Hi all.  This year you might notice a few changes around the swim program to make things flow a little better.  Some of the changes involve the schedule and group names.

For this season, we will have 4 groups plus Juniors as loosely defined below:

Juniors are our kids who are super comfortable in the water and can kinda/sorta swim but don't actually swim freestyle (or any other stroke) that resembles what freestyle should really look like.  Coach Emily will have this group.  They will start meeting on March 11th this year.

Group 1 is novice 8&Under swimmers that can swim freestyle but need lots of work developing the other strokes.  This group will focus lots on Free and Back for the first part of the season.

Group 2 is intermediate 8&Under swimmers that are pretty decent at Free and Back and have a clue with either Breast or Fly but aren't at the Michael Phelps level yet.

Group 3 is advanced 8&Under swimmers and all 9-10 swimmers.  Still focusing on swimming 25s vs 50s for the meets and all four strokes.

Group 4 is all 11 and over swimmers.  The focus will be to continue to develop all 4 strokes (knowing that some are just fine with 2 or 3) while ensuring they get enough yardage in to be able to swim those 50s and 100s!

From a time standpoint, this is the currently schedule:

PM practices start on 4 May - 21 May

AM practices start on 22 May - 24 June

Juniors start 11 May and go through 17 June.  The hope is they will have moved up to the big team well before then.

We look forward to seeing you on the deck this summer!

Coach Beth