Colony Red Hots

	2009 Swim Season

Thank you coaches! You are truly the best!! Reminders Send photos/video links to webmaster@colonyredhots.org Welcome Colony families! RED HOTS REGISTRATION IS EARLY THIS YEAR! WED. MARCH 10^TH & SAT. MARCH 13^TH Registration 2010 2/16/2010 Swim season runs from *June 7th to August 14^th for ages 5 to 18.* Practice sessions are daily Mon-Fri for approximately 1 hour, generally between 3:30pm -6:30pm. The time and length of practice sessions are dependent upon the age group. All new swimmers must be water-safe and are encouraged to have completed a basic swim or water-safety class prior to the beginning of the swim season. Read more... Colony wins ISL Championship Division I title 8/18/2009 The Colony Red Hots took first place in Division I of the ISL Championships for the sixth year in a row. The Red Hots earned a high-point trophy in both the 5-6 age group, with 135 points, and the 15-18 age group, with an astounding point total of 515 points. The 15-18 age group had the highest point total of any age group in every division throughout the league. Read more... Colony Red Hots vs Deefield Bluefins Meet Report 7/27/2009 The Colony Red Hots had a great meet swimming against the Deerfield Bluefins. Red Hots earned a total of 133 time improvements and 90 qualifying times. Impressive swims were turned in by Jack McGuinness and Jackson Paul, who both had improvements of over ten seconds. Also, Jessica Tran broke a Colony record in the 15-18 age group 50 yard backstroke with a time of 30.53. Read more... Colony vs College Park Meet Report 7/21/2009 Colony Red Hots vs College Park Splash-The Colony Red Hots had a blast in a dual meet with neighboring team College Park Splash this past weekend. Colony swimmers that achieved exceptional time improvements of over ten seconds included John-Luke Abadie, Jack McGuinness, Sophia Nguyen, and Alexis Tom. Read more... Colony Red Hots - Meet Report for July 11, 2009 7/14/2009 Colony Red Hots vs Courtside Stingrays-The Colony Red Hots had a great meet last Saturday against the Courtside Stingrays. Red Hots with time improvements of over ten seconds were Aiden Brady, Elizabeth Cabral, Simon Cabral, Ryan Lee, Ethan Lin, and China Poblete. Sophia Nguyen had the most impressive time improvement of the meet, dropping 56.71 seconds in her 5-6 age group 25 yard butterfly. Read more... Colony Red Hots - Meet Report for June 27, 2009 7/21/2009 Colony Red Hots vs South Irvine Dolphins-The Colony Red Hots had another great meet this weekend against the South Irvine Dolphins. Red Hots that earned significant time improvements of over ten seconds were Simon Cabral, Makayla Hobbs, Ryan Lee, Ethan Lin, Isabelle Lin, Nicklaus Meiers, and China Poblete. Kevin Waterman earned the largest time improvement, dropping 31.03 seconds in the 7-8 age group 25 yard backstroke. Read more... Colony Red Hots vs North Irvine Knights 7/21/2009 Colony Red Hots vs North Irvine Knights - The Colony Red Hots had a blast at their first home meet of the season against North Irvine Knights. Most notably, Red Hots swimmers turned in 196 time improvements. Time improvements of over ten seconds were achieved by Wyatt Andraos, Joshua Baxter, Britney Cao, Claire McGuinness, Nicklaus Meiers, Jaclyn Paul, Claire Poissonnier, Gavin Schell, Trong Ton, and Lily Weingarten. Read More... 11-12 Age Group Party! 7/9/2009 Pizza, Volleyball/Basketball and S'mores for all Red Hot 11 - 12yr. olds! 7pm - 9pm, Thurs. July 16th, 2009 at the Colony pool RSVP to Anne Hobbs (Jonah and Makayla's mom): linder2@cox.net BY Wed. July 15th Read more... President's Update 7/9/2009 Hope everyone had a relaxing Fourth of July holiday. The second half of the season is now upon us and we have an away meet against the Courtside Stingrays this Saturday. Please keep in mind that the pool dimension at Courside is in meters and not in yards so there will be slight adjustment necessary to get the equivalent times for a 25 yard pool. Read more...] 7-8 Age Group Party! 7/6/2009 7&8 Age group party at Pump It Up in Irvine on Thursday, July 9th.Time: 7-9pm Cost per child: $10 (note, this is the base cost for the party which is $225 for 25 kids, each child over #25 is an additional $10 - no freebies except for age 2 and younger) Read more... President's Update 6/26/2009 Wasn't last week fun? The weather was perfect, not too hot, and the sun came out just at the right time (once the meet was over). Saturday is the second meet of the year and then we'll take a short break over the 4th of July holiday before starting the stretch run towards Championships! Read more... President's Update 6/17/2009 Some important things to remember for our first meet of the year. We can ease our way into the season nice and slow, unlike last year where we had a tri-meet at home for the first meet of the year. We'll be going against the Northwood Knights so get your Colony gear on and let's show them our team spirit. The volunteer schedules are posted for the meets now. If you go to the Meets/Volunteer section at our website, www.colonyredhots.org, there is a Jobs link next to each meet. Please make sure you fulfill your volunteer hours.Read more... President Update 6/9/2009 So far things are off to a great start. The kids are having fun and are excited about practice. Just few items of business: Visit colonyredhots.org for the latest news & information Root beer floats this Friday after each practice group Picture day rescheduled to June 23rd Read more... Welcome 2009 6/2/2009 Hope everything went smooth for the kids returning to pool after a year lay-off. And for those new families, welcome aboard! If you ever have any questions don't hesitate to email me. I'm here to answer any questions or concerns you may have. Read more... 2009 Registration Information 2/3/2009 Swim season runs from June 1st to August 9th. Practice sessions are daily Mon-Fri for approximately 1 hour, generally between 3:30pm - 6:30pm. The time and length of practice sessions are dependent upon the age group. Read more... Championship Results 8/11/2008 Led by ISL 2008 Coach of the Year, Josh Clark, the Colony Red Hots won the Irvine Swim League Championships for the fifth year in a row. The Red Hots started off the day with a Red Hot parent, Catherine Kohlhase, receiving the Dave Kelly Parent of the Year award. Read more... Introducing our new website 5/26/2006 Our new website is your one-stop destination for all swim team related information. It has been designed to give you the information you need quickly and easily. Visit often for the latest swim team news. During the season we will be communicating weekly by placing articles on the home page as well as delivering them to your on-deck mailbox in the form of the familiar "mailbox flyers" we all know and love. However the web articles may contain additional information so look on the web for the most complete news. Read more...