The Jim Divine Invitational is always a good measuring stick for where we are with our early season training, technique and endurance.  In a long season, it is never too late to keep making adjustments and keep looking forward to more fast swims in the future.  With December and January we start to look towards our mid-season Championship meets.  Over the next few weeks, we will be gearing up for these meets – we hope that your swimmers can be at the pool every day to really focus in on...

Congrats to Katie for being awarded the job of Head Coach for the 2014 Missouri Valley All-Star team.  She will lead over 75 swimmers from our LSC against some of the best swimmers from around the region.  We are very fortunate to have such a widely recognized quality coach leading our Age Group program here at AAAA.   Join me in telling her great job when you see her at the pool.  This is a great privilege and honor.   Patrick  

This Thursday November 14th there is a special moment for one of our swimmers- Canaan Campbell.   At 2:30PM Canaan will be signing his National Letter of Intent with Missouri State University. His signing will take place in the Free State High School Library.   If you aren’t busy- We would love to see you all there to support AAAA Swimmer Canaan Campbell.

This past weekend we had great racing in Independence. It was a great warm-up meet for our upcoming meet in Columbia. We had 30 plus swimmers compete. We had the fastest 9-10 Boy, 9-10 Girl, and 11-12 Boy at the meet. JT Amrein and Payton Krug won all of their events that they competed in this weekend. Josh Florence won over 90% of his races while achieving AAA Times standards.   The purpose of the meet was served by racing, learning more about our stroke technique, and competing in several...

  Ad Astra Shines in the Little Apple   We had a great turnout for our first meet of the season in Manhattan. With 40 athletes Ad Astra came to race. We were the second largest team behind the host team- Manhattan Marlins. During the meet, each heat was filled with Ad Astra silver caps taking first and second and third. The events were run fastest to slowest and Ad Astra won more than half of all the events offered.   This was the first travel meet for some of...

  What a great way to kick our season off!  Our athletes that competed at the First Annual Senior Circuit meet raced hard against quality competition.  The meet featured 5 of the areas fastest teams, some quick races and a favorable format that everyone enjoyed.   I want to give a special thanks to all of the AAAA family members who helped out at the meet.  I heard nothing but great things all weekend.  We ran a quality meet and it showed.   Here are the meet results.  A few of...

Swim-A-Thon Schedule OCTOBER 12 th, 2013   What to Bring to the Swim-A-Thon... Have your swimsuit on Caps- Red AAAA Cap Goggles (two just in case your pair breaks during the two hours) Equipment- Swimmers are able to use fins for the two hours. Water bottle/Sports Drink Swim-A-Thon Donations that have not been turned in- Please have money labeled in envelope. If you signed up online to bring an item for the team brunch- please bring Saturday morning. We will be setting up on Friday night at 7:00PM in the...

  1) Show up Some of the best athletes I’ve known were good simply because they made swimming a priority. If there was practice, they were there – it was that simple. Practice is practice for a reason – to practice the skills that will make you better. Whether that’s training your body to maintain dolphin kicks off every wall in a race, learning to hold your breath for a whole 50, or building up the endurance to finish the mile. Some people can get away with not showing up...

Canaan Campbell recently made a verbal commitment to Missouri State for his college choice. We are proud of Canaan and know that Missouri State will be a perfect fit for his next chapter in life. We will cherish Canaan's Senior year and his leadership role.    Canaan was featured on Swim Swam- a popular website for swim news across the country- about his commitment.   Read about it Here!