The Cerritos College men’s swim team will be traveling to Cuesta College for its next meet on Friday and Saturday, which will be all-day events.   

Cerritos hasn’t attended the Cuesta Invitational in the past three years due to the cost and distance.

in the Golden West Invitational, the Falcons took fourth place with a total of 843 team points.

Falcons swimming head coach Joe Abing said,”There were no flaws, there were just three teams that swam faster than us.”

Cuesta swimming and diving team head coach John Marsh said, “Some schools have had difficulty due to their budgets.

“We’re not traveling as much as a college; we’ll have to give up [the Pasadena Invitational] because of the budget.”

There have been 25 colleges that confirmed they’re attending the Cuesta Invitational, with a total of 40 being expected.

“We are preparing in some things, we’re more focused. In this meet, we will compete against Northern California colleges,” Abing said.

Freshman Falcons swimmer Enrico Hidalgo said, “I want to make all my times to get me to state and  win all of my races.”

This is the third away invitational that Cerritos has attended this season.

Cerritos has increased its intensity of training due to the amount of teams that will be attending the invitational.

“The intense amount of work that I have put into practice has me ready for this invitational,” Hidalgo said.

Several schools have the advantage to win over Cuesta College because they have had competitions before. This is Cuesta’s first meet because its aquatic center was going through construction.

Marsh is also concerned with Cuesta having meets Thursday and Friday and does not want his players to be too drained.

“We will have two meets before our invitational. Until then, we will continue to practice harder this whole week,” Marsh said.