Life Time Oregon Swim Team

Our team is a year-round competitive USA Swimming team offering high quality, professional coaching and technique instruction for all ages and abilities. The goal of our team is to promote a lifetime of wellness through the sport of swimming in a safe and inclusive environment. 

Life Time Oregon Swim Team Weekly Email Update: 4.2.24

Danny Weinberg

Hello Swim Team!

It was nice to see so many swimmers at practice last night!  I hope that you all had great spring breaks!  Please read our update email below as there are several pieces of new information.  

Upcoming Meets:

 

  • April Developmental Meet- Friday, April 19th.  

    • This meet is now OPEN.  

    • This is a great opportunity for new swimmers to compete for the first time!  

    • An email prompting registration for this event was sent to everyone with a Swimmingly account on 4.2,  

    • Swimmers who have swum in our previous developmental meets were sent a sign-up link on 2/25.  See the article Complete meet delcarations as a parent/ guardian for more information.  

    • New swimmers who have not created a Swimmingly account must do so to enter the meet. Please scan the QR code to create an account.  (Please do not scan the QR code if you already have an account!)

  • MAC LC Invitational- April 20th-21st (USA Team)

    • This meet will be at the Multnomah Athletic Club.  

    • We received a last minute invite to this meet on Tuesday, 4.2.

    • This is a great opportunity for our USA swimmers to swim in a long course (50 Meter) swim meet.  

  • GAC Spring Invitational- April 27th-28th (USA Team)

    • This meet will be in Camas, Washington. 

    • We have not received an entry file yet so swimmers can not sign-up for individual events.  We ask that families still declare for this meet on our website so we have a better idea of our numbers.  

 

Lifetime + OHA Parent Drop-Off Procedures:

Life Time management has asked that we pass along the following information from the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) regarding children and pools.  

The Oregon Health Authority requires that all children under the age of 14 must have responsible adult supervision anytime they are on the pool deck.  

This means that swimmers 13&Unders cannot be on the pool deck without a supervising adult at times when they are not actively participating in swim practice.  During swim practice, coaches are designated as appropriate adult supervision.  Parents are welcome to enjoy other club amenities during the actual practice and do not need to stay on the pool deck.However, they must come to pick-up their swimmer from the pool practice.   If swimmers that are 13&U come early or stay after practice to play in the leisure pool they must be supervised by an adult that is not  a Life Time staff member.  

Summer Swim:

We will be transitioning to our summer schedule on June 3rd.  Practice times still need to be approved by upper management but they should remain fairly consistent with current schedules.  

USA swimmers will continue to practice with their assigned USA team group until Friday, August 9th or whenever the last USA meet of the summer season is scheduled for.  Swimmers will then have a short break until early September.  This break is recommended by USA swimming to prevent overtraining and burnout.  All USA swimmers will receive a complimentary private lesson in August to work on a skill of their choice.  

Developmental team members will automatically be transferred over to our summer swim team.  The main differences between the summer swim team and the developmental team will be that swimmers are encouraged to come to as many practices as possible.  We also will hold more frequent competitions.  

More information regarding summer swim will be available soon!


Quick Reminders

 

  • Dryland + Meetings before practices

We are hoping to implement short dryland and meeting routines before practices.  Dryland is a term that is used in competitive swimming for any physical activity used to compliment training outside of the water. This can include stretching, basic body weight exercises and team building activities.  As swimmers advance in the sport dryland practices become more frequent.  For now, we are asking that developmental swimmers arrive at 4:20 for dryland and that USA swimmers arrive at 5:05 for dryland on a nightly basis. 

  • USA Team—Please try to order a snorkel and fins if you have not done so. You can find our recommended snorkel and fins under the “Team Apparel and Equipment” tab on our website.   

 

  • Team records are now updated on our website (Meet & Events -> Team Records).  These records will likely change frequently, but it's fun to see our progress.  Team records can only be attained in USA sanctioned meets. 

 

  • Advancement Criteria-We wanted to share our updated criteria for moving up groups.  This can be found on our website.  You can access it by clicking HERE.  

Please let us know if you have questions!

Life Time Coaching Staff