Blue Buoy Family Swim School

Blue Buoy Family Swim School Swim Lessons for All ages and abilities.. Located in Tustin, CA Since 1956. Great Beginnings...Lead to Great Finishes!
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Blue Buoy Swim School has been teaching generations of Orange County families to swim since 1956!www.bluebuoy.com

One of the blessings of Blue Buoy Family Swim School's 70 years of teaching the families of Tustin and greater Orange Co...
10/01/2026

One of the blessings of Blue Buoy Family Swim School's 70 years of teaching the families of Tustin and greater Orange County is the chance to teach these 3rd generation students. Indie's grandpa swam here as a young boy and Johnny taught her dad and both Tatum's dad and grandpa. Great beginnings...lead to great finishes! β€οΈπŸŠβ€β™‚οΈπŸŠβ€β™€οΈπŸ˜Ž

16 months old Jake is loving his swim lessons. He is another 2nd generation student.
10/01/2026

16 months old Jake is loving his swim lessons. He is another 2nd generation student.

09/28/2026

Thank you Hilmi for your 5.0-star review on Google:
My son actually looks forward to going here and wants to stay extra. Enough said. Oh, and everyone here is just so kind, caring, and overall wonderful.

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09/16/2026

🏊 EVENT 8 β€” BOYS 20 FREE | Meet 6, 2026
Six boys. Two heats. And when the judges looked at their cards, they couldn't split a single place at the top of this race.
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A TIE FOR FIRST. πŸ₯‡πŸ₯‡
Evan Williams β€” 18.11. First race of his life. No seed time, nothing on the board, nobody expecting a thing. He got on the blocks in Heat 1 and swam it like he'd done it a hundred times.
Kieran Pontius β€” 18.29. Heat 2. Another personal best, and here's the thing about Kieran β€” he has improved every single time he has swum this race. 26.05 at the start of the season. Then 18.67. Then 18.57. Now 18.29.
Nearly eight seconds off his 20 Free in one summer. πŸ”₯
Eighteen hundredths of a second between them, in two different heats. The judges called them both first.
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AND A TIE FOR SECOND. πŸ₯ˆπŸ₯ˆ
Oliver Naish β€” 20.42.
William Mauerhan β€” 20.61.
These two have been hunting each other down all season. Watch the gap close:
Meet 1 β†’ 3.3 seconds apart
Meet 2 β†’ 3.1 apart
Meet 4 β†’ 1.8 apart
Meet 6 β†’ 0.19 apart 😳
William has never once gone slower in this event β€” 24.77, 23.57, 22.16, 20.61. Four meets, four personal bests, no exceptions. Oliver has shown up for this race at five of six meets this season; nobody in Event 8 has raced it more.
They spent an entire summer reeling each other in β€” and finished the year dead even.
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THE REST OF THE STORY
Jude Amren β€” 21.14. Also his first race ever. And we love this one: Jude's brother Anders got on the blocks for his first race at this same meet, over in Event 6. Two Amren brothers, one afternoon, both doing the scariest thing in this sport for the first time. 🩡
Elijah Guzman β€” 22.87. Not his day, and every swimmer has one. But his season says plenty: 22.07, then 22.06 at Meet 2 β€” a personal best by one hundredth of a second πŸ˜„ β€” then all the way down to 20.28. He'll be back.
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FINAL RESULTS
πŸ₯‡ Evan Williams 18.11 β€” tie
πŸ₯‡ Kieran Pontius 18.29 β€” tie
πŸ₯ˆ Oliver Naish 20.42 β€” tie
πŸ₯ˆ William Mauerhan 20.61 β€” tie
Jude Amren 21.14
Elijah Guzman 22.87
The record in this event is still 16.97, set by Zeke Cheng at Meet 2. Kieran is closing in on it. πŸ‘€
Two first-time racers. Four personal bests. Two ties. That's the last meet of 2026 β€” thank you to every Blue Buoy family who came out. πŸ’™

Underwater photos taken on Wednesday
09/16/2026

Underwater photos taken on Wednesday

09/14/2026

Thank you Romain for your 5.0-star review on Google:
We have been using them for over 10 years. We took a break around the pandemic, and they were great enough to honor lesson credits we had as makeup lesson options.The instructors are great and cater to the skills and comfort level of each student. Many of the instructors have worked there since we started, which demonstrates that they are a great place to work and be around.

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09/03/2026

πŸ† EVENT 6 β€” BOYS 20 FREE | Meet 6, 2026

Only two boys have held the Blue Buoy record in this event all season. On Saturday they swam next to each other, lanes 3 and 4, in the last heat of the year β€” and the judges couldn't separate them.

Benjamin Killin owned it from the opening meet: 21.07 in June, then 20.71. Then he missed two meets, and Sebastian Meichtry took it from him β€” 20.28 at Meet 3, then 19.87 at Meet 4. Ben came back at Meet 5 and took it right back with an 18.16.

So the only two boys who have ever held this record came into the final meet side by side.

Ben touched at 17.73. Sebastian at 17.85.

The judges awarded them both 1st place. πŸ₯‡πŸ₯‡

And that 17.73 is a new meet record β€” Benjamin broke his own. Which is exactly what his brother Xander Killin did in Event 4 the same afternoon. Two Killin brothers, one meet, two records, both taken off themselves.

Before Saturday, no boy in this event had ever been under 18 seconds. Two of them did it in the same heat, and finished tied.

⚑ And that still wasn't the biggest swim of the day.

William Reynolds got in with a best of 34.01 and went 20.97. Thirteen seconds. Out of the first heat, and it still put him 3rd overall in the whole event.

8 of 11 boys swam personal bests. A few worth naming:

πŸ”Ή Mark Molokov has improved at every single meet he's raced β€” 34.15 β†’ 31.00 β†’ 30.70 β†’ 28.37. Four for four.
πŸ”Ή Konnor Henry went slower at Meets 3 and 4 and kept showing up anyway. Saturday he broke 27 seconds for the first time: 26.49.
πŸ”Ή William Harvey has dropped time every time he's swum this race: 30.59 β†’ 28.59 β†’ 26.33.
πŸ”Ή Bentley Maxwell opened this season at 1:18.51. He's now more than thirty seconds faster.
πŸ”Ή Hugo Magdaleno (58.29) and Anders Amran (36.91) raced for the very first time. Getting on the blocks that first time is the hardest thing in this sport.

FINAL RESULTS
πŸ₯‡ Benjamin Killin 17.73 ⭐ NEW MEET RECORD
πŸ₯‡ Sebastian Meichtry 17.85 β€” 1st place tie
πŸ₯‰ William Reynolds 20.97
4. William Harvey 26.33
5. Konnor Henry 26.49
6. Mark Molokov 28.37
7. Gage Sprekelmeyer 31.05
8. Anders Amran 36.91
9. Bentley Maxwell 47.32
10. Richard Harris 48.49
11. Hugo Magdaleno 58.29

Eleven boys. Two heats. A record, a tie, and a whole season of work landing at once. πŸ’™

Thank you to every family who came out for our final meet of 2026.

Reminder: We're closed for Labor Day Weekend. Enjoy your family time!
09/03/2026

Reminder: We're closed for Labor Day Weekend. Enjoy your family time!

09/01/2026

🏊 THE INSTRUCTORS RACE β€” Meet 6, 2026

Once a year the whistles get put down, the clipboards get handed off, and our instructors have to climb up on the blocks and do the exact thing they've been asking your kids to do all summer.

They delivered.

Lucas Colon took it wire to wire in 17.68 β€” and dropped time doing it (old best 18.00).
Ian Dimas right behind him at 18.97, a personal best of his own (19.38).
Eric Johnson third across in 21.33.
Turner Johnson brought it home at 23.08.
And Andy Olson got in for her very first race ever β€” 22.54 on debut. Not bad for a rookie.

Two of our instructors swam personal bests in a race that doesn't even count for anything. That tells you a lot about the people teaching your kids.

Thank you to every family who came out for our final meet of the 2026 season. What a way to close it out. πŸ’™

08/29/2026

πŸŠβ€β™‚οΈ FIFTY YEARS OF DADS ON THE BLOCKS

For half a century, we've closed out our swim season the same way: we hand the pool over to the parents and let the kids do the cheering for once.

This year, eleven dads lined up for the 40-yard freestyle across two heats. Nine of them had never raced it before.

And one of those nine nearly made history. Alan Shaw went 19.61 β€” first time on the blocks, ever β€” finishing just 1.08 seconds off a meet record that's stood since 2024. That record belongs to Dominik Meichtry, a three-time Swiss Olympian, at 18.53. It survived. Barely.

Behind him, Julian Harvey took 2nd at 21.81, and Jon Sprekelmeyer rounded out the podium at 23.33 β€” also his first time in the event.

Fifty years of dads climbing up there in front of their kids and finding out what they've got left. Some things are worth keeping.

Great beginnings lead to great finishes. πŸ’™πŸ’›

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