From the USA Swimming office:
To avoid risk of serious injury, no swimmer who has not been properly trained should attempt to perform a racing start, from either a starting block or the side of the pool, into less than six feet of water.
USA Swimming has implemented a racing start certification program where a swimmer’s coach documents his or her professional judgment that a swimmer has demonstrated sufficient skill to safely perform a racing start into four feet of water in competition.
There are rare occasions when swimmers may participate in swimming competitions not under the supervision of a certified home club coach. In these situations, it is the parent’s responsibility to make sure the swimmer does not attempt to perform a racing start in less than six feet of water if the swimmer has not been properly certified by the swimmer’s home club coach to do so. (Additionally, should this situation arise, the athlete must be assigned to a certified coach on deck at the meet.) Coaches note: This situation is extremely rare on our team as we do not allow competition without a club Coach present. You will typically see this at a meet that swimmers choose to compete in while on vacation.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Friday, March 16, 2018
Regional Wrap Up
(it’s never too late to recognize our awesome kiddos)
The team competed at Regionals last month at Ohio State and had quite the amazing meet. Beyond winning events and moving on to JO’S, it’s really important to us that all of our swimmers are continuing to show improvements. And wow! did they ever!!
Personal Best Sweeps
The following swimmers had all best times, which is quite a huge accomplishment! Especially considering many of these kiddos swam over a dozen events in three days between prelims and finals.
Leah Adkins, Samantha Blackburn, Jonathan Diakogeorgiou, Amanda Jones, Tyler Klein, Justin Li, Thaine Nederveld, Aubrey Pritchard, Nathan Reynolds, Kaitlyn Sallows, Kayla Simashkevich, Will Stringer and competing in their first meets Karen Yang and Toby Halker!!
Bests less One (or Two)
The following swimmers hit best times in all but one event:
Nanami Campbell, Reece Hanley, Christopher Martin, Melaina Randall & Ella Seelandt!
And these awesome people hit best times in all but two events:
Sloane Anderson, Zoie Buck, Nicholas Mountz and Ashley Sallows!
Congratulations to all of our 9 to14 year olds for their outstanding efforts this season.
The team competed at Regionals last month at Ohio State and had quite the amazing meet. Beyond winning events and moving on to JO’S, it’s really important to us that all of our swimmers are continuing to show improvements. And wow! did they ever!!
Personal Best Sweeps
The following swimmers had all best times, which is quite a huge accomplishment! Especially considering many of these kiddos swam over a dozen events in three days between prelims and finals.
Leah Adkins, Samantha Blackburn, Jonathan Diakogeorgiou, Amanda Jones, Tyler Klein, Justin Li, Thaine Nederveld, Aubrey Pritchard, Nathan Reynolds, Kaitlyn Sallows, Kayla Simashkevich, Will Stringer and competing in their first meets Karen Yang and Toby Halker!!
Bests less One (or Two)
The following swimmers hit best times in all but one event:
Nanami Campbell, Reece Hanley, Christopher Martin, Melaina Randall & Ella Seelandt!
And these awesome people hit best times in all but two events:
Sloane Anderson, Zoie Buck, Nicholas Mountz and Ashley Sallows!
Congratulations to all of our 9 to14 year olds for their outstanding efforts this season.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Spring & Summer Schedule
Our spring practice schedule and Spring/Summer fees are now available on the website and teamapp.
Registration is NOT required of returning swimmers. Simply send Laurie and email that you wish to swim and we will invoice you.
Registration is NOT required of returning swimmers. Simply send Laurie and email that you wish to swim and we will invoice you.
New this season- Challenge Weeks. During challenge weeks, we will challenge each training group to try something new and extend their swimming in a way that they haven't before. Challenge weeks will start on the last Monday of every month (April 30, May 28 and June 25). There will be an additional challenge week for Scarlet Gold swimmers the week of April 9. The schedule for challenge week will be as follows:
- Senior and Junior, no change in schedule.
- Scarlet Gold follows the Junior schedule and will train with Junior. We ask that swimmers help each other carpool so that they can attend all 5 practices (Sunday through Thursday) during this week. This will be an increased opportunity to grow your training in a new way and challenge yourself to reach a higher level.
- Scarlet 2, Silver 2, Scarlet 1 and Silver 1:
- Mondays, no schedule change, focus on learning a new technique skill.
- Tuesdays and Wednesdays all swimmers 6-7:45
- Thursdays, all swimmers 4:45-6:30
- Sundays, no change
- *We ask that every swimmer try to attend all four weekday practices during challenge week. We will learn a new technique skill on Mondays then apply it in various ways through the week. There will be no penalty for low attendance during this week (beyond the lost growth opportunity).
- Intro: Intro group will swim with Silver 1 on Monday from 6-7 and Thursday from 5:45-6:30
Girls and Boys Practices will return this spring to Sundays. We love this and would certainly do it more often if we could figure out how to make it more convenient.
Summer Training - summer is a great time to add more to your swim schedule. The kids do not have the stress of school and homework, which allows many to have increased focus at practice. We expect to have morning practices at a local outdoor pool (Minerva Park is our first choice) and afternoon/evenings at the sports club.
Summer meets- there are not many! They are posted on our Google event calendar. We continue to look for a good July opportunity for the swimmers.
Move Ups- any changes in group will be sent by early next week. Please keep in mind that if you are invited to the next higher group you may choose to remain in your current group.
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