This Week - 7/6/25

Registration for the 2025-26 Swim Season:

Registration for the 2025/2026 Season is now open and will close THIS FRIDAY, July 11. Follow the link on our website to complete your registration. 

During registration, you will:

• be required to pay a non-refundable Annual Membership fee of $250 per swimmer

This fee will cover two swim caps, one T-shirt, a team mesh bag or a team backpack, and administrative expenses​​

• be asked to pick one of the following options

Annual Dues- If you choose the annual dues option, the full yearly dues amount will be charged according to our financial policy on September 1st​

Monthly Dues- by selecting the monthly dues option, you will be charged our monthly dues on the first of each month starting September 1st for 10 months

Once registration closes on July 11th, the coaching staff will meet to make group assignments. We will announce those in mid-July, hopefully giving everyone enough time to organize carpooling, etc. 

The new season will start on Monday, August 18, for the Titanium Group and on Saturday, August 23, for our Blue, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Year Round High School (YRHS) groups. The first term for our Green Group will begin on Monday, August 25. 

Please review the team handbook for the 2025/26 season for updates including updates to: 

• Financial Structure- Note: New Dues for the 2025/2026 Season 
• Practice Timetable
• Policies and Waivers that need to be agreed on during the registration process- Note: Please read our Service Hour Policy very carefully
• Dues credit for certified Officials and how to apply for it- Note: We are increasing the dues credit for Admin Referees, Starters, and Meet Referees
• Preliminary meet and event schedule for the season

PST Staffing Update for 2025-26 Season:

The PST Board of Directors is excited to congratulate Coach Colby on his promotion to Head Age Group Coach. The interview committee was impressed by Colby's overall application and his continued enthusiasm and loyalty to PST and our swimmers. His vision, new ideas and leadership abilities made him stand out in our process. Colby will start in his new role on August 18th which marks the start of the 2025-26 season. 

Please help us in congratulating Coach Colby!

The hiring committee plans to add one to two new coaches to our staff for the 2025-26 season. We've interviewed some exciting candidates, and hope to announce additional hires, as well as group assignments for our current staff, before the end of our current season.

RESL Championship Meet:

This year’s RESL Championship will take place at Chabot College in Hayward, from July 18 through 20.  It is a short course meet with various individual and relay events, with prelims in the morning and finals in the afternoon for those who qualify.

Volunteer jobs will open on our website on Monday, July 7 at 8 p.m. and will close Tuesday, July 15 at midnight.  All open, unfilled jobs will be assigned. This meet is co-hosted with other teams, so there will be additional volunteer jobs to sign up for.  Here is a preview of some of the jobs that PST is responsible for. 

MEET DETAILS

• Meetsheet
• Date
  • Friday, July 18, 2025 - Sunday, July 20, 2025
• Time
  • Friday, July 18, 2025
    • Warm-Up Times: will be announced in next week's newsletter
    • Start Time: 1:00 p.m.
    • * Friday events will be swum as timed finals.
  • Saturday, July 19, 2025 and Sunday, July 20, 2025
    • Prelim Warm-Up: will be announced in next week's newsletter
    • Prelim Start Time: 9:00  a.m. 
    • Finals Warm-Up: One hour before finals start time
    • Finals Start Time: To be announced at the end of prelim
• Location
  • Chabot College Pool, 2555 Hesperian Blvd., Hayward, CA 94545
• Parking
  • $3 on Friday and Saturday
  • Free on Sunday
• Food
  • Food will be available for purchase.
• Events
  • Enter online at http://ome.fastswims.com. Online entries will close at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, July 9, 2025.  
  • Friday events will be pre-seeded, meaning heats and lanes will be assigned before the race starts on Friday, so swimmers will not need to check in.  Swimmers wishing to scratch any Friday events will need to scratch by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 16
  • In contrast, Saturday and Sunday events will be deck-seeded.  Swimmers will need to check in at the pool before 10:30 a.m., and heat and lane assignments will be determined after scratches are finalized.  
• Relays
  • All relays will be swum at the conclusion of the prelim each day.
  • Coaches will announce relay assignments the day of the meet.

4th of July Parade:

A huge thank you to all of the swimmers, families, Coach Colby and Coach Kelly for showing up to march with the team in the Community Parade! We had a fabulous gathering with tasty snow cone treats at the Carnazzo’s - Thank you Lisa and Chris for hosting! 

To all of the swimmers who spent countless hours this past week designing and building our first ever team float - thank you for a job well done! Special thanks to the Schultz Family - Erin, Andrew, Max and Eleanor - for spearheading the efforts and making the float not only possible, but incredibly successful and fun! “The Piedmont Pool” WON second place! We will receive the Highland Saucer trophy - way to go PST!!

Open Coordinator Roles:

Web Photos

Do you love photos and want to help ensure that the team has a solid photo archive? Do you want to have a set job to knock out many of your service hours?

If so, consider taking on the Web Photo position. This position is responsible for posting current photos to the PST website and ensuring photos are archived correctly for future use. This person is responsible for collecting photos from the community that will capture all meets from beginner to expert.

This position fulfills five service hours. If interested, please email Anne at secretary@piedmontswimteam.org 

This Week:

Thursday, July 10th: Chabot LCM practice cancelled. Chabot is not available and practice is cancelled.

Friday to Sunday, July 11-13: 14&Under Age Group Championships (host: SRN). Good luck to our participants: Emily C., Ben R., Maxwell S., Lea H., Robert O., Archer Z., Violet S.

Coach Rob will be in touch with Warm-Up Times.

Sunday, July 13th: Titanium to swim at Chabot from 9:30-12pm. Make up for Thursday’s cancellation.

This Week’s Top Tip:

Need to get in touch with another parent? Login on our website, go to ‘Org Tools’, ‘Member Search’ to find their email address. You can search by roster group or name.

Next Week:

Friday to Sunday, 7/18 - 7/20: RESL Meet. All practices are cancelled.

July 18th through July 20th: RESL Team Competition (location: Chabot College, Hayward). The most fun meet of the whole year for young and old. Make sure your swimmer can participate!

Safe Sport:

Safe Sport Resources: Anti-bullying Training - what is it, how to spot it, how to intervene and stop it!

RECORDING | Passcode: P$y1WE.?

Led by: USA Swimming Safe Sport Staff

Important Dates, Cancellations, and Practice Updates:

Monday, August 4th: Start of PST’s Summer Break. No practices.

Wednesday, August 20th: Team Banquet. 5:30 - 8:30pm Piedmont’s Community Hall and Alan Harvey Theater.

Meets:

View our meet schedule for the 2024/25 Season here. Most recent update to meet schedule: 1/12/24

July 18th through July 20th: RESL Team Competition (location: Chabot College, Hayward). Meet is open for registration on FastSwims. The most fun meet of the whole year for young and old. Make sure your swimmer can participate!

July 23rd through July 26th: Future Championships (location: Sacramento, CA). All qualifiers should attend.

Congratulations to our qualifiers: Cole C., Owen B.

July 31st through August 3rd: LCM FarWestern Championships (host: SCSC). All qualifiers should attend.

Congratulations to our qualifiers: Abigail J., Kate R., Cynthia W., Charlotte L., Mizuki W., Owen B., Evan B., Asher D., Cole C., Connor C., Nathan J., Zafar M., Robert O., Asher T., Baran W.

Team Records:

Our team records can be viewed on our website.

Got Photos?

Follow our Instagram account to stay updated with the latest team moments.  If you have photos from meets or team socials please post them and tag our IG account or send them directly to Lisa Chan Carnazzo

Did you know that PST also uploads photos to our website?  If you or your swimmers take photos at meets or team events, please send them to photo@piedmontswimteam.org. They will be “Safe Sport” checked and uploaded to the website.

Check out our current photo collection here!

Marketplace:

PST Marketplace

Sell, exchange or give away new or used swim items. 

Lots of great items!

Important - Parking Reminders at PST Facilities:

Dear PST Families, 

It goes without saying that we rely on positive relationships with the different communities whose pools we use for practices.

It is a shared responsibility to maintain these relationships, and we need parents to follow the parking requirements for each facility. 

Please refer to specific instructions for each pool location in this document, along with screenshots indicating unavailable parking/access in red, and available parking in green.

Thank you for adhering to these requirements

Board News:

Any Questions? Please email any of the Board Members or Coordinators.

Next Board Meeting July 2nd - 6pm to 7:30pm at Havens Elementary School 

Google Meet joining info Video call link: https://meet.google.com/cyi-sjtp-iwy

Or dial: ‪(US) +1 585-491-8512‬ PIN: ‪444 026 087‬#

Rianna Stoll & Anne Dolid

Web Photos

Contact Anne Dolid

NEW! Event Coordinator

Contact Kira at community@piedmontswimteam.org