Doing Something

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. ~Sydney Smith

I saw this flyer at an East Bay cafe. Thought I'd share it with our team should any of you are interested in participating. It's for a good cause.

Remembering NINE-ELEVEN

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - LIFE itself. ~Walter Anderson

Remembering this day. 

In memory of all those who lost their lives on this horrific day 11 years ago. 

And choosing to treasure LIFE…even more.

3 photos taken at the World Trade Center Site with Sydney this past summer (07.12)

Autographs from Jason Lezak & Lara Jackson

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. ~Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Here's some of our swimmers getting autographs and inspirations from gold-medalist swimmers, Lara Jackson and Jason Lezak at Sport Basement in Presidio this past Saturday. How cool is that?

Thanks, Mr. Vu (Jeremy), for taking and sharing these photos with the team.

Here's some from Cynthia Tran. Thanks, Cynthia.

Morgan Hill Swim Meet • Part 3 | Aug 31 - Sep 2, 2012

TEAM means 

Together 

Everyone 

Achieves 

More!  

~Author Unknown

Enjoy more fabulous photos from Christopher's dad, Mr. Chen and Brandon's dad, Mr. Wong.

Click the following link for more pictures...

Morgan Hill Meet Photos by William Chen

And here's more action shots from Brandon's dad, Mr. Wong (Stephen): 
Morgan Hill Photos by Stephen Wong  

And here's a video from Jared/Jordan/Brooke's dad, Mr. Vu. Fun times. (Thanks, Jeremy). Click below to link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7BKb_VP5qw&feature=youtu.be

In addition to Mr. Tran (Peter) and Mr Wong (Gary), we are very privileged to have new parent photographers. Thank you for sharing your images with us. If others took photos, please don't hesitate to share your links.

PLEASE BE ADVISED that whenever you'd like to use any photos from this blog for your social media sites, please give proper credit to the photographer(s) and link back to our team blog. We'd like everyone to know who/where/what we are. And please be respectful of others. Do not post photos of other people/swimmers outside of this blog without their permission. Thank you for your understanding.

Morgan Hill Meet • Part 2 | Aug 31-Sept 2, 2012

Individual commitment to a group effort - 
that is what makes a team work... 
~Vince Lombardi

This annual meet is a mandatory one for all Rossi swimmers. But upon viewing all the photos taken by Mr. Tran (Peter), it doesn't look like anyone was forced to be there. If anything, it's one of the team's highlights of the year. They've been training all summer long (early mornings & afternoons and Saturdays, too!) It was high time to put all the hard work to the test. Each swimmer's best is a big contribution to the team's score. Thank you, coaches & parents for helping our swimmers achieve their goals.

Thank you always, Mr. Tran (Peter), for putting together an awesome photo montage. Lots of memories made in one weekend.  To see the fabulous slideshow, go to this youtube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKpV18S0Vuw&feature=youtu.be

Enjoy!

A SPECIAL THANKS TO FINIS for sponsoring our team. 

Here's some of our swimmers sporting their new tech suits. Don't they look dashing!

More photos to come!

Morgan Hill Meet • Part 1 | Aug 31-Sept 2, 2012

Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are determined to achieve...and as you keep at it until you have achieved. -Robert H. Lauer

With very busy swimmers loaded with back to school work, and new & very young swimmers, our team managed to come in 3rd place! Each of you contributed to making our team placed! Your determination and hard work paid off. CONGRATULATIONS and keep it up! 

See message from Mr. Ed Woo:

What a great meet we had this weekend! The RAYS came in 3rd place overall considering there were over 900 swimmers at this meet from over 40 different teams. Great JOB! See link for the meet results HERE.

Thanks to all the parents for helping out at the meet and thanks to our coaching staff for getting our swimmers ready for this meet. Many of our swimmers got their personal best times and also broke a few of our team records. A special thanks to Jared Vu for helping us sent up the relay teams with me and Mike. Thanks to Cynthia Tran for working as our team manager at the meet.

And thank YOU, Mr. Ed Woo and Ms. Tina Vu, for managing such a fine group of swim families...making everyone feel at home at all times. Thank you to all the fine photographers we had this past weekend. We hope to post photos as soon as we're able to. For the meantime, here's a teaser.

Congratulations to our seniors who joined us at this meet. Wishing you all the best in your college years. And Happy Birthday to Margaret, Jordan, Emily M and Sydney. 

Lastly, thank you so much for making Sydney's last meet a special & memorable one. She has some of the best times of her life growing up as a Manta Ray. So much memories (in 9 years)! We'll share some of those later. In the meantime, know that Rossi is family to her, and she will root for you ALL the time, and will ALWAYS be a Manta RAE.

Enjoy this LABOR day-off with your loved ones.

September Birthdays

Wishing everyone a WONDERFUL birthday month!

4  Sydney Leong

9  Monique Malone 

10  Daniel Yakovlev

17  Samantha Lau

26  Christie Lum 

28  Jenny Szeto 

30  Brooke Vu