Cuesta's Aqua-Cats travelled to Walnut to join 20 other teams for the 40th Mt San Antonio Invitational. Cuesta's men, after winning their first two meets had to settle for the Silver, as a team, while the women took 10th overall. 

The men were led by 2025 CCCAA State Swimmer of the Grant Huston joined Freshman Zach Pechan as they combined to set new Cuesta Records.  Huston, who was also Cuesta's 2025 Male Athlete of the Year, set eight school records last season and has added two more events this season for ten event titles.  This past weekend he dropped his 200 and 1,650-freestyle marks to 1:36.50 and 15:53.10, respectively, and continued his assault in the breaststroke.  He posted new record times in both the 50 (:25.71) and 100 (:55.17) breaststrokes.  He now owns the school standard in ten events.  Of course, one event not, currently owned by Huston in the 50-backstroke, which was set by Zach Pechan (:24.32) last weekend.  Overall, the men's team delivered nine new Cuesta Top 10 marks at Mt San Antonio.  

 

Cuesta Women's Swim & Dive cracked the Top 10 as a team but placed only one swimmer on the medal stand.  Freshman Evangeline Brown took 3rd in the 50-backstroke as the Cougars' top finish in the meet.  

 

The Cougars will be back in the tank this weekend, while enjoying their own home waters, at the 47th Arena Invitational at Cuesta College.  The meet, once the largest in the nation, is the premier community college meet in the State with the best teams from both the Northern and Southern Regionals competing for the title.  The meet shall run all day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.  Forty-seven years ago, Cuesta Aquatics' Founding Coach Terry Bowen enlisted Guy Wells and Greg Hind as the primary sponsors of his small five-school swimming and diving meet.  The meet has changed sponsors over the past four-plus decades with Wells and Company, Straight Down, Finis and Arena all taking the roll, while the event grew in popularity and prestige.  At its height the invitational boasted over 35 colleges, 68 teams and over 1,000 entries and was the largest collegiate swim invitational in the nation.