Eagle Swim Team: Join the Eagles!
EST Mission
Values: Commitment, Accountability, Perseverance, Honesty, Teamwork
The mission of Eagle Swim Team is to serve the Greater Baltimore area by providing professional instruction and coaching in a motivating, innovative, and goal oriented environment. Our Vision of the Eagle Swim Team is to be a nationally recognized leader in all levels of competitive swimming.
Founded in 1992, the Eagle Swim Team (EST) is a year round, competitive United States Swimming registered team. All EST coaches, parents, and team members share and contribute to our major team objectives.
1. To provide quality coaching, training, and competition for all team members.
2. To assist all team members in realizing and striving for their full potential in competitive swimming.
3. To help develop important life skills, such as self discipline, communication, goal setting, self-confidence, and sportsmanship.
4. To provide opportunities for educational and emotional growth through training, competition, and travel.
Team History
In the spring of 1992, McDonogh School hired Scott Ward as their new Aquatics Director and Varsity Swimming and Water Polo coach. That summer, the Eagle Swim Team (EST), was formed by Coach Ward to provide a quality competitive swim team for all interested swimmers. Helping Coach Ward build the team were assistant coaches Vicki Hedden, Patrice Draminski, and Cyndy Lopata. The team finished that year with 72 dedicated athletes and the Eagles earned recognition with outstanding performances at the Eastern Zones Championships and the U.S. Junior Nationals.
With the invaluable support of the McDonogh School, EST will continue to “Strive for Excellence in Swimming and in Life” and to prepare today’s youth to be tomorrow’s leaders.
Interested in Becoming an Eagle?
Interested in becoming a member of the Eagle Swim Team? Submit your name to our interest list. Submitting you name to our interest list means that as a spot on our team becomes available, we will contact the next family on the list, on a first come first served basis. If you are interested in submitting your name to our interest list, please send the following information to our Associate Head Coach Jeff Taegel at JeffTaegel@gmail.com
Swimmer name(s):
Swimmer date of birth(s):
Address, City, State, Zip code:
Phone number(s):
Parent(s) name(s):
Current YMCA team (required):
If attached to a USA or YMCA Club Team you must notify your head
coach of your intention to switch clubs. All swimmers interested in transferring to EST must be in good financial standing with their previous team before being allowed to transfer to EST.
or
Current USS team (required):
If attached to a USA or YMCA Club Team you must notify your head
coach of your intention to switch clubs. All swimmers interested in transferring to EST must be in good financial standing with their previous team before being allowed to transfer to EST.
Number of years in competitive swimming (required):
Level or Group assignment desired:
All info should be forwarded to JeffTaegel@gmail.com. You should receive a confirmation 2 weeks.
Please note that while Eagle Swim Team tries very hard to accept every swimmer who applies, but we are limited in the number of swimmers we can accept each year. If attached to a USA or YMCA Club Team you must notify your head coach of your intention to switch clubs.
Thank you for your interest.
ANTI-RECRUITING POLICY
Active recruiting - the solicitation of an athlete of one USA Swimming
member club by another USA Swimming member club is contrary to the best
interests of Maryland Swimming, Inc. and it’s athletes.
USA Swimming clubs within Maryland Swimming, Inc. shall be prohibited from
directly or indirectly soliciting or encouraging an athlete of another USA
Swimming member club to leave his or her existing club to join the
soliciting club. This anti – recruiting policy shall prohibit a USA
Swimming member club employee or coach from directly contact with an
athlete from another USA Swimming member club in Maryland Swimming, Inc.,
or the athlete’s family, with the intent that the athlete join the
soliciting club.
The intent of this anti – recruiting policy is to prevent organized and
club-sanctioned efforts to persuade a member of a one USA Swimming member
club to leave his or her member club to join the other club.
It is not the intent of this anti-recruiting policy to prevent athletes or
parents of athletes of one member club from initiating contact with
coaches, officials or athletes of another club for the purpose of
inquiring about joining the other member club. Once such contact is
initiated, the restrictions of this anti-recruiting policy shall not apply
to any contact with that athlete of another member club.
Nothing in this anti-recruiting policy shall prevent a USA Swimming member
club from conducting any self-promotional activities such as advertising,
team tryouts or camps for the purpose of recruiting athletes as there is
no direct solicitation of athletes of another member club.
It is also not the intent of this policy to prevent athletes or parents of
athletes from different clubs from discussing any aspect of their
respective USA Swimming member clubs, or incidental contact, such as may
occur at a competition when a coach, parent or athlete of one club offers
to congratulate an athlete from another club. However, any such activities
which have been shown to have been promoted, encouraged or facilitated by
a USA Swimming member club officer, employee or coach with the intent of
recruiting shall be in violation of this anti-recruiting policy and
subject the member club and/or its coach to the sanctions of this
anti-recruiting policy.
Violation of this anti-recruiting policy shall be reported to the Maryland
Swimming, Inc. Board of Review, which upon receipt of the complaint shall
conduct hearings under the by-laws of Maryland swimming, Inc. Any USA
Swimming club or USA Swimming coach found to have violated this
anti-recruiting policy will be suspended from Maryland Swimming, Inc. for
up to 1 year for a first offense and for up to 2 years for a second or
subsequent offense. Suspension of a member coach for a violation of this
anti-recruiting policy shall prohibit that coach from being on deck for
any USA swimming competition sanctioned by Maryland swimming, Inc. during
the period of the suspension. Suspension of a USA Swimming member club for
a violation of this anti-recruiting policy shall not prohibit the
registration of the club, athletes or coaches, but shall prohibit the
member club from competing as a team in USA Swimming competition
sanctioned by Maryland swimming Inc. Athletes registered with any such
suspended club my compete in any USA Swimming competition sanctioned by
Maryland Swimming, Inc., but do so only as an unattached athlete.
