Annual Rossi Scholarship 2012 Winner: Jeffery Phan

Congratulations to Jeffrey Phan, the winner of this year's Rossi Scholarship Award!  Every year we give this award to our most outstanding senior for their academic achievement and swimming accomplishments over the years. I have known Jeffrey as a member of the team since he was nine and am proud that he has grown into a fine young man who displays great team spirit and leadership. 

Great Job Jeffery!

Edward Woo, President
Rossi "Rays" Swim Team

GO TEAM JEFFERY!

Our CHRISTMAS / HOLIDAY FAMILY Album

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. ~Burton Hillis

Please send in your family photos for our Christmas/Holiday family album. Thanks.

ARIA, IAIN, dad-Russell, mom-Christina

mom-Daniela, SOPHIA

dad-Peter, TYLER, TAYLOR, SOPHIE, mom-Jennie

mom-Patricia, LUCAS, ETHAN, dad-Kyle

JORDAN, CALVIN, JARED, BROOKE 

(Greetings all the way from Garden Grove/Anaheim)

Daniel, mom-Ling, dad-David, AMANDA, Bryan, baby Isabelle, Stephanie

Aaron, dad-Jano, mom-Rene, Sofia, IZEK

dad-William, CHRISTOPHER, mom-Lily

WARREN, dad-Cliff, MARCO, mom-Becky

Taylor, DIEGO, dad-David, Sydney, mom-Christine

Keep the family photos coming! We're collecting them until Chinese New Year's Year of the Snake (February 10th).

Rossi Team Christmas Party, Part 2 | December 8, 2012

Jump start your day with positive thoughts. Believe that no matter how hectic life may get, everything will fall into place. ~Unknown

More photos from Mr. Stephen (Brandon's dad). Check it all out HERE.

Rossi Swim Team Christmas Party | December 8, 2012

Christmas season is a time of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends. ~Margaret Thatcher

Another fun and warm time spent with family and friends at the House of Air and then at Kome Restaurant. Thank you, (Mr.) Ed & (Auntie) Tina, for once again putting together such a fantastic event for our swimmers and families. And thank you, (Ms.) Shirley, for doing the Secret Santa exchange gifts. Whatever you received that day, or will be receiving in the following weeks, remember to always be thankful. It is all done in good cheer. Don't let disappointment (of not getting what you wanted) creep into your hearts lest you become ungrateful and miss the blessings of this special time.

Last but not least, thank you, (Mr.) Peter, for capturing the day's event. Here's a few shots from that day. To see more, go to this LINK for more action and still shots. If you took photos that day, please feel free to share with everyone.   

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people...mean more to me than statistics. ~Ernie Banks

Congratulations to our record-breaking swimmers! Wishing you and everyone else the best in the coming year. 

For our annual Christmas blogpost, please send in a jpeg file of your family's Christmas photo to my attention. It can be candid or formal. See last year's post. We'd like to see MORE! Thank you.

Braving the Storm!

In rain, hail and STORM, swimmers still swim. They never call off any meets. Unless someone or something contaminates the pool -- the only known reason! (See post in Jan 2010--scroll down to the end of the post.) 

Watch this LINK to hear, feel and get an idea of how harsh the weather was at last weekend's Junior Olympics. You just can't capture that in still photography. You've got to see in action. Thanks, Jennie (Mrs. Ho-Tran), for filming amidst the chaos. You guys are real troopers! 

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability. ~Ho Chi Minh

A Little Mishap

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. ~Aristotle

Due to a minor mishap, photos were deleted from this blog by accident. It is in the slow process of being retrieved. It may take a while so please be patient and enjoy the ones that are still intact.

Thank you. And enjoy this season with your loved ones.

See you Saturday. Don't forget to bring your signed waiver forms.

Pacific Swimming 14&U Junior Olympic Championships, Morgan Hill | Nov 30th - Dec 2nd, 2012

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford 

A short account of this past weekend's JO meet by Mr. Peter Tran, "The weather was so bad...our canopies broke from the strong wind while setting up today. It was raining hard. I have never seen so many broken canopies."

But that didn't prevent the swimmers with their families from coming to this anticipated meet. Thanks, coaches & parents, for sticking it out with our swimmers to perform their best. Thanks, Peter, for even attempting to take photos in such unpleasant condition. We're happy to view the ones you managed to take and share!

December Birthdays

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ~Franz Kafka

2  Sophia Tran

8 Victor Ung

11  John Lim 

13  Tyler Tran 

13  Sophia Gibson

17 Roy Tam

17  Tucker Coad 

27  Jeremy Huynh 

28  Nathaniel Tran 

31  Amberlynn Tran

Enjoy your special day!

November Birthdays!

Happy Birthday, November babies!

8  Justin Lee

13  Ethan Cheung 

15  Izek Avanessian 

21  Victoria Wong 

21  Ryan Szeto 

21  Henri Houdre 

(moved to France to attend school)

23  Eric Chen 

26  Amanda Yee

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GIANTS! You make our City proud.

Check out this awesome video montage from the Chronicles. Photo courtesy of The Chronicles.

And please let's not forget the victims of Hurricane Sandy in the midst of the Giants' victory (no matter what the narrator of this montage said.) You can easily give to Red Cross or other organization of your choice to help out.

More Giants parade photos here from the Chronicles.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. ~Maya Angelou

Zone 3 Championships • Vallejo, CA | October 19-21, 2012

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. ~John Wooden

Enjoy Zone 3 photos by Mr. Stephen Wong (Brandon's dad). Thanks for always sharing!

Message from Tina & Ed (Team Officers)

Congratulations to our team on an extremely successful Zone 3 Championships! For the first time ever, the RAYS came away from this meet with a 3rd place trophy out of twenty-six Zone 3 teams. It was really exciting and at one point we were only 10 points behind for 3rd place. It was very close between our team and the Santa Rosa Neptunes. The swimmers performed really well in a clutch and the relays were very exciting to watch!
Great job to our coaches, swimmers, and officials and thank you to all our parents! Everyone pitched in to do their share-timing and marshaling non-stop during this meet. It was really great that we had such team spirit and support!

A special thank you to the Michaud and Ho-Tran families for always coming early, lugging the canopies and setting up our team area for everyone! 

We really appreciate it! 

~Tina & Ed