Tsunamis Prove To Be The Top Visiting Team at ATAC Meet! We sure have had a lot of great meets lately!  Although we have been traveling a lot and have more great swims to tell you about coming up, I didn't want to let this amazing Tallahassee meet pass by without getting it's due credit!  We had so many fantastic swims that I want to make sure everyone knows how awesome our Tsunamis were.   As many of you know, the ATAC meets always hold a special place in my heart...

Tsunamis Of All Ages Post Incredible In-Season Times at Coast Aquatics Long Course Meet! For the second straight year, PCST has been fortunate enough to be a "visiting" team at our home pool thanks to Coast Aquatics hosting their long course meet here in Panama City Beach at Frank Brown Park.  The best part about it is that Coast did a fantastic job of bringing in a large number of swimmers from outside of the area, resulting in new faces and fun competitive races for all of our swimmers.  It's...

Join Our Four Tsunami Seniors For Their College Swimming Commitment Ceremony on Thursday, June 6th! This spring marks the largest class of graduating seniors the Panama City Swim Team has ever had who will continue their swimming careers in the collegiate ranks.  We are very proud to celebrate this achievement with our Class of 2013 Seniors on Thursday, June 6th at 5:15 pm at Frank Brown Park.  Please join us as we congratulate Michael Duderstadt, Jamie McDonald, Alysiah Stock and Michael Whitehead on their incredible decisions to compete for three wonderful...

Tsunamis Show Versatility at Coast Pentathlon! More than 30 PCST swimmers made the trip to Destin to compete in the Coast Aquatics Pentathlon Meet.  The meet featured nearly 200 swimmers representing teams from Florida and Mississippi.  Swimmers competed in each of the four strokes as well as the Individual Medley and brought home many awards.  It is rare that PCST swimmers get a chance to swim Short Course Yards during the Summer meet season, so our Tsunamis took the chance to establish some new Team Records, Southeastern Qualifying Times, and...

The 2013 PCST Swim-A-Thon fundraiser was a HUGE success!  Many thanks go to all of the volunteers who helped make the event so memorable and to the 103 swimmers who raised money for the team and the USA Swimming Foundation.  In all, the event raised an incredible $18,985.60 with an average of more than $184.00 per swimmer!  The swimmers completed 13,976 laps of the pool for a total of 349,400 yards (or 198.5 miles).  Great Job Everyone! Here are the results from the 2013 PCST Swim-A-Thon: Top Individual Fundraisers: 1)...

Exciting Times Are Ahead As PCST Now Offers Novice & Age Group at Mosley High School Pool, Plus High School Conditioning Group at Both Mosley and Frank Brown Park! For those of you who have been a part of our swimming community for as long as I have, you are probably just as excited about this announcement as I am.  The Panama City Swim Team is joining efforts with long time Bay County swimming coach, Steve Burdeshaw, to offer year round competitive swimming with the Tsunamis at Mosley High School!  In addition, PCST is now...

Exciting News About PCST Spring Lessons, Summer Lessons and Summer Splashes! Five years ago a dream of mine began as we created the PCST Summer Splashes Swim Team in 2008.  We started with 63 swimmers that year and have grown to over 200 in 2012.  Last summer, another dream of mine became a reality as we started our first ever PCST Lessons program with "Summer Lessons".  Those 95 young swimmers pushed us to over 300 summer swimmers last year.  My goal is to get over 400 this summer and I'm...

PCST Defends Home Turf and Takes First Overall In Team Standings at Paradise Invitational! It's not that often when you'll read a headline such as the one I have so proudly displayed in this news article!  As the Panama City Swim Team has vastly improved in recent years, so has our competition.  Teams like ATAC, CMSA, Coast and GPAC have all become formidable oppponents at even our own home competitions, proving it increasingly challenging to win our own meet.  So when we do.........it's time to celebrate! In a competition that featured 377 swimmers representing 13 teams from across Florida, Alabama, and...

PCST Senior Swimmer, Jamie McDonald, Signs A College Swimming Scholarship With The University of West Florida! On Wednesday, April 24th, our very own Jamie McDonald signed her National Letter of Intent to swim on a scholarship for the University of West Florida starting this fall.  She will be a part of the first season in school history with a women's swimming team!  Many Tsunamis were in attendance at the historic event for PCST as well as West Florida.  Crowds of friends and family joined together at the Arnold High School...

Ratliff and Duderstadt Lead Tsunamis With Finals Swims At Junior Nationals In Orlando! Boy oh boy did we have a big week in Orlando at the Junior National Championships in Orlando, FL. This particular meet was not only the largest Spring NCSA Junior National championships ever, it was also the fastest in history!  While the Tsunamis have been going to this meet for the past 7 years, never before have we had so much overall success.  These are exciting times in the world of PCST, so sit back, relax, and...