Welcome to 2025!

Dear QSS Members,

I would like to thank all of you for being valuable members of QuickSilver as we enter 2025. As we enter our first days of swimming in 2025, we can look back and appreciate the opportunities we had to race and train this past year.  

Let’s take a moment this week to appreciate Gunderson HS, the SJUSD middle schools, the Pinehurst Cabana Club, SCVCC, Presentation High School, and the Almaden Swim and Racquet Club for sacrificing convenience because they recognize the importance of swimming in our community. We live near an ocean, and kids need to learn to swim for safety. Aside from saving lives, swimming is one of the best ways to stay fit and develop strong lungs in our ever more sedentary yet inter-connected world. I am incredibly thankful that we have enough resources to weather the individual pool outages that seem to be plaguing the area. Despite ongoing pool challenges in our area, we can use our resources to offer practices when facilities are struggling. That took no small amount of effort and legwork by our staff, and I hope we can all appreciate the work that goes into it. We have shown that together we can overcome the toughest of challenges, and hopefully that knowledge will allow us to thrive in and out of the pool in the years to come.

Our block party meets allow our swimmers and families the opportunity to gain racing experience while supporting QSS. We couldn’t do these small meets without volunteers, volunteer officials, and our coaches putting in the time to make these meets possible. It takes a village, but the relationships you build when you host meets together can last a lifetime.

We had swimmers all over the country this December as we finished the fall season with meets ranging from local age-group and senior meets to high level travel meets at ASU, Las Vegas, and even the Junior National meet in Austin. We saw a ton of progress this season, and we saw plenty of learning opportunities, hopefully we shared all of it with great friends and made lifelong memories. We couldn’t have done any of it without the tremendous commitment from our board, our families and our coaches going the extra mile to create the opportunities for these experiences. Thank you all for the hard work and dedication you’ve put in for the sake of our swimmers!

And finally, I would like to salute our swimmers for the excellent job they have done in and out of the water. The motivation shown in the pool has inspired us to work ever harder to keep this team moving forward. The discipline to manage their time to come to practice, the ability to build friendships, and the commitment to self-improvement has inspired us in so many ways. 2025 is upon us, and the future looks bright indeed. Let’s show everyone that we are motivated and determined to make it our best year yet!

Happy 2025!

Andre Salles-Cunha

Our swimmers have been working hard to achieve some extremely high goals, This fall saw some of those goals come to fruition. Our quest to prove that we have the best High School training group in the country saw some progress with the smashing of the 15-16 boys 200 Freestyle Relay national record! We were well under the 400 Freestyle Relay national record as well, but a false start has left us with work to do. Our 15-18's broke several boys and girls relay and individual team records this fall.Our HS success is a sign of the strength of our Age-Group program, and we look forward to all that we can accomplish in 2025!

QuickSilver Fall 2024 Record Board

QSS Top 10 Times

• Adelyn Pham
• Alex Murphy
• Aria Pon
• Ava Taylor
• Ayla Burke
• Clark Apuada
• Enna O'Young
• Eric Zheng
• Ethan Tayco
• Evan Raegen
• Isaac Litwiller
• Jack Cameron
• James Brandall
• Jay Gulvady
• Kenley Williams
• Kevin Foucu
• Evan Hertzer
• Thomas Aguero
• Kiana Koechlin
• Kyra Cui
• Libi Polonsky
• Lucas Tomkins
• Lulu Groen
• Makena Chuang
• Malia Groen
• Max Miller
• Nathan Foucu
• Oliver Santana
• Ozzy Su
• Pasha Salistra
• Phoebe Faucette
• Robert Gergardt
• Sean Chen
• Shinwoo Yoo
• Tyler Porter*
• Vera Meshcheryakova
• Viviana Lee
• William McLean
• Zachary Raegen
• Zoe Childers
• Zoe Windham