Hello Swim Families! If your swimmer is 10 years old or younger on the date of Saturday, September 14th, consider taking them to the Missouri Valley 10 & Under Camp! Swimmers will have the opportunity to work on all four strokes as well as starts and turns in an environment specifically geared towards 10 & Under athletes. Furthermore, it is a great opportunity to make friends with swimmers from other teams! Swimmers will also receive a bag tag to commemorate their participation in the event. You may register for the...

Week 8: July 22 – July 26 Technical Focus: Recovery, Holding Water, Rotation, Starts & Turns Conditioning Focus: Main Taper Hello Swim Families! Congratulations to every swimmer who competed at Missouri Valley Districts Championships in Wichita! We saw many best times and picked up a few new Champs cuts. Speaking of, this weekend, starting Thursday evening, is our final meet of the season, the Missouri Valley Long Course Championships! To prepare for this competition we will decrease our training volume for the swimmers competing at the meet by about 30...

Week 7: July 15 – July 19 Technical Focus: Body Position, Speed, Breakouts, Starts & Turns Conditioning Focus: Drop Taper Hello Swim Families! There are only two meets left on our calendar for this season! The Missouri Valley Districts Championships will take place this week, Friday through Sunday, in Wichita. Next weekend, we will finish our season at the Missouri Valley Championships, aka Champs, in Topeka. To prepare for Districts this weekend, we will decrease our training volume and increase our speed work. We call this “drop taper” as it...

Hello Swim Families! Signing up for Districts and Champs (as well as Sectionals and all other championship meets) is different from the process you know for our normal meets like the Little Apple Invitational. Districts and Champs will utilize a software system to OME, short for Online Meet Entry. Only coaches have the ability to enter athletes through OME. Due to this, I need to know whether your swimmer(s) intend to compete at Districts and/or Champs. Then, I will need to know what events they wish to swim. Please email...

Week 6: July 8 – July 12 Technical Focus: Holding Water, Recovery, Rotation, Breath Timing, Starts & Turns Conditioning Focus: Full Body Power Hello Swim Families! This week, the Marlins gear our technical focuses towards holding water, rotation, and the old stalwarts, breath timing and starts and turns. The Platinum and Blue groups will shift their conditioning focus to full body power. What this means is, swimming with the entire body, putting everything together, and coordinating power across the body, making each stroke powerful and contributing to the feeling of...

Hello Swim Families! Practices will proceed as normal July 1, 2, & 3. On Thursday, July 4th, due to an event hosted by the City, there will be no White, Minnows, or Summer League; however, Blue & Platinum (and Masters) will still swim early from 5:45 - 8:00 am. No groups will swim on Friday, July 5th. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, and see you at the pool! -Coach Reid

Week 4: June 24 – June 28 Technical Focus: Holding Water, Breakouts, Breath Timing, Starts & Turns Conditioning Focus: Major Kick Hello Swim Families! Holy wow, an entire weekend without a swim meet! We hope you enjoyed your weekend off from competition! Here we are in week four, which will be characterized by the following technical focuses: holding water, breakouts, breath timing, and starts and turns. If you haven’t heard the term holding water, if refers to an athlete’s ability to catch and pull water. Catching water involves the entire...

Hello Swim Families! Single-arm butterfly is Coach Reid’s single-most favorite drill of all time. This drill literally fixed my butterfly. Between the ages of 14 and 15 I swam thousands of laps of this drill. It works. Here’s why. Often, swimmers get stuck at the end of their stroke cycle, meaning, as their hands are passing their hips they stall and therefore greatly slow their forward progression. A snap of the head sharply downward and forward as the arms are coming over during the recovery also helps dramatically in this...

Week 3: June 17 – June 21 Technical Focus: Underwaters, Distance Per Stroke, Breath Timing, Starts & Turns Conditioning Focus: Aerobic Tolerance Hello Swim Families! Our home meet the 2024 Little Apple Invitational is now behind us and holy cow was it fun! We are now two meets into Summer 2024* and our third week of long course training is upon us! Time really is flying by, isn’t it? This week, our technical focuses will be on underwaters, distance per stroke, and the ole stalwarts, breath timing and starts and...

Hello Swim Families! Congratulations on an amazing weekend of swimming! In honor of our many early-rising athletes, there will be NO PLATINUM, BLUE, OR MASTERS PRACTICE tomorrow, Monday, June 17th, from 5:45 am - 8:00 am. White, Minnows, and Summer League will proceed as normal from 10:50 - 11:50 am. Thank you for an amazing weekend, and we'll see you soon! -Coach Reid