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 Weekly Update: Important Info Regarding Friday's Meet and AM practices!

Danny Weinberg

Hello Swim Team!

Summer is here (though it doesn't really feel like it today)! Please read our weekly update as it has a lots of information about Friday’s first summer swim meet!  

Quick Items/ Reminders:

 

  • Coach Danny-Out of Town: I will be out of town from June 22nd-June 29th.  Please reach out to Coach Julie ([email protected]) with all swim team related quotations and needs.

 

  • Practice Attendance: With the summer season underway, swimmers on the summer swim team or the USA team can attend as many practices as they like. We encourage you to try and get your swimmer to practice 5-10 minutes before the scheduled start time. While it can be challenging for those early times, arriving early allows us to have a brief meeting and review skills to prepare the swimmers for practice. Here is our SUMMER PRACTICE SCHEDULE.

 

  • Tuesday/ Thursday AM Summer Camp:  Many of our summer swim team participants are also enrolled in Lifetime’s summer camp.  Instead of taking swim lessons these swimmers will be offered a short 30 minute swim team practice on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10:00-10:30 AM.  There also will be campers who were assessed as 401/501 swimmers who be part of the swim team group. Summer swim team members who are not campers are permitted to practice at these times too if they have a scheduling conflict and cannot attend evening practices.  Ultimately, these practices will be more crowded and are only 30 minutes so we prefer that those without conflicts attend the evening practice.  Since this is the first full week of summer camp we are not permitting swimmers who are not in summer camp to attend these practices to help the camp and aquatic staff get organized.  Starting on Tuesday, 6.25 this will be an option.  You must email Coach Danny prior to the practice to be able to attend.  

 

  • Tuesday AM Practices- USA Team: Since, we will have a swim coach on deck at this time we are allowing USA swimmers  to come and complete a make-up practice at this time from 10:00–11:00 AM.  These swimmers will mostly be on their own but will be provided a lane and workout in the indoor lap pool.  We recommend that USA team members try to attend evening practices, but this is an option to get another practice in if some evening times are not possible.  USA swimmers must email Coach Danny prior to the practice if they are planning to attend Tuesday and Thursday morning sessions.  This arrangement will begin on Tuesday, 6.18.

 

  • Friday AM Practice- USA Team: Starting on Friday, 6.21, USA team members will be offered an additional practice in the outdoor lap pool.  This practice will run from 8:30-9:45 AM (Bronze) and 8:30-10:00 AM (Silver).  We hope that many of you can attend.  

 

  • Drop-Off Procedures: According to Life Time management and the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), all children under 14 must have adult supervision on the pool deck unless they are participating in swim practice. Swimmers 13 and under must be supervised by an adult outside of practice times if they stay on the deck. Swimmers who are 13&U are not permitted to play in the leisure pools before or after practice if they are not being supervised by an adult.  

 

  • USA Team: Please order a snorkel and fins if you haven't yet. These are available under the "Team Apparel and Equipment" tab on our website. Please make sure to mark your snorkel with a piece of duct tape or your name. Also make sure you start bringing a water bottle to practice!

Summer Swim Meet Schedule:

We are tentatively planning the following dates for our summer swim team meets, all of which will take place at Life Time Beaverton:

  • Summer Swim Meet #1: Beach Ball Bash-Friday, June 21st- 4:30-6:30 PM

  • Summer Swim Meet #2: Friday, July 12th- 4:30-6:30 PM

  • Summer Swim Meet #3: Friday, July 26th- 4:30-6:30 PM

  • Summer Swim Meet #4: Friday, August 9th- 4:30-6:30 PM

All swimmers on our summer swim team and our USA team are encouraged to participate in these competitions, which promise to be a ton of fun! 

Sign-Up for Swimmingly (Must be completed by Wednesday, 6.19 to participate in Friday’s Meet):

Current List of Registered Athletes as of 12:00 PM on 6/17: Adam Kao, Ally Liu, Amelia Wynhof, Ben Choi, Callie Kang, Clark York, Coralie  Thomas, Dash York, Dylan Mason, Elowyn  Thomas, Evan Kim, Ezra Choi, Henry Shaffer, Isabella Da Cruz, Isabella Jones, Joseph Wang, Kiana Shakeri, Madilynn Wiggins, Makayla  Bolden, Morgan Lee, Paige Fejfar, Patrick Schremer, Rhosyn Thomas, Simon Boariu, Sophia Lontai, Vincent Schremer

All swimmers need to either create an account with Swimmingly (new participants) or register for the summer season (returning participants). Swimmingly helps us set up and track the summer swim meets we host at Life Time. Swimmers will not be able to participate in summer swim meets if they do not register for the summer season or create an account!  There is no additional cost to create an account. Please follow the instructions below to complete this process:

Returning Parents with an active Swimmingly account: Step-by-step instructions to register and sign-up your swimmer(s) using the Club Registration Code.

New Parents without an active Swimmingly account: Step-by-step instructions to register and sign-up your swimmer(s) using the Club Registration Code.

All registered swimmers should have received an email from Swimmingly prompting them to sign-up for Summer Swim Meet #1: Beach Ball Bash.  When you sign-up swimmers for our summer swim meets you do have the option to pick their events.  You also can simply declare that you will be attending and the coaching staff will pick appropriate races.  

For this meet we are offering two relays and the following individual events: 25 Freestyle, 50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle, 25 Backstroke, 50 Backstroke, 100 Backstroke, 25 Fun (Kick w/ a board), 50 Fun (Kick w/ a board)

  • We encourage all swimmers to pick three individual races.  

  • All swimmers will be assigned 1-2 relays.  There will be one freestyle relay and one “surprise” relay that will be announced at the meet. 

  • The races listed as “fun” will be kicking races with a kickboard.  

  • We encourage our new summer swim team participants to sign-up for 25 Free, 25 Back and 25 Fun.  Summer swim team participants who transferred from developmental team can swim 25’s but are also welcome to add some 50’s.  USA team members should only sign-up for 50’s and 100’s and should pick a freestyle, backstroke and fun event.  

 

Summer Swim Team Caps:

All summer swim team participants will receive one official Life Time Summer Swim team cap. We have already handed out a few, so if you haven't received one yet, please find Coach Danny before or after practice.

Summer Swim Team T-Shirts:

Shirts will be ordered on Tuesday, 6.18. Please refer to the following information:

  • New Participants: If you started on June 3rd or later, you don’t need to do anything! We have your T-shirt sizes, and you will automatically receive a T-shirt for being part of the Summer Swim Team!

 

  • Previous Developmental Team Members: You will automatically receive a T-shirt, but we ask that you confirm or update your T-shirt size on our Team Unify website. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to do this.  We will be submitting this order on Saturday, June 15th, so please update this soon!

 

USA Team members are welcome to purchase a Summer Swim Team T-shirt for an additional cost of $20, which will be billed to your LT account. Please complete this form by Monday, June 17th, if you are interested.

Chehalem Meet Recap (USA Team):

 

Eight USA team members participated in the Chehalem Summer Classic Meet on 6/14-6/16.  Please congratulate the following swimmers on their outstanding performances.

 

  • Aurelia Anderson- Huge time drops in all 3 individual events.  Finished 4th in her age group in the 100 IM.  

  • Simon Boariu- Achieved a new state time in the 400 Free and finished 1st in his age group in the event.  

  • Izzy Da Cruz- Achieved a new state time in the 50 Back, dropping 8 seconds!

  • Adam Kao- Dropped time in 4 races and finished 2nd in the 25 Fly and 3rd in the 25 Free and 50 Free!

  • Morgan Lee- Five new best times including a seven second drop in the 100 Free!  She also showed off her new relay start!

  • Dylan Mason- 5 new best times, including 1st place finishes in the 50 Fly and 100 IM!

  • Patrick Schemer- 5 new best times, including a second place finish in the 100 IM and 3rd place finish in the 50 Fly!

  • Elowyn Thomas- 3 new best times, including a new state time in the 50 fly and second place finishes in the 50 fly and 100 IM!

Summer USA Meets (USA Team):

Become an Official (USA Team):

Becoming an official is a highly effective way to volunteer and support our team. We always need officials to help our meets run smoothly.  Benefits include free food, drinks, preferential parking, and the best view of the pool! Plus, Life Time won't charge meet fees for your swimmers at the meets you work. 

When our team goes to a meet we are expected to provide officials. Oregon Swimming recommends that we provide one official for every 10 entered athletes.  Our team is expected to help make the meet legal. Teams that don’t have officials often don't get asked to meets. Swimmers from bronze to senior levels all need to have parents officiating so that all the meets we attend as a club are covered.

Contact Coach Danny to get started.

Please let us know if you have any questions!

See you at the pool!

Life Time Coaching Staff