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 Junior Pan Pac Results

This past weekend, CAT?s Matt Ellis competed at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Maui, HI. This was quite an accomplishment for Matt to represent USA Swimming in this meet. Throughout...

 New CAT Program Rising Stars

Starting Monday, September 13 th , CAT will be starting a new program, Rising Stars. Each session of ?Rising Stars? is four weeks and you can choose to sign your child up for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesda...

 USA Swimming Junior Nationals Results

This past week, CAT?s Nick Alexiou , Maddie Edwards , Matt Ellis , David Morgan , Zach Perrotti , and Sydney Pickrem traveled to Irvine, CA for the USA Swimming Junior Nationals. All of our sw...

 CAT Masters Nationals Results

This past week Grant Johnson swam at the United States Masters Nationals in Puerto Rico. All of the years of hard work paid off for him when he took first place in the 50/100Fr and 50Bk. Great...

 CAT Masters Update

In addition to how well our competitive team is doing, our Masters team is doing quite well too! This week, Grant Johnson will be in San Juan, Puerto Rico competing at the US Masters Summer National...

 USA Swimming Nationals Results

This past week, CAT had three swimmers compete at the USA Swimming Nationals in Irvine, CA. Even though we only had a few swimmers in the meet, they all swam great. Cameron Martin had an amazing mee...

 Area 3/5 Results

This past weekend we had thirty four swimmers compete and excel at the Area 3/5 meet held at the North Shore Pool in St. Petersburg, FL. We were witness to some tremendous swimming from all of our ...

 Southern Zones Results

This past week we had four CAT swimmers participate as part of Team Florida Swimming at the Southern Zone Championships in Atlanta, GA. Needless to say our swimmers had quite the showing throughout t...

 USA Swimming Nationals

Coming up next week we will have four CAT swimmers competing at the USA Swimming Nationals in Irvine, CA. They are Cameron Martin , Caroline McElhany , Wes Stearns , and Conor Swanson . The meet...

 Florida Senior Champs Results

This past weekend we had sixteen of our Senior Group swimmers compete at the Florida Swimming Senior Championship in Sarasota, FL. CAT again excelled from start to finish. We had 2 new team reco...

 USA Swimming Junior Nationals

In two weeks, CAT?s Nick Alexiou , Maddie Edwards , Matt Ellis , David Morgan , Zach Perrotti , and Sydney Pickrem will be traveling to Irvine, CA for the USA Swimming Junior Nationals. The ...

 Southern Zones

This week, we have four swimmers competing for Florida Swimming at the Southern Zone Championships in Atlanta, GA. Those four swimmers are Naza Bosciano , Matt Hirschberger , Sydney Pickrem , an...

 Florida Junior Olympics Results Part 2

There was one result left out of last week?s article. The 13-14 Girls 400 Medley Relay that consisted of Morgan Perrotti, Sydney Pickrem, Alex Wittman, and Tatianna Anabtawi got third place. ...

 Florida Junior Olympics Results

This past weekend our best 14&Unders competed at the Florida Junior Olympics in Orlando. It was an amazing weekend for our athletes from start to finish. We finished 5 th overall, had 2 new sta...

 Senior Sectionals Meet Results

Sectionals Results This past weekend we had sixteen of our Senior swimmers go to Gainesville, FL for the Sectional Meet. Despite not getting much rest, we still swam very well and are looking great...

 CAT Open Results

This past Saturday we hosted the CAT Open at the Long Center. Despite changing the format of our meet from its original schedule, it still ended up being a great meet for our swimmers. A big thank...

 CAT Escape the Heat Meet Results

Last weekend our swimmers competed in the CAT Escape the Heat Meet. Everyone swam great and below are the details. We had two swimmers break the same team record, Grant Sanders and Matt Hirsch...

 Alexiou and McRae Selected to USA Swimming Zone Camp

Alexiou and McRae Selected to USA Swimming Zone Camp Congratulations to Nick Alexiou and Ryan McRae who have been selected to attend the USA Swimming Southern Zone Select Camp to be held at the Univer...

 Masters Results for Hurricane Man Swim

Masters Results for Hurricane Man Swim A few weeks ago some of our Masters swimmers participated in the Hurricane Man Swim in St. Petersburg. Here are the results: In the 1k swim: Womans 55-59, ...

 Meet Results: Largo & Brandon

Largo and Brandon Meet Results A week ago the CAT program was competing at two separate meets, one in Largo and one in Brandon. The swimmers in Bull Shark, Tiger Shark, Barracuda and Minnows went t...

 All American Aquatics-GRAND OPENING!

All American Aquatics -New Shop, New Hours All American Aquatics has opened their new store across the street from the Long Center ( 1490 N. Belcher Road, Suite K, Clearwater, FL 33765) . They are ...

 Area 3/5 Meet Recap

Area 3/5 Meet Recap #2 A week ago we had fifty four swimmers compete in the Area 3/5 meet in Sarasota. Despite the weather we still had quite a few great swims throughout the weekend. We had four s...

 Senior Sectionals Meet Results

Senior Sectionals Meet Recap This past weekend CAT had seven Senior swimmers compete at the 2010 Senior Sectionals in Fort Lauderdale, FL at the International Hall of Fame Pool. It was a great meet f...

 All American Aquatics--New Shop, New Hours

All American Aquatics ? New Shop, New Hours All American Aquatics has opened their new store across the street from the Long Center ( 1490 N. Belcher Road, Suite K, Clearwater, FL 33765) . They are...

 Florida Junior Olympics Meet Recap

Florida Junior Olympics Meet Recap Just over a week ago, our best 14&Unders competed at the Florida Junior Olympics Meet. When last week?s Update was sent out we didn?t have the results completed...

 Florida Senior Champs Meet Recap

Florida Senior Champs Meet Recap This past weekend the Senior group went to Orlando for the Florida Senior Championship Meet. Overall, CAT took 9 th in the Girls, 6 th in the Boys, and 9 th ...

 SUN Masters Meet Recap

SUN Masters Meet Recap On Valentine?s Day weekend, the CAT Masters competed in the SUN Masters Valentine Day Meet here at the Long Center. The team placed 4 th overall and was just one point sh...

 Clearwater Aquatics Awarded 2010 Silver Medal

Clearwater Aquatics Awarded 2010 Silver Medal This weekend we found out that CAT has been awarded as a 2010 Silver Medal Club by USA Swimming. This is the second year in a row that CAT has been a S...

 New Administrative Assistant

New Administrative Assistant Starting this week, CAT will have a new Administrative Assistant working in the office, Amy Beck. Amy has been working in the business world on and off for almost 30 yea...

 Last Chance Meet Recap

Last Chance Recap First, the CAT staff would like to thank everyone that helped make the Last Chance Meet a success this past weekend. There were so many people that stepped up to fill empty spots, ...

 Brooke Bennet Interviews

CAT in the News: Brooke Bennett Interviews Brooke Bennett, former Olympian and current Bright House Sports Network reporter did a series of interviews with Olympic gold medalist Garrett Weber-Gale. ...

 Al Soltis Recap #2

Al Soltis Recap #2 When we did the recap last week for the Al Soltis Meet, the results were not available yet so that part of the article had to be delayed a week. After waiting patiently for a w...

 Al Soltis Recap

Al Soltis Recap The CAT staff would like to thank everyone that helped make the Al Soltis Meet a success this past weekend. There were so many people that stepped up to fill empty spots, came in ...

 New CAT Hours

New CAT Office Hours Starting Monday, January 4 th , the CAT Office hours will be changing. The office will only be open 9:00-1:00pm Monday ? Friday and will no longer be open in the evening duri...

 Texas Swim Stars Stroke Clinic

TEXAS SWIM STARS STROKE CLINIC Saturday, January 9th at the Long Center Clearwater Aquatic Team (CAT) is proud to host the 2010 Texas Swim Stars Stroke Clinic on Saturday, January 9 th from 1-3pm...

 Additional Team Records Broken at Jingle Bell Meet

Additional Team Records Broken at Jingle Bell In addition to the six team records that were listed in the Jingle Bell recap article from last week, there were actually two additional records broke...

 Thank You to Area Businesses

Saying Thank You to Our Area Businesses We are so fortunate that even in these economic times our area businesses continue to help support our CAT swim meets through their generous donations of fo...

 Jingle Bell Meet Recap

Jingle Bell Meet Recap This past weekend over 500 swimmers from Aruba, Costa Rica, and all over Florida came to Clearwater to compete in the Jingle Bell Meet. This meet would not have been possible...

 Call for New Officials

Call for New Officials Currently we have five officials on our team and we would like to try to get a few more. If we are able to do this we become less dependent upon other teams providing offic...

 Swim Around Clearwater Update

Swim-Around-Clearwater Update The Clearwater Aquatic Team would like to thank everyone that participated in the 2009 Swim-Around-Clearwater. The team was able to raise $6058.23 and our top money ...

 Masters Meet Results

Masters Results From Bay to Bridge Meet The CAT Masters team was well represented at the Bridge to Bay meet Nov.22. The team has been practicing hard these past months, and it showed in the po...

 Ashly Rossi Signs with Cleveland State

Ashley Rossi signs with Cleveland State Recently Ashley Rossi (Clearwater HS) signed with Cleveland State University. The St. Pete Times wrote an article about her and the link is below. Congrats ...

 National Age Group Awards Short Course

Congratulations Taylor Katz ~ Alex Katz ~ Morgan Perrotti ~ Taylor Uselis They will be recognized with a certificate for the National Age Group Award for the Short Course Season. This program is ru...

 Congrats to High School State Swimmers

CAT SWIMMERS EXCEL AT HIGH SCHOOL STATE MEET On Friday the Clearwater Aquatic Team had sixteen swimmers representing their high school at the 2009 FHSAA 3A Swimming and Diving Championships. The comp...

 National Age Group Award Long Course

Congratulations Taylor Katz ~ Nick Alexiou ~ Sydney Pickrem ~ Morgan Perrotti ~ Grant Sanders ~ Alex Nuyianes & Tatianna Anabtawi They will be recognized with a certificate for the National Age...

 Way to GO WES!

Wes Stearns has made it official. He will be in the 2014 graduating class of HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Congratulations Wes.

 Good Luck at Districts

High School Districts are this weekend. Good Luck to all the High School CAT Swimmers. Kristina Alexiou, Carly Colbert, Angelica Compton, Ashley Isaacson, Taylor Katz, Abbey King, Carolone Myers,...

 CAT Offers Competitive Swim Lessons

CAT Competitive Swim Lessons Starting October 19th! CAT now offers flexible, custom designed competitive swim lessons for individuals or small groups. Decide which plan works best for you, then call ...

 Congratulations to Conor Swanson, Taylor Katz and Matthew Hirschberger

Florida Swimming handed out the " Age Group Swimmer of the Season" last weekend and CAT had three swimmers. Conor Swanson earned the Age Group Swimmer for the 17-18 year olds for the Short Cours...

 NEW TEAM RECORDS

Congratulations to Matthew, Lyndsey and Morgan who broke CAT records at the meet this weekend. MATTHEW HIRSCHBERGER ~Broke the 100 free (57.13), 200 free (205.39), 500 free (518.37), 50 Back (29.49...

 Congratulations CAT Junior Nationals Swimmers!

Con gratulations CA T Junior Nationals Swimmers! CAT s wimmers finished up quite a season at Junior Nationals. A week of competition at the USA Swim min g Junior Nationals concluded Friday w...

 Morgan Perrotti and Ryan McRae represent CAT at Zones

Morgan and Ryan represent CAT at Southern Zone Championships. Congratulations to Morgan Perrotti and Ryan McRae for outstanding efforts as part of Florida Swimming?s Southern Zone Age Group Champion...

 CAT Swimmers at Area 3-5 Championships

CAT Swimmers at Area 3-5 Championships: Congratulations to all of the CAT swimmers for a fantastic performance at the Area 3-5 Championships in St. Petersburg July 31-Aug 2. CAT Swimmers finish...

 CAT Swimmers Shine at Senior Champs!

CAT Swimmers Shine at Senior Champs! The CAT Men's team captured the championship and sixteen CAT swimmers notched top 8 finishes at the Florida State Senior Swimming Championships held July 23-...

 CAT Swimmers Excel at JOs!

Twenty-seven swimmers from Clearwater Aquatic Team (CAT) qualified for the Florida Swimming Junior Olympics in Ft. Meyers , Florida July 16-19. The CAT team finished 4th overall and thirteen swi...

 CAT Team Potluck and Swimmer Recognition Celebration!

Thank you to all CAT parents and swimmers for a great potluck and championship celebration! (many more photos available in the CAT Photo Gallery under the Members tab - sign in required )

 Broadcast Information for Nationals and World Trials

From USA Swimming: NBC and Universal Sports will bring fans coverage of USA Swimming?s biggest domestic event of the year when stars of the 2008 Olympic Team head to Indianapolis for the 2009 Conoco...

 CAT Salutes our Graduating Seniors

Congratulatons to Cameron Martin, Tyler Reid, C.A. Castagna, Conor Swanson and Santiago Hernandez - more information here .

 CONGRATULATIONS to Conor and Cameron

Congratulations to Cameron Martin and Conor Swanson who will be going to the World Trials. Conor qualified in the 200 and 400 IM and 200 Breast while Cameron qualified in the 200 Fly. Congratulat...

 CAT Achieves Silver Level Club Status

CAT has achieved Level II in the USA Swimming Club Recognition Program and Silver Medal Status in the USA swimming Club Excellence Program. Congratulations swimmers and coaches. Keep up the good w...

 ALL Star Team

Thirteen CAT swimmers made the Florida Swimming All-Star team which competed this past weekend against the team from Florida Gold. The CAT All-Stars are: Taylor Katz, Ryan McRae, Morgan Perrotti, Mic...

 Congratulations Cameron Martin!

Congrats to Cameron Martin Cameron recieved a National Age Group Awards for 16 year olds for SCY. The 3 events are 3 rd in 200 fly, 7 th in 200 IM and 9 th in 100 BK. There is one event for LC...

 Congratulations Taylor Katz!

Congrats to Taylor Katz TAYLOR KATZ WAS SELECTED FOR THE 2008 NATIONAL SELECT CAMP USA Swimming is pleased to announce the roster of athletes and staff members selected for the 2008 National Selec...

 Congratulations to National Age Group Award Winners!!

Congratulations TAYLOR USELIS ~ MORGAN PERROTTI ~ TAYLOR KATZ They wll be recognized with a certificate for the National Age Group Award. This program is run by USA Swimming and consists of certific...

 Texas Swim Stars Stroke Clinic

TEXAS SWIM STARS STROKE CLINIC Saturday, January 9th at the Long Center Clearwater Aquatic Team (CAT) is proud to host the 2010 Texas Swim Stars Stroke Clinic on Saturday, January 9 th from 1-3pm...