Rawls Has Big Swims at FLAGS   This past weekend, CVST’s  Fitz Rawls (12) participated in an epoch FLAGS (Florida Swimming Age Group Championships) meet that will go down in history. The Florida Age Group Swimming Championships formerly known as Junior Olympics brought over 800 of Florida’s top 14 & Under swimmers to the YMCA Aquatic Center in Orlando where they proceeded to tear up the pool and rewrite the record books. The 13-14 year old girls led the way with four different girls producing 9 Olympic Trials Standards and...

CVST Age Groupers Shine at FNR   Swimmers from the CVST Silver-Gold and Bronze Groups shined this past Friday and the CVST July Friday Night at the Races.  The meet was held at the Emerald Greens Rec Center Pool and was a make up from the previous Friday's rain out.   The group swimming from  CVST was small, due to summer vacations and the FLAGS Meet taking place in Orlando, but the performances were huge!  Led by Jack Mastandrea and his five First Place finishes in the 7-8 Boys 50...

Simonton Snags June SOM Honor   The CVST Coaching Staff has announced that Donovan Simonton (9) of the Bronze Practice Group, is the CVST June Swimmer of the Month.  Donovan earned this award based on his meet performance for the month of June.  Donovan swam to four best times at the CVST Friday Night at the Races held at the Emerald Greens Recreation Center on June 24th.  Including a drop of over 26 seconds in the 100 yard Individual Medley.  His total time dropped for the month came out to...

Kenny, Stein & Volz Share May SOM Honors   CVST has announced a tie for the May 2011 Swimmer of the Award.  This months recipients are Emma Volz, Jackie Kenny and Corey Stein all who have been named to the 2011 Florida Swimming Open Water All-Star Team.  There are only six male and six female swimmers named to the team in the 15-18 year old age group for the State and CVST has three.  Volz, an automatic qualifier, made the team based on her 2nd place overall finish at the...

CVST 5th at Florida Open Water Championships   CVST Finished 5th as a team last weekend in Fort Myers Beach at the 2011 Florida Swimming Open Water Championships.  Just two points short of a third place team finish, the trio of Emma Volz (16), Jackie Kenny (15) and Corey Stein (16) had great races all around.   Volz picked up the Silver Medal in the 15-18 Girls 4K Race with a time of 56 minutes, 32.19 seconds.  Kenny picked up the Bronze Medal in the same event with a time...

Forman Named April CVST SOM   The CVST Coaching Staff has announced that Abby Forman (9) of CVST’s Silver/Gold practice group has been named the April 2011 Swimmer of the Month.  Abby earned this honor from performances at three different swim meets in the month of April.  In the first and biggest meet of the month, the Boys & Girls Clubs National Swimming Championships, Abby swam to six best times, including a seven and a half second drop in her 100 yard butterfly.  Her second meet in April was the...

CVST Swims Fast On Tuesday Night   CVST played host to Palma Ceia and Lakeland Yacht Club last night at the Emerald Greens Rec Center and had a great night of fast swimming.    The evening started out with the Freestyle events and in the first vent of the night, the 6&Under Girls 25 Free, Kaitlyn Labella (6) went her best time (:27.28) and picked up a second place finish.  For the 6&Under Boys it was Sam Forman (6), Alex Freund (5) and Shloke Patel (5), who got second, fourth...

Florida All-Star Volz leads CVST at H-Man Race   CVST's Emma Volz (16) led the way for CVST at last weekend's Annual Hurricane-man 2.4 Mile Rough Water Swim.  While the weather was great for the race, the Gulf of Mexico was still a bit choppy and even had whitecaps breaking over the race course.  Volz was CVST's best finisher with a best time by about a minute for the course.  Her time of :51:30.00 was good enough for second place in her age group (15-18 Girls) and third place overall. ...

Dangerous Energy?   ESPN Video Clip About Energy Drinks - USA Swimming has asked that we share this video with the parents of all team members and Coaches.  Click Here  to watch the EPSN video "Dangerous Energy?"

CVST In Beef's Commercials   Last month some of our CVST families headed over to Clearwater and the Feather Sound BeeF O'Brady's to possible star in a commercial.  Well the wait to see who made it and may now become famous is over you can watch both of the commercials that were filmed that day.  Just click on the links below and see who made it!   Click Here  to watch Commercial # 1       *       Click Here   to watch Commercial #2