida on July 8-11. 5 GCST Records broken at Sectionals: Molly DuBrasky broke the 17-18 Girls 200 Free record (Chelsea Franklin 2008) with a 2:05.96, and the 17-18 Girls 200 Fly record (Chelsea Franklin 2008) with a 2:20.81.  Kyle Snew broke the 15-16 Boys 200 Back record (Nicholas Caldwell 2008) with a 2:11.99. Dylan Lake broke the 17-18 Boys 200 Breaststroke record (Christian Steinwarz 2008), and Senior Boys 200 Breaststroke record (Nicholas Caldwell 2008) with a...