Team, It’s with great excitement that we can announce our team has partnered with ARENA for our competitive and apparel needs. ARENA comes highly recommended by several teams already in partnership with them for their products and service, and is preferred amongst several of our own athletes. This will help streamline our branding, apparel, suits, and is a great way to tie everyone together! Per our agreement with ARENA, athletes/families are asked and encouraged to purchase the following: 1 ARENA suit each year – can be team/practice suit or more...

Team, It’s with great excitement that we’re announcing a slightly restructured training group flow chart to our programming. This restructure is setup for productive learning, growth, and inclusion for several years, and will feel very similar for most of our current athletes. It’s our intent to streamline on-boarding to the team and add a few metrics to give each group proper identity. Our goals in this process are listed below. Keep similar ages and grades together, narrowing the age range between groups for more similar learning styles, even though ability...

Over 20 swimmers from each training group competed last weekend in the annual Nu Wave Summer LC Open in Biloxi last weekend. The meet was highlighted by several new events swum and a few new state qualifying times. This time of year is usually spent preparing for adding to their championship lineups or perfecting events one will swim at their championship meet. Several new events were swum, as were several athletes competing LCM for the first time. Thank you to the parents for committing their weekend to our athletes development!...

Team, Please read through the following announcements: Summer Calendar/Next Swim Season dates July 21 – Last day of Summer swim practice. Even after AG State and SR state, athletes should maintain regular practice schedules. It’s a great time to get ahead and solidify improvements made. Aug 14 – First day of 2023-24 swim season! Enjoy a break and some down time. In my experiences with various USA Swim clubs, this is an appropriate break for athletes and somewhere between comparable or less than most clubs take. Booster Club Meeting –...

Team, A few friendly reminders about the facility as we enter the busy spring and summer months – please read through. We must act and behave like we’re guests at the facility each time we visit. Our team is more than fortunate to have use of the OFC facility and we must follow the guidelines OFC has set forth. Non OFC Members – Sharks members who do not have an OFC membership are not allowed access to the facility outside of practice times. Check-in – Athletes and families must check-in...

Team, A big thank you to all of the athletes and families who participated and volunteered at the Sharks Intrasquad meet today. This was a great day for our team - New meet participation, new volunteer experiences, and on our way to being more a self-supported club. It's the first club meet we've hosted at OFC in quite a while. Results are linked below and have also been pushed to Meet Mobile. Special thanks to Holly Campo for hand-typing all of the results into the computer. Photos will be published...

Shark Sightings, April 1, 2023 Team, Happy April Fools day! Please read through the following announcements for next week. 1. Opt-in forms – please complete by Friday, April 7 2. No Saturday practice on April 8 – Enjoy the Easter weekend! 3. Sharks Intrasquad meet – sign-up by Apr 7 4. Keep up with team communication - Band - for last min updates and announcements Instagram - @SharksSwimTeam, for social, fun, and educational aspects of the team and sport Email – update your account, verify email addresses –3 addresses can...

Forward Thinking An incomplete list of growth & planning concepts in developmental swimming Written by Beau Caldwell – Head Coach, Elmwood Sharks March 22, 2023 Most everyone in this sport should be considered a developmental athlete. If you’re at Olympic Trials or NCAA’s, maybe not, but almost everyone in USA swimming is on the developmental level. Learning, growing, and building, higher level skills is at the forefront of making progress over time. Consequently, this is a sport where significant growth and achievement is a few months delayed from the time...

Sharks finish 14th in Senior State Championships 7 Elmwood Sharks senior athletes and families traveled to Sulphur, LA, Feb 9-12, for the semi-annual LA Senior State Championships. The team was led by veterans Lexie Rodrigue (18), competing in her 7th senior state meet, and Chrisitan Lang (16) making his second appearance. The rest of the boys squad included Grant Castillon, Robby Eutsler, Nathan Flynn, Bryan Santos, and Trevin Terrance, all competing in Senior State for the first time as 15 year olds. Individual meet highlights Grant Castillon led the team...