PCST Swimmers Compete in Auburn Seventeen members of the Panama City Swim Team Tsunamis traveled to Auburn, Alabama this past weekend to compete in the War Eagle Invitational Swim Meet on the campus of Auburn University.  The meet featured more than 450 swimmers representing 22 teams from Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, and New Jersey. Congratulations to PCST swimmers listed below who had tremendous individual accomplishments in Auburn. High Point Winners High Point Awards were only given for 12&Under events at this meet.  Congratulations to Cole Tillman for bringing home...

PCST Depth and Relay Strength Highlight An Amazing First Major Meet of the 2012-2013 Short Course Season For those of you who are familiar with my philosophy on how to build a swimming program for the future while still enjoying tremendous team and individual success along the way, it will come as no surprise to you that I LOVE LOVE LOVE to see great PCST relays!  The fact that we broke a relay record in the 8 & Under, 11-12, 13-14 and Senior age groups, and only missed a 10...

Massive Crowds Come Out To Spinnaker To Support A Great Cause And To Meet Some Great Olympians! As many of you know, the beginning of my full time coaching career began in Tallahassee, FL with the Area Tallahassee Aquatic Club (ATAC).  In those days, I had the privelege of sometimes working with and becoming very close to an incredible family named the Crutchfields.  When they lost their son, Mac, four years ago to a tragic turn of events, it was honestly the worst day of my life.  Saturday, when I looked...

Four Tsunamis Come Away With High Point Victories At Coast Aquatics Meet In Destin! For many Tsunamis, the season opener was our developmental meet at Frank Brown Park on August 25th.  However, for many more, the Coast Aquatics Meet in Destin was our first crack at the short course season.  There were plenty of great swims to talk about too.  PCST traveled the short trip down Highway 98 with 32 swimmers to compete against Coast Aquatics, Dothan Dolphins and Maclay Northside Dolphins in an IMXtreme and IMReady competition to teach...

8 & Under Boys Highlight PCST Developmental Meet With Amazing Team Relay Record! Of the 44 Tsunamis and 2 Coast Aquatics swimmers to compete in the short course season opener, four in particular really put together a special race!  Our 8 & Under Boys 100 Freestyle relay put on a clinic at the Saturday morning meet at Frank Brown Park as they smashed the former record set last fall.  The relay consisted of Luke Maggiore, Lucas Champagne, Noah Vaden and Alex Fulton.  All summer long our coaching staff has been salivating...

Three PCST Swimmers Named to SES All Star Teams! Three PCST swimmers have been named as members of the 2011-2012 Southeastern Swimming LSC Age Group All Star Team.  Tsunamis Marisa Ashley, Kari Troia, and Tristan Gandy earned the honor due to their efforts in the pool last season.  Marisa was the only PCST swimmer to earn the honor in both the Short Course and Long Course seasons, while Kari and Tristan qualified in the Short Course Season.  Less than 200 swimmers receive the All-Star designation each season out of nearly...

Duder Becomes First Ever Tsunami To Qualify For Championship Final At Junior Nationals Championships In Indianapolis! We had a great great night tonight here in Indy Tsunamis!!  Michael Duderstadt dropped even MORE time tonight at the Speedo Junior National Championship Finals.  In the morning he cut a second off of his previous best of 2:20.62 by going a 2:19.77 and qualifying 4th overall.  That made him the first PCST swimmer in team history to earn a spot in the prestigious Championship Final at Junior Nationals (or any national meet for...

Jonathan Ratliff Becomes First Ever PCST Swimmer To Win An Event at the Zone All-Star Championships! For the second straight year, the Southeastern Championships bore unexpected fruit as the Tsunamis put their second ever swimmer on the Southeastern Swimming Zone All-Star Team.  This year marked the first time PCST has put a boy on the team.  Upcoming Mosley Junior, Jonathan Ratliff, earned a rare spot on the Zone All-Star team that is designed to put together the best of the best group of swimmers to represent our Local Swimming Committe...

Largest PCST Championship Team Ever Brings Home Large Results! Before the first splash drenched the feet of the volunteer timers at the end of each lane at the home of the Tennessee Volunteers, your Tsunamis had already broken two major team records at the Long Course Southeastern Championships.  While this year's team on paper was not the strongest we had ever had, they ended up proving to be the best ever by finishing higher than all other PCST teams at the summer LSC championship meet.  Our 31 Tsunamis came together to...

Watch PCST's First Male Swimmer Compete At The Southern Zone All-Star Meet This Week! I know tonight's events in London have got each of you incredibly excited right now, and if it does not then you probably need to check your pulse.  :)  The USA Olympic swimmers are not the only ones having fun this week, as the Tsunamis have an exciting week of our own thanks to the great effort of Senior Group swimmer, Jonathan Ratliff, by earning a spot on the prestigious Southern Zone All-Star Meet.  He will...