Coaches: Sergio Dorrego (head coach), Cayenne Bagnol (assistant coach), Ben Blodgett (assistant coach), Jordan Jaime (assistant coach), Andrea Lantz (assistant coach) 

Top Returners (boys): Matthew Johnson (10), Troy Jung (11), Cheney Mo (12), Ethan Park (10), Rohan Parker (12), Samuel Yun (11)

Top Returners (girls): Eveline Grannis (12), Zeliyah Lazarit (11), Priscilla Munoz (11), Alyssa Ruvalcaba (11), Claire Yoo (10), Isabella Zia (11)

Top Newcomers (boys): Jayden Choi (9), Reeve Girod (9), Isaac Park (9), Rhett Parker (9)

Top Newcomers (girls): Bree Heath (9), Emily Kim (9), Jisoo Park (9), Cora Woodward (10)

Last Season: The Lady Lancers ended strong, placing first in the Freeway League, with Grannis competing in the 500 freestyle in CIF and placing 10th in the state championships. The boys placed second overall, and the medley relay team placed first in the CIF-SS Division 3. 

Outlook: The team moved to the top league, the Crestview League, in the 2025-2026 season. Dorrego said this season’s team is composed of younger swimmers, with only nine seniors compared to the 17 seniors last season. 

With more young swimmers this season, the coach said his main goal is to develop their skills. 

“I think just continuing what we’ve been doing, continuing our practices, will help them improve,” Dorrego said. “I think I will use my current older swimmers to pass on the knowledge that they have to the younger swimmers to keep the tradition and keep the swim knowledge going.”

Co-captain individual medley stroker and sprinter Mo said, despite the lower number of senior swimmers, the head coach is doing a lot to improve the team’s stroke and free work.

“I see them in my practice every day: practicing starts, turns and long-distance sets,” Mo said. “It’s just nice to see that our coach is really taking care of the kids for the future since we had such a big fallout of the seniors graduating.”

The newcomer sprinter Girod said he looks up to the upperclassmen.

“The seniors are really good examples, because they are really fast,” Girod said. “I can ask questions to them too.” 

The head coach said that to prepare for this season, the swimmers practiced all year, starting from the second day of school.

“I do feel that the longer practices were effective in developing our swimmers’ skills,” he said. “With these longer practices, we can split into individualized groups where swimmers swim with others at their speed and those who swim similar events, and I definitely see skills improving even after only two swim meets.”

Despite the long practice, co-captain freestyler Grannis said the swimmers had a lot of disqualifications during the meet on Thursday, Feb. 26, with boys scoring 66-104, and girls scoring 65-105.

“I know they’ve been working really hard at practice,” Grannis said. “I think they’re going to work really hard to fix those mistakes and work hard at practice to help benefit the team during our season.”

Dorrego said that to enhance practices, the team fundraised $15,479, purchasing different swim equipment such as paddles, buoys and fins, which weren’t available for all swimmers before.

“We can do different types of swim drills to improve their swimming,” the head coach said. “So we’re hoping that it will improve their speed and strength.”

With both the boys and girls teams advancing from Division 3 to Division 2, Grannis said she hopes to have more qualifiers join her for CIF-SS.

“Hopefully it’ll turn out well, but I know we’re in a harder league, so we’ll see,” she said. “Personally, I hope to make it to the state level again since I made it last year, and then hopefully to score more points at CIF-SS since we’re Division 2 again.”

Additionally, Mo said the team’s goal is to send as many people to CIF-SS as possible and place high in the Crestview League, which is the highest of three leagues in the Century Conference. 

“I also want to have fun with the team and enjoy swimming, and get to know all the new swimmers, and try to bond with them,” he said. 

With Troy High School (boys 4-0/girls 1-3) being in the same league, Dorrego said it will be the team’s closest rival.

“I think [the team is] going to be really motivated to swim against Troy, especially since there’s a lot of club swimmers that swim at Troy and here,” the head coach said. “So they’ll be motivated to swim against each other.”

Girod said he hopes for the best in the new league.

“I think I’ll do well because I’ve been focusing a lot more on swim recently, but they’re a really good team,” he said. 

The swim and dive team will face Brea Olinda High School (boys 2-2/girls 3-1) for the first league game on Wednesday, March. 11, at the opposing team’s campus at 3:15 p.m.