The Nova Senior Gold swimmers traveled to go to the Terrapin meet and the Senior Silver swimmers to the Kevin Perry meet held at FAST in the month of November. All other swimmers attended the Novamber meet at Woollett. The travel meets were successful and fun reported the senior coaches. There aren't many highlights as coaches and swimmers are using these meets to guage their progress going into Championship meets this December at Junior Nationals, Winter Age Group Champs, and Winter Invite. Coach Joanna wanted to add the following for...

Congratulations to Coach Jeri Marshburn for receiving the USA Swimming Service Award sponsired by Phillips 66. The Outstanding Service Award was established in 1981 to recognize volunteers for their invaluable contribution to USA Swimming. The award, sponsored by Phillips 66, is presented annually to an honoree named by each of the 59 Local Swimming Committees (LSC) Selection criteria considers quality, level and years of volunteer service in elected or appointed positions from among the categories of administrator, official and coach. USA Swimming and Phillips 66 take great pride in honoring...

Kevin Tu's performance in the 1000 Freestyle during the recent NOVA Intrasquad Meet earned him the distinction as the fastest 11-12 year boy in that event ever by a NOVA swimmer. His Team Record time of 10:10.77 surpassed teammate Hunter Hitchin’s time 0f 10:11.32 set earlier this year.

The Nova Coaching staff would like to commend and recognize swimmers who achieved 100% practice attendance in October. This shows a lot of character and commitment as well as a step in the right direction for improvement. Tyler Law- Nova 1 Hanna Steen- Nova 1 Katie Ho- Nova 2 Yagiz 'Kevin' Guner- Nova 4 Alex Law- Nova 4 Jodie McKendry- Gold I Max McKendry- Gold II Cameron Mykkanen- Gold I Chris Mykkanen- Gold II Jack Hamamoto- Gold II Dominic Falcon- Silver I Shayla Erickson- Silver I Victoria Nguyen- Bronze III...

The October IMX Meet was a festive event with heat winners getting mini pumpkins to take home. Swimmers raced their hearts out to get pumpkins and their best possible IM Xtreme or IM Ready score for the short course season. Swimmers in the morning session were vying for IM Ready scores. IM Ready is the first step in USA Swimming's IM Challenge program. IM Ready consists of 5 shorter IM races. Once IM Ready events are completed by a swimmer, the swimmer can long into his/her Deck Pass on usaswimming.org...

Below are the new 2014 Far Western Time Standards. The meet is held in Morgan Hill, Ca April 3-7. Information regarding this travel meet is listed in the meet and event info section. 2014 Far Western Time Standards

Nova now has a YouTube channel where you can find "How To" informational videos for the website. They can be found at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb6ZyaCtOVl2OwX9APk8AMg or by searching "Nova Coach" on YouTube and then selecting the "Nova Coach Channel." Topics currently covered are: 1) How to view your account and billing info 2) How to check group calendars and email coaches through the website 3) How to sign up for swim meets, check meet entries, and check meet results 4) How to view time standards and meets on the Southern California Swimming...

The Novaquatics Back to School Meet was held last weekend, September 21st-22nd. This meet is always interesting with unique events and many different goals from new and continuing Nova swimmers. While some swimmers attend hoping to drop time after not having swum short course yards in about 6 months, others hope to start the new season not too far off their season best after the August hiatus. One of the awesome aspects of this meet is that new swimmers and families get to experience their very first Nova meet. The...

Each year USA Swimming recognizes it's swimming members who achieve excellance, not only in the pool, but also in the classroom. Each swimmer must be in 10th, 11th, or 12th grade, maintain a 3.5 or higher GPA, and meet a minimum time standard. As members of the Novaquatics Swimming program, we had three swimmers who achieved these standards: Josh Graves Stephen Marcin Lila Vera Congratulations on a job well done

Kevin Tu posted several record breaking swims this past long course season. Kevin swam the 800 Free in a time of 9:24.33. His time bettered the NOVA team record set by Daryl Wang in 2010 (9:24.59) Kevin broke Gonny Shimura's 200 Back team record set in 1995. Tu swam a time of 2:18.54 Also, Kevin established a new Southern California record in the 400 Free with a time of 4:21.87. the SCS record was held by Matthew Lee (4:23.48). The NOVA team record was held by Aaron Peirsol (4:27.75)