Kicking off for the 2024 year, the returning seahorses are back along with welcoming new faces onto the team. Ever since Oct. 28, practices have begun to improve technique before competing with other schools and will continue on from there.

Freshman Emilia Buschmann feels that having a good mindset is a big part in working hard to bring improvement with swim techniques. She has swam ever since she was six years old, now transitioning over for her first year on the highschool team.

“It is definitely scary, the practices are more intense,” Buschmann said. “I have to balance that, but otherwise it is really fun. We are like a family.”

Boys’ and girls’ swim both participate in intrasquad, the first meet of the season that presents a mock swim meet to prepare for the real events. Once all together, everyone is split into two teams: red or white. After the split ups done by coaches, a senior from either team hosts a party for poster making and creating the lineups. This year’s intrasquad will take place today at home. Senior Kevin Martinez gets ready for his fourth year, looking forward to intrasquad each year he returns to swim.

“I am excited for the team bonding and to see the improvement of the other swimmers,” Martinez said.

As of this year, seniors Paul Buck, Andrew Manick, Nicholas Sanchez, Lauren Dumaresq, Jeorgia Garcia and Aranxta Rivera wereannounced as team captains on Nov. 12. Rivera, who has been on the team since freshman year, strives for the idea of team bonding—wanting everyone to be included within the team. Not only to enjoy being in the sport, but as well as enjoying the social aspect and people that are in it.

“I’m always trying to make jokes with the team and making sure they all understand what we’re doing,” Rivera said. “You do not do it because you are good at swimming, you do it because it brings you to other people.”