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The inaugural Aqua Knuckles SCM Fall Classic, hosted by the Spartans Masters, will be Saturday, November 15th, and Sunday, November 16th in La Canada, California. This is going to be a fun and fast 25-meter masters swim meet!!
Spartans Masters was formed in January 2025 and is already making its mark as one of the fastest teams in U.S. masters swimming. The team took down five USMS National records in August 2025 at the SPMS Southwest Zone Long Course Meters Championship in Mission Viejo, California, and set one individual NAG record at the same meet (Daria Chebotareva, 50 back). Two of the Spartans’ relay times at the meet would have stood as AQUA Masters World Records if all relay swimmers were 25 years of age or older. You can read about the August 2025 Mission Viejo meet here. American Paralympic swimmer and advocate Jamal Hill is also expected to swim at the Aqua Knuckles SCM Fall Classic. Hill swam at both the 2024 Paris Paralympics and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, winning a bronze medal in the 50m freestyle at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. Hill is the Founder of Swim Up Hill Foundation, which provides swimming instruction to low-to-middle middle-income people of color who haven’t learned to swim and are at risk of drowning.
The Southern California meet location for the Aqua Knuckles SCM Fall Classic this November should provide agreeable weather for athletes ready to test their training before the 2025 Thanksgiving holiday. Other teams expected to attend include Southern California’s Aquatic Sports Performance (“ASP”). The 2025 Aqua Knuckles SCM Fall Classic will award cash prizes for masters world records. The meet will feature delicious food offerings and swim-specific vendors present, including The Swim Guy and Triswim.
Eligibility for this meet will be any swimmer 18+ who is registered with US Masters.
Registration for the 2025 Aqua Knuckles SCM Fall Classic can be found here.
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John O’Grady – Founder, Aqua Knuckles
John has been a competitive swimmer for more than 40 years and continues to learn and innovate. His love of the water has seen him through age-group swimming, high school teams, Divisions I and II college teams and masters swimming. He has competed in open water competitions in the Atlantic Ocean and has practiced in the English Channel. It is hard to find this guy out of the water! John resides in Southern California and coaches the Spartans of La Canada club swim team in La Canada, California: www.spartanswim.com. When he is not in the water or on a pool deck, John runs a boutique media services company focused on creative projects of all kinds for both large and small entities. He enjoys cooking, surfing, travel, photography and spending time with his wife and children, all of whom are competitive swimmers.
