Aug 23, 2010 Andrea Kropp leaves for Hawaii today as a member of Team USA to compete at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships. Competition starts on Thursday and you can follow the results at usaswimming.org. Follo... Aug 23, 2010 Garrett Hubbard officially signed with Cal State Bakersfield. Garrett had verbally committed to UC Davis earlier in the year, but upon the Men's swim program being dropped, he decided to take one las... Aug 14, 2010 Andrea Kropp and Meghan Hawthorne were selected to represent the United States at the Jr Pan Pacific Championships based on their performance over a long 10 days of competition in Irvine. After Kropp... Aug 8, 2010 8/7/2009 Congratulations to Chloe Kargodorian, Meghan Hawthorne, Andrea Kropp, and Jordan Danny for representing Rattler at the Conoco Phillips National Swimming Championships. Meghan Hawthorne blew a... Jul 15, 2010 Katherine Wagner, Stephanie Samudro, Peter Kropp, Valerie Orellana, Heidi Zeiger, and Garrett Hubbard will be representing Southern California Swimming at the North American Challenge Cup held in Sant... Jun 2, 2010 The best of the best in open water swimming will be in Long Beach this weekend for the 5k and 10k Open Water USA National Championships. Rattlers Heidi Zeiger will compete in the 5k on Sunday, June 6t... Jun 1, 2010 Rattler had a number of personal best swims at the first major meet of the long course season. Andrea Kropp headlined the effort with 2 swims making the Big finals. She dropped over 2 seconds in her 2... May 21, 2010 The LA City meet came a week after CIF Southern Section and Rattler continued to swim BIG. Valerie Orellana 100 Fly champion (56.71 - new LA City meet record), 100 back champion Grant Richman 200 Fr...  May 20, 2010 Rattler Swimmer Jordan Wall participated in this season's Special Olympics and did GREAT, winning Gold in the 25 Free (27.03), Silver in the 50 Free (58.70), and Bronze in the 50 Back (1:42.81). ... May 19, 2010 College freshman Gary Arthur swam right on his Rattler team record when he dropped a bomb on the field with a 1:52.04 to become the Men's (200 butterfly) California Junior College State Champion. Grea... May 16, 2010 Division 4 Lilly Parks (SO-Sierra Canyon)- 100 Breast Champion, (3rd) 200 IM Shayne Eisenman (FR-Sierra Canyon)- (9th) 200 free, (11th) 500 free Division 2 Alanah Bird (SR-Moorpark) - (9th) 100 b... May 15, 2010 May 14, 2010 2 Rattler swimmers broke Southern California Swimming Records in the same day. Meghan Hawthorne 17-18 girls 200 IM 1:58.74 Andrea Kropp 15-16 girls 100 Breast 1:01.23 Congratulations gi... Mar 22, 2010 Rattler Swimmer Christina McCoy was one of the athletes chosen by USA Swimming to become one of the fresh new faces of USA Swimming. Check out www.americasswimteam.com to check out the first sighting... Mar 17, 2010 Rattler swimmer Valerie Orellana will attend USA Swimming's 'National Diversity Select Camp' April 29th-May 2nd at the USA Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO. She was one of 32 athletes ... Mar 13, 2010 In Rattler Swim Club's first ever Black/Gold Intersquad Meet, the BLACK team was victorious in a close contest versus the GOLD team in a spirited battle for supremacy. The morning started with each... Mar 6, 2010 Austin, TX - 5/6/2010 Tony Cox, a freshman at Auburn University this year, posted a NCAA Automatic cut when he time trialed the 100 backstroke on the final day of the Austin Grand Prix. In prelims on... Feb 28, 2010 Rattler Swim Club was well represented at the Annual Southern California Swimming Festival held in Long Beach Sunday, February 28th. This is an All-Star meet where the top 32 swimmers from each age... Feb 8, 2010 Rattler Swim Club finished 9th at the 2010 Spring Junior Olympics! Going up against the best competition in Southern California, Rattler swimmers repeatedly made it back in the afternoon to swim in... Jan 20, 2010 Rattler posted nearly 50% personal best times and put 6 different swimmers into finals at the Southern California Grand Prix. Women's Team Records Broken: 100 Back - Meghan Hawthorne 56.74 200 Back ... Jan 20, 2010 With Phelps, Grevers, Soni, Hoff, Kukors and a number of other Olympians racing, the tone was easily set for fast swimming. Valerie Orellana pumped out personal bests in the 100 fly (56.98), 200 fly... Dec 23, 2009 The 5 day meet at belmont plaza in Long Beach was a very strong showing for Rattler. Caitie Hawthorne posted 2 personal bests including a 2:06.6 200 backstroke. Lilly Parks also had a pair of person... Dec 10, 2009 Junior Nationals DAY 1 From Columbus Ohio - Gary Arthur shattered Rattler's 200 yard butterfly record when he dropped 4 seconds to finish in 1:54.4. Garrett Hubbard also achieved a personal best time ... Nov 15, 2009 Tony Cox (Auburn University) posted a blazing 21.27 in the 50 Free at his first SEC matchup vs. Alabama, which was good enough for a 4th place finish. It was the 2nd fastest time posted for a freshman... Nov 15, 2009 Congratulations to the following Seniors who have signed their National Letter of Intent to the following Universities during the early signing period: Alanah Bird to South Dakota State Meghan Haw... Sep 13, 2009 USA's 4 women racing in the 800 meter free relay last week at the Deaflympics in Taiwan not only captured a bronze medal, but also smashed the American Record by 8 seconds! Congratulations Samantha El... Sep 12, 2009 Sami Elam posted best times in numerous races Internationally, as she competed at the deaflympics in Taiwan. Her swims included a blazing 1:02 in the 100 meter free and 2:15 in the 200 meter free, t... Sep 9, 2009 This Weeks 'Rattler Tip of the Week' comes from Rattler?s Tony Cox: "When swimming free, always think of looking down toward the line at the bottom of the pool. When flip turning do not lift your h... Aug 17, 2009 Swimming a very tough lineup of the 100 free, 100 fly, 200 free, 200 breast, 200 IM, 400 free and 400 IM, Meghan Hawthorne finished off the long course season with some fast swimming in Federal Way, W... Aug 9, 2009 Not only did Rattler finish 6th place overall at the Southern California Junior Olympics, but we had 20 swimmers make finals. Great team effort! Aug 9, 2009 Heidi Zeiger swam to 3 personal bests at the NACC meet which had a very strong field of swimmers from California, Canada and Mexico. Not only did Heidi make her first USA Swimming SC Junior Nationals ... May 29, 2009 Congratulations to all our swimmers on a great high school season. The following swimmers achieved All-American status: Consideration Gary Arthur 200 Free (1:42.32 ) (*new team record), 100 Fly ... May 26, 2009 Rattlers Meghan Hawthorne returned home yesterday from Canada, where she and fellow USA National Junior Team members had 2 days of preperation in Vancouver before competing against some of the top swi... May 15, 2009 Monday, June 1st, we will take a team picture at the pool. Please have your swimmers there by 4:30 in a Rattler t-shirt or suit. If you dont have one, then any black suit will do. If your child usua... Apr 29, 2009 Over 20 Rattlers will be racing at the various high school league championships to be held over the next 2 weeks. Many Rattlers have already qualified for CIF in their respective events, and some wil... Apr 29, 2009 Led by Meghan Hawthorne's 4 Top-8 finishes, Rattler looks ready to take on the long course season. Chris Weber and Matt Reik both posted 1:01's in the 100 fly, showing that a shorter 100 yard fly a... Apr 21, 2009 The Speedo Grand Challenge in Irvine this weekend has once again drawn some of the fastest swimmers in the country, including 2008 Olympic Gold Medalists Jason Lezak and Ous Melloui. Several RATTLER ... Mar 23, 2009 Chris Weber, Tony Cox, and Meghan Hawthorne qualified for finals in a combined total of 10 events. Meghan headlined the list, not only swimming 13 total races, but bringing home a pair of Silver med... Mar 10, 2009 Good luck to Caitie Hawthorne, Garrett Hubbard, Alanah Bird, Chris Weber, Tony Cox and Meghan Hawthorne as they travel to Orlando, Florida next week. Both Tony and Meghan were Silver medalists at Juni... Feb 2, 2009 2/2/09 Rattler Swim Club (RTLR), formerly Porter Valley Aquatics, launches at its new swim facility in the city of San Fernando. The brand new 25yd x 50m competition pool is THE premiere swim complex... |
