Is my child ready for Swim Team?: Each swimmer must be “pool safe” (1)able to swim the length of the pool, any stroke, with occasional stops while holding on to lane ropes and (2)not be afraid to jump off the diving board and then swim unassisted to the side of the pool. A coach will be available at registration to discuss any concerns you my have. If skills are borderline, the swimmer will have a week or two of practice before the coach will decide if they can swim on the team. If they can not, a refund (less the cost of the T-shirt) will be given.

Practices: Practice usually starts the first week in May with after school practices and once school is out they will be held in the mornings. The practices are broken down by age so that the coaches can concentrate on stokes and techniques for each group. It is ok if your child can not attend all of the practices each week. We realize that they have other activities and overall we want them to have fun. For the days that you can make it, please be on time so that all the children can get the most out of practice.

Summer Swim Season: The Summer swim season starts in late April or early May. After a couple weeks of practice a Trial Meet is held to obtain seed times and get new families acquainted with the process. The swim season consists of 5 regular season meets (one with each of our division opponents) and a Division Championship (against all division teams). Post season invitational meets finish up the year and are usually held the last week of June or the first week in July. To swim at an invitational meet, a swimmer must qualify with a certain time for a given stroke. Here's the Meet Schedule.

Age Groups and Events: The best thing about swimming is that everyone gets to participate. Swimmers are divided up by gender and age group. The age groups and events are show here...

Age Group	Events
6 and Under	25 yd Freestyle, Backstroke and Free Relay
7 and 8	above plus Breaststroke, ButterFly and Medley Relay
9 and 10	above plus 100 yd Individual Medley(IM)
11 and 12	11 and olders swim each stroke in 50 yd lengths & 100IM
13 and 14 15 and up	13 and olders swim 50 yd events, 100IM, and 100 yd Free

Note: Each swimmer can compete in a maximum of 3 individual and 2 relay events. For more info, see Order of events .

At the Meet: Most meets are held on Saturday mornings. The length of the meet depends on 3 factors: the size of the teams, being on time, and how well the meet is run. Dependable volunteers are very import to the operation of the meet. Getting involved makes it more fun for both the parents and the children. Meets are usually scheduled to begin a 8:30am but swimmers need to be there early to warm up and circle-in (circle name to show you are present) for their events. Events for the 6 under group are all conducted in the first half of the meet so that they can leave after tje first half of the meet is completed. Check out the Handbook Info to learn more about the volunteer jobs.